For those who missed the first instalment let me briefly sum it up for you:
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So that's basically Barbie and the Rockers: Out of this World. But there's a part two and after sitting through twenty minutes of virtually no conflict and songs that ranged from painful to mediocre I can't wait to find out if this one's any better or maybe even worse.
...
Actually I guess I can wait to find out but I might as well get this over with as soon as possible.
And so begins- wait, "Barbie and the Sensations"? When did they change their name? I don't really see the point of changing the name of your band if you're already a worldwide success.
Anyway, it's written by the same person and has the same announcer voice as last time and it even begins with the same not very good song as the last part ended with so I'd say things aren't all that different.
"And so ends the most phenomenal concert ever."
Depends on how you define "phenomenal".
Barbie thanks Dr Leonard (instead of her fellow band members or all her loving fans), saying that they'll never forgive him. I guess she's actually saying they won't forget him but I did a triple take on this and I still hear "forgive".
Dr Leonard responds by saying her concert was unbelievable. Again, interpret "unbelievable" as you want.
We then fade to the hideously pink spacecraft but judging from the musical cue starting up I could swear we were about to cut to Krang and Shredder in the Technodrome.
While in the space shuttle Barbie (and the Sensations) do the most stupid thing they can think of and unbuckle their seatbelts and decide to float around inside the cockpit playing music.
So, yes we get another song and... ah, crap. I actually remember this one. Well, if you've been with me so far you should know better than to expect lyrics that actually mean something and this one's no different.
Energy, energy all around
Are we going up or are we going down
Rocking back(???), rocking at the speed of sound
Energy, energy rocking all around
I'm not even going to try and understand. And it probably comes as no surprise that a keyboard can be heard playing long before one of the girls actually pick up a keyboard and starts playing it.
But what happens next is so baffling that it rivals that of the pink shuttle and space flower from the last instalment.
Apparently when one of Barbie's nameless friends starts playing the keyboard it begins to give of a form of strange blue, glowing energy which goes into the instrument panel and then proceeds to envelop the entire space craft which then proceeds to rocket off at tremendous speed and, from the looks of things, open a big wormhole!
I have no idea how this makes any sense. The best explanation I can think of is that the universe itself just had enough this abominable band's music and decided to kill them off by opening a hole in time and space and throw them into it hoping that will shut them up.
Barbie (and the Sensations) are pretty shocked by the fact that they are travelling through a tunnel of light that wasn't there a second ago. Then again I think these people would be surprised to find out that Rome is in Italy. But matters gets all the more confusing when they see a giant clock floating past them. Barbie and Ken seems just as fucking stunned about this as I am.
"Did you see that?" Barbie asks. "It was going backwards!"
I must say, Barbie's powers of observations are quite impressive. I didn't even think about that. I was too taken by the fact that A GIANT POCKET WATCH JUST FLOATED PAST US!
Barbie and gang are assaulted by another array of giant clocks and one of the band members remarks that "it's wild". After a brief trip through the wormhole the band finds themselves once again orbiting Earth. One of the girls (don't know which one, they all sound identical) is impressed at how fast they got home. And since I still have no idea how far away from Earth that big, floating flower was I guess I just have to take their word for it.
"Barbie to ground control. Come in, please."
This is major Tom to ground control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
And the stars look very different todaaay
Yeah, I know I already made that joke. Doesn't stop it from being a better song.
"Ground control?" the radio replies. "What are you, sky patrol?"
Well, if you're not ground control then HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE TRANSMISSION FROM SPACE?
Still, Not-ground-control gives Barbie permission to land and "bring in them little green Martians with you".
All right, I'm going to go ahead and reveal right now that Barbie has travelled back to the 1950's. Then you'd think the guy on the other end would be freaking out of his mind right now at the fact that a woman's voice from space just asked him if she could go ahead and land on his planet. At the very least he should be accusing them of being communists. But then again maybe he thought it was a joke. If I was in his situation I guess I'd assume it was a joke as well.
"Hello! Me and my time travelling rock band from the 1980s would wish to land our giant, pink spacecraft on your airfield. That okay with you?"
