DANCERS REACT to BARBIE’S SUGARPLUM in NUTCRACKER | Will Barbie & Prince Eric Make the Grade? 💗💗 

Let’s remember that this movie was made in 2001 so we gotta cut Barbie some slack 😂

“Eric is the most unromantic name for a prince” Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid: 🗿

As I understand it, the problem with the bourees is that Barbie's legs are a lot narrower than human legs. So where the human dancer's legs are fully crossed, Barbie's legs don't quite make it. That's one of the fails that is pretty solidly the fault of the transition to animation. (You can also see this with the Eric's gestures vs Barbie's gestures thing, because Eric's arms are a lot closer to the proportions of a human man's arms than Barbie's are to a human woman's arms.)

Prince Eric of Sweden was the son of King Gustav I of Sweden and Catherine of Saxe Lauenburg. He became King of Sweden in 1560 until he was deposed and imprisoned in 1568. If he was a competent ballet dancer is nor quite clear

This is so nostalgic. I remember being surprised with the doll for Christmas present. She has a joint in her ankles that other Barbies don’t have so you can pose her en pointe.

NGL, I adored the 12 Dancing Princesses movie growing up. They used NYCB for the dancing, and the visuals were really pretty!

As an after-hour adult ballet dancer and a professional animator, I'm not surprised that so many moves aren't that authentic in this movie. Given that it was released in 2001, back then the rigging technique* was quite basic and limited, even the animators knew how the dancers should move, they would be restricted to the tools they had in hand to make it more realistic. It is one of the main reasons that 3D characters move so stiff and unnatural in that era. * 3D rigging is a process in which we take the digital sculpture of a character, build the skeleton, and the muscles, and attach the skin to the character, and we also create a set of animation controls, which our animators use to push and pull the body around. Will you consider reacting to Leap!(2016)? It's a 3D animated musical film that features an orphan girl who dreams of being a ballerina. You can see the characters' dancing movement becomes a lot more natural than those in the early 3D Barbie movies and it's simply because the 3D tools are heaps better by then. :)

If I remember correctly in many of the early Barbie movies many of the dancing scenes were animated with mocap suits with dancers from Boston Ballet (I could be wrong on which company but it is mentioned in many extras in the DVDs) . So some of the awkward positions and postures may be because of the animators looking at the mocap tracking rather than the actual dancers in the mocap suits. They used this for many of the early barbie movies that highlighted dancing (in. Nutcracker, Swan Lake, 12 Dancing Princesses, etc.) I love your videos btw and rewatching all of the old barbie scenes reminds me of when I was younger and fell in love with ballet.

In Swan Lake, the pas de deux between the Prince and black swan Odile is filmed so interestingly - they use camera angles to contrast the prince’s point of view with the audience’s. Would love to see you react to that!

You should watch the 12 dancing princess movie, its not a real ballet as far as i'm aware but you will get MAD at it Mainly bc of the point shoes lol

