Barbie: A Perfect Christmas Review

[@RavenFoxAudio]

QUESTION OF THE REVIEW: I think we can all agree that Barbie tends to reinforce girly stereotypes but also tries to show that girls can be anything they want to be (as long as they want to be something sparkly and pink LOL.) So, tell us one thing that you do that falls in line with a stereotype (gender or otherwise) and one thing that you do that goes against a stereotype. These should be things you're happy with or proud of! I'll tell you mine to get you started. I have never been traditionally girly. As many of you know, I DESPISE the color pink. I also rarely wear dresses or makeup and, as a child, I never really played with dolls. However, one thing I'm proud of that is traditionally girly is keeping my nails done. I don't feel like me without long nails, preferably with some cool nail art designs. On the other side of the coin, I tend to be what many consider a BAD FEMINIST. I love men. I just think we should all be equal in all ways! But I refuse to fight for that equality in a way that disparages guys as a whole. SOME MEN are rotten and deserve to be disparaged but the majority of men out there are, at worst, in need of some education about women (and no one learns by someone being mean and nasty to them) and at best, they are fully on board with feminism and equality for all. Answer the question of the review in reply to this comment and yours might just be one of the ones that Bobsheaux or I read and discuss at the end of the next review. Be creative to really grab our attention! (P.S. This is not the place to argue with anyone about their answer! Anyone being ugly to someone will have their comment removed and possibly be blocked from commenting on any more Bobsheaux videos. This is a safe space for everyone. Just be kind to one another. We love you! ***Also, answers to this QOTR will be read at the end of the first review of BOBSHEAUXWEEN 2020!***)

[@becuaseimbored3481]

I like pretty outfits and mermaids

[@RavenFoxAudio]

@@becuaseimbored3481 Cool! Does that follow or break a stereotype?

[@Bobsheaux]

I'm an introvert, and I conform to the stereotype of keeping my head down and avoiding contact when I'm out and about in... ugh... _the world..._ And yet I'm somehow able at a place in my life where I'm sharing my opinions and talking to/with THOUSANDS of people at a time using means that are far more complicated (streaming, reading fanmail, making elaborate videos, etc.) than simply talking to an individual one on one.

[@gracekim1998]

Um well when I was younger I used to like pink and I guess the non girly thing would be enjoy action shows and movies😆

[@catsiethecatgirl4414]

I don't know if this counts but I'll tell you I'm the type of girl who loves horror movies and HATES pink it should burn in hell! Ok?ok!

[@rcLdrcH]

Ravens joke about Barbies queef had me almost pissing myself laughing, I've really come around to her and bobsheaux as a pair and she's fitting in nicely,great joke Grrl.

[@RavenFoxAudio]

It wasn't me! I don't know what you're talking about! I deny everything! (Thank you.

[@homecruz7743]

This Christmas is anything but perfect! Must be a Barbiesheaux!

[@ThatRandomEncounterGuy]

This is the type of movie where I almost expect the whole “delayed plane” subplot thing to end with some big twist that their plane actually crashed and this whole movie was some hallucination as they die of hypothermia. That’d be one hell of a twist.

[@sirjedisentinel]

Skipper: "I want to do this my way. I don't want this to be a Barbie thing." Bob: Who wants to tell her she's in a Barbie movie? Me: Who wants to tell her for the longest time, she was discontinued?

[@healerofthewaters6508]

And Chelsea used to be named Kelly and actually used to have CHARM to her.

[@sirjedisentinel]

@@healerofthewaters6508 Wait, you're telling me none of those was actually Kelly?

[@kenthuang436]

Skipper wasn’t discontinued for that long. Maybe six years but that is nowhere near Midge’s disappearance which was from 1967-1988 when she showed up occasionally before disappearing for another six or seven years and then go away yet again three years later.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

Wait WHAT

[@laobok]

@@sirjedisentinel She's Chelsea now. Don't worry, we were confused as hell too.

[@namelessanonymous2090]

I find it EXTREMELY ironic that Mattel of all companies are out here trying to tells us that Christmas is "more than just presents", yet they absolutely want you to spend your hard-earned money on their Barbie toys.

[@healerofthewaters6508]

And they bring out new limited edition Christmas Barbies every single year.

[@LaBellesGrace]

At least with Barbie in a Christmas Carol they only did two dolls : the main character and a Holiday limited edition Barbie doll...

[@excitablepack7076]

What are you Mattel? You’re like a riddle inside of enigma inside a please and thank you.