So in a rather nicely animated scene we see Barbie's hideous pink space shuttle touching down at a 1950's airfield where they are spotted by a little girl in what I assume is blue Cadillac but I'm not going to make any quick assumptions out of fear that some smarmy automobile-snob might come across this blog and correct me on this. Anyway, the little girl spots the pink shuttle and remarks that this is "neato beano" whatever the flying fuck that means.
Barbie and team steps out of the shuttle where they are greeted by a surprised Reed Richards lookalike and the little girl from the car.
"Are you Martians?" the girl asks. Well, considering the way they dress...
But Barbie and the others just chuckle at this idea and introduce themselves. "I'm Barbie. And these are the Rockers." So are you "the Sensations" or "the Rockers"? Make up your mind!
Anyway, I can't make out what the doctor's name is. It sounds like Dr. Marry You. But the neato beano kid's name is Kim.
"Is today September 25th?" asks Barbie.
"Uh-huh." Kim answers. "September 25th 1959."
"NINETEEN FIFTY-NINE?!" Barbie and her entire group says simultaneously. In the exact same way they all said "OUTER SPACE?!" earlier.
"Somehow we've travelled back in time!" Thank you for stating the obvious yet again, Barbie.
So just in case you missed it: playing a keyboard in space will open a portal to the 1950s.
Sure, why not. Moving on.
"That would explain this... vehicle." says Dr. Richards, rightfully hesitating on what to call the hot pink horror before him. But he's also excited at the thought of people one day being able to go into space. Well, yes but since the first manned spaceflight took place in 1961 I don't know if this should come as any surprise to him.
Barbie wonders how they will get back to their own time but it turns out Dr. Richards is a rocket scientist. I guess it's a good thing that the very first person they met upon landing just so happened to be one.
Doc says getting them home will take time so of course he decides that they should talk about it later and he will even let Barbie (and the Sensational Rockers) to run around 1950s America free to cause all sorts of time fluctuations and paradoxes.
Barbie and gang doesn't seem to mind.
So let me get this straight. Barbie has accidently travelled from the 1980s to the 1950s and she needs help from a certain doctor to get back to her own time...
Hey, kids! You know what movie was really popular in the eighties?
Huh? No! Well, yeah, that too. But that was not what I had in mind.
There we go! I wonder if Barbie will end up running into her parents and be forced to fix their marriage. I doubt that will happen, though. Mostly because Barbie looks like something that was created in a government lab underground.
So Barbie and her friends go and do the only logical thing to do when you're trapped in a different time period. Shopping!
"Whooie!" says one of Barbie's many nameless friends in regards to a display window showcasing some 50's outfits. "Is that hot?"
"You mean 'cool'. 'Very cool'." Kim corrects her. Aw, what happened to neato beano?
Next we get another montage of the band trying of fifties clothes and trying to find hairstyles even worse than what they already have. All this is set to an excruciating song called "Dressin' Up". I'm not even kidding. They even purchase a pink car which isn't quite as hideous as the space shuttle from before.
Ken asks Barbie where they should go in their new car. I'd say back to the airfield and stop screwing with the past but no one listens to me.
"As I recall from those old movies, wasn't the malt shop the hip place to go?" That line just pains me immensely and I'm not entirely sure why.
"Isn't that where you and your friends go after school?" Barbie asks Kim.
"I don't have a lot of friends." Awww... in case you can't tell Kim is my favourite character in this whole thing. She's the only character who's acted remotely human so far and thus is the only character I really care about.
"Yes, you do! You have us! We will always be your friends!" And all of Barbie's "best friends" chime in like the mindless drones they are. "That's right!" "We mean it!" "Don't you forget it!" "You got it!"
If I was Kim I would start crying right about now. And not because I was moved.
Barbie and her best friends for life pull up near a malt shop a little too excited at the prospect of having milkshakes. As soon as they enter people start gawking at them. And not necessarily in a bad way since frankly Barbie (and the Sensations) look much more at home in a 1950s malt shop than they do on a stage.
Barbie immediately walks up to a jukebox and pulls out a record from her purse which she puts into the jukebox. Two girls who look like they taken directly from one those ads in Fallout 3 approach the group and asks if they're new around here and Barbie confirms this.
