I Became The World's Leading Expert On The Barbie Movies (feat.
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not seamus trying to steal my title after watching 4 movies
yea my mind went straight to you when I saw the title. Love your videos!
The audacity.
You’ll always the the queen of Barbie movies.
He's got alot of catching up to do lol. Maybe you should start rating Disney sequels and try to steal his title
You should be verified by now. TH-cam what are you doing?!
Seamus in the last Barbie video: I won't spend my mid twenties watching Barbie movies
Seamus now: I aM tHe BaRBie movIE ExpERt
Character Development
We love to see it
@@ZeroOhClock yes
@@BonahPerson eh?
There's just something about making a 23 year old man watch movies made for 4 year old girls that brings you so much joy
"Make her apologise to a block of wood!" You- you DON'T do that? You don't apologise to your toys???
I KNOW I WAS LIKE I DID THAT ALL THE TIME THATS JUST WHAT KIDS DO
If you can't 100% confirm that you DON'T live in a sentient toy universe you simply HAVE TO apologise to your toys!
RIGHT?!?!?!?!
I apologize to walls when I bump into them...
Pretty sure I'm just sleep deprived.
@@aidanfinch679 she definitely wasn't a kid lol. She married the prince in the end
When I was younger I was obsessed with the the fact that rapunzel's hair brushed turned into a paint brush so every night I would put this little hairbrush in my window and recite the same incantation. This went on for a year if not more then my mother had to convince me that the magic only worked for people who had really mean parents
Wow imagine you fought with your mum just to make a hairbrush turn in to a paint brush
Sounds like something I would do!
Oh I did this to!! When it didn't work the first tine I was like "yeah I was dumb to think it would" but also a little part of me was also like "Well there wasn't a shooting star so it's possible that's why"
That is a genius thing to say to a kid!
@Helena Kessen HAHAAA YEP
Fun Fact: The reason that so many of the early Barbie dudes have brown hair is because they're not Ken. This was during that weird time when Mattel decided to break Barbie and Ken up, and gave her a new boyfriend named Blaine. These guys are supposed to be him.
why tf did they do that tho blaine is clearly just a knock off
Omg I love your pfp and name
I remember that but I called all the guys Ken anyway
@@Frozen23154 Publicity. They announced a breakup between Barbie & Ken the day prior to Valentine’s Day the same year Blaine was released. Blaine was more popular than Ken for a few years and then the company brought Ken back and dropped Blaine
Why did I never knew that
In Rapunzel, the wedding isn't rushed. Her hair grew back, which would have taken at least 2 years.
RIGHT?!!!! EVEN LONGER!!!! and also in princess and the pauper doesn't Erika travel the world to sing and build her career, and only after that do they all get married??
Good point. I didnt notice that
I sense a secret crossover with Twilight. This Rapunzel is clearly like the weird kid that grew way too fast.
Some of them are really fast like The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, and Island Princess, but I feel like some of the other ones take their time
@@leahtheanimationfan40 I think Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses too, Genevieve and Derek...
"the prince falls in love with a literal bird"
Not the weirdest thing that's happened in mythology
Honestly?
That's considered *normal* in mythology
Zeus approves, he does it all the time
OSP
True to that
@@meep2942 Oh yeah
Seamus complaining about how quickly they fall in love and get married, like you watched the Disney princess movies, right?!
Pretty sure every princess movie rushes weddings
Kudos to Frozen for acknowledging that you can't marry someone you just met
Elsa is indeed a queen as it’s finest
yeah wait about the 12 princesses he will want to hurt himself very soon
@@MandiaM27 We don't know how much time passed before that wedding. Could've been a year for all we know
@@leahtheanimationfan40 Adding on here, we know in the movie that they have known each other for some time before the movie began anyways
I love how confused he is about the plot of the nutcracker when it's the exactly the same plot as the ballet
😂 My thoughts exactly. Poor Seamus, he really just doesn't like The Nutcracker
I have watched the Ballet, and it doesn´t make much sense there either LOL
The whole plot of the ballet takes place in the first act, then the rest of it is just the enchanted kingdom saying "Thank you." Which is why the dances are fun. It's basically an excuse to drag the girl into the fairy world. 😶
It's the trash (but iconic) 3D animation of the movie. It gets to your head 😂
Same with Swan Lake
As someone who is pretty sure that the inanimate objects in my house don’t actually come alive at night, I absolutely apologize to them if I break them or bump them
Always!