[@Karuminu2]

This movie just reminded me that things may be different for Christmas from now on because of the pandemic. All I want is to be able to see my family and know everyone is okay. Hell, I give up my Christmas presents just for that!

[@Teag_Brohman15]

Bobsheaux making Shining Jokes during Christmas Movies? brilliant

[@ryandowney8743]

I do like the lesson of the girl not having to be like Barbie. In these movies' timeline Barbie really has apparently done all the jobs that the various dolls have. It's a relatable message to anyone who has to live in the shadow of a much more successful sibling or parent.

[@becuaseimbored3481]

You should review "barbie dream house" where the only character with a personality gets punished by the wrath of pink glitter god.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

W h a t

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

I hope you're referring to a Barbie parody of that crap film called "Dream House".

[@becuaseimbored3481]

@@TommyDeonauthsArchives nope

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

@@becuaseimbored3481 I hate you so much right now.

[@gracekim1998]

Gosh now I’m curious.

[@TheDataByteChannel]

Whenever I think of “We Wish You A Turtle Christmas” I always think of that joke Phelous keeps doing in his reviews. 🎵I Hate Splinter🎵 I genuinely laugh every time I hear that line.😂

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

PLEASE DO BARBIE IN THE NUTCRACKER SOON. As far as Barbie Christmas movies go, that one's the OG. And as far as Nutcracker adaptations go, it's one of the best you'll see. Plus, Tim Curry plays the Mouse King in it, which was actually his very first appearance in the franchise before Bob & Raven saw him in Three Musketeers. And I'll have you know that at least in Nutcracker, he was quite honored to be a part of it because he thought Barbie was an icon. 💖

[@gracekim1998]

Ah I remember that movie

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

@JurassicHero 3 You should, it's def. one of the better Nutcracker adaptations out there compared to many of the other ones. (Nuttiest, Untold Story, Disney...)

[@healerofthewaters6508]

A beautiful movie.

[@Pipkiablo]

Just the fact that Tim Curry was honored to be included in a franchise intended for girls makes me happy. It's like he knows that we deserve nice things too.

[@alexisdominey6487]

Many of the older Barbie movies are better than most of what we get now.

[@tessaminick8745]

I swear, this entire thing is the perfect setup for a horror movie. Barbie in The Christmas Cult.

[@britishchick09]

Another Barbie review is just what I wanted this Pinkmas! :D

[@RobertsonBrendyn]

11:30 Hey Barbie, Disney called and they want their song back.

[@stlouisrocker100]

Okay, I would totally watch this movie if it actually became Midsommar set at Christmas starring Barbie

[@healerofthewaters6508]

Ngl seeing Ken reject Barbie because of love potion would be kind of funny. I guess the other two main roles would be filled by Ryan and Midge?

[@thagrumbus8483]

Ahh a Bobsheaux review and a pre roll its gonna be a sweet Tuesday am

[@RavenFoxAudio]

*SIGH* I've removed comments about this being a Christmas in July movie posted in September. I will continue to do so. You're not being witty. You're not pointing out anything we don't already know. I had a major life upheaval at the end of July (August was rough too...the 1 year anniversary of my mom's passing) and Bobsheaux's schedule is thrown off because he was focused on seeing me through all it rather than making reviews. Blame it on me, but keep it to yourself. Forward and positive is the motto!

[@Bobsheaux]

We're in this together, baby. 🤗 And yes, I've been flogging myself enough over my delayed schedule. But better late than never, right?

[@clarecarey2594]

Hey I'm sorry that is happening and I'm going through a hard time as well and I been supported while I'm going through this but it's taking a little more time. But hey I do like Barbie and I understand that stuff can happen and life can get in the way.

[@gracekim1998]

I understand 🙂 I don’t mind a September Christmas review 😎

[@clarecarey2594]

@@gracekim1998 Right it's like everyday is Christmas! (;

[@gracekim1998]

Clare Carey indeed

[@masonallen3961]

7:06 Did Barbie and her sisters just stumble onto some weird Christmas cult?

[@melissalayson7275]

That would make a interesting movie especially if it involves ritual sacrifices because of Christmas pagan orgins. And they put human heads in Christmas presents like Bobsheaux suggested. That's one of the reasons I enjoyed A Very Supernatural Christmas because of ritual sacrifices of pagan lore of to the God of the Winter Solstice.

[@PoeticProse7]

This wasn't quite as bad as I thought it would be. It's bad, but not Nutcracker and the Four Realms bad! I do also really appreciate that message about not comparing someone to someone else. The creators have to know that so many little girls want things to be just like Barbie and by sending that little message maybe it will break a potentially toxic thought pattern that everything must be just like Barbie . . . and pink.

