Download Barbie in a Mermaid Tale (2010)

Barbie in a Mermaid Tale (2010)
Country: USA
Genre: Animation / Family
Direction: Adam L. Wood
Cast: Ciara Janson, Emma Pierson, Gary Chalk, Kathleen Barr, Kelly Sheridan , Maryke Hendrikse , Nakia Burrise , Peter Mel , Tabitha St. Germain

Barbie™ stars as Merliah™, a surfing champion from Malibu. One minute she’s a normal teenager and the next she learns a shocking family secret: she’s a mermaid! Merliah™ and her dolphin friend Zuma set off on an undersea adventure to rescue her mother, the queen of Oceana. With help from her new mermaid friends, Merliah™ saves the ocean kingdom. In the end, she discovers what makes you different can also be your greatest strength.


Download Barbie in a Mermaid Tale (2010)

Movie Review:


Barbie in A Mermaid Tale features surfing, talking sparkly dolphins, evil mermaids, hippie grandfathers, and of course, valley girl mermaids who do nothing but shop, all wrapped up in a pseudo-ecological / New Age stew about evil magical powers ruining the oceans and whatnot.
Merliah (Kelly Sheridan) is the queen of the Malibu waves (the catchy little theme song tells us so). She can shred with the best of them, as she proves during the opening surfing competition, but then...something "mondo bizzaro" happens (as the meet announcer thumps). Her hair turns pink, causing her no small amount of embarrassment (Just pink hair? In California? Embarrassment?). Going home to her sweet beachside bungalow, she fills in surfer dude grandpappy "Break" (Gary Chalk) on what happened, and he drops the Big One on her: her hair is pink because she's a...mermaid. Her mind totally blown, Liah (as she's known) seeks out her BFFs, spacey Hadley (Maryke Hendrikse) and feisty Fallon (Nakia Burrise), but they don't need convincing when suddenly Zuma (Tabitha St. Germain), the pink, sparkly dolphin, pops up out of the water and starts talking. Knowing for a fact that she's not polluted, Liah accepts this frankly terrifying event as the final proof she's a mermaid, so off she goes with Zuma, who fills her in on what's up, down under the waves.

Apparently, Merliah's mother, Calissa (Nicole Oliver), gave up Liah to "Break" because a half-human mermaid wouldn't be "safe" in the land of Oceania. Calissa rules Oceania with a benevolent, beatific half-smile, spreading out her "Merillia," a powerful force that keeps the seas and fish and coral around Oceania healthy. However, Calissa soon loses the throne when she's hooked, netted, and locked up by her evil sister Eris (Kathleen Barr). Imprisoning Calissa in a dungeon of coral, Eris rules Oceania with an iron fin, demanding absolute attention from her subjects at all times - including boutique owners Kayla (Emma Pierson) and Xylie (Ciara Janson) - while the ocean and coral die because of her "bad" Merillia. So...it's up to Princess Liah to save Oceania by gathering three powerful, mystical tools to defeat Eris - but what will she do when she has to choose between life underwater, and life in California