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Barbie as the Island Princess (2007)

★ 7.3 · 772 ratings on TMDB

An Adventure Of A Lifetime Awaits You!

Barbie as the Island Princess poster★ 7.3

Young Rosella is saved by a few kind animals after a shipwreck. Now called Ro, she learns to talk to animals. One day, she saves the life of a prince and returns to civilisation to discover her past.

DirectorGreg Richardson
CastAlessandro Juliani, Bets Malone, Christopher Gaze, Garry Chalk, Kelly Sheridan, Melissa Lyons
GenresAnimation, Family
The emergence reading

Barbie as the Island Princess keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, prejudice, royalty, memory, family.

zero-distanceCAidentityprejudiceroyaltymemoryfamily
Also inFilms about memoryFilms about familyFilms about prejudiceFilms about identity
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006)dir. Greg RichardsonBarbie and the Magic of Pegasus (2005)dir. Greg RichardsonBarbie as The Princess & the Pauper (2004)Alessandro JulianiBarbie as Rapunzel (2002)Christopher GazeBarbie Mariposa & the Fairy Princess (2013)Alessandro JulianiBarbie in the Nutcracker (2001)Christopher Gaze