Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses

When King Randolph decides his daughters need a proper royal upbringing, he asks his cousin Duchess Rowena to take charge of their education. Genevieve and her eleven sisters soon find their freedoms stripped away, and the dancing they love is forbidden. The sisters then come across a hidden route into an enchanted realm where dancing fills the night, but the growing threat to their father's kingdom forces them to stand together as a family.

The film is a 2006 animated family feature from Mattel and Mainframe Entertainment, released directly to home viewing. It is the second of three titles Greg Richardson directed in this series, arriving between Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus and Barbie as the Island Princess. Elana Lesser and Cliff Ruby wrote the screenplay, and Kelly Sheridan voices Genevieve, with Catherine O'Hara as Duchess Rowena, Christopher Gaze as King Randolph, and Nicole Oliver, Jennifer Copping and Lalainia Lindbjerg among the supporting voice cast of twenty-one credited performers.

Audiences responded warmly: on IMDb it holds 7 out of 10 from more than eight thousand votes, while on TMDB it scores 7.6 out of 10 from over a thousand votes. Both figures point to a durable following for this musical fairy-tale adaptation.