Barbie in the Nutcracker
Based on The Nutcracker, it stars Barbie as Clara who, along with a living nutcracker, begins a journey to find the Sugarplum Princess.
Released direct-to-video.
Tropes used in Barbie in the Nutcracker include:
- An Aesop: Believe in yourself.
- And You Were There: Barbie appears in the story as Clara and the Sugarplum Princess, while her sister, Kelly, plays a candy girl and a fairy, and Ken plays the Nutcracker and Prince Eric.
- Dance of Romance: Clara and the Nutcracker at the end.
- Everything's Better with Princesses
- Everything's Better with Spinning: Mattel's Sugarplum Princess doll has a wheeled stand that can spin the doll around to make it look like she's dancing, either alone, or with Prince Eric.
- Evil Is Hammy: The Mouse King, voiced by Tim Curry.
- Framing Device: Barbie tells the story to Kelly, who feels too nervous to dance in a ballet.
- Gender Flip: Uncle Drosselmeyer became an Aunt.
- I Choose to Stay: Clara decides she doesn't want to go home, but then the Mouse King, having been thought to be defeated, returns and activates the device she'd been given to send her home. She then vanishes and wakes up in the real world.
- It Was with You All Along: Clara is really the Sugarplum Princess, as revealed after her kiss turns the Nutcracker human. This was also foreshadowed when Clara's footprints caused snow to melt and flowers to grow.
- Magic Wand: What the Rat King uses to shrink people, or turn them into stone.
- Motion Capture
- The Power of Love
- Or Was It a Dream?: Clara wakes up to find her nutcracker disappeared. While she asks everyone else if they knew where it went, Aunt Drosselmeyer enters, and asks Clara to meet her friend, who looks exactly like the Nutcracker's human form.
- Public Domain Soundtrack: The movie makes liberal use of Tchaikovsky's music.
- Teleporters and Transporters: Clara's locket, which teleports her back to the real world when opened.
- Those Two Guys: Major Mint and Captain Candy
- True Love's Kiss
- Twice-Told Tale: Of the Nutcracker.
- Your Princess Is in Another Castle: At one point, the men enter a pink castle, hoping to find the princess inside. Instead, they get trapped in a cage, and captured by the Mouse King.