Barbie film with Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie
Barbie is a 2023 fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig and based on the eponymous fashion dolls by Mattel. It stars Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken.
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Barbieis a 2023 fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig and based on the eponymous fashion dolls by Mattel. It stars Margot Robbie as the title character and Ryan Gosling as Ken, and follows them on a journey of self-discovery. The supporting cast includes America Ferrera, Michael Cera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Will Ferrell. The film has grossed $1.44 billion and achieved several milestones, including becoming the highest-grossing film of 2023 and the 14th highest-grossing film of all time. It received critical acclaim and other accolades, including eight Academy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. It received critical acclaim, with 88% of 497 critics' reviews being positive, with an average rating of 8/10. Metacritic assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave it an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled by PostTrak gave it an 89% overall positive score. Critics praised the script for addressing past criticisms of the Barbie brand's portrayal of women and lack of diversity while infusing humor, but also felt that it did not go far enough in critiquing consumerism and beauty standards. Robbie and Gosling received widespread acclaim, with 88% of 497 critics' reviews being positive, with an average rating of 8/10. MovieWeb ranked it number 1 on its list of the "Best Comedy Movies of the 2020s (So Far)," writing that "Gerwig's ode to
Cast and Characters:
Margot Robbie plays Barbie in the Barbie cast, but is differentiated from the rest of the Barbies by being the "Stereotypical Barbie" — the default blonde doll everyone imagines when they think of the name (a key point in the plot). In addition to taking on the titular role, Margot Robbie was also one of the movie's producers. The ineffable lead of the Barbie cast, Robbie's Barbie is the quintessential model for all Barbie dolls which is all the more troubling to everyone as she begins to question her existence which leads her on an adventure into the real world.
Robbie started as a cast member on the long-running Australian soap opera Neighbours before transitioning to film with her breakthrough role as Naomi in Martin Scorsese’s corporate crime epic The Wolf of Wall Street. She has since become an A-list star with such leading roles as Harley Quinn in the DC Extended Universe, Sharon Tate in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and controversial figure skater Tonya Harding in the darkly comedic biopic I, Tonya, which earned her the first of her two Oscar nominations.
Ryan Gosling's Barbie character is Ken, Barbie's boyfriend — although his feelings for her are somewhat unreturned. Specifically, Gosling is playing the version of Ken who follows Margot Robbie's Barbie into the real world (with his rollerblades packed ready, of course). Though a dedicated boyfriend, Ken is clearly not the brightest doll around and invites himself along on Barbie's quest for self-discovery. On the way, he discovers what Patriarchy is, a knowledge that has disastrous consequences for Barbieland.
Ryan Gosling has worked on both big-budget blockbusters and smaller indie films. He first rose to stardom with the lead role of Noah Calhoun in the romantic tragedy The Notebook. The two-time Oscar-nominated actor gained further critical acclaim with his turn as The Driver in the neo-noir action drama Drive. Gosling went on to play jazz pianist Sebastian Wilder in the glitzy musical romance La La Land, Officer K in the sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049, Jared Vennett in The Big Short, and astronaut Neil Armstrong in the biopic First Man.
America Ferrera plays Gloria in the Barbie cast, one of the few humans in the film. Gloria is a Mattel employee whose daughter Sasha is the owner of Robbie's Barbie, and Barbie finds out that it was Gloria was who prompted her existential crisis and thinned the barrier between Barbieland and the Real World. She inevitably teams up with Barbie and ends up in Barbieland. America Ferrera got her start on the screen playing Ana Garcia in Real Women Have Curves, but got her big break when she landed the lead role of Betty Suarez in Ugly Betty. She has since headlined Superstore and voiced Astrid in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise. Ferrera can soon be seen in the dramedy Dumb Money.
Ariana Greenblatt joins the Barbie cast as Sasha, Gloria's preteen daughter who owns Margot Robbie's Barbie. When Barbie seeks to find her owner, she's quite surprised by Sasha's contrarian attitude toward her. Nevertheless, Sasha teams up with Gloria and Barbie on her doll's mission, teaching Barbie some valuable lessons. Ariana Greenblatt first appeared on the screen as Raina in the Disney Channel series Liv and Maddie. She joined the cast of Avengers: Infinity War as a young Gamora before appearing on the short-lived sitcom Stuck in the Middle. Greenblatt voices Tabitha in the Boss Baby animated movie franchise and will soon star as Tiny Tina in the Borderlands movie adaptation.
