Barbie In The Nutcracker (DVD 2002)

Skilfully animated - quality throughout. Dazzling effects with a clever reworking of an old story set to Fantastic classical music. Beautiful story line to love again and again! Choreography( the dance routines) were actually computer modelled on REAL New Yorks top Ballet dancers -how much effort do Mattel go to? ALL THE WAY! BRILLIANT!! Since i have watched this movie with my daughter and Barbie's SWAN LAKE we were so dazzled by its dancing general charms that we have now booked tickets at The Grand theatre Leeds to see The National London Ballet Company perform - SWAN LAKE. Watch the Ballet documentary in the more fun features section of the dvd, very good and dance inspiring. 10 / 10 for overall; enjoyability, quality, values, story line. watched again and again. Recomended - all the Barbie Princess Collection.
Yours Matt

fab childrens dvd babie is brought 2 life with all her friends in this magical tale of the nutcracker all little girls who love barbie will adore this film does have a few scary bits in but nothing to bad would recommend

The story of the Nutcracker is just magical. I think what sets this apart from other stories in the Barbie library is that it is a real classic story with fabulous classical music accompaniament. I love the fantasy of the story of the Nutcracker and Clara and this is made even more special by the fabulous music and wonderful animated ballet dancing - done by the New York Ballet. The London Symphony Orchestra play the Nutcracker music by Tchaikovsky. It is really quite captivating. My daughter who is 4 at the moment just is transfixed by the whole story. She even tries to copy the dancing - much to our downstairs neighbour's disapproval!!

A fabulous DVD that any little girl would love to watch again and again.

As a parent I find this film quite watchable (once or twice any way), which surprised me as it was a Barbie spin off.

It uses the original music from the Nutcracker ballet and as such is a nice introduction to classical music for children. My kids love the music, even my son!

For the ballet/barbie obsessed child, this film ticks all the boxes, lots of pink, dancing and Barbie saves the day. It also includes some nice extras including a film about the life of a ballerina, from the New York Ballet and an interactive 'Act with Barbie' option. What more could you ask?

glad i got it the kids had it on video but its better on dvd been looking for it for ages on dvd and how i finally found it yipee,one more to the barbie collection