Barbie: A Fairy Secret

Film

"Forgiveness lets you fly."
– Barbie

Barbie: A Fairy Secret is the 19th Barbie movie and somewhat of a sequel to Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale. It was released to DVD on March 15, 2011, and it made its TV premiere on Nickelodeon on April 17, 2011.^[1] When Ken is kidnapped by fairies, Barbie and her rival Raquelle have to team up to save him from being married to a fairy princess and being trapped in a fairy world forever.

Official Summary[]

"Get ready for Barbie™: A Fairy Secret, an amazing adventure with Barbie™ where she discovers there are fairies living secretly all around us! When Ken™ is suddenly whisked away by a group of fairies, Barbie’s two fashion stylist friends reveal they are actually fairies and that Ken™ has been taken to a magical secret fairy world not far away!

Barbie™ and her rival Raquelle take off with the fairy friends on an action-packed journey to bring him back. Along the way, they must stick together and learn that the real magic lies not just in the fairy world itself, but in the power of friendship."

Plot[]

Barbie is getting ready at her house for a special event with the help of her stylists, Carrie and Taylor. Secretly being fairies, they use magic to dress her up. When they get to the event first, a red carpet premiere of Barbie's latest movie being held at Sunset, they are interviewed by red carpet reporter Tracy Clinger until Carrie drags Taylor away for them to greet their old friend Crystal, whom Carrie spots nearby taking pictures. Raquelle takes their place in the interview to get the attention, only for Barbie to get it all the minute she arrives at the premiere with Ken, making Raquelle displeased by how everyone's now paying attention to Barbie. In an attempt to get back at her, Raquelle steps on her dress and rips it after she shows it off during Tracy's interview. Barbie tries to hide the rip before her stylists lead her away from the interview to fix the dress. While they are alone, Taylor secretly uses her magic to fix it. Although slightly confused, Barbie is glad her dress is fixed and invites the two to Wally's the next day for lunch. She returns to the crowd with Ken for the premiere, and Crystal, another secret fairy like Carrie and Taylor, greets the two. Once they leave to join Barbie and Ken, Crystal takes some more pictures of everyone. Later on, she shows Princess Graciella, the ruler of a special fairy place called Gloss Angeles, the pictures she took at the premiere. The princess drinks up a drink and Crystal notices her eyes turn from blue to purple. She then shows Graciella a picture of Ken, making her fall in love with him and vowing to marry him on the spot. Crystal seems pleased by this, and agrees to help her.

The next day at Wally's, Barbie is having a good time with her friends when Raquelle comes by for a minute to taunt Barbie and flirt with Ken. Barbie confronts her outside about what she did to her dress at the premiere last night. While the two are arguing and the others are watching them, Princess Graciella, her assistants, and Crystal show up to kidnap Ken. Taylor and Carrie sprout their wings for a minute and attempt to stop the fairies from taking Ken, but the portal to Gloss Angeles closes before they can enter it. Carrie attempts to dissuade Raquelle and Barbie of the fact that they just saw fairies until Taylor admits their true identities. They tell Barbie and Raquelle they have to get Ken back because according to fairy law, if a human marries a fairy in Gloss Angeles, they can never return to the human world.

Meanwhile in Gloss Angeles, Graciella, Ken, Crystal, and her assistants arrive at her palace. Ken tries to talk the princess out of marrying him when Zane, Graciella's boyfriend who Crystal has a huge crush on, shows up. Zane is outraged at Graciella's new love interest despite his reasonings that he doesn't love Graciella back, and challenges Ken to three duels.

