‘Barbie’ Is Now on Streaming

Hi Barbie.

Given the truth that it was the #1 film of 2023 in theaters — grossing an unimaginable $1.4 billion worldwide — most of you studying this have in all probability already seen Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Maybe you noticed it greater than as soon as. Probably just a few of you noticed it upwards of 5 instances.

If you didn’t see it, otherwise you’re able to rewatch it for the sixth time, now you can do it at dwelling, or actually anyplace, supplied you could have the Max app. Starting right this moment, December 15, Barbie is on the market for streaming.

The movie stars Margot Robbie as that traditional iconic Barbie who lives in Barbieland (suppose big, life-size variations of the Barbie DreamHouse, and all the opposite Barbie play units) surrounded by many different Barbies, performed by the likes Issa Rae, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Kate McKinnon, and extra. And all the time hanging round them are the Kens: Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, and particularly Ryan Gosling as “Beach Ken” who has a critical inferiority advanced over the truth that “beach” isn’t even actually a job.

When Robbie’s Barbie is stricken with darkish ideas about demise and her mortality for the primary time, she has to journey to the “real” world to research what’s inflicting this unusual disturbance in Barbieland. (Ken invitations himself alongside.) She additionally attracts the eye of Mattel (the corporate that produces Barbie dolls, and produced this film) in addition to its blundering CEO (Will Ferrell).

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The timing is nice for a renewed wave of curiosity within the movie, as Barbie seems primed to attain a slew of Oscar nominations in early 2024. (It already has 9 Golden Globes nominations and 18 Critics Choice Awards nominations.) While Barbie didn’t make my private listing of the perfect films of 2023, I undoubtedly thought it was price watching. As I wrote in my evaluate…

It’s to Gerwig’s credit score that she managed to make a Barbie film accepted by Mattel that truly considers the ramifications of those questions, alongside subplots about feminism, patriarchy, and poisonous masculinity. This is a giant swing of a film, one which tries to deal with the large questions on Barbie, and to make use of them to say one thing about gender roles in society now. It is not only a lavish industrial for Barbie dolls.

Barbie is now accessible on Max.