Behold: The first teaser trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie
Margot Robbie makes her bold debut as the Mattel figure
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We’ve waited, dreamed, and prayed for this moment. Finally, the first true look at Greta Gerwig’s Barbie feature is here and gives a glorious introduction to the doll that changed the way little girls play forever.
In a play on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the teaser opens with a group of young girls living peacefully amongst their baby dolls. That is, until the monolithic Barbie comes down to Earth. With a smile and wink from Barbie (Margot Robbie), the girls turn on their now-outdated dolls, smashing them to bits.
The final few seconds of the teaser give a look at Barbie’s plastic and fantastic world, as well as the cast of characters we’ll see throughout the movie, played by Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Ncuti Gatwa, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and Simu Liu. From this bit alone, we see the unabashedly fun, glossy, and uber-pink world Gerwig brought to life for this film. In short, it looks really, really good. To think we ever doubted her!
Gerwig directed the film, based on the screenplay written by her and her partner Noah Baumbach. The film was stuck in development hell for eight years, changing stars and directors, before finally landing on the mumblecore filmmakers to lead the charge.
The teaser only offers a glimpse at the ensemble cast comprised of Will Ferrell, America Ferrera, Michael Cera, Kate McKinnon, Rhea Perlman, Emerald Fennell, Hari Nef, Sharon Rooney, Jamie Demetriou, Alexandra Shipp, Scott Evans, Emma Mackey, and Connor Swindells.
The teaser first showed in theaters yesterday ahead of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way Of Water, giving folks two excellent reasons to rush to the theaters. Barbie arrives in theaters on July 21, 2023.
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Behold! Lo, even! Lo AND behold!
Hark unto thee and fie upon those who talk of less!
I’ll fie upon whoever I feel like!
Sooth, the twain of us shan’t bandy twithering evermore.
…and never the Twain Shania meet!
Wynonna!
Gwyneth!
Chief?
TETSUUUUUUOOOOOOO?
Ru-fi-oooooh!
I totally read that in Snagglepuss’ voice.
well, of course.
All we need now is for Gerwig and Baumbach to produce the ultimate nepo-baby then they can make all the movies all by themselves without anyone else.Under the powers of Martian Law, I bid you…COPULATE!
Can you slide some of that Martian Law my way?I could use a good copulation or two today.
I dub thee: Sir Phobus, Knight of Mars, who’s authority extends from Olympus Mons to Tarsus.
Sparks, can The Kinja Caffeine Spider marry people?
Yes, anything, whatever!
+1 for Sealab 2021 ref. Which, ironically, was last year.
That show was very ahead of it time since Sparky has the AI Art Hands
SPARKIMUS PRIME!!!
Hey, the AI had to learn how to draw bad hands from someone. Although I bet it was mostly art by Rob Liefeld that is the cause.
Their second one is on its way.
Shhh you’re gonna summon the “nepotism doesn’t exist” guy.
“No no! The nepo is real! It’s female orgasm that’s the myth!”
He’s really working at starting that lawn mower
Thanks for describing the trailer. Saves me the time. Also, spoiler alerts for teaser trailers?
What?
I don’t think I’ll see this till it ends up streaming free for me. But holy moly, that really is a great trailer.
This looks to be going in exactly the direction I was hoping for.
Kinda the same. I was hoping their Kubrick references were pointed more towards A Clockwork Orange than 2001, but I’ll take what I can get.
The mainstream audience knows 2001 a lot better than they do A Clockwork Orange, largely because they (or their parents or grandparents) were stoned out of their minds the first time they saw it! I happen to think A Clockwork Orange is brilliant, but a large percentage of their potential audience (mainly women) are really fucking put off by the rape, the home invasion where he ended up killing a woman, and the presumed pedophilia.*Even if this weren’t the case, how did you see A Clockwork Orange fitting along a Barbie movie—unless you meant Klaus Barbie…?_____
* In the book Alex is a teen like the girls he picked up in the music shop, but Malcolm McDowell was 28 when he made the movie and, aside from a reference to the Korova Milk Bar not serving alcohol, there was nothing to suggest he wasn’t a man in his mid-late Twenties.
Well, she better not have nipples OR a vagina.#NotMyBarbie
Yikes.
Hey, you don’t know what Margot Robbie’s willing to do to prepare for a role.
Did you know that Barbie is actually based on a 1950s German doll called “Bild Lili”, in turn based on the character Lili, from a comic strip in the Bild tabloid newspaper? And the dolls weren’t initially marketed to children, but to men who liked the sexy character (a bit like those sexy anime figures you see in comic book shops, I guess)? I’m not sure about how realistic she was down below, but from pictures she had nipples, at least.
So who do I talk to about getting a Jucika film greenlit
I did, actually—and yeah, Bild Lili was not at all for the Barbie audience!
I have…no response to that.
What about knees?
God I hate 2001 parodies, just the sound of Also Sprach at this point sucks the comedy away. It’s the musical cue equivalent of a rubber chicken.
This looks even better than I hoped and the only disappointment is that they didn’t call Trixie Mattel for a cameo.
…that you know of.
I mean, she complained about not being asked on her podcast, so if she’s got that surprise in her back pocket, I admire her deflection.
Really though, even from this brief teaser I think this looks delightful!
Finally, a good movie. Cinema is back!
That landscape shot looks like a scene from Speed Racer.
It’s just brimming with Kenergy!
Take your damn star!
eh I feel like a star is worth a bit more, this is just AV article synergy.
correction: I think the comment “take your damn star” is worth more than an actual click of a star.
This is amazing.
I’m at work, so I watched it without sound a few times and was laughing quite a bit. I wish they had released it that way so the joke creeps up rather than Strauss then Mirren giving everything away so soon.
However it turns out, how cool is it to see an old-fashioned teaser-length TEASER?? Maybe the first official trailer will follow suit and not show every scene in the movie out of order.
It’s gonna be funny when the second trailer reveals that Margot Robbie is still doing her olive oyl-style american accent
the last few seconds look great, but are overshadowed by my “wtf” feeling about her feet at 00:29
Yeah, yeah, a Barbie movie lolololol. But it’s directed by Greta Gerwig and written by her and Noah Baumbach. Like, it’s going to be good.
I’m very excited by this, but I totally don’t understand what Mattel gets out of a Barbie movie that’s actually good.
Credibility.
Money.
looool this right here is the entire narrative of this film. I love it.
People not connecting Barbie with Aqua’s “Barbie Girl” any more…?
Little Women was so good that I trust her implicitly.
After all, it’s just a small step to little plastic women.
That’s Helen Mirren doing the narration, by the way.
YES
This is the song for the Barbie movie. The song is nominated for a 12 grammies and oscars jk lol
Wow, the Batgirl movie must have been REALLY out there.
A detail I saw pointed out on Twitter (and damn, we’re not gonna have that sorta resource soon, thanks Elon): The Barbie costume in the teaser is actually the design for the very first Barbie released. So that’s neat!
A “zebra” was one of the kills in the Dawn of Man sequence, which is also a nice reference.
Which I was given, back in 1961. Sadly, I don’t have her any more, but I have her Barbie-Q outfit.
I don’t know if the movie will be good but that is an incredibly good trailer.