Barbie in The Nutcracker

2024-12-06

🎄It’s 2001, and a rock giant is chasing us across ocean, which has been entirely frozen over by fairies with minty fresh breath. From the makers of “ReBoot” and Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” music video comes Barbie’s first feature-length movie, complete with motion capture of the New York City Ballet, revolutionary hair animation, and Tim Curry as an extra sassy Mouse King. **** 🎙 Guests:Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies. **** 💬 Topics & Tangents:1. “Barbie and the Nutcracker” on the Internet A...

🎄It’s 2001, and a rock giant is chasing us across ocean, which has been entirely frozen over by fairies with minty fresh breath.

From the makers of “ReBoot” and Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” music video comes Barbie’s first feature-length movie, complete with motion capture of the New York City Ballet, revolutionary hair animation, and Tim Curry as an extra sassy Mouse King.

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🎙 Guests:

Kristi and Bri from Bad Princess Movies.

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

1. “Barbie and the Nutcracker” on the Internet Archive.

2. Bad Princess Movies on “Barbie in The Nutcracker.”

3. Motion capture footage of the New York City Ballet.

4. Oops, we went on multiple Zelda tangents about Majora’s Mask and the Song of Storms.

5. It’s usually not a good sign when you find a doll on the ground in a destroyed village.

6. Of course there’s a toy of Marzipan the horse (no relation to the Marzipan with the answering machine).

7. Today’s TV Trope: Literal Cliffhanger.