okay, Barbie falling in love with the Nutcracker despite him being a block of wood? that's a-okay in my books, because the Nutcracker has proven to be sentient, of human intelligence, and capable of reciprocating her feelings
the Swan Lake Prince falling in love with Odette while she is a swan, though? yeah, no, no excuses for that. that's a whole bird, bro
The swan Princess guy was probably Zeus
no one talks about bestiality when it's in a barbie movie
@@thesilverprincess I snorted
For those who don't already know the plot of the Nutcracker ballet, this is pretty much it. A rich family with a daughter named Clara (and son named Fritz) throw a party on Christmas Eve. Clara's godfather, who is legendary, attends the party and gives Clara a nutracker toy for Christmas. Clara falls asleep and is shrunk down while all the toys come to life. A battle between the Nutcracker (backed up by toy soldiers) and the Rat King ( backed up by rats) commence. The Rat King defeats the Nutcracker but Clara savmares the day by throwing her shoe at the Rat King and kills him. The Nutcracker is fine and transforms into a prince, then the snowflakes escort Clara and the prince to the Land of the Sweets. In the Land of the Sweets, the candy canes, Arabian Coffee, marzipan and many other dance for Clara and the prince. Lastly, the Sugar Plum Fairy (who is basically the queen of the Land of Sweets) and her Cavelier perform three beautiful dances and sends Clara and the prince on their way. Clara wakes up and realizes it was all a dream.
Yeah honestly the ballet is pretty limited when it comes to story telling (cuz they can't talk). Henri Dumas story of Nutcracker is the base I would say, instead of Tchaikoskys ballet. In the book it's explained how Nutracker became what he is and in the end he and Clara (or Maria like in the original) end up together.
Ah thank you, I was about to go into it! For people who might be looking for a different version than *barf* Barbie (that movie's only draw for me is the nostalgia), and who aren't interested in the ballet, my favorite adaptation is an animation done in 1990 called "The Nurcracker Prince"
Why did they change her name from Maria to Clara? Or are they different characters?
@@arwinorso They’re the same character so I don’t know why they changed the names.
@@allisonromano235 oh okay. Thanks!
“i need to find the leading expert on barbie movies”
me: “which is obviously caitlovesdisney”
seamus: “CAITLOVESDISNEY”
the pair i never knew i needed.
I knew it would be her and I love that he actually talked to her to try and get a better understanding of why these movies are great
the way i screamed
I am subscribing purely because you watch both of these superior human beings and you clearly have a m a z i n g taste
I did the same thing
For any who isn’t aware Seamus filmed most of this but realized the microphone was in frame the whole time so he had to film it again
i only filmed for 45 minutes with the microphone in frame to be fair! i spent about 6 hours filming total though !!
@@SeamusGorman4 no! What?! Wow, you're so dedicated!!!
Where did he say that tho? Everyone’s been talking about it but I don’t remember him saying it in the video 😅
@@RoseWangelin he said it on his Instagram story
@@bo649 oh I don’t have Instagram unfortunately 😢
Dang, I forgot when Tangled was coming out, people were comparing her to Barbie Rapunzel because she was painting the walls too. People who watched Barbie Rapunzel, you are heard.
It's actually why Tangled wasn't called Rapunzel because of Barbie doing it first and they had rights over the name! And it's also why Barbie never did Sleeping Beauty for the same reason!
In sweden it's called Rapunzel
I mean... The Nutcracker ballet itself basically says Clara is just dreaming everything. That's not Mattel's fault. They don't even try to lie.
Yeah, this story was written waaaaay before the "it was all a dream!" trope was overused
I mean it's not as weird as the nutcracker dream about Nazis
It's called Nutcracker 3d or the untold story and the rat king is Hitler
Yes we want Seamus to watch Barbie movies every week until he is 80
I think I’d lose interest 😂
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25:18 Odile being disguised as Odette wasn't really based on Rapunzel because it is what happens in the Swan Lake ballet.
Also, I think the dance sequence is very well made for an old Barbie movie
Yeah, I do think it wasn't a good idea to do Rapunzel and Swan Lake back to back because of the similarities, but the disguise part has probably been that way for over a century or something.