Thank you Ladies for this! Prince "ERIC?!" ITA with you - no way is that a princely name😄))) The choreographer of the Royal Ballet's production, Sir Peter Wright chose the name "Hans-Peter" for Herr Drosselmeyer's nephew when it first premiered at Covent Garden back in 1984. In the original 1816 book, E.T.A. Hoffman's "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," the backstory (centuries before the curtain rises) is that the royal wizard Drosselmeyer's name is "Christian Elias." The King's newborn daughter Princess Pirlipat is turned ugly by the Queen's half-sister, Lady Mouserinks, the Mouse Queen. Before this, there was an infestation of rodents (Mouserinks' subjects), in the palace and the King ordered Drosselmeyer to exterminate them. Drosselmeyer built a mousetrap which took out the majority of the Mouse Queen's kingdom. So, for payback, when the Princess was born, Lady Mouserinks the Mouse Queen cast a spell on the Princess that her made her face ugly - completely hideous. She looked like a troll or gnome. The King blamed Drosselmeyer and ordered him to cure his daughter or die. Drosselmeyer had only a few weeks to find a cure to break the spell before his execution. He found the cure - the kernel in the Krakatuk Nut could break the spell if the Princess ate it. From the moment the Princess was born, she only had an appetite for nuts and she was born with a full set of teeth. Drosselmeyer had a nephew named "Nathaniel Drosselmeyer." Nathaniel was the son of Drosselmeyer's brother, another magician who owned an enchanted toy shop in Nuremberg. "Nathaniel" is a princely name. He is put under the spell by Lady Mouserinks, the Mouse Queen Mother of the 7 headed Mouse Crown Prince. Her son becomes Mouse King, when Nathaniel steps on her back and crushes her after saving Princess Pirlipat from her spell which made her ugly. Pirlipat ate the kernel of the Krakatuk Nut and that broke the spell. Her father the King declared that the young man who could crack the Krakatuk Nut and save his daughter would become the Prince and marry her. He cracked the Krakatuk Nut, she became beautiful again, but he stepped on Lady Mouserinks by accident, while backing up seven paces as Drosselmeyer directed. With Lady Mouserinks' dying breath, she cast the spell on him and he became a Nutcracker. As soon as that happened, Pirlipat - and her father the King rejected him and they were thrown out of the palace and the Kingdom. Nathaniel did become Prince, but only for a short moment. His Uncle then protected him for hundreds of years in secrecy at the Nuremberg toy shop his brother left to him until he met the Stahlbaum family, and became godfather to their children Fritz and his little sister Marie. When the right time came, Drosselmeyer got the *idea* one Christmas Eve (yes, that Christmas Eve), to save his nephew by giving him to his goddaughter, little Marie. She loved him in spite of his ugly face and she broke the spell. This is what happened before the curtain rises and the Overture starts. When Marie tells her parents about her dream (the ballet), they don't believe her and they think she's crazy. Her family and friends treat her like she's crazy and she becomes totally isolated. They made fun of her and they called her "The Dreamer." Some years later (after the ballet is over), Marie is a young woman and she says to the old Nutcracker in her cupboard. "I wouldn't have rejected you like Pirlipat did - even though you weren't handsome anymore." When she says that, this breaks the spell. The very handsome Nathaniel enters her living room with his Uncle and he proposes to her. She accepts and one year later he comes to get her with a golden carriage pulled by +20 white horses and takes her back to the Kingdom of Sweets as his Queen and they all celebrate. They still reign there today. This is the end of the story and this is what happens after the curtain goes down. Hoffman's point was this: There are beautiful things in this world that can be seen only if you have the eyes to see them.

This was interesting to watch, and I especially love how you pointed out when the dancers did something that was realistically accurate as a 'fail' but not desired. The animators probably didn't know the difference, and so followed the movements accurately thinking it was intentional 8'D Thank you for the video! Also gonna take this time to once again politely request for you two to take a look at Princess Tutu's animation and dances!

I really want to them to do a collab with Josephine from The Pointe Shop someday! That or TwoSetViolin.

1:30 tell that to Ariel 😅

This is so cool!💖 Proposal: I recall that during one of the Q&A session you mentioned that most ballets are the same across different companies. But Nutcracker is different, where each company does it differently. I would like to propose, what if we compare what are the differences in the Nutcrackers among different companies? 🙏

barbie in the nutcracker is one of my most nostalgic barbie movies of all time. i absolutely love how much barbie taught me about ballet whenever i was little. i had always wanted to be a dancer, but i never was able to. due to my low income home, as well as my small-town life. barbie in the twelve dancing princesses is my favourite ballet barbie film. if you guys haven't checked it out, i highly suggest you do. it's so so wonderful.

To be fair this was made in 2001, ive seen animated ballet movies that are recently made and the hurt and cringe it does to my soul is tragic lol

So fun. I really hope you guys do some more Nutcracker analysis from the actual ballet as well. This movie was a huge part of my childhood.

