Barbie: Princess Charm School

When I tell you I was OBSESSED with this movie when I was little. Believe it. It’s relatable and hopeful. It gives dreamers something to dream about. Oh to have gone to Princess Charm School! Sigh…now this 20 something year old wants to watch it again…again!!

All the Barbie DVD selections are a must for kids between the ages of 4 and 8, especially girls. They are well produced and the story lines are always instructional and appeal to the young minds. My grand daughters will watch each movie over and over again. They finally learn the script by heart and will act along with the characters. Then with out playing the DVD they will act out the story between themselves. You got any toys in your home that will initiate such healthy interaction among siblings? As a father of three children and eight grandchildren, Barbie along with her sisters and adventures are a must for all kids young and old.

I purchased this for my 4 year old granddaughter, Catherine (a.k.a. the Princess). She owns everything "Barbie," and I'm not exaggerating when I say that I buy new Barbies for her every week. When she heard in August that this video was being released in September, she asked if I would buy it for her. She then marked the days on a calendar so she knew when it would arrive, and when it did arrive on Tuesday, September 13, she watched it immediately. She has now watched it at least 5 times and it's only Thursday. Not only does she love it, but even her 7 year old sister enjoyed it too. I like all the Barbie movies because I know they are free of bad language and inappropriate situations. When she arrives this weekend, I know I will have to watch this with her at least 3 times, but that's OK because it will be a change from her last Barbie movie that I have watched about 50 times. She is simply enthralled with Barbie. So if you have a little Barbie fan in your home, order this with confidence because it is certain to entertain.

Very clean display. Great quality! Childhood core unlocked 🥰🥰💖💖. Picture doesn’t give it enough credit

10/10

Barbie movies have been going downhill for the most part, but I was pleasantly surprised with Princess Charm Academy. This film mixes traditional fairy tale stuff like magic and fairies with modern day amenities like broadcast television and Starbucks. Once a year, princesses go to a charm school. If they pass, they "earn" their titles of princess. Certain girls born commoners go as well for a chance to be selected as a "lady royal"--an adviser to the princess. In Gardenia, one commoner girl is selected each year by lottery to attend the school for a chance to be a lady royal, and this year coffee house waitress Blair Willow (Barbie) is selected. Blair doesn't want to go to charm school because she has a little sister and their adoptive mother is sick. The little sister entered her, and Blair changes her mind after talking to her family. She is promptly whisked away to princess charm school for a chance to be a lady royal. A lot of Mean Girls type of stuff happens, Blair discovers she is the long lost princess and true heir to the Gardenian throne, and learns about self-confidence and other life lessons. The villain gets her comeuppance, Blair gets her crown and she makes friends with her young rival, Delancy. Blair's mother (who is looking better by this point) and little sister move into the palace and all ends well. One petite irritation was the Men In Grey (Secret Service pastiches). Most have voices like that OOM PA PA MOW MOW guy in the Oak Ridge Boys with Scottish accents, and very little patience. Somewhere along the line Gardenia must have conquered The 300 or an island of soccer hooligans. (I really want to see a copy of the school handbook, because the academy seems to pull rules and policies out of nowhere.) Also, each student (and teacher apparently) at the academy has a little fairy helper. These recycled Twillerbees seem to be "good" or "bad" depending on the person to whom they're assigned. This cast of extras has Star Wars Storm Trooper Accuracy(tm), but only at critical moments in the plot. So I guess soft living in the Kingdom of Pinkness is eroding their mad minion skills. However, I especially liked Alexandra Privet, who was the embodiment of a true lady. She was a great role model and a very likable character. I want to address some of the more serious problem points in this movie. Yes, a lot of class time is spent on things like walking with a book on your head, table manners, dancing and other matters of deportment. I never saw Barbie sitting in a class on political science, but they never said things like that weren't included or weren't important, either. An entire montage is spent on Barbie doing homework, including extra work on the fluff like dancing. This movie is targeted at 5 year olds; unless you can figure out how to coat a pre-law curriculum in pink glitter and combine it with at least a few girly things, I don't think it's going to hold their attention for very long, and that may go for a few boys that age as well. Also, considering the behavior I see from kids AND adults these days, I think a few lessons in etiquette and wanting to emulate polite, well-behaved characters couldn't possibly hurt anyone. Princess and lady royal are not the only career paths shown in the film. Barbie's room mates are a soccer player and a DJ, two hobbies/careers that are not traditional "girlie" activities. The soccer player does some pretty impressive gymnastics, and the DJ uses her musical skills to get them out of a jam. The teachers and the leader at the academy are all women and it's never mentioned anywhere that there are career paths girls can't take. The only way I found this movie sexist was that it appeared that only a female could take the position of monarch, at least in Gardenia. There was a male academy to provide dance partners in classes and a love interest for Barbie, but that was the extent of boys in the movie (aside from the soccer hooligan guards). I find it difficult to believe that these are major issues when the main villain eliminated two people in a car crash, lies, plants evidence, wrongly detains three minors, attempts to usurp the Gardenian throne, hides the fact that Blair is the rightful heir, has plans to leave an unknown number of poor people homeless with a landscape beautification project, and is just an all-around nasty woman. One of the people she eliminated was likely her own brother from the way her relation to the royal family was described, and Blair was her niece (who she also tried to eliminate). This isn't the first Barbie villain to be guilty of this sort of thing, but are tea and dance lessons really more appalling than all that? This is the first Barbie movie I've actually liked in a long time after a myriad of unwatchable fluff and even overt attempts at political activism. I miss Kelly Sheridan as the voice of Barbie, songs like Princess and the Pauper, and frankly, the characters move like The Sims. Mattel can do better, but they've done much worse. This is a definite improvement over many of its recent predecessors, and I think kids and adults will both enjoy it.

