Barbie and the Secret Door | |
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Directed by | Karen J. Lloyd |
Produced by |
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Written by | Brian Hohlfeld |
Starring | Kelly Sheridan Brittany McDonald Chanelle Peloso Ashleigh Ball Tabitha St. Germain Andrea Libman |
Music by | Heitor Pereira |
Edited by | David Hall |
Mattel Playground Productions Rainmaker Entertainment | |
Distributed by | Universal Studios Home Entertainment |
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81 minutes | |
Country | Canada United States |
Language | English |
Burst Into Action with Teresa Secret Agent Doll Barbie and her friends learn in Barbie Spy Squad that you can be anything! When asked to help catch a thief, they discover that the skills they have developed for capturing gymnastics trophies work just as well for capturing thieves.
Barbie and the Secret Door[1] is a 2014 American - Canadian direct-to-videocomputer-animatedmusicalfantasy film, and the 28th entry in the Barbie film series. This film is directed by Karen Lloyd and features the voice of Kelly Sheridan as Princess Alexa, a shy princess who discovers a secret door in her kingdom and enters a whimsical land filled with magic-induced creatures.
Plot[edit]
Set in a modern-day kingdom, Alexa is a shy, book-reading princess who avoids doing the duties expected of her due to her rank. In order to encourage her, Alexa's grandmother gives her a storybook about a princess who discovers she has magic. While reading the book, Alexa discovers a mysterious door in the royal gardens. She enters the door and finds herself in a fantasy land.

Alexa meets Nori, a fairy missing her wings, and Romy, a mermaid with legs instead of her tail. Nori and Romy are thrilled because as a princess, Alexa can perform magic with a wand. Their realm is under threat by the mean Princess Malucia, a spoiled child princess who was born without magic and has been taking it by force from all the creatures she can capture. Alexa is brought to the glade where fairies, mermaids and unicorns are hiding from Malucia. There, Alexa slowly learns to use her wand. However, she cannot return Nori and Romy to their original forms, because their magic is trapped in Malucia's scepter.
The group learn that Malucia is trying to find the Queen Unicorn, who is the most magical creature in the realm. Alexa, Nori, and Romy travel to the Queen Unicorn, hoping to protect her, only to unintentionally lead Malucia and her minions right to her. Malucia captures the Queen Unicorn, while Nori and Romy provide a distraction so that Alexa can escape. While fleeing, Alexa discovers the doorway back to her world but decides to stay and help.
Alexa, Nori, and Romy go to Malucia's palace, where they witness Malucia draining all the unicorns' magic into her scepter. Alexa confronts Malucia, declaring that she is a princess, too, which provokes Malucia into a magical battle to 'prove' who is the better princess. During the fight, Alexa realizes that Malucia's scepter is cracking under its magical content. Alexa willingly lets Malucia steal all her magic, which causes Malucia's scepter to explode, releasing all its magic. Malucia is harmless once again, and Alexa, who can now perform magic without a wand, returns all the magic to their rightful owners.
After promising to visit again soon, Alexa returns to her kingdom more confident, and more willing to participate in her princess duties. As for Malucia, her parents return from their holiday and scold her for trying to take over the kingdom again.
Voice cast[edit]
Voice cast as listed in the closing credits:[2]
- Kelly Sheridan as Alexa
- Brittany McDonald as Singing Alexa
- Ashleigh Ball as Nori
- Chanelle Peloso as Romy
- Tabitha St. Germain as Malucia
- Ellie King as Grandmother
- Christopher Gaze as Brookhurst
- Jonathan Holmes as Grodlin
- Britt Irvin as Jenna
- Michael Daingerfield as King of Zinnia
- Mackenzie Gray as Father
- Andrea Libman as Nola
- Anna Galvin as Mother
- Andrew Francis as Prince Keiran
- Jay Brazeau as Mr. Primrose
- Teryl Rothery as Queen of Zinnia
- Arielle Tuliao as Samantha
- Peter Kelamis as Sniff
- Richard Ian Cox as Whiff
- Ali Liebert as Youngling Fairy
Soundtrack[edit]
A soundtrack for the film was released on August 25, 2014, a week after the film's release on video.[3] The soundtrack's track list is as follows:
- What's Gonna Happen – performed by Brittany McDonald (Alexa)
- If I Had Magic – performed by Brittany McDonald (Alexa)
- Magic Door (score)
- You're Here – performed by Ashleigh Ball (Nori) and Chanelle Peloso (Romy)
- I Want it All – performed by Tabitha St. Germain (Malucia)
- I've Got Magic – performed by Brittany McDonald (Alexa)
- Unicorn (score)
- We've Got Magic – performed by Ashleigh Ball (Nori) and Chanelle Peloso (Romy)
- Return to the Castle (Score)
- What's Gonna Happen: reprise – performed by Brittany McDonald (Alexa)
References[edit]
Barbie Secret Agent Wiki Characters
- ^'Barbie and the Secret Door'. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
- ^http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/movies/Barbie-and-The-Secret-Door/
- ^'Barbie and the Secret Door'. Soundtrack.net. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
External links[edit]
- Barbie and the Secret Door at the Universal Pictures Home Entertainment portal
- Barbie and the Secret Door on IMDb
Barbie Secret Agent Walkthrough
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/SecretAgentBarbie
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Along the way, Barbie’s friends and teammates supply her with the gadgets, training and strategies needed to complete each mission.
