Apple TVBarbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 7.2
Overview
King Randolph sends for his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her eleven sisters, into royal material. But the Duchess strips the sisters of their fun, including their favorite pastime: dancing. When all hope may be lost, the sisters discover a secret passageway to a magical land where they can dance the night away.
Starring Cast
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Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Overview
King Randolph sends for his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her eleven sisters, into royal material. But the Duchess strips the sisters of their fun, including their favorite pastime: dancing. When all hope may be lost, the sisters discover a secret passageway to a magical land where they can dance the night away.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film critiques oppressive authority and celebrates individual expression, but ultimately champions universal values of freedom and family within a restored benevolent traditional structure, avoiding explicit alignment with specific political ideologies.
This animated film features a cast that aligns with traditional depictions, primarily coded as white, without any intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. The narrative maintains a neutral to positive framing of traditional identities, focusing on themes of family and adventure without engaging in explicit DEI critiques.
Secondary
This animated film does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The storyline centers on a group of sisters, their family dynamics, and a magical adventure, with all relationships and character identities presented as heterosexual. Therefore, the film has no net impact on LGBTQ+ portrayal.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
This film is an adaptation of the fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." All major characters, including the twelve princesses and the male protagonist, maintain their canonical genders from the source material. No established characters undergo a gender change.
The film adapts a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, which traditionally features characters of European descent. All main characters in the 2006 animated film are depicted as white, consistent with the implied race of the source material and prior Barbie character portrayals. No character established as one race was portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
7.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.8
7.6
Critic Ratings
N/A
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