Barbie's red-headed friend asks the girls if they like to "bop". Did people really talk like this back then? The girls seems excited since they let out a simultaneous "Yeaah!" although they have to look at each other first as if they're wondering "I dunno. Do we?"
Sadly, Barbie and her not-so-motley crew doesn't respond by smacking the girls upside their heads but instead they walk up on a stage complete with available instruments. Ken picks up Kim (don't worry!) and puts her on the counter.
"Want a frozen yoghurt, Kim?"
"A FROZEN WHAT?" Kim and two of the people behind the counter asks simultaneously. What, do everyone in cartoon share a hive mind or something?
The record starts up and I can't help but notice that it's pink and has the Barbie logo on it. I have no logical reason for this and clearly neither does this cartoon. The sensations (and Barbie) have only been here, what, one day? They can't already have made a record. Did they just bring it aboard the space shuttle before going back in time? And if she did was it just luck that the record she brought happened to have them doing a cover of the Bobby Freeman song "Do you want to dance"? Come to think of it, why do you need to play the record? You're playing the exact same song on stage!
Still, the crowd seems to be enjoying it and poorly animated dancing ensues. Not a whole lot to say about it. There's a guy doing the split and apparently someone thinks this is such an impressive dance move that they decided to put a slide whistle sound-effect to it. There's also a policeman who passes by the window and starts dancing. Really, officer, don't you have work to do? For starters, there's an unattended dog standing right next to you!
The band stops playing (or the record stops, I'm not sure) and the crowd starts cheering. Barbie responds by saying "Thank you!" thrice in a row with exact same tone and pitch each time she says it. I'm wondering if this was the voice actress fault or if there was only one voice clip of her saying "thank you" and they decided to play it three times. Or maybe Barbie is parrot.
The girls who wanted to "bop" are impressed by the fact that Kim and Barbie seem to know each other and asks Kim where she came from.
"They kinda dropped in, out of the sky."
I'm sorry, was that supposed to be funny?
"Well, they're out of this world, all right!"
"Captain, we're approaching dangerous quantities of anti-joy!"
Duly noted, Uhura. Barbie keeps repeating the same "Thank you!" and we fade to black.
When we come back, Barbie is doing exactly what you shouldn't be fucking doing if you're stuck in a different time period: taking the world by storm.
Barbie, apparently not happy with being the most recognized musician of the 1980's and an ambassador for world peace, decides to experience her rise in success all over again in 1959! In other words:
This is the equivalent of letting loose a wild and probably rather angry elephant in an antique store. Things will inevitably turn to shit.
So we get a montage of the world caving in to Barbie-mania. This is set to a cover of the song "Here Comes My Baby" by Cat Stevens. A song from the album "Matthew and Son" which shouldn't come about until 1967 and now probably never will thanks to Barbie.
It's nice to see Barbie (and the Sensations formerly known as the Rockers) have such respect for artists and musicians before their time. Just take a moment to think about all the bands that will never rise to fame now because of Barbie.
The montage consists not so much of Barbie and her band performing any songs as it does just Barbie (and only Barbie) posing for photos. What, you honestly thought people liked her for her music?
Eventually, we see Barbie and her band, now referred to as the Rockers, finishing up a concert and a guy with a microphone steps out and asks her about their upcoming gig at Cape Canaveral. (!?) Not even going into the historical aspects of this, when have you ever heard of a pop band as opening act before a shuttle launch?
Barbie responds by saying: "It's such a thrill for us! We're on the verge of a whole new era in space! The wonders ahead of us are... are..."
The reporter interjects with: "You sound like you've already been there!" No, she sounds like a valley girl who if she ever saw a space shuttle would ask where it shoots it's phasers from.
But Barbie responds by yelling: "I know we can do anything if we just set our minds to it!" Ugh... This sounds like a bad PSA you'd be forced to watch in grade school during a particularly eventless day. A PSA that would ironically probably be from the fifties.
