History WesternAnimation / BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses

* AnAesop: "Big or small, there's a difference only you can make."

%%* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Ashlyn, Isla and Lacey.

%%* PrincessClassic: Most of the princesses, especially Fallon and Genevieve.

%%* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Twyla. She wouldn't be as marketable otherwise.

%%* SingleMindedTwins: Hadley and Isla.

%%* SubordinateExcuse: Desmond obviously has ''something'' for Rowena.

%%* AwardBaitSong: "Shine."

* AlwaysLate: Genevieve arrives late to everything; breakfast, meeting the duchess, you name it. [[spoiler:The epilogue shows her finally on time for something; her wedding.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[TagLine There's a difference only you can make.]]"[[note]]Left to right: Ashlyn, Lacey, Edeline, Delia, Genevieve, Courtney, Blair. Not pictured: Fallon, Hadley, Isla, Janessa, Kathleen[[/note]]]]

* CassandraTruth: Rowena initially doesn't believe the girls when they tell her about the magical world and how dancing there was the reason why their shoes were worn out, instead believing that the girls were sneaking out to dance with princes.

* AccidentalMisnaming: A RunningGag. Rowena never bothers to learn all the sisters' names. Forcing them all to wear the same drab clothing doesn't help her keep track of them, either. Courtney gets mistaken for Lacey, Edeline gets mistaken for Delia, and both Fallon and Kathleen get mistaken for Blair.

* ThePowerOfLove: This is implied to be what frees the princesses when [[spoiler:Rowena destroys the gateway and traps them in the magic world. It takes a DanceOfRomance between Derek and Genevieve to open a new exit into their mother's dancing pavillion.]]

* HealItWithWater: The water in the magical world possesses healing powers; Genevieve uses such to heal a cut on Lacey's foot, and [[spoiler:Lacey saves some of it to heal Randolph from Rowena's poison]].

** Blair loves riding, so she and Courtney [[spoiler: dismounts one of Rowena's guards, and she takes the horse to fetch the doctor for their father as fast as they can]].

* CassandraTruth: Rowena initially doesn't believe the girls when they tell her about the magical world and dancing there was the reason why their shoes were worn out, instead believing that the girls were sneaking out to dance with princes.

* AlliterativeList: At the beginning of the movie, there's a visitor from another kingdom and said visitor mentions several reasons his home kingdom is famous for. All reasons start with the letter P.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite being all the sisters being heavily featured in advertising, only two of the sisters, Genevieve and Lacey, get any decent amount of screentime or CharacterDevelopment. The rest of the sisters mostly serve as background characters with little development. You could remove around half of them, and the plot would not drastically change.

The princesses find comfort in their late mother's favorite story, which tells of a magical kingdom where golden flowers grant wishes and princesses can dance at an enchanted pavilion for three nights. The princesses realize that the story contains clues on how to enter the magical kingdom from their own bedroom, by dancing on specific stones on the floor. Now inside the magical kingdom, the princesses discover that the water there possesses healing properties, which gives them hope to help their father, whose health is starting to fail. Soon they're joined by the handsome Royal Cobbler Derek, who has a huge crush on Genevieve, and his parrot Félix; together, the group must put the pieces of Rowena's plan together and stop her.

Franchise/{{Barbie}} stars in the movie as Princess Genevieve, the seventh of her kingdom's [[MassivelyNumberedSiblings twelve princesses]]. She, her eleven alphabetically-named sisters (Ashlyn, Blair, Courtney, Delia, Edeline, Fallon, the twins Hadley and Isla, and then the triplets, Janessa, Kathleen and Lacey) and their father, King Randolph, live their lives as happily as possible after the death of the Queen. However, the free-spirited and cheerful girls are looked down at for their "ungraceful" behaviors, so Randolph summons his cousin, Duchess Rowena, as their chaperone. Rowena quickly seizes control of the court, bans the girls' beloved dancing and singing and, with her NumberTwo Desmond, begins to brew a plan where she will poison King Randolph to death, get rid of the princesses, and reign as Queen.

%%* BugCatching: Janessa's hobby.

* MythologyGag: Rowena assumes the princesses have been sneaking out to dance with princes. In the original fairy tale, the princesses really were dancing with princes, though in the movie they're just indulging in a beloved pastime Rowena has forbidden.

%%* PimpedOutDress: Each princess has one.
%%* ThePowerOfLove: Well, that and dancing.

%%* TheQuietOne: Ashlyn and Courtney.

%%* TrueBlueFemininity: Courtney, Janessa, and Hadley.
%%* TomboyPrincess: Blair, Delia, Edeline, and Janessa.