Barbie, Raquelle and the fairies go to a clothing store Taylor locates with a fairyphone where the fitting room attendant, also secretly a fairy, leads them to a seemingly used fitting room that is actually a Fairy Flyway. They enter the flyway, teleporting to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. The fairies reveal that Lilliana Roxelle, a fashion critic who Barbie met once, is the oldest and wisest fairy living in the human world. They arrive on the balcony of Lilliana's house, stating their problem to her. Lilliana realizes that Graciella must be under the spell of a love potion, which adds red to the eyes. She gets a vial of antidote mist for the love potion, gives it to Barbie, and tells her that if she releases the mist right above the princess, the spell will be broken. The fairies reveal that Carrie and Taylor are banned from Gloss Angeles, but the two have to go back to help Barbie and Raquelle rescue Ken, so Lilliana lets the four use her portal.

They arrive in Gloss Angeles, a cluster of beautiful islands floating in the air. Carrie and Taylor bring the girls to Wings and Things, a store that sells clip-on wings for humans to use, but not before they take a ride on an aerovator. Their good human friend Reena, who co-owns the store with her fairy husband Graylen, greets them without calling on the palace guards. She reveals Graciella is a Passion Fairy whose emotions, such as her anger being the strongest one, are incredibly powerful against anything except for Reena and Graylen's love for each other and adds that the wedding will take place at sunset. After that, she assists Barbie and Raquelle in getting them clip-on wings. Barbie proves to be good at flying, which sparks Raquelle's jealousy since she does not fly well. The four girls then set off to the highest point in Gloss Angeles: Graciella's palace.

Back at the palace, the first phase of the duel between Ken and Zane begins. Ken cannot cast any spells like Zane does, but he cleverly avoids all of Zane's magic blasts with a pair of clip-on wings one of Graciella's assistants gave him before the duel. With him as the victor, Graciella tells the boys to get ready for the duel's second phase.

Barbie and her friends continue flying up to the palace. Some turbulence knocks Barbie and Raquelle off their balance until they are saved by some pegaponies, shy colored flying horses that come to others like the girls because they like them. The four proceed with the pegaponies flying them the rest of the way. When they get near the palace, they encounter several swirlnados, treacherous wind currents that are used to protect the palace, and that even the most expert flyer would lose their balance and fall if they get caught in one, to which Carrie realizes Graciella set them up for security. Barbie points out Raquelle's skill with riding horses, much to the latter's surprise. With some encouragement from the others, Raquelle successfully guides everyone through the swirlnadoes, and they sneak into the palace disguised as chefs to pass fairy guards. Before they go in, Barbie and Raquelle ask Carrie and Taylor why they're banned. They explain that they used to be friends with the princess, but then all of a sudden, she banned them after she proclaimed that they betrayed her, so they will stay in the human world for good when the four girls finish saving Ken.

Once inside the palace, they locate the place where the duel is being held. Barbie flies in front of Ken to stop Zane from blasting him some more, and then attempts to give Graciella the love potion antidote, but the princess freezes her, Raquelle, Carrie and Taylor. Ken flies up to check on Barbie, only for Graciella to freeze him too. He is confused by her intentions to marry him until Barbie reveals Graciella is under the influence of the love potion. Crystal tries to deny this, but Taylor finds out that she made Graciella fall in love with Ken so she could get Zane's attention. When Graciella asks Crystal if it is true, she recognizes Taylor's shoes and exposes she and Carrie are in the palace. Remembering them as the fairies she banished with Crystal making them liars, Graciella sends the four to the dungeon by trapping them in Fury Spheres that are escape proof and made from pure anger. While Zane believes everything about the love potion, he seems to be losing Graciella as she leaves with Ken for the wedding preparations. Everything is according to plan for Crystal.

At sunset, the wedding begins. Ken is wrapped in some Chains of Love that Graciella used to prevent him from escaping. In the dungeon right below the grand hall where the wedding is taking place, Carrie attempts to use some items from her magical purse to free herself and Taylor. However, none of her items work. Taylor uses her shoes that turn out to be magical as well, but they do not break the fairies free either. From inside her Fury Sphere, Barbie sits down, saddened that rescuing Ken became a failure. Raquelle joins her and they talk, finally getting to the bottom of their rivalry before they realize the cause of it was from a misunderstanding between them since they met in school. They apologize to each other with a hug and their forgiveness transforms their Fury Sphere into real wings for them because their forgiveness is stronger than the anger of a Passion Fairy. The two fly up to the grand hall to rescue Ken.

