The Barbie Diaries
Encyclopedia
The Barbie Diaries is a 2006 motion capture
film featuring popular Mattel
character Barbie
. It is part of the Barbie film series
.
teenager in high school who encounters the problems that real-life teens often encounter: making new friends, dating, gossip, and getting involved in school. She always gets beaten in everything by Raquel, a snobby girl who used to be her best friend in fifth grade. On the first day of school, she attempts to become anchorwoman for the school TV station but Raquel beats her to it. Instead, she becomes Raquel's personal slave, buying her drinks and doing her work.
Then, Todd (Raquel's boyfriend who was previously dumped by her and Barbie's crush) asks her to the dance. Thrilled, Barbie as well as her friends Tia and Courtney rush to buy a dress when they discover that Raquel and Todd are together again. The mysterious woman at the counter, whose name is Stephanie, gives them advice and offers them some charm bracelets for free. Barbie's happens to come with a diary which she writes her hopes in.
Soon after, what she wrote starts to mysteriously "come true." Someone--who she thinks is Todd--leaves her love notes, and her band, Charmz, gets a gig at the school dance that Barbie was previously invited to. Next, Barbie decides to do a piece on popular kids and "What Makes Them Popular." She soon starts to neglect her friends and does not tell the popular kids that the story is actually quite mean. Barbie realizes that her hopes written in the diary "came true" and rushes to the mall to ask Stephanie about it. To her shock, it is revealed that the woman never worked there and apparently does not exist.
Tia and Courtney discover that it is Kevin-Barbie's longtime friend-that has been leaving her the love notes. They pressure him to tell her but he refuses. Soon, Raquel steals Barbie's so-called "magic bracelet" and the popular kids discover the truth about the story. Barbie chooses to instead showcase Kevin's film clips depicting a paperclip chain attacking his eBook.
On the night of the dance (which she has chosen not to go to), her friends arrive and tell her that she has to perform with them, giving her the dress that they put on hold for her at the mall.
Still worried as she has no bracelet, Kevin takes one of her guitar strings and loops it around her wrist. Barbie points out that it is a "stupid piece of bent metal" until she realizes that that is what her bracelet was. The girls rock the concert with Courtney finally able to do a drum stick manuveour that she couldn't do before. Barbie and Todd dance until Todd reveals that he'd never written any such notes.
Confused, she thinks back to other people who were in the places the notes had said. Realizing that it was Kevin all along, Barbie leaves in the middle of the dance and goes over to Kevin. Kevin gives her back the charm bracelet that he found on the ground (it had ripped Raquel's dress and caused her to be covered with punch). She apologizes for never realizing, but points out that the bizarre rhyming in the notes was a giveaway: "Who else would rhyme scary with library?" The two dance together, finally a couple.
- Invisible
02. Girl Most Likely To
03. Feels Like Love
04. Real Life
05. Elanya - Fate Finds A Way
06. Skye Sweetnam - This Is Me
07. Skye Sweetnam - Real Life
08. Skye Sweetnam - Girl Most Likely To
09. Skye Sweetnam - Note to Self
10. Huckapoo - Where You Belong
11. Deanna DellaCioppa - I Don't Wanna Sleep
Motion capture
Motion capture, motion tracking, or mocap are terms used to describe the process of recording movement and translating that movement on to a digital model. It is used in military, entertainment, sports, and medical applications, and for validation of computer vision and robotics...
film featuring popular Mattel
Mattel
Mattel, Inc. is the world's largest toy company based on revenue. The products it produces include Fisher Price, Barbie dolls, Hot Wheels and Matchbox toys, Masters of the Universe, American Girl dolls, board games, and, in the early 1980s, video game consoles. The company's name is derived from...
character Barbie
Barbie
Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration....
. It is part of the Barbie film series
Barbie (film series)
Since her film debut in 1987 in Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World, Barbie has been a virtual actress starring in several feature films and short films...
.
Plot
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teenager in high school who encounters the problems that real-life teens often encounter: making new friends, dating, gossip, and getting involved in school. She always gets beaten in everything by Raquel, a snobby girl who used to be her best friend in fifth grade. On the first day of school, she attempts to become anchorwoman for the school TV station but Raquel beats her to it. Instead, she becomes Raquel's personal slave, buying her drinks and doing her work.
Then, Todd (Raquel's boyfriend who was previously dumped by her and Barbie's crush) asks her to the dance. Thrilled, Barbie as well as her friends Tia and Courtney rush to buy a dress when they discover that Raquel and Todd are together again. The mysterious woman at the counter, whose name is Stephanie, gives them advice and offers them some charm bracelets for free. Barbie's happens to come with a diary which she writes her hopes in.
Soon after, what she wrote starts to mysteriously "come true." Someone--who she thinks is Todd--leaves her love notes, and her band, Charmz, gets a gig at the school dance that Barbie was previously invited to. Next, Barbie decides to do a piece on popular kids and "What Makes Them Popular." She soon starts to neglect her friends and does not tell the popular kids that the story is actually quite mean. Barbie realizes that her hopes written in the diary "came true" and rushes to the mall to ask Stephanie about it. To her shock, it is revealed that the woman never worked there and apparently does not exist.