So Barbie tells us she's going to hold a "rock to the stars" concert and word of this quickly spreads. We get to see a girl telling two girls: "Barbie's singing at Cape Canaveral!" then one of the girls she just told turns to another girl who was standing right behind her, well within hearing range and who probably heard everything, and repeats: "Barbie's singing at Cape Canaveral!" Thank you, that wasn't redundant or anything.
We fade to a TV-announcer stating that: "Today, in Washington, London, Paris and Tokyo, everyone is talking about Barbie's 'rock to the stars' concert." Okay, I don't think someone on American television would talk about Japan in such a positive tone at this point in time but I could be wrong. Or maybe Barbie, being as ambassador for world peace, healed their relationship with a crappy 80s rock song. Who knows. The writers obviously didn't.
We see Barbie in front of the white house shaking hands with an astronaut. But the astronaut is having a bit of a dilemma because he "can't wait to get out there in space! But I don't want to miss your concert either, Barbie!" Hmm... beat the Russians in the space race and make great advantages in the field of human spaceflight or stay on Earth and listen to Barbie butchering songs?
Barbie says: "Oh, you'll get there all right! I'm sure of it!" Wait, what are you talking about? Does that mean you want him to go into space? And at no point does it seem like anyone doubted that he would be able to go out into space.
Suddenly Reed Richards appear with Kim and tells Barbie he might have found a way to get them home. Well, it's swell you came up with a solution now that Barbie has already messed up time and space beyond repair.
"From what you told me, somehow the position of the planets and the musical chords you played triggered that time tunnel."
Hang on and let me get my cell phone because I'm about to call bullshit.
So all they have to do is repeat the same process to get them home. And as luck would have it at the night of Barbie's concert the planets are going to be aligned again. According to Barbie "this is going to be the most the most cosmic concert ever". Except, you know, the one in the space flower in the last part.
So we cut to the night of the concert and it looks like Reed Richards has unfortunately restored the pink space shuttle to it's original condition. Hasn't it suffered enough humiliation? Just let it die already.
So we see a great big crowd there and of course they're more excited about Barbie's concert than the first manned space flight. Kim and Reed Richards is with Barbie back stage and Dr Richards tells Barbie that they're all set to go.
"How can I ever thank you?" Barbie asks, which sounds a lot better than "I'll never forgive you".
"Thank me? Thank you! You've convinced me that everything I've been working on is going to happen." All right, it's official. Kim and her dad are my favourite characters in all this.
So Kim doesn't want Barbie to leave and thinks she and her dad should come with her, but Barbie gives what is actually a pretty decent speech (by Barbie-standards, mind you) about the responsibilities Kim's dad has to the future of mankind and how much he'll mean to the world.
Of course, to finish this speech of Barbie says she has a hunch she and Kim will meet again and judging from the time and way she says it she might as well have said "Don't worry, we'll meet again. It says so in the script."
And to wrap this scene up Barbie hands Kim the biggest fucking locket I've ever seen in my life.
That doesn't look like something you'd comfortably wear around your neck. Kim is probably going to grow up with severe spinal problems because of that. And no, I see no reason why this locket might be significant later on, why do you ask?
Kim actually starts crying in her arms but her band steps in and pulls her away from Kim because, hey, Barbie's been completely ignoring their feelings up to this point so why can't they treat Barbie like crap for once?
Speaking of which, it's about five and a half minutes left of this and I still don't know all their names. I know the guys are Ken and Derek and I know the black chick's name is Dee-Dee but that's it. I think of the girls might be called Diva but if that's the case I have no idea who it is.
So Barbie (and the sensationally forgettable) go out on stage and starts playing as the crowd cheers. The song they play is called "Blue Jean Boy" and it's apparently an original song this time around. It sounds like the title of a cover song but a quick google search turns up nothing so I guess it isn't then.
Barbie's performance consists mostly of just jumping to the left and then jumping to the right and then jumping left again with one random twirl thrown in and occasionally she just stops in her tracks like this advanced choreography is too complex for her and she has to stop and think about what to do next.
The song ends just as they reach the first refrain though the audience doesn't seem to mind.
"It's just a jump to the left..."
As the song ends Barbie gives the okay to Dr Richards backstage who pulls a big lever and some lights light up just to let us know it's working. Barbie asks her audience if they're ready to rock to the stars. Oh, I think they are. It's the time travelling I'm worried about how they'll react to.
