About the Movie

The sixth movie in the popular Barbie Fairytale series, Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus was released to DVD in September 2005. It is the first Barbie movie to be based entirely on an original story, rather than an adaptation of a previously existing fairytale, folktale, or ballet. Featuring stunning visuals (including some optional 3D scenes that can be viewed with special glasses included with the DVD), beautiful music, endearing characters, outstanding voice acting, and a moving plot, Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus is one of the best...and that's saying something considering how good the others (especially The Princess and the Pauper) are.

The story itself conveys the eternal messages of hope and forgiveness. The princess Annika longs to do nothing but ice skate; her parents, however, refuse to let her leave the palace unguarded. Annika finds their "overprotectiveness" annoying and irrational, and defies them. As it turns out, though, her parents' fears were justified--years ago, before Annika was born, their first daughter, the princess Brietta, had been turned into a pegasus, the kingdom's emblem, by the vengeful sorceror Wenlock. Wenlock had desired Brietta's hand in marriage, and, on her seventeenth birthday, comes after Annika as well. Annika's parents try to protect her, but Wenlock intervenes, transforming them and the rest of the kingdom to stone, and warning Annika that unless she agreed to marry him in three days, they would stay that way permanently.

Annika, who refuses to lose hope, soon receives aid from her equine sister, who takes her to Cloud Kingdom to meet Queen Rayla. There, Annika learns that the only way to save her parents and gain their forgiveness is to build a Wand of Light from a measure of courage, a ring of love, a gem of blue ice lit by hope's eternal flame. Brietta is skeptical of the Wand's existence, but Annika insists that they try. The sisters head to the Forbidden Forest to search for the measure of courage, and there they meet Aidan, a metalsmith with a shadowed past. It soon comes to light that Aidan, too, is seeking his parents' forgiveness for a mistake he made, but he has lost hope. Annika's undying faith, however, renews Aidan's fortitude, and the trio band together to search for the Wand of Light. Their journey is one filled with difficulty, but through it all, Annika never gives up hope.