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The latest teaser for Barbie is out and you want to take a look at it

By Wieke Veenboer | #!30Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:45 +0200+02:004530#30Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:45 +0200+02:00-12Europe/Amsterdam3030Europe/Amsterdam202330 05pm30pm-30Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:45 +0200+02:0012Europe/Amsterdam3030Europe/Amsterdam2023302023Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:45 +02000012004pmWednesday=9#!30Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:45 +0200+02:00Europe/Amsterdam4#04-05-2023#!30Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:45 +0200+02:004530#/30Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:45 +0200+02:00-12Europe/Amsterdam3030Europe/Amsterdam202330#!30Wed, 05 Apr 2023 12:00:45 +0200+02:00Europe/Amsterdam4#

I have rarely been this excited about a movie where I actually know so little about the story. We have been teased for quite some time (for my feeling, for years) with various photos of Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken, but that was about it. Yes, it is clear that it will revolve around Barbie (and Ken), but further? What they were going to do? The plot of the movie? No. Idea.

The new teaser has just been launched and it is already becoming a bit clearer to me, but I am still a bit confused.

It was a big surprise how many Barbies are participating; of course we have Margot Robbie, but also Emma Mackey, Kate McKinnon, and even Dua Lipa — the latter plays a mermaid Barbie. But Ken is not alone either: Ncuti Gatwa and Connor Swindells (both from Sex Education, so with Emma Mackey it actually becomes a mini-reunion) are also there, just like Simu Liu.

They all live in Barbie Land, where everything seems perfect at first glance. And honestly: it looks so cool. All those bright colors, delicious. One of the Kens, or the Ken for us: Ryan Gosling, is after the Barbie (Margot Robbie), although he doesn't really know what that means.

‘I thought I might stay over tonight,’ he asks Barbie, ‘because we’re girlfriend and boyfriend.’ When Barbie asks ‘to do what?!’ he says delightfully clueless: ‘I’m actually not sure.’ That seems to suggest that the movie portrays the lives of Barbies and Kens very much as we saw them as children. When I played with Barbies, she certainly didn’t go out to dinner or on vacation with Ken. They were just a couple, and what being a couple really meant, I didn’t know exactly either.

The first scene seems to hint at that already, when Barbie takes off her shoes and her feet remain in exactly the same position, as is the case with all Barbie dolls. Furthermore, the only thing we see in the trailer is that Barbie and Ken decide (with roller skates of course) to travel to the ‘real world.’.

We still have to wait a bit (the movie comes out on July 21), but I am seriously really looking forward to this. I guess this will also be a trip down memory lane for a lot of people, especially since they keep the perspective from the Barbies and Kens very childlike, and I think the movie doesn’t take itself too seriously. But well, it is directed by Greta Gerwig (Little Women), so did we expect anything bad from her?