[@Shamandigi62091]

This is still better than the nutcracker and the four realms because Barbie is less of a Mary Sue than Clara

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

Barbie isn't Barbie in this franchise unless she's voiced by Kelly Sheridan (which she isn't in this movie). I said what I said. 👏

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

@jbiehlable What do you mean by that? Poor her because she shares a voice with Barbie? 😆

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

@jbiehlable Yeah, it really sucked Kelly Sheridan left after Mermaid Tale without warning. It was so distracting after hearing her as Barbie for so long to have another voice actress in her place. Thankfully, it was only a brief break and she came back for Mermaid Tale 2 and beyond. She actually didn't start playing Starlight Glimmer though until 2015, and Perfect Christmas was 2011.

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

@jbiehlable Yeah, I'm not sure why she stopped playing Barbie during that two-year gap. Maybe she just needed a break idk. But really though, no one plays Barbie the way she does...she gives her so much maturity and confidence.

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

@jbiehlable Oh for sure, it's one reason I love Kelly as Barbie...she doesn't play her into the stereotype of being a high-pitched airhead. She makes her out to be a capable heroine. Not sure how well THAT casting would go over. 😆

[@carsfan1995]

jbiehlable Eww. No.

[@MadameSomnambule]

So, they made a character named Christie for this movie... and they didn't think to use the actual Christie character? You know, dark skin, jet black hair... THAT Christie, the one I saw in Barbie computer games as a kid? Come on, they missed out on that! XD

[@becuaseimbored3481]

Barbie is the maryest of mary sues

[@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose]

On her own and in later films? Yes. But in the older Barbie films she actually had some development in her characters. (Ex. Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Princess & the Pauper...)

[@mathieuleader8601]

Mary Christmas

[@healerofthewaters6508]

@@DJtheBlack-RibbonedRose Yep. But Mattel said, "Nope! Time for our characters to just be 2D and generic so this generation of girls thinks that's the ideal role model!" For a company that's diversified their dolls so much in the recent past you'd think they'd want to keep the good example their MOVIES used to set as well.

[@healerofthewaters6508]

Raven, how do you feel about the much OLDER Barbie films? The ones that weren't full of flat characters and horrible excuses for storytelling.

[@Corgipon]

Those films were my childhood

[@mathieuleader8601]

Barbie meets Krampus

[@melissalayson7275]

I'd watch that movie. I enjoyed Krampus when it came out on December 4th 2015. It was so nice to see a Christmas movie that shows the darker side of Christmas for a change.

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

I celebrate Christmas all through January watching Christmas specials and bobs reviews who else?

[@clarecarey2594]

Calling it now Christen is the villain

[@autumngreenglen5706]

This whole movie feels like: "CHRISTMAS DAMMIT!!! PEACE ON EARTH, GLITTER, AND PIIIIIIIIIINK!!!"

[@autumngreenglen5706]

Love you Bobsheaux! Thank you for spreading your wisdom! Love you too Raven! Edit: Omg I totally forgot to tell you your masks are fabulous 😭 and to be fashionable and chic, not everything needs to be pink and glittery, yknow? 😁

[@RavenFoxAudio]

❤️

[@playererror4044]

2:11 Motion capture often looks shitty because the actors proportions don't always match and exact movements aren't good for animation anyway, the 12 principles of animation exist for a reason. See when using motion capture what you get is a starting point. Yeah sounds weird but you can't use the direct data; you have to go in after the fact and tweek the movements and deleat unessassery points and data. Or to sum it up simply: Motion capture is a starting point for complex shit and you have to refine the animation and these animators clearly didn't.

[@JustMisterFox]

Come on, Bob! Everyone knows the difference between snowmen and snowwomen. It's snowballs!

[@kevin4061]

I can't unsee the meme where the east coast is the phineas time zone.

[@Spectra651]

I would watch the hell out of Barbie's 'The Shining'.

[@alexp.d3689]

I love it when you review barbie movies

[@voxangelaemortis]

Ah the memories of listening to my John Denver + The Muppets "Christmas Together" record as a child. The one and only time I ever listened to John Denver. 😄 Thanks for the memories, Bobsheaux!

[@noahkarpinski1824]

24:06 The entire movie I was having flashbacks to Santa's Summer Home. I love that I wasnt the only one

[@quintinbrakebill8875]

Bobseaux: *plays the Friday song* Me: *hisses and skitters away from the screen*

[@BrandonCroker]

Guess you could say this Christmas will be pretty in pink?

