Barbie: Life in The Dreamhouse marked the return of the Mattel icon to television after the short-lived Barbie & The Rockers several years earlier. This time, Barbie stars in a series of 4 minute shorts that aired on YouTube & Nickelodeon.
The cast tried to make the characters sound like they were teenagers, or, in the case of Barbie's sister, Skipper, tweens. The producers stopped short of speeding up the sound to Chipmunk levels. Skipper did sound as if they wanted her to be a Chipette.
In this sampler from 2015, the girls decide to get tickets to see a pop star who's a parody of Justin Bieber.
A followup series, Dreamhouse Adventures, lasted three years (2017-20).
So why are we discussing Barbie? Because of a pending live-action movie starring Margot Robbie ("The Suicide Squad", "The Legend of Tarzan") in the title role. Is Mattel that desperate to keep Barbie in the spotlight after 64 years?
Barbie: Life in The Dreamhouse gets a B.
2 comments:
I enjoyed Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse.; it was pretty funny. Never saw Dreamhouse Adventures.
Dreamhouse Adventures may be on YouTube as well. I'll look at it. 4 minutes per short is a little too quick for me.
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