When Rapunzel attempts to use the paintbrush that Alice offers her on the tower wall, a portal to the kingdom magically appears. That night, as Rapunzel meets her good fairy Alice who grants a wish while she can transform the hairbrush into a paintbrush through the sky, while shesleeps, Alice waves her wand at the hairbrush and it magically transforms into a paintbrush. Gothel also threatens to punish Penelope's father Hugo if he does not keep Rapunzel prisoner.

When Rapunzel insists she doesn't know Stefan's name, Gothel destroys Rapuzel's art and supplies, and transforms her room into a high tower. However, Gothel's pet ferret Otto, who spies on Rapunzel for his mistress, tells Gothel all that happened. Rapunzel leaves in a rush without learning Stefan's name to avoid Gothel discovering her disappearance. He explains the trap was set by King Wilhelm of the neighboring country, who has an ongoing feud with Stefan's father King Frederick. She saves young Princess Katrina from a pit trap with the help of Katrina's elder brother Prince Stefan.

Following the secret passage, Rapunzel is led to the kingdom outside. They also find a mutilated portrait of a man. This leads Rapunzel to question Gothel's story. One day, Rapunzel and her friends inadvertently open a secret passage, where Rapunzel finds a silver hairbrush engraved with a message from her parents, affirming their love. Gothel's manor is magically isolated from the rest of the world, so Rapunzel's only friends are Penelope, a young dragon, and Hobie, an anxious rabbit. Gothel claims she saved Rapunzel from abandonment as a baby, and resents Rapunzel's hobby of painting pictures of places she'd like to go someday. Rapunzel is a young woman with long, floor-length hair who lives as a servant to the wicked witch Gothel. The story is told by Barbie to her little sister, Kelly, who is insecure in her painting abilities.

The film was nominated for eight DVD Premiere Awards, winning Best Original Score and Best Animated Character Performance for its main antagonist Gothel. and was subsequently released overseas through Entertainment Rights and Universal Pictures Video.

Barbie as Rapunzel is a 2002 computer-animated fairy tale film co-produced by Mainframe Entertainment and Mattel Entertainment, and distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment.Īn adaptation of the 1812 German fairy tale ' Rapunzel' by the Brothers Grimm, it is the second in the Barbie film series, with Kelly Sheridan providing the voice of Barbie.īarbie as Rapunzel was released on VHS and DVD on October 1, 2002, later making a television premiere on Nickelodeon on November 24, 2002.

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