Barbie: Mariposa

Barbie Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends
File:BarbieMariposa.jpg DVD cover.
Directed by	Conrad Helten
Written by	Elise Allen (screenplay)
Produced by	Nancy Bennett Luke Carroll
Starring	Kelly Sheridan
Distributed by	Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Release dates	February 26, 2008
Running time	75 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

Barbie Mariposa (alternate title: Barbie: Mariposa and her Butterfly Fairy Friends) is a 2008 direct to video computer animated Barbie film which was released on February 26, 2008. This film is a part of the Barbie "Fairytopia" series, but is not a canon sequel to the previous films.

The film features the voice of Kelly Sheridan, who has been voicing the Barbie protagonist in all of the Barbie film series to date.

"Mariposa" is the Spanish word for "butterfly.

Plot

Elina, heroine of the Fairytopia films tells her friend Bibble the story of Flutterfield, a faraway kingdom populated by fairies with butterfly wings. Henna, the evil butterfly fairy has poisoned the queen of Flutterfield in an attempt to take over the kingdom. Due to this, the lights protecting Flutterfield are in danger of going out. These lights protect Flutterfield from the "Skezites", monsters who eat butterfly fairies, and are connected to the life of Flutterfield's queen. It's up to Mariposa, Rayna and Rayla to find an antidote to save the queen.

Mariposa

Mariposa, a butterfly fairy, is initially introduced in this movie as a friend of Elina's. Her name translates to 'Butterfly' in Spanish, and she is the basic heroine of the story. Unlike most of the other butterfly fairies, whose hair range from purple to blue in colour, Mariposa shares her familiar blond with the Fairytopia heroine, Elina. Throughout the movie, she sports pink.

Mariposa is shown the bearer of a character very different from most of the other butterfly fairies of Flutterfield. While the rest of the land is happy to forget the world outside the last light of Flutterfield, Mariposa loves to imagine the wide world she has not seen. She also loves to read, and much of her imagination feeds on books. We come to know of her love for stars, and she is well aware of the constellations and the figures they form in the sky. The Archer, one of these constellations, is close to her heart and essential to the movie. Throughout the journey to find the antidote required to save the Queen, Mariposa displays sensibility and knowledge. She is the one who interferes and puts an end to Rayna and Rayla's initial quarrels over petty matters. When the three are faced by Skezites, she comes up with the brilliant plan of carrying flowers over their heads, so that the Skezites smell these instead of the three butterfly fairies. She is also the one chosen by her friends to 'go on' in the Cave of Reflection.