[@RavenFoxAudio]

We are not saying that! LOL

[@healerofthewaters6508]

That's a much better movie than this.

[@clarecarey2594]

@@RavenFoxAudio yes will say Hail SWEETLAR! And also Hail pink !

[@devillass6025]

13:50 Go off, Raven. 😂

[@CEAsfg]

Now that I rewatch this movie, it feels like something M Night Shyamalan would write and direct. A family is stranded in the middle of nowhere and trying to make it to the big city for Christmas when they stumble upon a random mansion in the woods and find it unusually bustling. Everything seems warm and jolly at first, but Barbie and her sisters slowly piece together that things aren’t all what they seem. Finally, they discover the barn full of presents, where the woman they met tells them there will be a ceremony where they will get a present. At the ceremony, they do nonstop caroling and holding hands around the tree until Barbie and her sisters die of hypothermia. Afterwards, the woman and the rest of the cult cut off their heads and put them in new boxes, placing them among the other presents in the barn. The cult then waits patiently for the next weary traveler. Barbie and her sisters in: Barbie, it’s cold outside

[@Bobsheaux]

To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to, but your treatment sounds more like Tales From The Crypt to me. lol

[@markiangooley]

When you wish upon a knish (Never mind gefilte fish) When you wish upon a knish Your screams come through... (Sorry. That wishing-on-a-star scene set me off.)

[@gracekim1998]

I have a a question regarding the postage thing, if we send fan mail are we allowed to use our usernames?😅 just curious

[@RavenFoxAudio]

Sure. 😊

[@gothnerd887]

@@RavenFoxAudio yay! 😁

[@tyrannosaurusrhett]

Fun fact: those reindeer would all have to be female as the males drop their antlers in November. Females keep their antlers until May, during calving season.

[@clarecarey2594]

Alright let's gets some barbie ready !

[@That_One_Gaming_Guy]

16:14-16, man, this is comparable to Hallmark Channel levels of easy going, happy go lucky Christmas flicks and all they play are Christmas movies, even during summer

[@TheJamFam21]

Oh god we're back to these movies

[@memethyst]

6:11 i am SHOCKED that there was no alpha and omega joke there

[@WatermelonPocky]

I didn't know Barbie could break the fourth wall. *pink glitter farts into the air*

[@ts45wF3]

Did you Barbie was a bullfighter once?

[@gracekim1998]

She was

[@kartoonkid711]

I don't know what looks worse, the toonish husky pup or the realistic... I don't know dog breeds.

[@MelonTartVA]

Does anybody remember Barbie's baby sister Krissie? Seems like nobody else does. Seems like she was pretty much forgotten once more sisters amd cousins were added.

[@viviennemorgan7217]

raven hates barbie oh no she's going on a rant attack.

[@vitorafmonteiro]

Know this barely is mentioned in the video, but this line deserves more love and quoting: THERE'S THAT SMELL AGAIN!!!

[@dimitriwarchief301]

“Who wants to tell she’s in a Barbie movie” Me: raises hand

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

Oh, God... Skipper in this movie looks like one of the workers that I used to see when I volunteered at the Richmond Hill United Church!

[@tiffanychristinesmith3939]

4:40 "I love shoe 👠"😂

[@ryandowney8743]

16:58 Oh please please PLEASE turn into the ending of Child's Play 2 !!!!!!

[@EvieRawlings]

PIIIIIIINNNNNNKKKKK!!

[@ryandowney8743]

If this is Minnesota, and it turns out this is Santa's workshop...please tell me Linkara turns out to be Santa!

[@Drewit1]

Hey Bob, I was just thinking, could you and Raven review A Pappyland Christmas?

[@gracekim1998]

*cue horror themes in this movie*😅

[@windsmith4048]

I don't know why but the first song and the whole movie gave me some HEAVY DKC cartoon energy. Just swap brown hair girl with king k.rule and it's perfect

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

To me muppets Christmas carol is one of the best Christmas films ever!

[@dvalred]

6:17 Dude that was a missed opportunity to bring out Brent's "I hAVe tO pEe"

[@mathieuleader8601]

whatever happened to the aunt

[@klimmr]

33:20 Get me more pictures of Spider-Man ruining Christmas!

[@EV0X-byteVA]

7:16 of course another song

[@ElisaHei]

I'm still angry that Shelly/ Kelly was killed off (I think they're the same? When I was a child I only remember her name being Shelly. Maybe different name in different countries. Can someone confim this?)

