Boy, there’s really a ton of trailers dropping this week, huh? Normally Easter weekend isn’t the traditional kickoff of summer movie season, but we guess that’s just what happens when you finally roll out your Mario movie to thousands of eager children and, your actual target audience, nerds. It’s when you hope and pray that the Minions guys bring enough eyes out to their local multiplex that you can convince those otherwise opposed to check out something like… Barbie. Yep, Greta Gerwig’s big-budget translation of the toy line to the big screen has a brand-new trailer, and we’re digging the sort of LEGO Movie vibe here.
Take a look:
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You don’t really need a synopsis for a Barbie movie, really, but here’s the one-liner that Warner Bros. is rolling with:
“To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.”
But what you actually might need is the cast list, which, hoo boy, is long:
“From Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig (‘Little Women,’ ‘Lady Bird’) comes ‘Barbie,’ starring Oscar-nominees Margot Robbie (‘Bombshell,’ ‘I, Tonya’) and Ryan Gosling (‘La La Land,’ ‘Half Nelson’) as Barbie and Ken, alongside America Ferrera (‘End of Watch,’ the ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ films), Kate McKinnon (‘Bombshell,’ ‘Yesterday’), Michael Cera (‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,’ ‘Juno’), Ariana Greenblatt (‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ ‘65’), Issa Rae (‘The Photograph,’ ‘Insecure’), Rhea Perlman (‘I’ll See You in My Dreams,’ ‘Matilda’), and Will Ferrell (the ‘Anchorman’ films, ‘Talladega Nights’). The film also stars Ana Cruz Kayne (‘Little Women’), Emma Mackey (‘Emily,’ ‘Sex Education’), Hari Nef (‘Assassination Nation,’ ‘Transparent’), Alexandra Shipp (the ‘X-Men’ films), Kingsley Ben-Adir (‘One Night in Miami,’ ‘Peaky Blinders’), Simu Liu (‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’), Ncuti Gatwa (‘Sex Education’), Scott Evans (‘Grace and Frankie’), Jamie Demetriou (‘Cruella’), Connor Swindells (‘Sex Education,’ ‘Emma.’), Sharon Rooney (‘Dumbo,’ ‘Jerk’), Nicola Coughlan (‘Bridgerton,’ ‘Derry Girls’), Ritu Arya (‘The Umbrella Academy’), Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Dua Lipa and Oscar-winner Helen Mirren (‘The Queen’).”
Jesus. Anyway, Barbie will hit theaters on July 21, unless you’re overseas, where it’ll land on your shores two days earlier on July 19.