This game provides examples of:
- Asian Store-Owner: Mrs. Tanaka. Apart from dye, what she's selling isn't made clear. Probably a downplayed trope, because her store is in Japan, where almost everyone is, well, Asian.
- Art Major Physics: Because putting on a translucent/transparent suit would really make you absolutely invisible from top to bottom.
- Backtracking: Though often areas you've visited will have changed, or some areas will be blocked off.
- But Thou Must!: The thief will always be suspiciously faster than you, and you must always let the thief get away.
- Camp Straight: Mr. Johnson is hinted to be one of these.
- Cool Plane: Barbie and her team have their own very large and very pink private jet, which acts as their primary mode of transportation, as well as their secret headquarters.
- Culture Equals Costume: Averted in Brazil and France, but played straight just about everywhere else.
- Easing into the Adventure: Unless you skip it, the start of the game is Barbie doing some Virtual Training before receiving the call from Theresa.
- Equipment Reset Button: Barbie's inventory is changed each level so that she always has what she needs.
- Gadget Watches: Barbie uses a watch to communicate with her friends back at base while she’s on a mission. When it’s not being used in this way, it functions as a minimap/GPS device. Also see Super Wrist-Gadget below.
- Gateless Ghetto: The Egypt and Japan levels come to mind.
- The Ghost: Emille Vesante
- Goggles Do Something Unusual: One of Barbie’s gadgets is her Pink Vision Goggles, which help her to see coded messages within her environment.
- Improbable Weapon User: To call them weapons is a stretch, but Barbie's arsenal of gadgets consists of: a lipstick, a swingshot that's a wristband, a bottle of perfume, a robot puppy, a camera, some glasses and a compact of foundation that causes a huge cloud of smoke. Yeah.
- Instant 180-Degree Turn: The Guards.
- Instant Costume Change: Barbie performs these when changing among Stealth, Action and Adventure modes, sometimes in broad daylight, in a public area, while surrounded by a crowd. This is never mentioned or explained.
- Jet Pack: You can get one by typing JET whilst in action mode. It's a bit of a Scrappy Mechanic, though, as it's essentially just one long continuous jump when you hold down the space bar.
- Jump Physics: Action Mode, full stop.
- Invisibility Cloak: The thief stole Theresa’s designs in order to create a ‘Translucent Suit’, which is said to provide the wearer with near invisibility when worn.
- Level Goal: Technically
- Limited Sound Effects: A lot of the guards sound the same.
- Modern Egypt: One of Barbie's many destinations. Others include:
- Name's the Same: Let's hope that Mrs. Tanaka isn't married to a dirty businessman who swindles teenagers out of absurdly large amounts of yen.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Some of the guards have an uncanny resemblance to a pixelated Ben Stiller.
- No Peripheral Vision: The guards seem to have this. In fact, you can see their exact field of vision on the minimap. You could be standing right next to one of the guards, but as long as you’re not in that vision field, you won’t get noticed.
- Now, Where Was I Going Again?: A particularly cruel example. You can save mid-mission and quit, but upon reloading your save, you have to start from the beginning of the mission again.
- Robot Dog: One of Barbie’s gadgets is a robot dog that looks suspiciously like a Poochie (the robotic toy dog from the Turn of the Millennium). It’s used to distract guards and reach small spaces where Barbie can’t fit.
- Run, Don't Walk: You can only run in Action Mode, you can only walk in Adventure Mode but you can only run once in Stealth Mode, otherwise you're reduced to sneaking.
- Saving the World: Or at least the economy
- Scripted Event: It's perfectly possible (with the aid of a cheat) to catch up to Camille when she's stolen the puzzle box, but you have to let her escape.
- Stealth-Based Game: At least a third of the time, Barbie is in ‘Stealth Mode’.
- Stealth-Based Mission: There are lots of these.
- Stealth Expert: It’s hard to believe that Barbie can go by unnoticed in the highly colourful ‘Stealth Mode’ outfit that she wears, especially when she’s ‘stealthing’ in sparsely populated areas. This is, therefore, the only explanation.
- Stock Video Game Puzzle:
- Enter Solution Here (the most common one)
- Stock Foreign Name: Tanaka is a relatively common Japanese surname.
- Stupidity Is the Only Option: In one mission, Barbie has to set up a trap for the main villain by using the MacGuffin she just got. Cue facepalming when the villain arrives, steals the MacGuffin and forces a futile chase after them.
- Supervillain Lair: The lair of the villain, the last mission of the game.
- Super Wrist-Gadget: The UI shows a bracelet along the bottom of the screen; each ‘link’ in the chain contains the icon for one of Barbie’s many gadgets. Since she doesn’t carry a bag or have anywhere else to store these items, it’s implied that she actuallykeeps them inside her bracelet.
- Tracking Device: Yet another of Barbie’s gadgets, this tracking device comes in the form of tracking perfume. Yeah…
- Video Game Settings:
- Recurring Location
- The Maze: Subverted in that you have a map and can see over the hedges.
- You Can't Thwart Stage One: Or two, three or four.
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