Barbara Millicent "Barbie" Roberts is the main character in Barbie: A Perfect Christmas. Her speaking voice is by Diana Kaarina and her singing voice is by Jennifer Waris. Barbie is an actress who lives in Malibu, California with her sisters Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea. The girls dream of having the perfect Christmas in New York, but things don't go to plan.
Story[]
Barbie, Skipper, Stacie and Chelsea plan on spending Christmas in New York with their aunt, Millicent. Barbie and her aunt have front row tickets to a Broadway show on 42nd street. Each sister thinks they will have the perfect Christmas in New York. Barbie picks up their stockings and the girls board their flight.
On the plane, Skipper works on a song that she is writing for her friend Zoe. Zoe's band will play the song at a gig in New York, and Skipper wants to livestream it. Barbie offers to show the song to bands that she knows, but Skipper says she doesn't need any help. Due to a snowstorm, the plane is forced to land. Barbie promises her sisters they will get to New York, so she tries to drive to Minneapolis so they can try a bigger airport. Barbie drives for hours and gets lost.
The girls find the Tannenbaum Inn and meet Christie Clauson and the Elif family. Barbie and her sisters help them to wrap presents for a toy drive. The girls stay at the inn for the night. Their morning flight gets cancelled because of another snowstorm, but Barbie maintains her promise that they will get to New York. Privately, Barbie confides in Christie that she feels like she will have to take the perfect Christmas away from her sisters because of promises she couldn't keep. Christie says that the perfect Christmas is a feeling that can't be taken away, and she encourages Barbie to wish on a star. Barbie wishes that she and her sisters will have the perfect Christmas.
The next day, on Christmas Eve, Skipper says they may not be able to travel for days because of all the snow. Barbie says they can go to New York next year, but her sisters still feel disappointed. Barbie hangs their stockings on a window sill so Santa can find them. Barbie sees reindeer outside. They go outside and see shelter dogs dressed as Santa's reindeer. They girls later find the real reindeer and follow the herd to a barn filled with hundreds of wrapped gifts.
After playing in the snow with her sisters and a dog named Rudy, Barbie and her sisters meet Brian. Brian has a band with no lead singer, and he is a fan of Skipper's video blog. Barbie suggests that Skipper perform with Brian's band at the inn. Skipper likes the idea, but wants to arrange the concert without any help. Skipper poses the idea to Brian's band and they agree. Christie and the Elifs try to help prepare the concert while Barbie makes decorations.
When Barbie is done making decorations, she goes outside the inn to see how the concert preparation is going. Skipper instructed Christie and the Elifs not to make any decisions without her permission, so some things have not been decided because Skipper is too busy rehearsing. Stacie and Chelsea are supposed to do a showcase for the shelter dogs before Skipper's performance, but Stacie wants to do it alone. Skipper feels stressed by all the decision-making she has to do, so she snaps at Chelsea. Chelsea runs away with Rudy.
Skipper assumes that Barbie usually plans big events by herself, but Barbie informs Skipper that she always has a lot of help. Skipper says she finds it hard to measure up to Barbie, so Barbie compliments Skipper and reminds her that Brian was impressed by Skipper's video blog, which Skipper made by herself. Skipper thinks that was the perfect thing to say. Barbie and Skipper share a hug. Some dogs run amok and ruin the concert set up, and everyone realizes Chelsea is missing. Everybody searches for Chelsea, and her sisters find her in the barn.
Barbie is relieved to find Chelsea is safe. Chelsea says she ran away because she thought people would be happier without her around. Skipper and Stacie tell her that is untrue, and they love having her around. The sisters share a group hug. The girls notice that the presents in the barn are all gone and have been replaced by decorations, a stage and chairs for an audience. Their stockings are also there and are filled with presents. Chelsea thinks this was Santa's present for them, and Christie implies that Chelsea is right.
Christie insists that they have the concert in the barn. Skipper allows people to help her. Before the concert, Barbie hands out drinks to the audience. When Skipper performs, Barbie, Stacie and Chelsea join her on stage. The girls get a standing ovation and find out that Millicent was watching them. Millicent compliments their performance, and then everybody goes outside and sings a Christmas carol while holding hands around a Christmas tree.
Physical Appearance[]
Barbie is a teenage girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and light skin. For most of the movie, she has her hair in a high ponytail with sideswept bangs. Her first outfit is a light pink sweater with purple diamonds on the front, dark purple pants, and black high-heeled boots. Her hair tie is light pink. For pajamas, Barbie wears a pink tunic with 3/4 length sleeves, dark pink knee-length leggings, and white and pink ankle-length socks. Her hair tie is dark pink.
When Barbie goes out in the snow, she wears a blue turtleneck, a pink and white jacket with a black belt around the waist, light pink pants, dark pink legwarmers and black boots. While making decorations for the concert, Barbie wears a light blue sweater, dark blue pants, and black high-heeled boots. For the concert, Barbie has her hair down and she wears a stripy mermaid gown with pink heels. The gown is pink, white and green. It has a green bow on it and the bottom of the gown is dark pink, shimmery and ruffled. She wears this with a silver necklace and dangly earrings.
Personality[]
Barbie is responsible, caring and optimistic, though her optimism can sometimes give people false hope. She loves Christmas and spending time with her family. She is very determined to get to New York because she desperately wants her sisters to have the perfect Christmas. It bothers Barbie when Skipper is realistic and acknowledges that getting to New York would be impossible. Initially, Barbie's idea of a perfect Christmas is having front row seats to a Broadway show, but she realizes the perfect Christmas comes from being with her sisters. Barbie is talented at singing and ballet.
Quotes[]
- "I'm gonna see a Broadway show on 42nd Street. I can't believe Aunt Millie got me in a front row seat. It's gonna be amazing."
- "We'll get to New York for Christmas. I promise. Even if I have drive us all the way there myself."
- [To her sisters] "I promise we'll have the perfect Christmas!"
- "I will keep doing all I can do. I will keep wishing, 'cause wishes come true. I'm dreaming our Christmas will turn out right. That's the wish I wish tonight."
- "Everything is possible."
- "I love Christmas, but this year, my sisters are counting on me to get them to New York and I don't think I can. They're going to be so disappointed when they wake up, and it's all my fault."
- "Someone told me it's impossible to take away the perfect Christmas."
- [To Skipper] "You don't have to compare yourself to me or anyone else at all. You're incredible, just the way you are."
Trivia[]
- Barbie's official description on the movie's website was "Barbie is all about fashion and fun with her sisters! Grab glamorous gifts for this fab movie star!"
- Barbie's stocking is pink and purple.
- The Broadway show Barbie wants to see, A Mid-Sparkle Night's Dream, is a pun on Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Skipper mentions that Barbie has put on plays and starred in movies and done block parties. She also mentions Barbie doing a a fashion show in Paris for Millicent, which happened in Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale.