Barbie (2023) on Netflix
NR20231h 54mAdventureComedyFantasy
Barbieland, a matriarchal world of Barbies and Kens, gives Barbie a perfect routine until worries about mortality and changes to her body disrupt it. Weird Barbie sends her to the real world.
- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb6.8/10705,916 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes88%
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Plot summary
Barbieland is a matriarchal society shaped by human imagination. Many Barbies hold jobs in law, science, politics and media, while the Kens spend their days at the beach, treating it as their profession. Ken, known as Beach Ken, is happy only when he is with Barbie. At a dance party, Barbie is overtaken by thoughts of mortality; by next morning she has bad breath, cellulite and flat feet. Weird Barbie tells her to find the child who plays with her in the real world, so Barbie sets off, Ken hidden in her convertible. They reach Venice Beach, where the head of Mattel, alarmed by dolls loose in the real world, orders their recapture.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Barbie (2023)
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- Rosco Laboratories supplied the film's paint. The company dealt with worldwide shortages from COVID-19 supply-chain problems and freezing temperatures that ruined stock, and the sets used up all its remaining pink paint.
- Amy Schumer entered negotiations for the title role in December 2016 and helped rewrite the script with her sister Kim Caramele, but exited in March 2017; she later revealed she left due to creative differences with the film's producers.
- John Cena was spontaneously offered a part in Barbie after paying for Margot Robbie's meal in London during production.
- Greta Gerwig kept a scene featuring Margot Robbie's Barbie telling an older woman she is beautiful after being requested to remove it, as she felt the scene epitomized the heart of the movie.
- Barbie became the only film by a solo female director to cross the $1 billion mark worldwide, and the fastest Warner Bros. film to reach that milestone, beating Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2.
- Vietnam banned Barbie on July 3, 2023, because it contained the offending image of the nine-dash line, and the film was originally scheduled for release there on July 21.
- Kuwait banned both Barbie and the Australian horror film Talk to Me, with the head of the authority Lafi Al-Subaie accusing Barbie of carrying ideas that encourage unacceptable behavior and distort society's values.
- Algeria halted screenings of Barbie three weeks after its July 19 release, with an official source saying the film promotes homosexuality and other Western deviances and does not comply with Algeria's religious and cultural beliefs.