"Then let's GO!"
And the man in the back
said everyone attack
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya
It'll turn into a...
Oops, sorry. There I go thinking about better songs again.
So Reed Richards proceeds to... charge the stage with electricity, it would appear. Because as we've all learned from old Frankenstein movies, electricity can do anything. On Dr Richards commando the band starts playing their instruments (or rather, they just kinda hammer on their instruments. You'd think they would try to play the same song they did the first time they opened the time tunnel but I guess not) and this causes a giant pillar of light to shoot into the sky which, for whatever reason, doesn't bother the crowd one bit. Barbie and band disappears into the shuttle and Kim manages a "bye, Barbie" and the shuttle gets shot into the tunnel of clocks again. If they're going forward this time around I do not know since no one animated the bloody things.
They emerge on the other end of the tunnel and right after doing so we see them performing on a stage in the 80s again. This went by so fast that I wondered if this was some alternative time line where Barbie (and the Rockers as they're now referred to as) made it back to Earth in one piece without time travelling and they would end up meeting with their counterparts that just arrived from the 50s. But no, because then Barbie and Ken makes mention of how they just made it back to their own time. That and they're still wearing their 50s outfits. But in the 1980s who can tell the difference?
And no adverse effects from this whole messing with the past ordeal, either. Barbie is just as popular now as she was back in 59. You'd think after twenty-some years people would be pretty sick at Barbie by now. And they mention that she came back from space so I'm guessing the whole space flower concert still happened. So, what, the whole messing around with musical history and the space program did absolutely nothing? Did they maybe create a different time line that exists on it's own, like in Dragon Ball Z?
Whatever, it's almost over.
They start playing "everybody rock" again. So as Barbie's walking along the most underwhelming stage in the world after all they've been through, doing the usual waving and handshaking she eventually comes across a brown haired woman (with a child?) that stops her and shows her the same giant pendant Barbie gave Kim. So Kim is all grown up and has a daughter named Megan (and I must ask again: with who?). Megan is impressed that Barbie and Kim know each other and Barbie says they "go way back". Huyk hyuk.
Megan then says: "Barbie, you're my favourite!" You're favourite what?
Kim responds: "Barbie's everybody's favourite! For all time!" Yeah, forget about those other loosers like Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson or Beethoven. Barbie and the Rockers is the band that everyone will remember.
So we get to hear some more of this song we've already heard and we get another terrifying shot of Barbie looking into the camera.
And so we end. All in all this was a lot better than the last one actually. Sure Barbie is as gentle around history as Godzilla is around buildings and it all wrapped up ridiculously clean and we still don't know who everyone in the band are but all in all this one was better than the last one. It's stupid but for the most part it's your regular 1980s cartoon stupidity.
So that's it for Barbie and the Rockers. And the Sensations for that matter. The question is what I'll do next now that I'm finished with this. I'd like to think that I'm finished with Barbie, at least for now.
I'll guess we'll find out sooner or later. For now, take care and... some clever remark about pink space shuttles.
Duly noted, Uhura. Barbie keeps repeating the same "Thank you!" and we fade to black.
When we come back, Barbie is doing exactly what you shouldn't be fucking doing if you're stuck in a different time period: taking the world by storm.
Barbie, apparently not happy with being the most recognized musician of the 1980's and an ambassador for world peace, decides to experience her rise in success all over again in 1959! In other words:
This is the equivalent of letting loose a wild and probably rather angry elephant in an antique store. Things will inevitably turn to shit.
So we get a montage of the world caving in to Barbie-mania. This is set to a cover of the song "Here Comes My Baby" by Cat Stevens. A song from the album "Matthew and Son" which shouldn't come about until 1967 and now probably never will thanks to Barbie.
It's nice to see Barbie (and the Sensations formerly known as the Rockers) have such respect for artists and musicians before their time. Just take a moment to think about all the bands that will never rise to fame now because of Barbie.
The montage consists not so much of Barbie and her band performing any songs as it does just Barbie (and only Barbie) posing for photos. What, you honestly thought people liked her for her music?