Michael Cera plays Allan in the Barbie cast, Ken's tag along buddy. His Barbie movie character poster bears the tagline, “There’s only one Allan,” and the fact that he's the only Allan in a world of Kens and Barbies is incredibly confusing — especially for Allan himself. Cera got his start with the role of George Michael Bluth in Arrested Development. He went on to play film roles like Evan in Superbad, Paulie Bleeker in Juno, the eponymous character in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, and a fictionalized version of himself in This is the End. Cera has also appeared in three Kenneth Lonergan plays on Broadway: This is Our Youth, The Waverly Gallery, and Lobby Hero, which earned him a Tony nomination.
Will Ferrell joins the Barbie cast the CEO of the toy company that produces Barbies and Ken dolls. Ferrell's character is something of a villain in the movie as he wants to capture Barbie when she appears in the real world, although by the finale his motives are revealed to be somewhat more nuanced (even though his character's personality is still completely ridiculous in almost every conceivable way). Ferrell was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2002 and has since played lead roles in movies like Buddy in Elf and Frank “The Tank” in Old School. In addition to playing the title characters in Anchorman and Talladega Nights, Ferrell also co-wrote their scripts with director Adam McKay. Ferrell voiced the title character in Megamind and the villainous Lord Business in The Lego Movie franchise.
Emerald Fennell's Barbie character is Midge, a controversial doll Mattel discontinued that was of Barbie's pregnant best friend. Fennell previously played Mrs. Smythe-Willard in Albert Nobbs, Princess Merkalova in the 2012 adaptation of Anna Karenina, and Elsa in The Danish Girl. She also played Camilla Parker Bowles in The Crown seasons 3 and 4. In addition to her acting work, Emerald Fennell is a formidable talent behind the camera. She received two Emmy nominations as the showrunner for Killing Eve season 2 and won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for her acclaimed thriller Promising Young Woman, which she also directed.
Dua Lipa joins the Barbie cast as Mermaid Barbie. As a musician, Lipa has earned six Brit Awards, three Grammy Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, and two Guinness World Records. With more than 10 billion listens each, her records Dua Lipa and Future Nostalgia are the most-streamed albums by any female artist on Spotify. Her 2018 single “One Kiss” topped the music charts in the UK. Lipa’s role in the Barbie cast marks her acting debut, although she has previously appeared as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live.
Issa Rae plays President Barbie in the Barbie cast, the leader of Barbieland. Actress Issa Rae first gained recognition with her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl. This led to her co-creating, co-writing, and starring in her own HBO series, Insecure, for which she received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. On the big screen, Rae played April Ofrah in The Hate U Give and Mae Morton in The Photograph, and she voices Jessica Drew a.k.a. Spider-Woman in the animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. She also starred in the Netflix rom-com The Lovebirds as Leilani Brooks.
Rhea Perlman plays Ruth Handler in the Barbie cast, a role that was kept relatively quiet prior to the release date. Ruth Handler is the inventor of Barbie. Robbie's Barbie gets some sage advice from Handler toward the end of the Barbie movie, permanently changing her character for the better. Pearlman is best known for her iconic role as the tough-talking Carla on the long-running sitcom Cheers. She's had a number of memorable TV appearances and movie roles, playing Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda, Honey in Canadian Bacon, and Sally in I'll See You in My Dreams. She will soon appear in the short film Bloom as Ma.
Connor Swindells plays Aaron Dinkens in the Barbie cast. Aaron is a lowly intern at the Mattel toy company, but is the one initially informed that Barbie and Ken have made it into the real world. Swindells is a relatively new face in the industry, first appearing on the screen in an episode of Harlots as Mostyn. He moved on to have a variety of roles in TV and film, including playing Donald in the action film The Vanishing, Robert Martin in the Anya Taylor-Joy-led Jane Austen adaptation Emma., and Hadlow in the TV show Vigil. However, Swindells is probably best known for portraying Adam Groff in Sex Education. He most recently played David Stirling in Rogue Heroes.
John Cena joins the Barbie cast as Merman Ken. Cena's casting in Barbie was a spur-of-the-moment addition as he ran into Margot Robbie during filming, and she recruited him into the movie for a noteworthy cameo as the ukelele-playing Merman Ken. Following his popular career in professional wrestling, Cena has started an impressive acting career showing his funny side in Trainwreck and Blockers before launching into the superhero genre with The Suicide Squad and headlining the spinoff series Peacemaker.
Helen Mirren joins the Barbie cast as the narrator. Mirren's polished and impeccably enunciated vocals give elegance and gravitas to Barbie — a juxtaposition with the bombastic premise and visuals that works on a number of levels. Mirren won an Oscar for her role in The Queen while receiving three other nominations so far in her amazing career. She has starred in the likes of The Long Good Friday, Gosford Park, Excalibur. Recently she appeared in the series 1923 and the sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods while continuing her role as Queenie in the Fast and Furious franchise.
