We finally know exactly what the Barbie movie is about: Barbie and Ken go to the real world to find meaning in their lives. The new trailer for the summer movie dropped Thursday and gave us our best look yet at Margot Robbie as Barbie, Ryan Gosling as Ken, Will Ferrell as a manager at Mattel, and the many horrors the real world holds for two lifetimes. long toys.
The trailer begins just like the previous teaser, with Barbie and Ken walking through their dreamy and picture-perfect life in the pink-filled Barbie world. But when Robbie’s Barbie is struck by the realization of her own mortality out of the blue, she visits a crazy Barbie, played by Kate McKinnon, who sends her on a quest to discover the real world and what exists beyond her high-heeled kingdom . Of course Ken goes along.
From there, the trailer gives us all sorts of jokes about Barbie and Ken interacting with the real world, their fashion sense, their arrest, and their struggle to understand that it’s a world-famous toy that not everyone loves so much anymore. It also seems that their disappearance has caused some concern for Barbie manufacturer Mattel, who seem intent on ensuring that both Robbie and Gosling’s characters return to Barbie World immediately.
The Barbie film is set for release in theaters on July 21.