So, Cassaliscious finally came over and managed to remember my shiny toy. Delancey from the skanky My Scene line. This loverly line comes with a DVD movie, so I waited until the adults were asleep and my brother had toddled off to do... whatever brothers do at night when they aren't sneaking out, and I popped that baby in the DVD player and waited. Actually, there was some frantic searching for the TV remote and the DVD remote. But I digress.
If you ignore the obvious cheese [I'm sorry, but I never could take Barbie as a serious name, despite the knowledge that for awhile my mother sported the name in her younger years.], the movie was actually pretty damn spiffy. In the previous wave of dolls, they had a little CD Rom thinger that basically set the storyline up. This is the follow up, although you don't have to have seen the previous webisodes to fully comprehend what's going on. It's just helpful.
[character round up. skip]
Nolee- My favorite. Long black hair, the smart yet sporty one. Don't get too attached because she's a glorified extra. Isn't considered one of the main girls, but has been there since the second set of dolls in the line was produced.
Delancey- The blonde one who is either being hit on by an idiot [Ellis] or challenging Nolee to some sports related activity. If I weren't old and pervy, I wouldn't say that she seems to hit on Nolee a bit. But I am, so I did. Whatcha gonna do about it? She's also the newest of the core bunch, a transplant from California. Chels' cousin.
Chelsea- Red head, flirts with the valet and acts like a ditz. Is easily the prettiest in the little movie, but again, glorified extra. Oddly enough, one of the core dolls/characters. Weird.
Madison- Barbie's best friend. Rich. Loaded. Apparently the song writer for the band [Urban Desire] and as such, she got an invite to Jamaica. Lucky. You'd never know it, but she's got a love interest in Sutton. But, like I said, you'd never know it from watching the movie.
Barbie.- Tech geek, dating the lead singer of the band. Apparently awfully insecure. Perhaps she's afraid her friends will realize she's not as young as she's pretending? ;) She's actually completely unremarkable and is just... Barbie.
Sutton - The British one dude.
Hudson- The blond dude.
Ellis- Good luck telling him and River apart. He's the one wimping out when it comes to hitting on one of the blondes.
River- He's got that weird facial hair on his chin. Thing is, it always looks like an arrow pointing up. Weird. Barbie's bitch.
[/character round up]
Band goes to Jamaica to compete for a record demo. Delancey goes with because her family has rented a condo or something there at the exact same time. This is mentioned as insanely unlikely, so you can marvel at how smart Nolee is. Woo. The remaining three girls, Barbie, Chelsea, and Nolee, decide to earn their way to Jamaica. Woo. They do, they go, they surprise their friends, and bad things happen. People begin to die.
*checks her notes*
Wait, wrong movie. B. begins to suspect that Mads & River are sneaking around behind her back because M&R are spending way too much time together. Mads is also sort of going out of her way to encourage this train of thought, though she later claims she's not doing so intentionally. Of course not. Little Susie Q's parents would have a fit if a Barbie character was intentionally being a bitch. Mine probably would have rejoiced, but then again, my mother is weird, so maybe not.
Anyway, you know where the story will go. You also know they'll pad about 10 minutes with musical montages. Our B story would be the band trying to win said contest [or is that the main plot?], and a C story is Ellis [the... uh, other dude in the band who's not accenty or blond] trying to ask Delancey out. This leads to a Delancey/Nolee scene [I've been permanently corrupted by slash. It's everywhere.] and the non Mads/B girls running around trying to figure out if all hell is going to break loose.
It does. But, dammit, I liked it. But I was also drinking the first drops of Pepsi I've had in 24 hours, so... um, yeah. I'm a happy girl. I think I'll watch it again.
I am dork, hear me roar. Wheeee!
And I have 666 emails. *snickers softly*
you're no jesus, you're no fucking elvis