Back at the wedding, Zane tries to stop it by proposing to Graciella, who turns him down with the urge to marry Ken instead of him. Right before the wedding officiant can pronounce Ken and Graciella as spouses, Barbie and Raquelle stop the wedding just in time, revealing the princess's state with the love potion to the public. Because she still believes it is a lie thanks to Crystal, Graciella blasts the two, only for them to dodge her magic blasts. Raquelle distracts the assistants while Graciella battles Barbie.

The battle is hard, but eventually with Zane's help, Barbie is able to release the antidote mist over Graciella, freeing her from the love potion's spell as her eyes turn back to blue. Ken finally breaks free from the Chains of Love. Graciella is confused at first until she remembers everything that happened since she drank the love potion. She confronts Crystal, who reveals that her intentions with the love potion were to get Zane's attention, but admits that Zane still loves Graciella, which Graciella is happy to hear and reciprocate. Graciella and Zane are so grateful to Barbie and Raquelle that Graciella offers to do something in return for them. Barbie requests Carrie and Taylor to be free from the dungeon, and their banishment in Gloss Angeles to be lifted. Although the princess is reluctant to do both, she learns from Raquelle that Carrie and Taylor never understood why she banned them in the first place, so she brings them back to try and sort things out with them. Carrie reveals that they only spent time without her because she was busy with her royal duties. When Graciella says that they stopped even inviting her to do things with them, Taylor explains they were sure she'd say "no" that they didn't try, although they realize now that that was a mistake. The three forgive each other and become friends again. Crystal notices that there is so much forgiveness going around, so she nervously hints for some forgiveness as well. Graciella, confiding to Crystal that the whole ordeal was all her fault, sentences her to clean up the entire palace after the wedding reception as punishment before she can forgive her. After Ken asks Graciella if she said "wedding reception", she confirms this by remembering Zane asking her to marry him earlier.

Later, the wedding happens again, only with Zane as the groom this time. Graciella gives the officiant her answer that is also meant for Zane's question and the fairy couple becomes newlyweds as they kiss. Everyone is happy except for Crystal, who is given cleaning supplies by the assistants. Graciella tells Barbie and Raquelle that their wings will disappear when they go back to the human world, and then reappear when they return to Gloss Angeles. Raquelle does not promise Graciella that she'll keep Gloss Angeles and the fairies' existence a secret. Thus, Graciella tells Barbie, Raquelle, and Ken that their memories of their adventure will be erased as a dream to them in the morning. She then sends them home with magical dust that puts them to sleep while erasing their memories.

The next morning, Barbie wakes up in her house with no recollection of Gloss Angeles or the fairies, thinking it was a dream. When she meets up at Wally's with Ken, who also remembers everything that happened as a dream he cannot remember, they talk about it and the only thing Barbie seems to remember: her and Raquelle as friends. However, Raquelle arrives to join the couple and surprises Barbie by sitting next to her without flirting with Ken. Now the two are trying to get along. Raquelle cannot remember anything about the adventure since it was all a dream to her as well, except for her being friends with Barbie, which they both think is weird. Carrie and Taylor drop by to tell them and Ken that they reconnected with an old friend (Graciella) and are going back to their hometown (Gloss Angeles) to spend some time there, but not without saying they will see the three again, even though Raquelle mentions that she barely knows the stylists. In the last scene, Carrie and Taylor secretly show their wings to the fourth wall outside Wally's before they fly back to Gloss Angeles through a portal that is left open for them.