[@mathieuleader8601]

Imagine if the ghost of Christmas Present from Scrooged teleported Xavier Cross to the present by pink sparkly queefs

[@albatross4920]

1:59 I'm getting foodfight PTSD flashbacks🥴

[@gracekim1998]

I admit I haven’t watched any modern barbie movies (as in anything that came after the noighties) but I’m aware of the island Princess one

[@michaelamaya9032]

Yaaay, more Barbie!

[@Epipon3]

21:20 *gets flung off the bridge of death*

[@YumeDream39]

Haha nice reference!

[@EV0X-byteVA]

God kill me what the hell is that animation

[@bethanymcmurtrey9542]

Seriously, Barbie in the Nutcracker looked way better than this and that came out in 2000.

[@EV0X-byteVA]

@@bethanymcmurtrey9542 hey it could have been worst

[@aidanbarnes4290]

Bob your impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger is spot on I think I need to watch Terminator now

[@gracekim1998]

Also...mostly of Europe is 5 or 6 hours ahead of America 😅 just to add to the Timezone trivia 🙂

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

4:40 Man, Raven's gonna flip out when she watches _Harvey Girls Forever_ .

[@elliotschnabel8364]

Hey Bob, can you review the Maleficent sequel, Mistress of Evil?

[@clarecarey2594]

I think he'll do it this Bobsheauxween

[@elliotschnabel8364]

@@clarecarey2594 But the Maleficent movies aren't horror. They're fantasy.

[@clarecarey2594]

@@elliotschnabel8364 they Halloween movies because it stars the mistress of all evil

[@elliotschnabel8364]

@@clarecarey2594 Oh, I see. Very clever.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

40:16 Yeah, I understand, it's the nostalgia. As someone who grew up with VHS, I totally get it. 47:35 Huh... funny how SJWs like female empowerment stories but hate disability empowerment stories, whereas for anti-SJWs it's the other way around.

[@ebwarg]

3:50 Is Barbie’s last name “Dalton?”

[@ebwarg]

@jerzy franklin Aw! I was hoping for a Lucky Luke crossover!

[@CrimsonVision-v1j]

Tenebaums? Now that just makes me want to watch a better movie.

[@Mutedx0331]

Just what I needed lol

[@EV0X-byteVA]

Of course barbie had to wear what is that wrapping decorations did she just made that

[@EV0X-byteVA]

You said formers theres a chance for bumblebee review 350th were excited

[@TheFunnyGuy9000]

Barbie: We'll get there I promise! Me: Well sounds too good to be true

[@entertainmentpowerfuchs5744]

This movies are silly but... I Love Barbie ❤ Sorry Bobsheaux.

[@ryandowney8743]

This place is so disturbing even Torgo would be creeped out by it!

[@That_One_Gaming_Guy]

Ok this movie will be 10x better if it does become the Shining, or at least a poor man's Danganronpa

[@tgiacin435]

Did they reference that time on Doctor Who when William Hartnell wished everyone merry christmas in the dalek’s Master plan

[@KillerCaitie]

Bobsheaux, you have had snow in your windows almost as much as we have had this year up in Canada. ;P

[@RavenFoxAudio]

Considering the record heatwave the West Coast is experiencing, that's no easy task! LMAO

[@CyberSpider35]

Christy Glosson or whatever really creeps me out. I used to see this kind of unhealthy positivity only among cultists or serial killers... according to other movies and videogames.

[@whadayadoin3300]

I think the animation of the older Barbie movies are a bit better in some ways

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

OH NO... it's one of THOSE.... Where they SING all the time... arrrgh!

[@EV0X-byteVA]

25:51 sparklezzzz boooooo

[@EV0X-byteVA]

Fun fact Bobsheaux is right ever limb and body and heads aaahhh

[@TommyPezMaster]

You gotta review Eight Crazy Nights, The Christmas Dinosaur or Anna Kendrick's Noelle this December.

[@shadowking9739]

Wow, you do a scary good impression of The Shining Jack Nicholson

[@Jarod-vg9wq]

7:25 thus place reminds me of hallmark Christmas movies.😊

[@clarecarey2594]

Wait King Gabe is a fan of Barbie?

[@RavenFoxAudio]

I'm not sure he's a fan but he did guest write for this episode.

[@clarecarey2594]

@@RavenFoxAudio How do you become a guest writer for Bobsheaux episodes?

[@RavenFoxAudio]

@@clarecarey2594 It's the perk of being a $100 patron. And there's only two spots left.

[@clarecarey2594]

@@RavenFoxAudio Right I dont think I couldn't give 100 dollars maybe if I get older maybe I can. Once my children's book gets published I'll send to Bobsheaux