Kate McKinnon plays Weird Barbie in the Barbie cast, although her version of the near-perfect doll is noticeably different from the others. With a messy haircut and paint all over her face, she looks like the kind of Barbie a toddler might have gotten their hands on, the product of being "played with too hard". Her oddball persona makes her an ideal advisor to Robbie's Barbie when she experiences an existential crisis, and while she's banished from Barbieland she's also the Barbie all the others go to see when they suffer from imperfections. McKinnon gained fame as a cast member on SNL before joining movies like Ghostbusters, Rough Night, and Office Christmas Party.
Simu Liu plays another Ken in the Barbie cast, and his iteration is something of a rival of Gosling's Ken. Along with flirting with Barbie in the Barbie movie, Liu's Ken challenges Gosling to a "beach off" before showing off his dance moves. Gosling's Ken sees Simu Liu's as his love-rival for Stereotypical Barbie's affection, even though in truth Barbe isn't interested in either romantically. Liu got his break on the Canadian sitcom Kim's Convenience but is best known for his role as the titular superhero in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Liu most certainly has a bright future in the MCU as Shang-Chi.
Ncuti Gatwa's Barbie character is another Ken. Gatwa is one of a few Sex Education cast members who have joined the Barbie ensemble. However, as Gatwa prepares to depart that popular Netflix series, he has his next role lined up as the Fifteenth Doctor in Doctor Who. Ncuti Gatwa is fast proving himself to be a breakout star, and his place on the Barbie cast prior to becoming the next face of Doctor Who means that 2023 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for him.
Emma Mackey as Physicist Barbie: Emma Mackey joins the Barbie cast as a physicist variation of Barbie. Mackey is known as Maeve Wiley on Sex Education and Jackie de Bellefort in Death on the Nile, and she also played Emily Brontë in the fictionalized early-life biopic Emily.
Alexandra Shipp as Writer Barbie: Alexandra Shipp joins the Barbie cast as a writer variation of the eponymous doll. Shipp previously played Susan Wilson in tick, tick... BOOM!, Abby Suso in Love, Simon, and young Storm in the X-Men franchise.
Ana Cruz Kayne as Judge Barbie: A judge version of Barbie in the Barbie cast is played by Ana Cruz Kayne, who played Heather in Jerry & Marge Go Large and previously worked with Greta Gerwig when she played the minor role of Olivia in Little Women.
Ritu Arya as Journalist Barbie: Ritu Arya plays a journalist Barbie in the Barbie cast. Arya received a British Soap Award nomination for her role as Dr. Megan Sharma in the soap opera Doctors and went on to play Lila Pitts in the Netflix superhero series The Umbrella Academy.
Nicola Coughlan as Diplomat Barbie: A diplomat variation of Barbie is played by Nicola Coughlan, who is best known for playing Clare Devlin in Derry Girls and Penelope Featherington in Bridgerton.
Hari Nef as Doctor Barbie: Hari Nef plays a doctor version of Barbie in the Barbie cast. Nef got her breakthrough role as Gittel in Transparent. As a model, she has worked for Hood By Air and Eckhaus Latta.
Sharon Rooney as Lawyer Barbie: A lawyer version of Barbie is played by Sharon Rooney in the Barbie cast, who previously played Rae Earl in My Mad Fat Diary and Miss Atlantis in Disney’s live-action remake of Dumbo.
Scott Evans as a Ken: Scott Evans plays a different version of Ken. The younger brother of Chris Evans, Scott Evans is known for playing police officer Oliver Fish on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live.
Kingsley Ben-Adir as Ken: A different variation of the Ken doll is played by Kingsley Ben-Adir. The actor played Karim Washington in The OA season 2, Col. Ben Younger in Peaky Blinders seasons 4 and 5, and Malcolm X in One Night in Miami.
Jamie Demetriou as a Mattel Employee: Demetriou, who plays an employee at the titular toy company in the Barbie cast, is best known as “Bus Rodent” from Fleabag and for creating, co-writing, and starring in the sitcom Stath Lets Flats.
Marisa Abela as Teen Talk Barbie: Marisa Abela plays Teen Talk Barbie in the Barbie cast. Abela previously played Yasmin Kara-Hanani in the HBO series Industry and has been cast as Amy Winehouse in the biopic Back to Black.
Movie Plot:
In the realm of Barbie Land, there are different Barbies and various Kens (Ryan Gosling, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa, and so on), as well as Allan (Michael Cera) and a pregnant doll named Midge (Emerald Fennell). Issa Rae plays President Barbie; Emma Mackey plays Physicist Barbie; Hari Nef plays Doctor Barbie; Alexandra Shipp plays Writer Barbie; Nicola Coughlan plays Diplomat Barbie; Ritu Arya plays Journalist Barbie; and Dua Lipa plays Mermaid Barbie. The Kens live ward on their connections to their Barbies. The fundamental Barbie (Margot Robbie) approaches her day partaking in her life in Barbie Land with her Ken (Ryan) and with her fellow Barbies. Ryan-Ken has a rivalry with Simu-Ken and they threaten to “beach off” one another. The Barbies and Kens all have a dance party to celebrate how extraordinary life in Barbie Land is, until Margot-Barbie remarks on in the event that anybody contemplates kicking the bucket, totally killing the energy.
