Barbie in A Christmas Carol

Barbie in A Christmas Carol is 2008 computer-animated Barbie movie. It's fourteenth Barbie movie from Barbie in the Nutcracker. This story is based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

This movie's motto is "Keep the beauty of Christmas in your heart every day of the year".

Plot summary
Barbie in A Christmas carol is a heartwarming adaptation of the classic Dickens story filled with cherished Christmas carols, faboulous fashions and lots of laughs! The tale stars Barbie as Eden Starling, the glamourous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make all the theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day! Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine, can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It's up to three very unusual Christmas Spirits to take Eden on a fantastical holiday journey that will open her heart to the spirit of the season and the joy of giving. Barbie in A Christmas Carol is a family favourite to enjoy every holiday season!

Full plot
On Christmas Eve, Kelly is reluctant to go to a Christmas Eve ball, so Barbie tells her the story of Eden Starling, a glamorous singing diva in Victorian England and the owner of a theatre house. However, Eden is self-centred and loves only herself. She is frequently accompanied by her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit. She does not believe in Christmas and orders all her employees to work on Christmas Day.

Eden's employees, Freddy, Ann, Nan, Maurice, and costume designer Catherine are disappointed to hear the news. Catherine Beadnell, as Eden's best friend since childhood, tries to persuade Eden otherwise, but is met with no success. That night, Eden receives a visit from the spirit of her late Aunt Marie, who reveals she intends to send three spirits to see Eden. The three spirits will convince Eden to change her life, each by showing Eden her past, her present, and her future.

In Eden's past, Aunt Marie was very strict. She insisted that Eden practices singing and playing piano without giving her a chance to take a rest on Christmas. Secretly, Eden went to her old, dearest friend Catherine's house to celebrate Christmas. There they sang together. But Aunt Marie came and forbade Eden to celebrate Christmas after that.

Meanwhile, the spirit of Christmas present shows Eden that Catherine is a truly generous person as she gives the orphans clothes. Eden is touched by this view but still doesn't give in.

Finally the spirit of Christmas future brings Eden to the coldest choice of life. Eden has lost her fame and becomes so poor, even Chuzzlewit's only dinner, a rat, runs away! Eden later meets Catherine who has become a rich designer, but also with an arrogant attitude, just like the previous Eden.

Eden awakens from her dreams a changed person. She decides to let her employees have a holiday and is good to them too. Through her good deeds, Eden ultimately learns to keep the spirit of Christmas every day of the year.

Through these journeys, Eden is able to change her life and learns to help and love others.

Kelly changes her mind about Christmas after listening to Barbie's stories. She decides to go to the donation party just as Nikki comes into Barbie's bedroom.

Characters
Barbie

Kelly, Barbie's sister

Eden Starling, singing diva

Chuzzlewit, a lazy cat

Catherine Beadnell, Eden's designer and childhood friend

Freddie, the magician

Maurice, the juggler

Ann and Nan, the dancers

Eden's Aunt Marie, appears as ghost

Spirits of Christmas

Tammy, the orphan

Orphanage head

Mrs. Beadnell

Mrs. Dorrit

Boz, the dog

Hypnotist (appears in Eden's possibly future)

Voice actors
Kelly Sheridan as Barbie

Morwenna Banks as Eden Starling

Melissa Lyons as Eden's singing voice

Prudence Edwards as young Eden

Leanne Araya as young Eden's singing voice/ Spirit of Christmas past's singing voice/ Ann/Nan's singing voice/ Singing voices

Kandyse McClure as Catherine Beadnell

Shauntia Fleming as Catherine's singing voice

Pam Hyatt as Aunt Marie

Luke Smith as Freddy

Tabitha St. Germain as Spirit of Christmas past/ Seamstress/ Baby

Kathleen Barr as Spirit of Christmas present/ Mrs. Dorrit/ Chuzzlewit

Lisa Roth as Spirit of Christmas present's singing voice

Gwynyth Walsh as Spirit of Christmas future

Kelly Bixby as Spirit of Christmas future's singing voice

Amelia Henderson as Kelly/ Tammy

Michael Ann Angone as Tammy's singing voice

Fabrice Grower as Maurice/ Orphanage head

Tim Fett as Maurice's singing voice

Shannon Chan-Kent as Ann/ Nan

Anthony Fett as Freddy's singing voice

Melissa Lloyd as Mrs. Beadnell

Morgan Roff as Jacob

Terry Klassen as Hypnotist/ Boz

Trivia

 * When Eden and Spirit of Christmas past are in Eden's past, on shelf may be noticed Nutcracker, character from another Christmas Barbie movie, Barbie in the Nutcracker