![]() She also learns that unlike in Barbie Land, women here have a much harder time getting the rights and respect they deserve. She winds up on a mysterious journey to the real world, with Ken stowing away in the backseat of her pink Corvette.Īrriving in LA, Barbie befriends a Mattel employee, played by a winning America Ferrera, and discovers that Barbie dolls are far from unanimously beloved in the real world. The plot kicks in when Barbie starts feeling not quite herself, and strange thoughts of death intrude on her upbeat day-to-day. The Barbies run Barbie Land and the Kens vie for their love and attention. They all just call each other "Barbie," though, just as almost every man here answers to "Ken," including the one played by Robbie's hilariously self-mocking co-star, Ryan Gosling. They're a diverse group in terms of race and profession: Issa Rae plays President Barbie, Hari Nef plays Doctor Barbie and Margot Robbie is perfectly cast as our heroine, Stereotypical Barbie. The director Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the script with Noah Baumbach, begins her story in Barbie Land, a pink-tastic paradise that's home to countless walking, talking, life-sized Barbie dolls. But that's the kind of gender stereotype the Barbie movie itself seeks to turn on its head. ![]() Naturally, there was a lot of sexist speculation that men would prefer to see Oppenheimer while women would be the dominant audience for Barbie. ![]() ![]() Even though counterprogramming is hardly a new thing, it's not every day that an exuberant comedy about a Mattel doll come to life goes head-to-head with a brooding drama about the father of the atomic bomb. Like a lot of people, I chuckled at the " Barbenheimer" memes that have flooded the internet in recent weeks. ![]()
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