Seamus: I CANT BELIEVE THEY RIPPED OFF THEIR OWN MOVIE
The original plot of Swan Lake: 👁👄👁
YES loool XD Swan Lake is one of my favorite stories. It's criminally underrated and sad that people don't know of it
Seamus harping on Odette for picking up the one rock but the air benders knew Aang was the avatar because he picked specific toys as a child
But the air monks presented the toys to him with the sole purpose of finding out if he was the avatar, because the toys were related to his past lives, while Barbie literary just took a random crystal out of a tree cause she didn’t had anything to cut a rope, there’s no meaning behind the act, it was just chance, or fate, or whatever :p
That dress scene in Rapunzel literally has the most nostalgia for me. In my head, it's this big grand scene that's super perfect and magical. Watching it now, it's definitely not that, but as a kid, I wanted that paintbrush so that I could also make magic dresses to wear
I think most of us who watched the movie as a kid wanted it :-)
I've never watched Barbie movies. But I want that brush. To paint a dress on myself. The one Harry Styles was wearing on that magazine cover. And for good measure, I'd paint him too.
Same though, it was so magical to a younger me
@@kaikiwwi it's so magical to 18 year old me as well
I also wanted a paint brush like that
‘Man finds out ballet stories are weird’ - wait until he finds out about Giselle....
Can't wait till he sees Pink Shoes
No kidding!
I have never thought about that and i am creeped out by the plot. Coppélia is also really weird.
@@rebeccaservais8115 Yeah, but definitely not as weird as Giselle. Coppelia has the apparently common occurrence of falling in love with a doll, so it definitely should’ve been a barbie movie.
Or La Sylphide 😟
Seamus:"where does the ballet come into this"
Me a girl who was equally obsessed with ballet and barbie as a child. Knowing the nutcracker is a ballet: "AHHHHHHHH!"
Yeah, honestly he annoys me in that regard. How come he doesn't know about the Nutcracker ballet, I mean srsly it's taught in school, at least here in Europe.
@@Pollicina_db yeah I first watched it at like 3am and just quietly shouted at my phone as I didnt want my parents to kill me for waking anyone up. I watched it again later and loudly shouted at my laptop 🤣 I'm from the uk and dont get how its possible to not know it????????
@@Pollicina_db As someone who grew up in America the only reason I knew it was a ballet was because it was performed every winter when I was kid and my friends were usually in it.
@@victoriaratcliffe931 Yeah I'm from Croatia same thing. It made me so angry and annoyed
@@islasullivan3463 I don't mean to be rude, but it's sad that you aren't taught about Tchaikovsky in school. Here in Europe it's mandatory, same with all the rest of composers from other eras.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact Seamus is reviewing Barbie movies for the sake of our entertainment.
*YES*
You mean "Thank you so much for your sacrifice, king"
The nutcracker ballet is about Clara dreaming that she was shrunk to the size of a mouse and witnesses a battle between the mouse king and the nutcracker and then after that goes on a random adventure through the nutcracker/prince's kingdom until she wakes up at the end and it was all a dream, so the barbie movie isn't that far out, actually.
“fully fleshed out series” EVERYONE BETTER BE JUMPING WE WON
YESSSSS
I've been smiling for like 15 minutes now. I can't stop, I've tried.
The World Turned Upside DOWN!
When did he say it? 😅
TIME TO CELEBRATEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Barbie Nutcracker is 100% the reason why I became a ballet dancer, which I still do 19 years and one degree in dance later! Little did my mom know that this would be the most expensive vhs 📼 tape she’d ever buy me😅
i took ballet classes briefly as a kid because of it haha. i didn't stick with it though and don't remember much, but i did have fun!
I took ballet after watching the Twelve Dancing Princesses
There's just something about making a 23 year old man watch movies made for 4 year old girls that brings you so much joy
*Funniest part of Barbie Rapunzel*
coppersmith: "your highn-"
Prince: 😮😮❌❌
Coppersmith: "hi hi hi!... how are you?"
Me: nice save.
Loved that shit lmao
In Barbie a fashion fairy tale and Barbie a fairy secret it actually connects the dots and references her being an actress within the barbie cinematic universe
But those movies also don't exist in the same universe as the fairy lore changes between them
yea i agree with L.C i see it as the next generation in Barbie movies
If you watch the outtakes there are bloopers of Barbie “failing” her lines and messing up jumps and shit so that’s a thing too
Ironically, they did NOT make a separate toy for each dress in the dressup sequence. Just the glittery purple one.
