Barbie and the Diamond Castle



In this direct-to-DVD movie, Barbie and Teresa tell Stacie the story of two best friends, Liana and Alexa. Although the two girls do not have much, they have each other and a love of music. It gets worse when a nasty storm destroys all the flowers they would usually sell, but an act of kindness grants them a mirror. Inside the mirror dwells apprentice muse Melody, who used the mirror as a means of escaping evil muse Lydia, who intends to grab the key to the muses' Diamond Castle and plunge the world into a state of grim darkness.

Includes examples of:

 * All Trolls Are Different
 * The Apprentice (Melody)
 * Awesome Moment of Crowning
 * Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad (Lydia's extended Villain Song)
 * Better to Die Than Be Killed
 * Black and White Morality
 * Black Magic
 * Blonde, Brunette, Redhead (Alexa, Liana, and Melody)
 * Brainwashed (Lydia uses a hypnosis spell on various characters to get the information she needs)
 * The Call Knows Where You Live
 * Character Name and the Noun Phrase
 * Clap Your Hands If You Believe
 * Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
 * Common Eye Colors (blue, green, and brown)
 * Cosmic Keystone (The Diamond Castle and the muses' instruments)
 * Deadly Fireworks Display (Lydia's spell backfiring)
 * Deflector Shields (the magical barrier produced by the necklaces worn by Liana and Alexa)
 * The Dragon (literally, in this case)
 * Dragon Rider
 * Easing Into the Adventure
 * Ermine Cape Effect
 * Everything's Better with Princesses (Why not do the most logical thing and just make Alexa and Liana muses as well? Because then they wouldn't be princesses.)
 * Everything's Better with Sparkles
 * Evil Always Triumphs in The Middle
 * Evil Costume Switch (averted, as Lydia is already wearing a pretty evil-looking outfit in a flashback)
 * Evil Gloating
 * Evil Makeover (After turning evil, Lydia casts a spell on her flute to make it match her outfit)
 * Evil Plan
 * Evil Redhead (Lydia)
 * Fairy Tale
 * Fantasy Kitchen Sink
 * Feud Episode
 * The Final Temptation
 * Flash Back
 * Framing Device
 * Friendship Moment
 * Giant Flyer (Slyder and the Pegasi belonging to the other muses)
 * Brietta makes a cameo in the Hilarious Outtakes.
 * Gorgeous Garment Generation
 * Graceful Ladies Like Purple
 * Handsome Lech (Jeremy and Ian)
 * Herald (Melody)
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: Liana and Alexa, though the Subtext...
 * Happily Ever After
 * Hoist by His Own Petard (Lydia is done in by her own spell. )
 * Hostage for McGuffin
 * Hypnotize the Princess
 * It's All About Me (Lydia's motive)
 * Just Between You and Me
 * Karmic Death (Lydia)
 * Large Ham (Lydia)
 * Least Rhymable Word (Lounge Lizard twins Jeremy and Ian are alternating lyrics in a song to charm the heroines. At one point Jeremy ends a line with the word "orange," and Ian quips, "You know perfectly well nothing rhymes with orange." )
 * Limited Wardrobe
 * Lounge Lizard (Jeremy and Ian)
 * MacGuffin Location (The titular castle)
 * Magic Music
 * Magical Land
 * Meaningful Name (Melody, who is a musical apprentice, and later becomes a Muse herself)
 * Memento MacGuffin (the necklaces)
 * Merchandise-Driven
 * Mind Control Eyes
 * The Muse
 * Musical Chores
 * Never Say "Die"
 * Not Quite Dead
 * Non-Singing Voice (Kelly Sheriden, Barbie/Liana, and Maryke Hendrikse, Melody, did not do their own singing)
 * Obviously Evil (Lydia, even before officially turning on her fellow muses, dresses in an outfit that should have tipped them off)
 * Oh Crap
 * Pimped-Out Dress
 * Pink Means Feminine
 * Power Crystal (the Diamond Castle is covered with them)
 * Power of Friendship
 * Power of Rock
 * Precious Puppies: The girls find a couple dogs, just to make things cuter.
 * Princesses Prefer Pink
 * Psychotic Smirk (Lydia)
 * The Renfield (Slyder)
 * Requisite Royal Regalia
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter (Lily and Sparkles)
 * Sealed Good in a Can (Melody)
 * Single-Minded Twins
 * Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
 * Smug Snake (Lydia)
 * Sorry I'm Late (Ian's quip when the twins rescue the girls from Slyder)
 * Source Music
 * Suspiciously Apropos Music
 * Take Over the World (Or in Lydia's case, taking over Diamond Castle and all the world's music)
 * Taken for Granite (Lydia freezes the other muses this way.)
 * Team Pet (Lily and Sparkles)
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Sandwich
 * Timmy in a Well
 * Title Drop (In one song and the Castle itself .)
 * Toyless Toyline Character (Characters that appear for less than three minutes got dolls, yet Lydia got nothing)
 * Troll Bridge
 * Twin Banter
 * Vain Sorceress
 * Villain Song ("Wonderful Me" by Lydia)
 * Ye Goode Olde Days