Barbie movie is the movie worth all the hype?

The famous Barbie fantasy movie, after it caused controversy before its release in 2023 since the appearance of its promotional trailer, which led to its being banned in some countries, especially Arab countries, and its release in America and European countries and achieving millions of revenues, to top the search engines at the time and until now, so we will shed light on it in this article.

Barbie movie story The story of the film revolves around a famous doll called Barbie who lives in Barbie Land, but decides to leave her own world because of her insistence on liberation and imperfection, so the events start and follow with many adventures that she will fall into when she arrives in the real and true world, after that she hopes to prove what she has achieved in restoring her real beauty and heads towards returning to her homeland, but what will happen?

Exciting movie events The events of the Barbie movie begin with the official stereotypical world of Dima Al Wardiah Barbie inside her life with her group of friends in the world of Barbie Land, in which girls and women enjoy freedom, self-confidence and self-reliance.

While events continue around the arrival of some males to participate in the entertainment life engagement due to all the activities and positions of doctors, engineers, lawyers and celebrities.

Barbie develops an emotional connection with Ken, who wants to deepen the relationship, but she rejects him in order to maintain her feminine independence.

During one of the parties held in Baland, Barbie is surprised that she is unable to stand on her feet and that she has become flat and fat with cellulite.

To be rejected, she decides to seek treatment, and the basis of treatment is for her to travel and transform into the real world, to find herself with children playing with her.

Meanwhile, she discovers that Ken is watching her from her car and is forced to agree to let her in the real world.

But when they enter Venice Beach, they leave some strange behaviors to be arrested, and when the children play with their toys, including Barbie, and their parents deal with them, he notices the real and family lifestyle around the paternal and maternal role, to feel that he has respect, and on the contrary, Barbie feels sad because of what she finds of feminine treatment other than what she finds in her imaginary world.

They decide to return to the world of Barbie Land, and here Ken convinces the males of the role he saw and that they should take over the family's personal life affairs, while Barbie and her friends continue to play superficial roles, such as housewives.

At that time, Barbie refuses and tries to confront them, but she becomes depressed and has to devote her life to adjusting the affairs of her previous society’s system. The events unfold around each of their goals in a comedic, social fantasy framework, to discover what will happen in the end.

Barbie movie heroes The Barbie movie stars Ryan Gosling as Barbie's friend Ken, and Will Ferrell as Barbie, with Michael Cera, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Emma Mackey, and Alexandra Shipp joining them in the events and roles.

Barbie movie ending The events of the Barbie movie end with the Barbie doll becoming a normal human being and living in the real world with Ken and forming a happy family that is in line with the societal system, the role of the father and the role of the natural mother. They do that and Barbie begins a normal life to make an appointment with her gynecologist, about how to complete a normal marriage and have children.

Why was the movie Barbie banned from showing in some countries? Although the Barbie movie took us on a tour full of fantasy events and scenes of the world of games that are fun and influential in the lives of young children, especially girls who love the Barbie doll character, it had some reservations.

Some of them are at the level of critics and some are at the level of filmmakers in the Arab world.

Many Arab countries have moved to ban the film from being released and shown in cinemas due to the ideas it contains that turn society between the differences between the female world and the male world. It has also been said in statements by some officials that the world of Barbie Land is intended for children, especially girls. Why were ideas such as childbirth and the comparison between female power and male power introduced into societies? It is not suitable for family viewing and children.

But women's rights organizations had issued statements calling for the necessity of showing it to raise community awareness among girls about the positive health that the end of the film called for and emphasized, and that it is the right of art to express equality between women's and men's rights with consideration, and thus the film caused a lot of controversy.

Viewers' opinions As for the viewers' opinions about the Barbie movie, some liked the idea, especially the transformation of the Barbie character between two worlds, a fantasy world for her and a natural world, and her living a normal life between them. However, on the contrary, others criticized this transformation, saying that the idea is unusual, why is a human doll transformed, and that this is illogical, and why does the first world have freedom and feminine control, and the natural world has masculine control to compare between them, while the basic idea of the work is a light, comedic fantasy.

Barbie movie revenue Regarding the commercial success of the Barbie movie at the box office since its release in cinemas on July 21, 2023, it has lost about one billion, 212 million, and 583 thousand US dollars from all the countries in which it was shown.

In the midst of all this, we come to the end of our article about the Barbie movie, which gained wide fame in cinemas at the time of its showing, between supporters and opponents of the movie and its events, but the scenes of pink colors and designs remain stuck in the minds of some about it.