Eventually, we see Barbie and her band, now referred to as the Rockers, finishing up a concert and a guy with a microphone steps out and asks her about their upcoming gig at Cape Canaveral. (!?) Not even going into the historical aspects of this, when have you ever heard of a pop band as opening act before a shuttle launch?
Barbie responds by saying: "It's such a thrill for us! We're on the verge of a whole new era in space! The wonders ahead of us are... are..."
The reporter interjects with: "You sound like you've already been there!" No, she sounds like a valley girl who if she ever saw a space shuttle would ask where it shoots it's phasers from.
But Barbie responds by yelling: "I know we can do anything if we just set our minds to it!" Ugh... This sounds like a bad PSA you'd be forced to watch in grade school during a particularly eventless day. A PSA that would ironically probably be from the fifties.
So Barbie tells us she's going to hold a "rock to the stars" concert and word of this quickly spreads. We get to see a girl telling two girls: "Barbie's singing at Cape Canaveral!" then one of the girls she just told turns to another girl who was standing right behind her, well within hearing range and who probably heard everything, and repeats: "Barbie's singing at Cape Canaveral!" Thank you, that wasn't redundant or anything.
We fade to a TV-announcer stating that: "Today, in Washington, London, Paris and Tokyo, everyone is talking about Barbie's 'rock to the stars' concert." Okay, I don't think someone on American television would talk about Japan in such a positive tone at this point in time but I could be wrong. Or maybe Barbie, being as ambassador for world peace, healed their relationship with a crappy 80s rock song. Who knows. The writers obviously didn't.
We see Barbie in front of the white house shaking hands with an astronaut. But the astronaut is having a bit of a dilemma because he "can't wait to get out there in space! But I don't want to miss your concert either, Barbie!" Hmm... beat the Russians in the space race and make great advantages in the field of human spaceflight or stay on Earth and listen to Barbie butchering songs?
Barbie says: "Oh, you'll get there all right! I'm sure of it!" Wait, what are you talking about? Does that mean you want him to go into space? And at no point does it seem like anyone doubted that he would be able to go out into space.
Suddenly Reed Richards appear with Kim and tells Barbie he might have found a way to get them home. Well, it's swell you came up with a solution now that Barbie has already messed up time and space beyond repair.
"From what you told me, somehow the position of the planets and the musical chords you played triggered that time tunnel."
Hang on and let me get my cell phone because I'm about to call bullshit.
So all they have to do is repeat the same process to get them home. And as luck would have it at the night of Barbie's concert the planets are going to be aligned again. According to Barbie "this is going to be the most the most cosmic concert ever". Except, you know, the one in the space flower in the last part.
So we cut to the night of the concert and it looks like Reed Richards has unfortunately restored the pink space shuttle to it's original condition. Hasn't it suffered enough humiliation? Just let it die already.
So we see a great big crowd there and of course they're more excited about Barbie's concert than the first manned space flight. Kim and Reed Richards is with Barbie back stage and Dr Richards tells Barbie that they're all set to go.
"How can I ever thank you?" Barbie asks, which sounds a lot better than "I'll never forgive you".
"Thank me? Thank you! You've convinced me that everything I've been working on is going to happen." All right, it's official. Kim and her dad are my favourite characters in all this.
So Kim doesn't want Barbie to leave and thinks she and her dad should come with her, but Barbie gives what is actually a pretty decent speech (by Barbie-standards, mind you) about the responsibilities Kim's dad has to the future of mankind and how much he'll mean to the world.
Of course, to finish this speech of Barbie says she has a hunch she and Kim will meet again and judging from the time and way she says it she might as well have said "Don't worry, we'll meet again. It says so in the script."
And to wrap this scene up Barbie hands Kim the biggest fucking locket I've ever seen in my life.
That doesn't look like something you'd comfortably wear around your neck. Kim is probably going to grow up with severe spinal problems because of that. And no, I see no reason why this locket might be significant later on, why do you ask?
Kim actually starts crying in her arms but her band steps in and pulls her away from Kim because, hey, Barbie's been completely ignoring their feelings up to this point so why can't they treat Barbie like crap for once?