I got this for my daughter a week ago since she is an advid Barbie fan (All my fault for getting her started)and I most say this was one of the better Barbie movies I had seen in a while. Synopis - Barbie plays an adopted under privilaged, hard working teenage girl who not known to her she is entered into a contest for a free scholarship to the most prestigeous "Princess Charm School" by her younger adopted sister. Upon winning (To here utter astonishment) she goes to the school in hopes of one day being able to make a better life for her adopted sister and adopted Sick Mother. Upon arriving to the school she quickly learns that completing the required course may not be as easy as it seems and most learn to conquer her own fears and to believe in herself to do so, However she later learns she may actually be something more than what she had originally dreamed of being when initially arriving at the school. The movie gave the usual good moral lessons, was fast paced, and kept the targeted audience (My 9 year old daughters) attention to where she has already watched about 8 times since purchasing it. I would deffienantley recommend it for it's targeted audience and even for the adult audience as well.

Fun movie!

アニメなのに、サスペンスのような ハラハラするシーンがあったり。 このお話に出てくる犬のプリンスが大活躍します。 又、優しいお母さんと、妹が可愛い。 チャスを手に入れたブレアがルームメイト達と お姫様学校の謎を解く鍵を手に入れます。 買って良かったです。♪

Schade, dass die Sprachen bei der DVD nirgendwo aufgelistet waren und die DVD nur in Englisch ist. Wir sprechen zwar alle Englisch aber ich habe schon vor dem Kauf herumgerätselt.

Having watched all the Barbie movies, I have to say, this is definitely one of the best. The animation is great as always and it's just the right length for children (around 60mins) but it's the fairytale story I enjoyed. I wasn't too keen on the fairy and mermaid barbie films but their fairytales are great and this is a modern take on the rags to riches tale that boys and girls will love. If you like Barbie or just great family films then give it a go !

A mi niña le encanta esta película. Lo tiene todo buenos valores, esfuerzo en el cole, princesas, hadas y un poco de magia.

Great