Romeo and Juliet got married the morning after they met. Old literature do be kinda crazy
Yep!
ye we were watching something about it at school and i voiced my opinions about it them my teacher was like : Don't ruin my childhood
And one being a child and the other not
@@unrealpotato2230 …they weren’t the same age?!?
I thought they were both like 14 lol
@@clarascats1365 juliet was 13ish and romeo was 18-20 😬
I'm going to say this once, I won't say it again; *PRINCESS CHARM SCHOOL*
Yessss🙌🙌🙌
It’s. The. Best.
It’s the best one
I love this one.
Then I’ll say it for you! PRINCESS CARM SCHOOL. The best one ever!
I haven't watched this video in its entirety yet and I know that this movie is not going to be covered in this video, HOWEVER, Barbie and the Twelve Dancing Princesses is a masterpiece and this is the hill I will die on.
Agree. I literally don't care what him or anyone else says xx.
Agreed.
Absolutely
Absolutely agreed, as a kid I'd watch it over and over again to the point I could recite exactly what happened and all of the sisters names, after watching other barbie movies, Princess and the pauper and Twelve dancing princesses are my favorites
That is probably my favorite. As a young girl I always played games where I was the mother of 12 girls and everybody had a horse, everyone had a cat, and everybody danced. We went on so many adventures, it was so much fun!
Can you tell I didn't have many friends and had to make my own? 😂
I’m gonna lay some barbie facts down:
The original trilogy - Swan lake, the nutcracker, Rapunzel
The greatest trilogy - princess and the pauper, 12 dancing princesses, magic of the Pegasus
The bibble trilogy - fairytopia, mermaidia, magic of the rainbow
Edit (because people really like Island Princess):
The other greatest trilogy - island princess, diamond castle, 3 musketeers (I guess I dunno I ran out, it’s a pretty good movie)
Didn’t have the classic Barbie voice actor but still quality movies - Princess charm school, fashion fairy tale, fairy secret
Yes! But I would like to add island princess to the greatest series. And mermaidia is iconic. The lefting leftaroo and the opera singing bit was too good.
Facts. 🤩😂 (BUT ISLAND PRINCESS TOO YEAH!!)
also diamond castle ^^
And Barbie in the Pink Shoes.. a great movie, gotta say
And even though The Barbie Diaries is bad, I love it because it's hilarious. Also, even though the supporting characters are annoying, I love Mariposa
can’t wait until seamus gets to barbie: a fashion fairytale where they mention her being an actress in all these movies yet still manage to bring fairies into her real life lol
I can't wait to see his reaction to the Zombie Peas
@@kittycheshire5099 Oh my god the Zombie Peas
Watching Seamus go from reluctant to even talking about the franchise to being an expert is a better character arc than in any of the films.
Still not quite as good as the Jimmy Woo card trick arc, but getting close
wait did seamus just spend his mid-20’s watching all the barbie movies
all of the other 33 movies: *yes, but actually no.*
Who wouldn't?
Not yet
@@kaidouhottopicgiftcard me, tbf though I’m not in my mid-20s yet so maybeeeee
I laughed at “the Barbie doll falls in love with the prince” bit, but then thought about it and realized that actually only applies to about half the movies and most of them are the early ones.
They just gave up on making the boys relevant. They just want to sell boy dolls. The Prince in Secret Door doesn't even say a single thing.
@@kittycheshire5099 I was like there was a prince in that one. Oh yeah there was
The swan princess ballet follows Odette, a beautiful girl cursed by the evil Rothbart to be a swan unless her true love declares his love of her to the world. The Prince falls in love with her and invites her to the ball. Rothbart finds out this plan and traps Odette, replacing her with his own daughter (or pawn depending) Odette escapes too late and dies. The Prince battles Rothbart and defeats him, freeing Odette. Ballets are weird and have no dialogue and the movie was pretty accurate
Essentially you could summarize the whole Barbie in the nutcracker by saying "Combine Beauty and the beast and Toy story and redesign the beast to be a nutcracker"
And we wouldn't have it any other way
Perfect
congratulations seamus, your microphone wasn’t in the frame, this is such an improvement.
The Mics gonna become the new Table
We need more table
disIike my video pls
thank you!
I love your profile photo.
We miss the microphone
"The Princess falls in love with the prince, that's what happens to ALL OF THEM"
*Diamon Castle left the chat*
Just for the record, I habitually talked to my toys until I was like 14 so Clara's not alone in this. They just have a lot of personality you know?
Fun fact: in one version of the swan lake ballet, odette and the prince drown themselves in the end because they can't be together 😃
YAAY
*coughs*
...