I cackled inelegantly. Thank you ladies for adding more joy to my day. Is it my imagination or are his hands HUGE???

I LOVE your outtakes! Please keep posting them!! And Barbie’s shoulders were super funky. Like she needed to bring them down. That was painful 😂

loved watching this. please continue to be our favorite Barbie ballet critics

It's probably just Tchaikovsky.. but I STILL got goosebumps at the part where he looses her leg in that one arabesque. Their port de bras cracks me up. I definitely didn't notice any of this stuff when I was a lowly untrained dancer. Barbie is definitely the primary reason I was so familiar with the story of Swan Lake when I saw it for the first time! The older couple behind us didn't have a clue but my friend and I had seen Barbie in Swan Lake, obviously so much more cultured XD lol

Oh, Jordan! Your hair is so pretty! It's a very lovely style on you. 😊

Love this, Ballet Reign! Can you react to THE RED SHOES??? Powell and Pressburger, even if you just react and commentate on the iconic ten-minute long ballet in the middle, that would be awesome to hear your thoughts!!!

Ooooh! I haven't seen this movie! I've only ever seen the ballet version!

i'm a little late but thats because i just did nutcracker!!! sadly the last performance was yesterday and i cried so much because there's a possibility it was my last :( awesome vid as always

Loved watching this video! Then I thought what my ballet teacher from the VAGANOVA academy would think when she saw this😂

My two favorite things in the world!

The content is skyrocketing this is a good videoooooooo

Learning all this stuff about ballet as someone in marching band and field shows and all that makes me feel like some things are really similar and some things couldn't be further apart lol.

I agree with your last comments that this Barbie video could be a good introduction to ballet for children.

5:27 this lion king edit😂I'm dead

The only Barbie ballet movie I absolutely could not get into was the Barbie Swan Lake. I've seen this one and the 12 Dancing Princesses and even Pink Shoes and I was at least able to watch them.

Well, ladies, these comments about certain male names have briefly transformed you from ballerinas to figure skaters: you're skating on thin ice. Just kidding! 🌹🌹🌹 Personally, I prefer the Chainsaw Adagio to Barbie.

Personally i've never fully watched a barbie ballet movie before but what i have watched was "ballerina" which got me into ballet :D

When you realize the animation is from 2001, it´s decent in my opinion. They did their best with what they had as studio that made Barbie movie after all and Swan lake was great too. But there is also ballet anime, Princess Tutu. There are a lot of scenes that could be interesting in it, for example when Tutu danced without partner in some kind of "dance battle" while the other girl had partner. If you make time and react to it, I really hope that you will like it at least a little. Also, great videos. I think you would make interesting collaboration with Twosetviolin.

Barbie in the 12 dancing princesses pleasee that movie was the best and should be a real ballet

Unrelated but I love how you did your lips, today, Jordan! I also love eden’s whispy hairs, very cute!

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October-November? Lucky. For handbells, we have to practice our Christmas music starting in August/September. (We only rehearse one day a week, though.)

When you say the Balanchine dancer helped animated the dance, now that I look at it I can see the hint of Balanchine Nutcracker choreography in it. 🧐

Oh my gosh- I forgot how creepy the rendering of the characters and set design was for this movie... I mean, it wasn't amazing in Barbie and the pink shoes either, but it was still *better.* When I saw the way Barbie/Clara/Sugar Plum fairy originally rose up on her pointe shoes in this movie, I actually cringed from how creepy and unfinished the animation looked. I'm usually not the kind of person to nit-pick flaws in animation, but even I can tell how bad this looks, just from a technical standpoint even if you ignore the actual dancing. I still personally enjoyed watching Barbie and the pink shoes better, mostly because I admittedly get kind of fatigued watching a straight pas de das just because they tend to be very long, repetitive, and impressive lifts and turns only really impress me when they're in a more condensed amount (like in a normal 1 to 2ish minutes variation.) This one was definitely more authentic to what you would expect from an actual pas de das, but Barbie and the pink shoes is still more entertaining for me. (Although I still cannot get over how bad and cheap Barbie's costume looked in the pink shoes... Her costume here is definitely much better, even if the Sugar Plum fairy would usually wear a platter tutu.)

id love to see your reactions on the snowflake scene from barbie and the nutcracker

I think the prince's costume is very nice.