Tia and Courtney discover that it is Kevin-Barbie's longtime friend-that has been leaving her the love notes. They pressure him to tell her but he refuses. Soon, Raquel steals Barbie's so-called "magic bracelet" and the popular kids discover the truth about the story. Barbie chooses to instead showcase Kevin's film clips depicting a paperclip chain attacking his eBook.
On the night of the dance (which she has chosen not to go to), her friends arrive and tell her that she has to perform with them, giving her the dress that they put on hold for her at the mall.
Still worried as she has no bracelet, Kevin takes one of her guitar strings and loops it around her wrist. Barbie points out that it is a "stupid piece of bent metal" until she realizes that that is what her bracelet was. The girls rock the concert with Courtney finally able to do a drum stick manuveour that she couldn't do before. Barbie and Todd dance until Todd reveals that he'd never written any such notes.
Confused, she thinks back to other people who were in the places the notes had said. Realizing that it was Kevin all along, Barbie leaves in the middle of the dance and goes over to Kevin. Kevin gives her back the charm bracelet that he found on the ground (it had ripped Raquel's dress and caused her to be covered with punch). She apologizes for never realizing, but points out that the bizarre rhyming in the notes was a giveaway: "Who else would rhyme scary with library?" The two dance together, finally a couple.
Cast
- Kelly SheridanKelly SheridanKelly Sheridan is a Canadian voice actress based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Biography:Sheridan has voiced various roles in anime and other animated cartoons, such as Barbie in the computer generated Barbie film series since 2001...
....Barbie - Skye SweetnamSkye SweetnamSkye Alexandra Sweetnam is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actress, and music video director. Skye first entered the mainstream in 2003 with the release of her debut single "Billy S." Over a year later, her debut album, Noise from the Basement, was released including the singles "Tangled Up in Me"...
....Passing Girl #3/Third sales girl - Sarah EdmondsonSarah EdmondsonSarah Edmondson is a Canadian actress.She started with the Jewish Young People’s Theatre and Lord Byng Theatre Company. She then graduated from Concordia University with a BFA in Theatre Performance...
....Courtney - Venus TerzoVenus TerzoVenus Terzo is a Canadian actress best noted for her role as Detective Angela Kosmo in Da Vinci's Inquest and its spinoff, Da Vinci's City Hall. She was nominated in 2002 for the Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role in that same role...
....Tia/Passing girl #2 - Ashleigh BallAshleigh BallAshleigh Ball is a Canadian voice actress and the lead singer and flautist in the Vancouver-based jazz/pop band Hey Ocean!.-Filmography:-External links:...
....The DJ - Matt HillMatt HillMatthew "Matt" Hill is a Canadian voice actor. He is known for several roles, including Kevin Keene/Captain N in Captain N: The Game Master, Kira Yamato in Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny, Ed in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Raphael in Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, Ryo Sanada in Ronin Warriors and Artha...
... Kevin LOL - Cathy WeseluckCathy WeseluckCathy Weseluck is a Canadian voice actress who frequently works with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is known with providing the voice for characters in various anime series such as Mirai Yashima , Dorothy Catalonia and Catherine Bloom , Near , Shampoo , Kagome's mother , Misa...
...Principal Peters/Passing girl #1 - Chiara ZanniChiara ZanniChiara Zanni is a Canadian actress & voice actress, performing in movies such as BIONICLE: Mask of Light as Hahli, playing the role of Hamtaro in the TV anime cartoon series. Young Joe in Cyborg 009, Hamtaro, Jubilee in X-Men: Evolution, Bon Bon in My Little Pony Tales and Nori, the mermaid in...
....Raquel - Maryke HendrikseMaryke HendrikseMaryke Hendrikse is a Canadian voice actress who works for Ocean Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
....Reagen - Michael Daingerfield....Mr. Bennet/Stage Manager
- Anna CummerAnna CummerAnna Cummer is an actress from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She spent half of her adolescence in Southeast Asia and the other half in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. She finished high school in Hong Kong at the French International School and studied drama in England where she completed...
....Dawn - Andrew FrancisAndrew FrancisAndrew Francis is an actor and voice artist from Vancouver, British Columbia. He has appeared in many television shows including Poltergeist, Dark Angel, Twilight Zone, The L Word, Smallville and Kyle XY...
....Todd - Tabitha St. GermainTabitha St. GermainTabitha St. Germain is a Canadian stage actress. She has made the transition from stage work to voice work, and has since become one of the core female voice actresses working with Ocean Productions in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.- Anime :* .hack//Roots - Asta, Nazo Grunty* Black Lagoon -...
....Second sales girl - Heather DoerksenHeather DoerksenHeather Doerksen is a Canadian actress who has appeared on stage, and on screen alongside such actors as Kathy Bates, William H. Macy, Christopher Lloyd, and Jessica Alba...
....Stephanie - Joe May....Mr. Wexler/Popular boy #2
Songs
01. KeshaKesha
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- Invisible
02. Girl Most Likely To
03. Feels Like Love
04. Real Life
05. Elanya - Fate Finds A Way
06. Skye Sweetnam - This Is Me
07. Skye Sweetnam - Real Life
08. Skye Sweetnam - Girl Most Likely To
09. Skye Sweetnam - Note to Self
10. Huckapoo - Where You Belong
11. Deanna DellaCioppa - I Don't Wanna Sleep