I must inform I don’t have the virus, I’m just choking on my saliva because I’m a complete moron
Oh is that the original story ends? I'm kinda glad that my studio went with a happier ending of them faking their death.
@@scarletbailey6086 Yeah classic ballets are surprisingly dark
There are different endings depending on the company, the one I saw last year in January was that ending, but another was some ways open to interpretation as they do appear and embrace at the ending, to some that could be them going off to heaven together or actually both still alive.
@@RegencyLady-ho2ik Yeah ballets are adapted so many times and there are so many versions, that is just the ending that i am familiar with.
Just want to fill you in: in the Barbie Cinematic Universe princesses can use magic. All Princesses have magic, if they were born or not into royalty is not relevant.
Some princesses have to gain magic by getting kissed by a magically contaminated butterfly, others are born with it
But princess and the pauper had absolutely no magic.... although I mean, I'm surprised Preminger didn't have magic
@@saiquatabassum6321 yeah, that’s the exception because the movie overall doesn’t haves any magic
If he does 12 Dancing Princess at some point my life will be complete
“You’d think getting into the castle would be hard” me: actually it was super easy, barely an inconvenience!
I see you and your reference ;)
Yeah yeah yeah
the castle is built like the U.S Capitol
@@thatjedifromgallifrey6663 this comment is perfect, and exactly the type of thing I would put.
Seamus:a man of many talents! The worlds leading expert on Disney sequels and Barbie movies!
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thank you!
I think is important for Seamus to know the Barbie fandom collective decided Diamond castle is gay
I finally found someone who agrees
Omg I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that!! XD I watched it as a kid, and I was like "Oh they girlfriends, and must be pretending to be friends to avoid getting in trouble". Cause like my relatives wasn't too keen on same sex relations, and I was surprised they didn't get mad when I watched this movie XD
Is there anything straight in this movie?
Full cottagecore
@@l.c.8475 the twin dudes come in but like we can pretend that didnt happen......
I'm honestly disappointed Seamus didn't talk about how that furret moaned in that movie...
Him apologizing about tearing Princess and the Pauper to shreds is so satisfying even though his points were valid 😂
Barbie swan lake was actually based on the ballet swan lake so that's where the plot came from (and why there's a lot of dancing) Also in the original ballet both Odette and the prince die at the end
I thought that was based on a fairy tale?
Holy shit, what? I didn’t know they both die... 😱
@@annabelcaye Well there are some variations and different endings depending on the company and year of production, but Odette and the Prince throwing themselves into the lake is the og ending. There's one production where Rothbart gives up his power and everyone gets a happily ever after, but in most of the others at least one person dies.
A lot happier than the Giselle ballet though.
@Bridgette Lair Yeah as soon as I saw this comment I looked it up right away and I found out that a lot of people tend to change up the ending based on how they want it to end instead or how they interpret it. I must say I like the ending when Odette and Siegfried go to Heaven together or die together in the lake more than Odette leaving Siegfried to mourn her death forever because at least then they die together lol. But of course I prefer when they all live happy and survive or come back to life (I saw that one production made them die but when Rothbart died they came back to life since the spell was now broken and everything was undone). I also know a lot of kids who do this ballet and I doubt they would have an ending where people died so tragically, lol...
I personally don’t get the ending though. I know Siegfried accidentally said he would marry Odile, but it wasn’t his fault. He thought it was Odette, so wouldn’t the spell have worked because of what he believed? And when he found out it was Odile he was furious and rejected her for fooling him (which I feel like should’ve have renounced his previous statement and undone that betrayal), then went to Odette to ask for forgiveness and said she was the one he wanted. But his betrayal couldn’t be forgotten, like, I just don’t get that part. They make it seem like it was intentional and his fault when it really wasn’t. I am getting too defensive and overthinking this I know but I can’t get over that part in the endings where they die. 😂😂
@@annabelcaye Yeah it kind of runs on fairytale logic, there's always weird stuff and lessons in those. If you want a really good story that's kind of based on Swan Lake I recommend the anime Princess Tutu, it's extremely good and the characters make sense! 😁
Can’t wait till he finds out about bloopers in these movies, meaning that not only is Barbie an actress the animals do talk ...
I loved the extra bits
“PLEASE WAKE UP, PLEASE”
i love the fairy secret ones
...
I like to think that these movies are just kids playing out stories with their dolls.