Reliving my a la sebesque nightmares! 😟 The music is sooooo beautiful. Never saw Barbie Ballet movies before your channel. Waiting for the AI versions - it will have weird hands as well!

Thank you, Ladies, for a most enjoyable Saturday!😊❤

Can we just appreciate how good it was considering it was made in 2001

Imagine if this was remade it the movie was released in 01.

Perfect video...lots learned in this one!

I'm curious for your reactions - I watched this Barbie movie before ever watching the ballet version, and I was very shaped by my movie experiences...and so I felt when watching the ballet like "wait, was this all?" (; I really love the pas de deux scene in the movie - it's actually my favorite interpretation of this piece (;

Maybe you can react to "Ballerina" its a movie that have also ballet parts and shows a girl's training at the Paris opera sooo it could be interesting ☺️

Prince Eric…. More of a transcendent character than the name of the role played in this particular movie. Prince Eric, in the early 2000’s Barbie movies, is quite like the name “Barbie”. Barbie is not the name of the character she’s playing but her original given name-that you would know who she is, that she’s in the movie, and who she is playing (or what show she is performing in this case). “Prince Eric” is the original given name of that male animated character. Prince Eric also plays the Prince in Barbie As Rapunzel, and the shoe cobbler in Barbie and the Twelve Dancing Princesses (which is one of my faves and so wish, along with many, many others, that it would be turned into a ballet someday). Hope this helps clear up the choice for the name Prince Eric-it’s not that that’s what they decided to name the nutcracker Prince, that’s just Eric’s name and he plays the nutcracker.

For the past few years, and a sudden boom this past week, I’ve been super interested in ballet. This video was sooooo informative for a professional’s POV. Loved it! Please do more Barbie videos. They made me fall in love with Tchaikovsky as a child, and their orchestra, I think, does phenomenal renditions 🫶🏼🫶🏼🤍

Please review 12 dancing princesses too xx

That was fun - sorry to miss you live. The feet were pretty poor. I bet you can just automatically animate the actual dancers now. Should at list have been Erich as it is German. The music was of course fab but they MESSED WITH TCHAIKOVSKY

Barbie in the Nutcracker is iconic!

Damn, prince Eric's turn out is better than Clara's lol

That Balanchine slander though haha (no offense to Balanchine babes but it isn't my favorite)

Barbie in the 12 dancing princesses and Barbie of Swan Lake please

Barbie swan lake consumed me as a child 😅

Prince Eric from the little mermaid is cheating on Ariel with Barbie OOOOOOHHHHH😲😲😲

Can you make a video on the nutcracker ballet like you did for swan lake? Thank you 😊

There's a lot of scope for roasting in Barbie swan lake

What do you think about Vaganova method

It's not an arabesque, it's a barbiebesque...

I'm pretty sure the Clara in this movie didn't know how to dance. So for her first ballet or dance ever this is not bad.

The animation is very limited becuase its so old. Alot of the mistakes are coming from a basic rig ( bones you use to puppet the character ) and becuase its using the motion capture technology that doesnt bring the details accross. Its pretty bad though, i love Barbie but the ballet things uurk me hahhaa. Thanks for the video though ♥ PS heres a nice swan lake for you two :] Its not the original clip but ya ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bo2gTwqX88o.html&ab_channel=Matthais%27MediaMashups

No more Barbie 😅

You call Eric unromantic but Hans-Peter is fine? xD

Barbie and The Nutcracker are a TERRIBLE TWOSOME to me, personally.........the essence of stuff to be avoided, endlessly. Sorry, cannot bear to watch this. Will return next time.