GET READY FOR THE BARBIE MOVIE

Shot in early 2022 and releasing this summer is “Barbie”: a live-action Barbie movie set in – you guessed it – Barbieland.

There have been animated Barbie movies, before, 36 of them, to be exact. This will be the first live-action version, and you might be wondering, “What could be the plot of a live-action Barbie movie?”

Let me do the honors and tell you: Barbie gets expelled from Barbieland for being a less-than-perfect looking doll, so she sets off for the human world.

The film is directed by Greta Gerwig, who also directed “Little Women” that dropped in 2019 and “Lady Bird” in 2017. This will be her fourth turn as a director, having also acted, been a playwright and a worked as a screenwriter.

This Barbie movie stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, as the main Barbie and Ken in this story. In Barbieland, there are only Barbies and Kens, besides the creator of Barbie and Ken (so far as I can tell). The Barbies in the movie have several positions in the Barbieland society; for just a few examples, Issa Rae plays President Barbie, Shannon Rooney plays Lawyer Barbie, and Kate McKinnon appears as Weird Barbie. The Kens are cast as numbers: Scott Evans plays Ken No. 6, Simu Liu plays Ken No. 2, and so on.

Based on advanced descriptions, this movie may seem kind of cringe-looking – however, that might be the very reason to go see it.

Barbie is due to hit theaters on July 21.