Barbie: Star Light Adventure
| Barbie: Star Light Adventure | |
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| Story by | Kacey Arnold Kate Boutilier |
| Based on | Barbie by Ruth Handler |
| Starring | Erica Lindbeck Robbie Daymond Kimberly Woods |
| Edited by | Eric White |
| Music by | Toby Chu |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | Fathom Events (Limited Theatrical Release) Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Home Video) |
Release date |
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Running time | 79 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Barbie: Star Light Adventure is a 2016 computer animated film and the second film in the fourth season of films in the Barbie film series. The movie was given a limited theatrical release on July 30, 2016 and was released to home video on September 13, 2016.[1][2]
Mattel has released a toyline, a story book, and a comic, based on the film.[3]
Synopsis
The narrator explains that a prophecy has foretold that someday the stars will cease their cosmic dance and go out, unless "The One" can start them glowing again and restore order to the galaxy. This prophecy is starting to come true, and the sky is getting darker. The rigidly organized and disciplined King Constantine, who still believes despite many failures that he must be "The One", hatches his latest plan for proving himself and starts recruiting young people to help.
On the distant wildlife preserve planet of Para-Den, Barbie is an enthusiastic if impetuous Hoverboarder, who also has the ability to communicate with animals and objects using telekinetic powers. She is afraid to accept Constantine's invitation, but her widowed father convinces her to try, and she travels to the Capital Planet.
At a great ball, King Constantine introduces Barbie to the rest of the team he has assembled - Sal-Lee, a sarcastic and competitive Hoverboarder who is also a speedster; the socially awkward and naïve Prince Leo who is the best pilot in the galaxy; and the kindhearted alien sisters Kareena and Sheena, who have a psychic connection and also possess the ability to manipulate gravity to make things lighter or make things heavier respectively. Sal-Lee forces Leo to attempt to dance a waltz at the ball and he is humiliated - Barbie sympathetically starts a rave so he can dance his own way, but Constantine sees it as disorderly and puts a stop to it. Later, Barbie and Sal-Lee stay up past curfew and start to bond over a shared loneliness and fear of losing the rest of the stars.
Constantine explains his plan to discover the center of the galaxy and use a machine to zap the stars into order. He then sends Barbie and Sal-Lee on a hoverboard race through a course designed to see which is better able to take the sisters through the gravity-related obstacles, but when Barbie spots danger she convinces the sisters and Sal-Lee to work together with her, also using her powers to save Sal-Lee from falling debris. Constantine is impressed but also worried that Barbie keeps defying his orders. When she stays up past curfew again to help a distressed animal, he lectures her on the importance of following a plan in an emergency.
Things come to a head when he sends the group on a mission to capture a Starlian creature as part of their training. They succeed through dance, but Barbie senses the creature's terror and distress and convinces the others to let it go, thinking Constantine wants it in a zoo. Constantine, furious at being both disobeyed and misjudged, fires Barbie on the spot; he needed the Starlian to navigate to the center of the Galaxy to save the stars. Barbie apologizes and uses her powerful connection to the stars to summon the Starlian and ask it nicely for help, and Constantine reluctantly bows under the pressure of her teammates to reinstate her, now as their leader.
Constantine and the team set off to the center of the Galaxy, guided and protected by the Starlian. Leo pilots them skillfully to the central planet. Once there, Barbie, Sal-Lee, Sheena, and Kareena fly through the gravity-related obstacles and clear a path for Constantine and his machine. They find their way to the planet's core where the avatars of the stars reside, and Constantine, stubbornly disregarding Barbie's advice to listen and reevaluate the situation, uses it as planned. All the stars, forced into rigid order, instantly go out. Barbie, who could sense the stars were ceasing their dance out of sadness and loneliness, starts a new dance with them to cheer them up, and restores their order and light to the Galaxy, proving herself "the One".
On the way home, Constantine humbly tells Barbie that while their personalities are irrevocably different, the two of them should stop working against each other and begin to learn from each other. He takes her and her father in as his wards, and the film ends with Barbie, now as Princess Starlight, and her friends teaching Constantine how to dance at a rave.
Cast
- Erica Lindbeck as Barbie/Princess Starlight
- Robbie Daymond as Prince Leo
- Kimberly Woods as Sal-Lee[4]
- Sarah Anne Williams as Sheena / Kareena / Sprites
- Michael Chandler as Barbie's Dad
- Dwight Schultz as King Constantine
- Lucien Dodge as Pupcorn
- Laura Post as Narrator
- Ben Bledsoe as Artemis
- Jonathan Lipow as Starlian
Merchandise
There have been several pieces of merchandise released, which include the following:
- A comic book that will be released through Papercutz
- A story book
- Dolls, one of which features Barbie on a hoverboard[5]
- A Barbie Starlight dress
Television
- The movie aired on Nickelodeon on October 2, 2016.
References
- ^ Howell, Elizabeth (July 29, 2016). "Barbie Goes Cosmic in 'Star Light Adventure' This Weekend". Space.com. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
- ^ Ching, Albert (January 29, 2016). ""Barbie" Returns to Comics, Heads to Outer Space". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
- ^ Johnston, Rich (2016-01-28). "Barbie Gets A Brand New Comic Book For 2016 - In Space". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
- ^ Shannon, Josh (August 9, 2016). "Newark native finding her voice in Hollywood". Retrieved 2016-08-31.
- ^ McGoogan, Cara (February 15, 2016). "Barbie has a hoverboard drone that actually flies". Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-08-31.