Later on, Barbie begins to see unusual things happening in her life, including her heels currently contacting the ground and her skin having cellulite. She is instructed by the other ladies to visit Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon), who has splits and has had her hair cut. She clarifies for Barbie that there may be a going thing on in reality with the young lady who plays with her, and she should embark to figure out what is the deal with her. Barbie drives right out of Barbie Land, joined by a stowaway Ken.
After Barbie punches a man who smacks her butt when they reach the real world (Venice Beach), Ken and Barbie run into trouble. After they escape prison, Barbie goes off to try and find her owner. Barbie pauses for a minute to sit on a seat and see dreams of a young lady cheerfully playing with her, until the young lady winds up turning out to be less blissful, making Barbie shed tears. She then, at that point, focuses on her side and sees an elderly person (Ann Roth) sitting close to her. Barbie tells her she is beautiful, and the lady says she knows.
In view of her dreams, Barbie is coordinated to a center school young lady named Sasha (Arianna Greenblatt), who says she no longer plays with Barbies since they incorporate unrealistic beauty standards. Meanwhile, after Barbie and Ken split off, Ken ends up learning about the patriarchy, seeing it as something positive.
Barbie winds up at Mattel, the company that makes Barbies. The President (Will Ferrell) learns of her presence in reality, which is heard by a worker named Gloria (America Ferrera), who is likewise Sasha's mom. Barbie winds up in the meeting room of representatives, and the Chief attempts to persuade her to return into a daily existence size box to fix everything. agrees before changing her mind and making a run for it. Gloria finds Barbie, who is being pursued by the CEO and his subordinates, after she picks up Sasha. Barbie then discovers that Gloria is responsible for her current existential crisis due to Sasha being more moody around her lately. Barbie guides Gloria and Sasha back to Barbie Land, while the folks from Mattel attempt to figure out how to find her.
At the point when the three show up in Barbie Land, they find that Ken has brought the patriarchy there, renaming the spot "Kendom" and has now taught different Kens into acting all the more disagreeably and the sky is the limit from there "brother" like, making the remainder of the Barbies become more subservient to them. This extends to the real world, where the "Mojo Dojo Casa House," Ken's transformation into Barbie's ideal home, begins to sell well. While Barbie tries to appeal to Ken and get him to change his mind, he declines since he presently feels more esteemed than he did going to the real world with her. Barbie becomes discouraged and feels she is no longer perfect as she was made to be. When she tells Gloria and Sasha to go home, they take her car and leave her. A business for "Depressed Barbie" plays before Odd Barbie comes to get her friend.
On their way out of Barbie Land, Gloria and Sasha are frightened to find Allan has hid away with them since he is now tired of the Kens having dominated. A group of Kens are building a wall (very poorly) to stop anyone from getting in or out of Barbie Land, and Allan begins to fight them all by himself. Sasha then concludes they ought to return to Barbie Land and help Barbie on the grounds that Gloria thinks often about her, and Sasha support for her mom's thoughts.
Gloria and Sasha return to find Barbie in Weird Barbie’s dream house, alongside some discontinued Barbies and Kens. Gloria converses with Barbie, who is as yet depressed, and gives an energetic discourse about the principles ladies need to manage in reality. This helps wake up Barbie from her funk, as a portion of the other Barbies likewise wake up and devise an arrangement to get the Kens to adjust their perspectives.
Each Barbie attempts to engage their Kens' self images prior to leaping to different Kens to make them envious and battle one another, coming full circle in a dance-off and Ken's genuine "I'm Simply Ken" ditty. Ken goes to Barbie and concedes that he believes he is characterized by his relationship to her, as it's "Barbie AND Ken", and not "just Ken". Barbie apologizes for causing him to have that impression, yet she likewise doesn't have any desire to be known as only his sweetheart in Barbie Land. When the Mattel guys arrive in Barbie Land, the spirit of Barbie's creator, Ruth Handler (Rhea Perlman), appears to speak to them. Ruth lets Barbie know that while people could have an end, her story doesn't need to. She holds her hand and encourages her to choose her own path. Before making her decision, Barbie closes her eyes and imagines other mothers and women.
Later on, Barbie rejoins Gloria and Sasha in reality, presently going by the name Barbara Handler. The two drop her off at abuilding, where she tries to make an appointment to see a gynecologist.
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