6.3 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Barbie™ and her sisters discover everything’s better when you do it together in this splashy, sun-kissed adventure! After the girls and their pets arrive at an island paradise for Chelsea’s™ big dance competition, they decide to make a quick side trip to see the nearby Dancing Horse Festival. But when their furry friends go missing at the event, it’s up to the sisters to find them before Chelsea’s™ show. While the puppies are out having an adventure of their own, the girls must use their imaginations and work together to find their furry friends in this tail-wagging good time!
Starring: Erica Lindbeck, Maryke Hendrikse, Kazumi Evans, Brenda Crichlow, Claire Margaret CorlettFamily | 100% |
Animation | 96% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish: DTS 5.1
French: DTS 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
UV digital copy
DVD copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Apparently the combination of Barbie and puppies is a winning formula for Mattel. Last year, the studio released Barbie & Her Sisters in the Great Puppy Rescue, which also came alongside a companion video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 systems that "challenged" players to rescue puppies around town, bring them back to health by removing fleas, brushing teeth, and other menial tasks and thereafter preparing them for a new home by training them to traverse obstacle courses or perform various tricks. The girls, and the puppies, are back in Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase, a film that once again features the four-legged cuddly cuties on an amazing island full of wonder, a little bit of peril, and a few life lessons along the way.
Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase arrives on Blu-ray with a transfer that's very reminiscent of pretty much every other Barbie movie released to the format in the past few years, with the exception of, as noted above, the overflow of pink. Colors are still fairly loud, not very rich or nuanced but broader splashes of pink, natural green, shades of puppy brown, and other assorted hues present with a nice bit of punch and vigor. Details are fine, limited by the source's fairly pedestrian horsepower. Basic roadway textures, tree trunks, leaves, puppy fur, clothes, and support details leave much to the imagination, but basic shape, lines, and raw textures are fine. Hints of aliasing and touches of banding are evident throughout, but never to a distracting, and certainly not debilitating, extent.
Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase features a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack that's appropriately spunky in all the right places. Music presents with quality width across the front and wrap into the back. Balance is impressive as the back channels carry enough information to catch the listeners' attention but not overwhelm the senses. The low end is never throaty or deep but there's enough of a hint of support to give the music a nice kick in the pants and ensure a rich and full-bodied presentation. Some environmental atmospherics are nicely immersive as well. A nighttime camping trip around the 22-minute mark features a healthy dollop of light environmental din, while pouring rain and booming thunder minutes later are carried through the stage with a nicely natural sense of place and realism. A few heavier action-oriented effects enjoy proper balance and positioning. Dialogue is clear and focused in the front-center, and unbalanced prioritization is never a concern.
Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase contains two Chelsea shorts, bloopers, and a music video. A DVD copy of the film and a voucher for a
UV/iTunes digital copy are included with purchase.
Barbie & Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase certainly doesn't reinvent the Barbie movie wheel, which is, at this point, a well-oiled and highly efficient machine churning out the same movie with different superficialities. It's casual fun and should satisfy its younger demographic. Universal's Blu-ray release is likewise fairly standard for the series, delivering good video and audio along with a few brief extras.
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