Barbie & the Diamond Castle

Barbie and the Diamond Castle

Theatrical Release Poster
Directed by Gino Nichele
Produced by Nancy Bennett
Luke Carroll
Written by Elana Lesser
Cliff Ruby
Starring Kelly Sheridan
Cassidy Ladden
Maryke Hendrikse
Kathleen Barr
Jeremy From
Noel Johansen
Music by Arnie Roth
Edited by Tim Jones
Production
company
Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Release dates
  • September 9, 2008 (2008-09-09)
Running time
 78 min.
Country United States
Canada
Language English

Barbie and the Diamond Castle is a 2008 direct-to-video computer-animated film that was released on September 9, 2008.[1] The film features the voice of Kelly Sheridan, who has voiced Barbie in the CGI Barbie film series. It is the third musical in the series.

Songs for the film were written by Amy Powers, Guy Roche, Russ DeSalvo, Gabriel Mann, Megan Cavallari and Jeannie Lurie along with executive producer Rob Hundnut. "Connected", the main song, was sung by Katharine McPhee.

Plot

The movie begins with Barbie and her best friend Teresa trying to play a song on their guitars when Barbie's sister, Stacie, storms in, angry at her friend Courtney and calls her a 'backstabber'. Barbie decides to tell Stacie the story of two friends named Liana and Alexa, who also get angry at each other.

The two best friends live in a hut beside a beautiful garden and plant flowers to make a living. They also share a love of music. One day, they find two heart-shaped stones which they make into necklaces to symbolize their friendship, not realizing that they are trinkets from the mythical Diamond Castle. The next day, an old woman gives them a mirror after they share the last of their food with her. The mirror is the hiding place of Melody, an apprentice muse from the Diamond Castle. Melody is on the run from Lydia, one of former three muses who lived in the Diamond Castle. Lydia became evil and turned the other two muses to stone, but not before they hid the Castle and left the key with Melody. If Lydia finds the Diamond Castle, all music will end, and with it eventually the world. Liana and Alexa coax a song out of Melody by singing, and Lydia's minion, a dragon known as Slyder, locates Melody by her voice.

With their home destroyed by Slyder, Alexa and Liana go with Melody to find the Diamond Castle and keep it safe from Lydia. They find two small puppies and at an inn meet twin musicians named Ian and Jeremy, who hear the girls sing and instantly fall for them, but the girls leave them behind at the inn. Lydia confronts them, and tries to cast a spell on them with her flute, but the girls' necklaces protect them. Lydia sets Slyder on them, but Ian and Jeremy arrive and they all escape.

The girls, now with the twins, comes across a dead end but soon meet a dislikable troll who captures the boys and vows to eat them and not let the group cross his bridge unless the girls answer his riddles. They do, which frees the boys and reveals a rainbow bridge that carries the girls off, leaving the boys behind. Liana and Alexa soon run out of food. They find a mansion and go to ask for shelter, but the servants there ,bewitched by Lydia, tell them that they are the long-awaited mistresses of the house. Alexa wants to stay, but Liana wants to honor the promise they made to Melody, resulting to an argument which turns to a fight. Liana leaves the house with Melody and Alexa stays, ripping off her magic necklace that symbolizes her friendship with Liana in anger. Slyder arrives and takes Alexa to Lydia. After determining that Melody is not with Alexa, Lydia uses her flute's powers against Alexa to find Liana, and because Alexa is not wearing her magical necklace, she falls under Lydia's spell. Alexa tells Lydia that Liana and Melody are heading to the seven stones, where the Diamond Castle is hidden.

After Liana is kidnapped, Lydia uses Alexa to scare Melody into revealing the whereabouts of the Diamond Castle. Although Lydia promises to release Liana and Alexa once the Diamond Castle is hers, Slyder knocks the two girls over a cliff, and they narrowly escape falling into acid by hanging onto a ledge. Liana realizes that the necklaces protected them from Lydia'a spell and uses Alexa's necklace to undo the spell, and they climb up the cliff together. One of the puppies leads the twins to the girls, and together they all head to the hiding place of the Diamond Castle.

Meanwhile, Melody tells Lydia false instructions about the key to the castle to keep her busy. The twins lure Slyder away and the girls pretend to fall under Lydia's spell. Lydia creates a whirlpool and commands the girls to jump in and drown, but Liana takes Lydia's flute instead. Lydia threatens to break Melody's mirror, but Melody breaks it herself, not wanting to let the Diamond Castle fall into Lydia's hands. Lydia throws the mirror in the whirlpool. Alexa saves Melody with the puppies' help and Liana drops Lydia's flute in the whirlpool. Lydia goes after it, but is caught in the flow. She tries to cast a spell, but her waterlogged flute backfires and she disappears instead.

The girls realize that the song Melody sang earlier is the key, and their singing is the true key of the Diamond Castle. As they step inside, Melody is released from the mirror and she leads Liana and Alexa to the other muses' instruments. Lydia suddenly returns on Slyder and attacks them. Melody saves the instruments from being turned to stone, and the girls play the instruments and sing, creating a barrier that turns Lydia's spells against her, turning both her and Slyder into stone.

The other muses are returned to life. They make Liana and Alexa Princesses of Music, promote Melody to a full muse and give Jeremy and Ian electric guitars. The muses offer Liana and Alexa to stay at the castle but they want to go home instead, so the muses give them flower seeds and send them on their way.

Back home, Liana and Alexa plant the magical flower seeds and beautiful flowers soon grow. Jeremy and Ian are successful in their performances with their electric guitars.

When the story ends, Stacie realizes nothing can break true friendship and with that, She goes to apologize to Courtney.

Characters

Cast

Original Soundtrack

Barbie and the Diamond Castle: Original Movie Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by various artists
Released September 2, 2008
Recorded 2008
Genre Soundtrack, pop, teen pop,[2] pop rock, acoustic
Label Koch Records

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Connected (End Title)"  Amy Powers, Guy Roche 3:41
2. "Two Voices, One Song"    3:25
3. "We're Gonna Find It"    3:07
4. "Believe"    3:34
5. "Two Voices, One Song (Movie Version)"    1:28
6. "Wonderful Me"    3:18
7. "We're Gonna Find It (Movie Version)"    3:16
8. "Double Vision"    1:48
9. "Connected"    3:44
10. "I Need to Know"    3:38
11. "Shine"    3:11

Notes

References

  1. ↑ "Diamond Castle". Barbie. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  2. ↑ Barbie & The Diamond Castle

External links

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