Starring the Voices Of[]

Disc (DVD) Features[]

Scenes[]

Opening Night
Picture Perfect
A Ken-napping!
Fairies Among Us
Zane's Challenge
Secret Fairy Flyway
A Fairy Flight in Paris
Welcome to Gloss Angeles
Wings And Things
A Magical Duel
Swirling Swirlnados
A Very Fairy Disguise
Crystal's Plan Uncovered
Royal Chains of Love
Forgiveness Lets You Fly
Everyone Objects!
A Royal Wedding At Last
Back At Wally's

Special Features[]

"Can You Keep A Secret" Music Video
Trailer Gallery

Outtakes[]

Barbie_A_Fairy_Secret_-_Bloopers — Barbie A Fairy Secret - Bloopers

Barbie and Raquelle are flying, but suddenly Raquelle's wings come loose, and she lands on a pegapony.
Barbie, Raquelle, Taylor, and Carrie are in Fury Spheres and Carrie gets a helmet and they ride the Fury Sphere.
The boy is sitting there and he sees a girl with cupcakes and the boy eats one but a horse comes and eats it.
Raquelle is holding lots of clothes and she falls and then one dress is on her head.
Barbie and Ken are walking on the red carpet but Ken rips Barbie's dress.
Barbie asks the boy for hot chocolate and he gives one to Barbie but it flies away and then lots of hot chocolates come to Barbie.
Crystal cleans the grand hall but a cat and a dog tip the garbage can over.

Trivia[]

In the opening sequence, while Barbie was getting ready, there is a rack of clothes that contains the final dress she wore from Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale.
Barbie: A Fairy Secret was nominated for "Best Overall Sound in an Animation Program or Series" and "Best Animation Program or Series" awards for the Leo Awards 2011.
The film grossed over $12,329 in the Home Market Performance of US DVD sales.
"Une Bonne Journée" from Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale plays at Wally's in this film.
Barbie's wings are similar to Elina's wings in Barbie Fairytopia: Magic of the Rainbow.
A recurring joke in the film is that Graciella somehow keeps saying Ken's name wrong.
There are some similarities with Barbie in A Mermaid Tale, such as the fact that Barbie and Raquelle use fake wings to go in Gloss Angeles, as Princess Merliah uses a fake tail to go to Oceana. Also, Barbie and Merliah both get pink highlights in their hair after their transformations.
Dresses from Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale which were designed and used at the fashion line are shown in this movie.
- The filmmakers stated that even though this film and the last film take place in the same universe, it is not a sequel.
Barbie's handbag is missing during the premiere.
Makena has been reused as Barbie's fan at the premiere.
Barbie, Raquelle, Carrie and Taylor fly near Notre Dame de Paris while they're flying to Lilliana Roxelle's House in Paris.
This is the fourth Barbie movie with no non-human sidekicks following The Nutcracker, The Barbie Diaries, and Thumbelina.

Videos[]

2011 º Barbie A Fairy Secret Trailer

The Making of Barbie A Fairy Secret

Also Known As[]

Spanish - Barbie el Secreto de las Hadas
Croatian - Barbie: Vilinska tajna or Barbie u svijetu vila
Hungarian - Barbie: Tündértitok
French - Barbie et le Secret des Fées
Albanian - Barbie dhe Sekreti i Zanave
Italian - Barbie Il Segreto delle Fate
Polish - Barbie i Sekret Wróżek
Portuguese - Barbie e o Segredo das Fadas
Russian - Барби: Тайна феи
German - Barbie die geheime Welt der Glitzerfeen
Greek - Μπάρμπι: το Μυστικό μιας Νεράιδας
Dutch - Barbie een Feeënmysterie
Persian - باربى راز پرى
Georgian - ბარბი მარიპოსა
Hindi - बार्बी : एक फैरी सीक्रेट
Hebrew - ברבי וסוד הפיות
Japanese - バービーの妖精の秘密
Chinese - 芭比之仙子的秘密

References[]

↑ Nickelodeon air date

Barbie: A Fairy Secret

Quote: "Forgiveness lets you fly"

Media: Barbie: A Fairy Secret

Song: "Can You Keep A Secret"

[1] Nickelodeon air date

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