I...I didn't even realize how much of these movies my brain had retained from childhood until watching this.
Okay but in the defense of the final act of Swan Lake the whole "disguising his daughter as odette" thing is what actually happens in the ballet
The main thing I remember from the Swan Lake movie was that the prince had a world globe that was actually a cube and it's only on screen for 3 seconds but it really lodged deep into my brain as a child.
Yes, I remember.
I still want one of them
Well that's what people back in the middle ages believed the world to look like! They thought the world was flat, and that you could "fall off the edge" if you went further out at sea (mostly cause the sea is dangerous, and they didn’t want to risk many lives traveling further out) XD
@@blepp7641 Not really, though that's a common misconception. People have known that the world was round since the ancient Greeks, and sailors could easily tell it was round from seeing how the horizon curved. People weren't scared of falling off the earth, they just weren't going to sail all the way over the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans because they'd starve to death. If you're thinking of Columbus, the reason nobody wanted to sail with him was more because the distance to India (if the Americas didn't exist) was too far to sail.
@@jennisfalling1379
Ahhh! I never knew that! I'm honestly just going off from what I learned in history class back in highschool xd, and my teacher may have oversimplified things. Thanks for correcting me!
Blame the plot of the swan princess on the ballet. In the Barbie version they literally only changed the ending where odette and the prince die, because that's too tragic.
Actually the thing with Barbie being an actress does get confirmed starting with Princess and the Pauper, as there are fully animated bloopers of the 'actors' goofing off on set. A fun watch, in case you haven't seen them
Others: Mother Gothel is not fleshed out, we don't know her plan or anything!
Seamus: mYsTerY
As a dancer who has performed The Nutcracker quite literally over 500 times and Swan Lake over 20 times in their life...... yeah. Ballets are notorious for not making much story sense. At all. 😅
The barbie and the nutcracker is literally a retelling of the nutcracker story. It’s originally a story from E.T.A Hoffmann that’s called “the nutcracker and the Mouse king”. This story was later turned into a Russian ballet in 1892. It’s famous for the score that was written by ten composer Chaiskovsy. That melody you know from the nutcracker is the MOST famous melody, but the whole story and ballet is incredibly popular and still being performed on stage to this day.
The third movie has almost exactly the same backstory as the first film. Except this one is based of the famous swan lake ballet. This ballet is also famous for the chaikovsky music.
at 19:50 (ish) you say that they rush the Barbie weddings, and while I agree that it happens in the next scene so while watching it is rushed, I think that more time passed in movie time than we think. Her hair has been cut to shoulder length and at the wedding it has regrown to her original length, her feet. This would take a few years at least. They just dont show it to us.
A lot of the weirdness in Barbie in the Nutcracker is from the original Nutcracker. The ballet has basically no plot, so I guess they did what they could and turned it into a fantasy adventure. In the original they beat the Rat King (who I think originally had like 7 heads???) in the first act of the ballet, and that breaks the Nutcracker's "curse" and he's a handsome prince. Then to thank Clara for her help, he takes her to the Sugar Plum Fairy and everyone performs for her. There's really no plot after that, but the different scenes and dances are really fun and the music is iconic. And remember, its a ballet, so this is all being told through dance. You don't really go to see the Nutcracker for the plot.
Edit: Oh Swan Lake is also a ballet made by the same guy (Tchaikovsky, who also wrote the original Sleeping Beauty, so he's technically the writer of the "Once Upon a Dream" song in the Disney version, but, ya know, without the lyrics). Also iconic music, though other than the lady turning into a swan, I couldn't tell you the plot since I haven't seen it. Just assume there is little plot since its a ballet.
You should watch the more modern ones, then animation isn’t AS bad. Also Barbie Princess Charm School is a masterpiece.
Princess charm school is literally my FAVORITE
Yea
I swear I watched Barbie princess charm school like 20 times when I was little
YASS literally my favorite
I agree with you princess Charm school is the best
Okay but I cannot wAIT for you to get to island princess
The songs unironically slap and I will die on this hill
Ooh my third favorite and my mom adores that movie. We always have the songs in our road trip playlist
I watched the movie in spanish so don't know the names of the songs but the one about destiny they sing on the ship is unironically on my playlist
That one and 12 Dancing Princesses, Barbie Diaries and the musketeers have a weird special place in my heart
That dumbass elephant though...
i LOVE the island princess soundtrack!
