Barbie movie sequences - It's almost a Fun Fact
Barbie in a Mermaid Tale 2 and Barbie Mariposa and Princess Fairy - Similar things in these sequences.
These iconic Barbie movie sequels have more in common than you might think, and it's something that makes me extremely outraged, it's not about the stories of the movies being similar, it's more like a formula that the directors of the films used, I imagine that not only I but several other fans were disappointed with the sequels thanks to these specific points that I will mention.
Where is the iconic duo from the first film?
The besties Xylie and Kayla, the sisters Rayna and Rayla, who accompanied the protagonist during her journey in the first film, simply disappeared in the sequel to their respective films. In the second movie, they didn't have any appearances or quotes (Except Rayna and Rayla who were mentioned only once if I'm not mistaken) Not even to appear in the background or arriving to say "Hii, we miss u *hug hug* bye!"
Wasted sidekick
Zinzie didn't appear in the second movie, she could have gone back to the confused fields, but I think she'd be better off as Mariposa's sidekick. As for Remu, he appeared in the second film but... not as we expected, in the first film he showed his desire to be a musician, but he appeared as a TV presenter ;-;
The nice friend ≠ The stupid friend
In the first movie Hadley and Willa were super cool, Hadley was connected to the internet and knew about myths, but in the second movie she got extremely silly and only served as comic relief, which to me wasn't even that funny, besides not being careful with Merliah's belongings.The same thing happened with Willa, before she was nice and popular not as much as other butterfly fairies but she was pretty party but in the second movie she turned into a carefree fool, like hellooo even to the twins who used to treat her badly, she struggled at work, but now that she works at the F*cking castle, she got lazy.
Holes in the script
Both films end up deconstructing a lot of what was said in the first film, as in Mermaid Tale, about the way Merilia is conceived, as the ceremony is every 20 years, and Merliah is 17, it means that Calissa got pregnant after the ceremony, and she herself said that after that her tail became fixed, and she could no longer transform into a human, so before we knew how Merilia was conceived, we didn't know that Calissa could turn human, not to mention we thought Eris kind of had this disability of not being able to produce Merilia from no way, but the sequence shows that in fact, everything was much easier and less depressing for Eris. In Barbie Mariposa, we are introduced to Queen Marabela, who lit up Flutterfield with her magic when she arrived in town, but In the second movie we find out that before that happened the people of Shimmervale who supplied the Crystallites to Flutterfield, and that alliance was broken a few years ago, so many few years ago, so if it's been a thousand years since this happened, how come the butterfly fairies didn't go extinct? I'm not sure how the age of fairies works but Marabela doesn't look that old, so she must have appeared a few years before the first movie. How the butterfly fairies survived until the arrival of Marabela, it is literally a miracle, an impossible miracle. Considering that Marabela wanted to resume the alliance, we don't know if Carlos will inherit her power, but if one day she passes away, they will have Shimmervale as allies to protect them.
That was it,it was more of an outburst, but it's still a Fun Fact, hope you liked it, heart and reblog, follow me for more 🧜🏼♀️🧚🏻♀️