my 5 year old daughter be very into the barbie series of movie . i have have mix feeling about that not want her to buy into the whole barbie doll image of thing and and recognize that the movie be a marketing ploy to convince young girl to buy more doll and make more money for mattel . this morning though she ask me to watch this movie with her and and it be a lazy saturday morning and with not much else to do i agree . i do not know if the movie have be make to help market the doll and which seem to be lose their appeal a bit from what i have hear or if the doll be there to market the movie ( or and more likely and a bit of both ) but whichever be the case and i have to admit somewhat to my surprise and this wasn not half bad . it a fun and imaginative story full of magical place and people and memorable character ( both good and evil . ) essentially and annika ( play by barbie ) have to find a way to build a wand of light to reverse the evil spell of the wizard wenlock and who among other thing have turn her sister into a fly horse and her parent into stone . the animation here be pretty good not disney calibre ( if one think of disney a the standard to aspire to ) but generally pretty good and and while the movie be obviously tailor to young girl rather than middle age men and i still find there be enough twist and turn to make me wonder how it be all go to turn out . it true that there be some hole in the story and or at least some logical inconsistency and but again one must remember the target audience and who wouldn not really think of such thing . this be an all around decent family movie . positive .