Seamus: A big fight breaks out between Mother Gothel and
Me: The other king? This kingdom's king?
Seamus: Everyone
Me: Oh, shit
Ah...your profile picture...
Memento mori my friend
@@trickykitty1838 memento mori
Once you realise how loud and emphasised all their footsteps are you can't unhear them
Why would you curse me like this?😂
Seamus: I don't know where the ballet comes into it...
E.T.A. Hoffman, Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Marius Petipa, Tchaikovsky: Are we a joke to you?
(basically, the plotline of the movie is based on the Nutcracker book by E.T.A. Hoffmann which was made into a ballet, which is where the music and dances in the movie are from. And swan lake is kinda the same premise)
30 solid minutes of Barbie content-and I don’t see the mic in any of the frames WELL DONE SEAMUS YOU’VE SACRIFICED SO MUCH
"UhHh, StEPhAn?"
"Yes?"
"Nothing. I'm JUst glAD yOU'Re mY BrOTHer."
You should watch some of the newer movies as well like Barbie Princess Charm School, Barbie in a mermaid tale, and Barbie A Fashion Fairytale.
“The sugar plum princess 🎵aLL ALoNg🎵” 🤣
Life Lesson: don't try to challenge the internet. Just don't give them the offer at all and maybe they won't make you do these type of things.
The barbie ballet movies are what inspired me to start ballet
and I'm still doing it like 10 years later
Each Barbie movie has a quote at the end of the credits. The ones Seamus has reviewed so far:
Barbie in The Nutcracker:
“Anything is Possible.”
Barbie as Rapunzel:
“Love and imagination can change the world.”
Barbie of Swan Lake:
“You’re braver than you think.”
Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper:
“Live your dream.”
I've always found them quite touching, they made me look up to Barbie lol.
Nutcracker didn’t have a message after the credits, but the back of the DVD case says “Barbie in the Nutcracker shows that if you’re kind, clever, and brave, anything is possible”
in barbie's defense this whole falling in love with a bird, speaking to a piece of wood thing is just ballet logic 🤷🏻♀️
Okay, so in hindsight the Prince Eric twist was really predictable but boy did that blow my mind as a kid
“SEAMUS YOU JUST DON’T UNDERSTAND THESE MOVIES”
What I love about Seamus is that when he says "if this video gets X amount of likes I'll do more" and he actually does another video. Other youtubers don't keep their like promises!
You have to admit though, the dancing is really well animated.
Edit: I can't wait for him to get to Pink Shoes. It's going to break his brain.
🤣 My least favourite barbie movie
@@zahrajardien685 there are defintly worse barbie movies pink shoes is deacent... (it might just be a prefrence thing but i personaly think spy squad and the weird puppy movies and princess adventers are worse.)
@@zahrajardien685 So you're saying that you prefer The Barbie Diaries, Spy Squad and Video Game Hero to Pink Shoes? How?
@@kittycheshire5099 I grew watching the barbie diaries so I could never hate it, spy sqaud is something I will never watch again, I've never watched the video game barbie because I was told it was crap and barbie and the pink shoes made my eyes hurt
I'm honestly happy that the barbie fandom is slowly growing and rising from the grave (tho I'm completely sure we were all just waiting in the shadows waiting for the right moment to rise again ^^;;)
Also- do Fairytopia movies cuz and maybe react to the life in the dream house (cuz Raquelle is our Queen-)
I know right, Raquelle is perfect.
Rapunzel being your favourite of the early Barbie films gives me LIFE it is so underrated
personally 12 dancing princesses has a special place in my heart, but objectively speaking the whole aesthetic of a secret world brimmed with nature is absolutely amazing XD
How many of you have also watched all of Cait’s Barbie videos? Btw hi Cait!!
I've watched a bunch of them. She's fantastic!
Idk if I’ve watched them all but I’ve watched a bunch of them
I wonder how much your complaints about Nutcracker and Swan Lake are from the source material, as Rapunzel was the one with the least source material to work with so they could do more of their own thing.
Rapunzel has a lot of source material to work with, but writers keep ignoring it, the Disney version is surprisingly close at the beginning with the flower.
