Sing Along With Barbie

Barbie "Phones it in"
Pro: Three stars because my daughter loves this and anything Barbie

Con:

Given this DVD costs as much as any Barbie Movie I was really disappointed.

I expected Karaoke style music videos. Instead the first 2/3rds of the DVD is simply clips from the movie with words.

By clips I don't mean that the DVD strings together clips of the movies to make a music video. That's what I expected and there are some videos like that on the last part of the DVD.

Instead Barbie exerted as little effort as possible and just copied the section of the movie with the song. The problem with this is that the non-song parts of the movie are also included. For example if anyone was speaking during the singing in the movie, they are speaking during the video (complete with text on-screen). This is very disconcerting to be singing the song with barbie and then all of a sudden the DVD is telling you to say whatever the evil Witch or two alternate life style...

Fun with a Few Quirks
I love the Barbie DVDs so when I was given the new "Sing Along with Barbie" DVD to review I was excited! Though not put together as well as it could have been, it still is entertaining.

Twelve Barbie songs comprise this DVD which is basically 12 scenes ripped from some of our favorite Barbie movies like "The Island Princess," "Barbie and the Three Musketeers," "Barbie and the Diamond Castle," "The Princess and the Pauper" and a few more.

My seven year old daughter was able to follow along with the purple highlighted words, like you'd do in karaoke, though we did notice when there was a duet, it was harder to follow. We did figure out that the second singer's lyrics were on the bottom, but my son pointed out it would have been better if the words were highlighted a different color. One negative is that since the songs are scenes from the movie, there is talking involved and that talking is also highlighted across the screen as if the subtitles were just turned on,...

Barbie DVD's Are Incredible
It was a great idea, putting many of the songs on one DVD. My granddaughter sits and watches and sings for long periods of time. She loves all the songs from the movies and practically has them all memorized, so even though she can't read yet, she still knows most of the words. Nothing compares to the Barbie movies in creativity, vidid, beautiful color and characters.

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