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Barbie movie: Marketing was great, but film was a letdown

The packaging of the "Barbie" movie was more enticing than the lackluster content it contained. Despite a year-long marketing campaign and numerous promotional activities, the film turned out to be a disappointment.

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The narrator goes on to describe a utopia called Barbie Land, where diverse Barbies and Kens inhabit a matriarchal society with a Barbie president (Issa Rae) and an all-Barbie Supreme Court. They reside in Malibu DreamHouses, visit a cardboard beach, innocently flirt with Kens, and engage in slumber parties. If you anticipate encountering a multiverse of unique, strong-personality Barbies, you'd be better off browsing a toy store after a few martinis. The group members, portrayed by Hari Nef, Dua Lipa, Nicola Coughlan, Emma Mackey, and others, all behave similarly and disappointingly lack standout moments.