Now That There's A Trailer, We've Cobbled Together Everything We Know About The "Barbie" Movie
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Sorry if you disagree, but Barbie starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is going to be THEE summer film of 2023.
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The movie has been the subject of much chatter online (and everywhere else) since it was first announced, but nobody seems to know what this movie is actually about.
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The trailer is chockfull of clever details, but still keeps a tight lid on the plot itself.
Lucky you, I am here to sleuth and have all the details here:
1.Aside from Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, Barbie has a star-studded cast playing Barbies, Kens, and humans.
The Barbies: Issa Rae, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Ana Cruz Kayne, Sharon Rooney, Nicola Coughlan, Alexandra Shipp, Ritu Arya, Kate McKinnon, and Dua Lipa (!!).
The Kens: Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Scott Evans.
The Humans: America Ferrera, Ariana Greenblatt, Connor Swindells, Jamie Demetriou, and Will Ferrell as the "weird" and "insensitive" CEO of Mattel.
...and Helen Mirren as the Narrator.
2.There's also Midge and Allan, played by Emerald Fennell and Michael Cera. Mattel introduced them both in the '60s as friends of Barbie and Ken.
Midge was the subject of some controversy in 2002 when Mattel released a Midge doll that was pregnant. Movie Midge is also pregnant in a nod to this piece of Barbie history.
3.You might have noticed from the posters that almost all of the Barbies are described by what job they have, while the Kens don't seem to have jobs and are simply described as being Kens.
Issa Rae's Barbie is President, but Ncuti Gatwa's Ken poster just says "Ken again!"
4.Here's the movie's tagline as listed on IMDB: "To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken."
5.And here's the tagline from the poster: "She's everything. He's just Ken."
All this emphasis on Barbie being "perfect" and "everything" sure sounds like the makings of the aforementioned existential crisis.
6.Will Ferrell's comments about the movie also shed some light on the themes we should expect it to explore.
"It’s a loving homage to the brand and, at the same time, couldn’t be more satirical — just an amazing comment on male patriarchy and women in society and why Barbie’s criticized and yet why every little girl still wants to play with Barbie," he told the Wall Street Journal. "Boy, when I read it, I was like, ‘This is fantastic.'"
7.There is no one better than Greta Gerwig to direct this movie, which she also co-wrote with her partner Noah Baumbach. Ryan Gosling called it "the best script [he's] ever read."
The Academy better be polishing up Ms. Gerwig's Oscar.
8.Based on the trailers we've seen so far, Ryan Gosling's Ken has a rivalry with Simu Liu's Ken.
9.This rivalry may or may not lead to a massive Ken fight at some point in the movie.
There's definitely some sort of fight amongst the Kens.
10.The movie has at least one "incredibly unique" dance sequence, and maybe even more based on the trailers.
Simu Liu also called the dance sequence "wild" in an interview with GQ. Multiple dance sequences would certainly be on brand for a Barbie movie — A LOT of animated Barbie movies have dance numbers.
11.If you're expecting this to be an entirely kid-friendly movie because it's based on a toy, think again. Barbie will have a PG-13 rating, which you can clearly see in the trailer as Ryan-Ken and Simu-Ken argue about "beaching" each other off.
12.At some point, Barbie and Ken will leave Barbieland, even though it looks like Barbie would prefer to make the trip without Ken.
13.Thanks to some paparazzi shots that went viral last year, we also know that Barbie and Ken will get into some hijinks during their time in the real world.
Barbie will punch a guy who slaps her butt while she and Ken are wearing their neon skating outfits at the beach. Yay Barbie! Another scene has Ken and Barbie running away (??) from something in the cutest matching Western outfits you've ever seen.
14.Barbie will seemingly ditch Ken at some point to hang out with America Ferrera and Ariana Greenblatt's characters.
15.Greta, Margot, Ryan, and America recently appeared at CinemaCon to talk about the movie and shared a trailer that revealed a few more details about the plot.
New #Barbie footage at #CinemaCon:-Margot Robbie's Barbie wakes up in a heart-shaped bed.-Ryan Gosling's Ken busts out choreography-Barbie is horrified by developing flat feet instead of her perfectly-arched heels-Barbie visits "weird Barbie" (Kate McKinnon)
16.Finally, Barbie will premiere in theaters on July 21, 2023.
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