Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Barbie Movie Drinking Game

For all of us who take care of little girls or are driven by finals week to do strange things:

The Barbie Movie Drinking Game!

WARNING: DO NOT DRINK ANY BEVERAGE CONTAINING ALCOHOL FOR THIS GAME. YOU WILL DIE.

Take a drink if
\~/ There is a racially ambiguous best friend
\~/ Barbie is playing a role she's too old for
\~/ Kelly shows up
\~/ Another if her name isn't Kelly, but it rhymes
\~/ Barbie is the only person with pink eyeshadow
\~/ Barbie's whole room is pink
\~/ The villain has a goatee
\~/ The personification of animals includes makeup
\~/ There's a forbidden or enchanted forest
\~/ There's a deus ex machina
\~/\~/\~/\~/\~/ There's an 'outtakes reel'
\~/ With an extra for each 'outtake' with the animal sidekick
\~/ The music doesn't match the story
\~/ Another if the credits are even worse
\~/ There's an obvious Designated Love Interest sighting
\~/ The DLI's name rhymes with Eric
\~/ The DLI's hair is slicked back
\~/ There's a role reversal between a tyrannical supervisor and a servant/slave
\~/ The villain is the most detailed character

Not quite dead? Good!

Take a drink every time
\~/ Barbie says "I'm not a child anymore!" or "You don't understand me!"
\~/ Barbie's hair moves as one solid mass
\~/ Barbie's hair is in a weird up-do
\~/ Barbie's hair makes you want to die
\~/ A set of twins share sentences
\~/ People with accents turn out to be either comic relief or evil
\~/ Kelly whines
\~/ The Aryan character is favored as bravest, prettiest, etc.
\~/ The animal subplot is annoying as hell
\~/ Tchaikovsky is abused/rolls in his grave
\~/ Barbie's outfit is anachronistic
\~/ Barbie wears a choker
\~/ Everyone is completely oblivious to something utterly out of place
\~/ They try at evil foreshadowing
\~/ There's a 'something wicked this way comes' moment
\~/ There's a 'beauty and the beast' transformation scene
\~/ There's a 'does the rolling help?' moment
\~/ Someone makes a buzzer noise
\~/ There's a name like 'cloud kingdom'
\~/ A horse looks reptilian
\~/ Barbie's Mary Sue powers activate
\~/ You find yourself wishing bodily harm on the protagonist
\~/ You say 'kill me'
\~/ The villain uses a pun
\~/ Or other anachronistic phrase
\~/ The animal sidekick talks
\~/\~/ The animal sidekick uses a pun
\~/\~/\~/ An animal sings
\~/ ANYONE refers to themselves in third person
\~/ A threat falls victim to its own stupidity
\~/ The animation style of the scenery doesn't match the people
\~/ The people are inappropriately dressed for the weather
\~/ Provisions magically appear
\~/ There's a flashback
\~/ Someone uses a stupid catch phrase
\~/ An animal is evil for no reason
\~/ Barbie and DLI speak in unison
\~/ People hug without really touching - this one alone will kill you




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