Speaking of which, it's about five and a half minutes left of this and I still don't know all their names. I know the guys are Ken and Derek and I know the black chick's name is Dee-Dee but that's it. I think of the girls might be called Diva but if that's the case I have no idea who it is.
So Barbie (and the sensationally forgettable) go out on stage and starts playing as the crowd cheers. The song they play is called "Blue Jean Boy" and it's apparently an original song this time around. It sounds like the title of a cover song but a quick google search turns up nothing so I guess it isn't then.
Barbie's performance consists mostly of just jumping to the left and then jumping to the right and then jumping left again with one random twirl thrown in and occasionally she just stops in her tracks like this advanced choreography is too complex for her and she has to stop and think about what to do next.
The song ends just as they reach the first refrain though the audience doesn't seem to mind.
"It's just a jump to the left..."
As the song ends Barbie gives the okay to Dr Richards backstage who pulls a big lever and some lights light up just to let us know it's working. Barbie asks her audience if they're ready to rock to the stars. Oh, I think they are. It's the time travelling I'm worried about how they'll react to.
"Then let's GO!"
And the man in the back
said everyone attack
And it turned into a ballroom blitz
And the girl in the corner said
Boy, I wanna warn ya
It'll turn into a...
Oops, sorry. There I go thinking about better songs again.
So Reed Richards proceeds to... charge the stage with electricity, it would appear. Because as we've all learned from old Frankenstein movies, electricity can do anything. On Dr Richards commando the band starts playing their instruments (or rather, they just kinda hammer on their instruments. You'd think they would try to play the same song they did the first time they opened the time tunnel but I guess not) and this causes a giant pillar of light to shoot into the sky which, for whatever reason, doesn't bother the crowd one bit. Barbie and band disappears into the shuttle and Kim manages a "bye, Barbie" and the shuttle gets shot into the tunnel of clocks again. If they're going forward this time around I do not know since no one animated the bloody things.
They emerge on the other end of the tunnel and right after doing so we see them performing on a stage in the 80s again. This went by so fast that I wondered if this was some alternative time line where Barbie (and the Rockers as they're now referred to as) made it back to Earth in one piece without time travelling and they would end up meeting with their counterparts that just arrived from the 50s. But no, because then Barbie and Ken makes mention of how they just made it back to their own time. That and they're still wearing their 50s outfits. But in the 1980s who can tell the difference?
And no adverse effects from this whole messing with the past ordeal, either. Barbie is just as popular now as she was back in 59. You'd think after twenty-some years people would be pretty sick at Barbie by now. And they mention that she came back from space so I'm guessing the whole space flower concert still happened. So, what, the whole messing around with musical history and the space program did absolutely nothing? Did they maybe create a different time line that exists on it's own, like in Dragon Ball Z?
Whatever, it's almost over.
They start playing "everybody rock" again. So as Barbie's walking along the most underwhelming stage in the world after all they've been through, doing the usual waving and handshaking she eventually comes across a brown haired woman (with a child?) that stops her and shows her the same giant pendant Barbie gave Kim. So Kim is all grown up and has a daughter named Megan (and I must ask again: with who?). Megan is impressed that Barbie and Kim know each other and Barbie says they "go way back". Huyk hyuk.
Megan then says: "Barbie, you're my favourite!" You're favourite what?
Kim responds: "Barbie's everybody's favourite! For all time!" Yeah, forget about those other loosers like Elvis Presley or Michael Jackson or Beethoven. Barbie and the Rockers is the band that everyone will remember.
So we get to hear some more of this song we've already heard and we get another terrifying shot of Barbie looking into the camera.
And so we end. All in all this was a lot better than the last one actually. Sure Barbie is as gentle around history as Godzilla is around buildings and it all wrapped up ridiculously clean and we still don't know who everyone in the band are but all in all this one was better than the last one. It's stupid but for the most part it's your regular 1980s cartoon stupidity.
So that's it for Barbie and the Rockers. And the Sensations for that matter. The question is what I'll do next now that I'm finished with this. I'd like to think that I'm finished with Barbie, at least for now.
I'll guess we'll find out sooner or later. For now, take care and... some clever remark about pink space shuttles.