In the original her father steals lettuce from their neighbour's garden for his pregnant wife, the first time she's sick and the neighbour forgives them, the second time the wife is craving some lettuce, so her husband goes over the garden wall once again to steal some lettuce from the witches garden, the witch gets angry and once their child is born she takes it away and names the baby girl lettuce (Rapunzel literally means lettuce)
@@l.c.8475 Also she meets the prince because he hears her singing, decides to spy on the tower and finds out how the witch gets up there; they fall in love and live a secret romance for months, where the prince would come as soon as the witch left and bring Rapunzel pieces of silk for her to build a ladder to climb down the tower.
Then, in some versions Rapunzel inncently asks the witch for a new dress because hers doesn't fit, revealing that she's pregnant, in other versions she's a straight up idiot and asks her how come it's easier to lift her up compared to the prince.
The witch then cuts off her hair and releases Rapunzel to get lost in the woods. She then ties the hair to the window, lying in wait to trap the prince next time he comes. When he does, she pushes him off the tower and he lands in a bush of thorns that, though breaking his fall, pierce his eyes, condemming him to wander around blindly for years.
Then one day, he wanders to where Rapunzel has been living with the twins she gave birth to, and is guided back to her by her singing. She cries when she sees his injuries (hence I think the tears reference in Disney's Tangled), and his eyes heal when her tears land on them.
It's a pretty rich story, definitely not lacking in source material!
@doubledork crawford I read a version of Rapunzel where everything that you and @L.C. mentioned happened except for the whole twins thing and the guy walking blind for years. In the versions I read she didn’t have twins, and shortly after the guy was blinded she cried onto his eyes and healed him, which also made her hair grow back. After she did that, he helped her find her parents who had been mourning her absence and they lived happily ever after. But that’s interesting to know about the lettuce connection (didn’t know Rapunzel meant lettuce) and the whole pregnancy and love affair thing. I believe in the versions I read they only met once or a few times and it was instant love? I don’t remember.
But I wonder what’s up with fairy tales princesses having twins lol, the original Sleeping Beauty had twins too. 😂
Seamus: What’s with these films and rushed weddings?
Me: Is a DISNEY FAN complaining about rushed weddings?
Fun Fact: they motion-captured all of the Barbie Ballet scenes so the dances were as accurate as possible
Rothbart literally got strangled by a mystical light
Standard Barbie movie stuff
Spending the rest of your life watching Barbie movies is just plain goals
Also, *Harry Potter and the prisoner of Barbie movies*
There’s actually a tourist attraction in Minnesota where I’m from that we refer to as Swan Lake. It was part of a conservationist movement when swans in America were endangered. This lady in Minnesota started feeding swans by the lake behind her house and ever since swans have been drawn to that place and people gather to look at them 😊
I had the Rapunzel Barbie. She had a string on her back you could pull to make her hair shorter and if you pulled her hair it would grow long again. It was the weirdest mechanism, and as time went on her hair clumped together and she basically had a hole in her head with a log of hair coming out of it and it was just the worst...
Not trying to exaggerate, but if Seamus did a video on A Fairy Secret or A Fashion Fairytale my life would be complete and I would die happy.
Same those movies are ✨ICONIC✨
OMG YES I LOVED THOSE ONES AS A KID!
I’m ready for him to make a video on the Barbie: Fairytopia movies. Those were my favorite growing up.
I can’t wait for him to meet Bible
@@a.c.757 Yes!!
Yeah, I’m not sure how he’ll react to them, but I can’t WAIT to find out! 😂
as someone who was enthralled with the nutcracker as a child the barbie version of it is my favorite. Its the best nutcracker rendition (besides the actual ballet) and one of my top 3 barbie movies. I will die on this hill 🤣
Now I really need a video for Island Princess, Fairytopia, and The 12 Dancing Princesses
Watch these movies , Seamus
- Princess Charm School
- Rock and Royals
- Diamond Castle
- Secret Door
- 3 musketeers
Those are the ones I remember the most 💖
Fun fact: Seamus was one of the first official ytber I ever watched
When I was younger I honestly thought that TH-cam was like Netflix
Search up a show and find it to watch
Eventually the first two ytber I began to watch were supercarlin brothers and the one and only
(Remember the week of Seamus)
I feel so happy to have found him back after so much years
His contents is so ideal to him
I love it
Not us having the same childhood
yess haha it was pretty much the same for me, just add vegard (or more like WiseHufflepuff) to the list
RIP Kirby Morrow, the voice of the nutcracker. 1973-2020🙏
You can just hear how lost and confused Seamus is that he got to this point in his life. He's like "why must I spend my life now reviewing the barbie movies" and then goals were achieved and he's like "Well I'm a man of my word"