Barbie's A Christmas Carol

I bought this from Borders with my $20 gift voucher and so had to only pay another $4.90. It is based on Charles Dickens's classic but is presented in a light-hearted version for young girls. The classic is presented as a story within a story that Barbie tells her sister Kelly, using a snow globe. This makes the viewers assume that Eden is related to them.

There are carols interspersed in the story and some more changes are present too.

In terms of characters, the Spirit of Christmas Future is revealed to be a beautiful woman underneath her hood, which makes the Spirit look much less sinister. Scrooge is Eden, an opera diva, Bob Cratchit is Catherine, her childhood friend, Jacob Marley is Aunt Marie and Tiny Tim is Tammy, a limping orphan.

In terms of plot, in Eden's past, she was forced to work on Christmas Day and was given a huge scolding by her aunt when she sneaked out to Catherine's house, nothing like Scrooge's jolly employer and broken relationship. In her present, her workers are angry with her for making them work on Christmas Day and she sees the orphans whom Catherine cares for, which is different from Scrooge's visions of Bob's and Fred's Christmas celebrations. In her future, she sees Catherine as mean as her, after having fired her workers for coming in to work a few minutes late, and sees herself leading a poor life with no help from anyone. Her change is seen when she hands out presents to her workers and goes to visit the orphans.