Barbie and Her Sisters in A Puppy Chase (2016)
On November 29, 2023 by CrescentBarbie and Her Sisters in A Puppy Chase is the sequel to Great Puppy Adventure… Except without all the charm, intrigue, and overall fun. This might just be not only the worst Barbie movie I’ve ever seen but the worst movie in general, and that’s saying a lot.
Story
Puppy Chase brings Barbie and her sisters to Hawaii for Chelsea’s dance competition. At Barbie’s insistence, they go off the beaten path and end up in a world of trouble when they are separated from their puppies. They fight to find the dogs and make it to the dance competition in time while doing their best to stay positive.
This is one of the most boring movies I’ve ever seen. I was checking the time bar constantly to see how much I had left of the movie, but it never felt like I was making progress. The movie doesn’t seem to care about your time at all, instead meandering around the point and never taking you anywhere of note. The pacing is agonizingly slow, the characters are having a terrible time, and it never seems to pay off. Even the climax is obnoxiously slow and won’t just end already. The writing being awful the whole way through doesn’t help. The characters are just grating to listen to.
On top of that, the story is completely preventable! Barbie should have just stuck to the plan and not taken her sisters out on a fun adventure, and everything would have been fine. On top of that, they could have just put their dogs on leashes. That would have solved all of this. Instead, the main characters are irresponsible and dig their own graves again and again by just being stupid. This didn’t need to happen! Just be smarter!
The story of this movie is awful, pointless, and stupid beyond all comprehension.
Story: 0/10
Characters
Out of all the awful traits this movie has, the characters have got to be one of the worst. Barbie is the worst she’s ever been here, talking of optimism all the time without thinking of the struggles of her sisters. She brushes them off countless times, and they never get to say anything until she realizes she’s wrong in the last fifteen minutes. Barbie deserves to be berated here, but it doesn’t feel like character growth. It’s something I wanted to do way sooner.
The rest of the sisters are at their worst here too. Their writing is all horrible, and it’s difficult to take them seriously with how one-note and hollow they feel. The animals aren’t much better. The dogs are even more grating here than they were in Great Puppy Adventure, and I just want to punch something whenever they’re on the screen. There’s nothing of quality here.
And yet, I have to give this section a bit of credit. It’s nice to see everyone yell at Barbie for being horrible. It’s not much, but it’s just about the only mercy I can give these characters. That aside, they’re all awful, and I didn’t like any of them.
Characters: 0.5/10
World Building
Puppy Chase brings the cast to an all new location, and you would expect that to be interesting… But it’s not. I know the cast is meant to be in Hawaii, but it doesn’t really feel like they’re in Hawaii. There’s so little to allude to the setting here that it could just as easily be an unnamed island and nothing would change. The joke with the three sisters is a stale one in my eyes and just ends up feeling lazy since they didn’t want to make new models. I don’t like it.
There are dancing horses here for some reason. Okay. The horses (and dogs) are allowed on the stage at a dance competition. Okay. And the dance competition has only five dancers competing in it. I understand we’re supposed to suspend our disbelief for a movie, but as someone who grew up adjacent to the world of competitive dance, this is… Very unrealistic. None of it makes sense, and it’s very distracting in the ending section of the movie.
The world building of Puppy Chase is bland and unrealistic to the point of almost feeling offensive.
World Building: 0/10
Themes
This movie once again ends with the quote of “this is our story, what’s yours?” I can’t even make an argument for this working like in Star Light Adventure. It’s just bad. I can’t even give it credit for having an okay theme in the rest of the movie! The main theme here is to be positive through everything, but it’s not a good lesson! The characters are miserable, and thinking positively doesn’t help them! It’s just obnoxious! Situations are allowed to be bad. Please, just let them be bad. And don’t give me that story line again. I’m getting really sick of it.
Themes: 0/10
Production
This art style is very hit or miss from what I can tell, and this is definitely a movie where it misses. The dogs look clunky, the faces look weird, and the animal dancing animations are atrocious. Once again, the characters are unnaturally skinny, and it gives them unsettling proportions that are difficult to watch.
The music and voice acting aren’t great either. The dogs in particular sound awful, and the humans aren’t selling the awful dialogue all that well. It’s hard to keep things good with a script this bad. The dog barking sound effects get so grating after a few minutes, and they continue throughout the whole movie. The audio mixing is pretty bad too, and it’s hard to hear everyone over the music at times. The vocal tracks are miserably bad too. It’s just all bad.
Puppy Chase has a horrible production, but its voice acting is by far the worst offender. Just keep the dogs quiet. Please.
Production: 0/10
Overall
Barbie and Her Sisters in A Puppy Chase is a miserably bad movie that deserves none of your time. Don’t even think about watching this movie. Don’t waste an hour and fifteen minutes on it like I did. Do literally anything else with your time. You’ll feel better. I promise.
Overall: 0.1/10
Silly Superlative: Barbie movie with the most preventable conflict
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