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** Adding onto this, two of the main antagonists of the ''Bratz'' line were the Tweevils, a pair of AlphaBitch twins [[TakeThat who happened to have blonde hair and an obsession with the color pink]], even wearing outfits that were close to Barbie pink in tone. So depicting the Bratz girls as a mean girl posse isn't just a simple jab at the competition -- it's essentially LaserGuidedKarma for how the Bratz treated Barbie!
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* Barbie's ending of leaving Barbieland to live in the real world parallels the Abrahamic creation myth of the Fall of Adam and Eve. In the film, Barbieland is a GardenOfEden where Barbie is immortal and experiences no hardships but is also held in emotional and sexual stasis. While the Fall is often seen as a damning event, there are faiths that instead see it as a liberating one that allowed Adam and Eve to experience the ups and downs of mortality and experience sexuality (bearing children), something they could not do in the Garden of Eden. Barbie's choice to enter mortality in the real world thus mirrors the fate of Eve, who was tempted by the Devil to be cast out of the Garden, yet here she does so entirely willingly.
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* Barbie's ending of leaving Barbieland to live in the real world parallels the Abrahamic creation myth of the Fall of Adam and Eve. In the film, Barbieland is a GardenOfEden where Barbie is immortal and experiences no hardships but is also held in emotional and sexual stasis. While the Fall is often seen as a damning event, there are faiths that instead see it as a liberating one that allowed Adam and Eve to experience the ups and downs of mortality and experience sexuality (bearing children), something they could not do in the Garden of Eden. Barbie's choice to enter mortality in the real world thus mirrors the fate of Eve, who was tempted by the Devil to be cast out of the Garden, yet here she does so entirely willingly.independently.
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* There's an extra layer of genius in making Sasha's Barbie-hating GirlPosse a reference to ''Toys/{{Bratz}}'' if you know how the rivalry between the two franchises ultimately went down. When it first came out, ''Bratz'' initially got some praise saying it was superior to ''Barbie'', since it had more racial variation in its dolls and its stylized designs meant it couldn't be accused of promoting an unhealthy body image; however, (one) reason it ultimately floundered was because the ''Bratz'' characters had a far shallower pool of interests (largely centered around makeup and fashion) than the multi-talented Barbie. Similarly, Sasha and her friends all claim they're superior to Stereotypical Barbie and put her down, but quickly out themselves as having [[StrawFeminist incredibly shallow views on social issues]] in the process; meanwhile, even before her CharacterDevelopment, Barbie is able to point out that they're using the term "fascist" wrong, showcasing her depth compared to them.
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* The PlanetOfSteves aspect of Barbieland isn't just because of RuleOfFunny. Barbie and Ken may have other friends and relatives, there are times they're retired, or DemotedToExtra, but there are always be Barbies and Kens, and Mattel will often use the name "Barbie" and "Ken" for dolls regardless of if they look like the classic white, blond Barbie or Ken, such as the Fashionistas line.
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* The ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey'' parody that opens the film. ''2001'' is a sci-fi classic, widely regarded, but it's also considered a bit slow, pretentious, and "artsy." Even some die-hard sci-fi fans find it boring or incomprehensible. Parodying that film's opening scene, especially so well, is a pretty blatant telegraph to the audience that ''Barbie'' is going to be a smart movie, with lots of depth and complexity. Anyone on the fence about how good a Barbie movie could be is likely to be won over by that scene, the filmmakers demonstrating they're clever enough to open the film this way, and trusting their audience to be clever enough to get the joke. It can also be considered a sly wink to a portion of the audience: "Smart people, this movie is for you, too."
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* The ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey'' ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' parody that opens the film. ''2001'' is a sci-fi classic, widely regarded, but it's also considered a bit slow, pretentious, and "artsy." Even some die-hard sci-fi fans find it boring or incomprehensible. Parodying that film's opening scene, especially so well, is a pretty blatant telegraph to the audience that ''Barbie'' is going to be a smart movie, with lots of depth and complexity. Anyone on the fence about how good a Barbie movie could be is likely to be won over by that scene, the filmmakers demonstrating they're clever enough to open the film this way, and trusting their audience to be clever enough to get the joke. It can also be considered a sly wink to a portion of the audience: "Smart people, this movie is for you, too."
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* The ''Film/2001ASpaceOdyssey'' parody that opens the film. ''2001'' is a sci-fi classic, widely regarded, but it's also considered a bit slow, pretentious, and "artsy." Even some die-hard sci-fi fans find it boring or incomprehensible. Parodying that film's opening scene, especially so well, is a pretty blatant telegraph to the audience that ''Barbie'' is going to be a smart movie, with lots of depth and complexity. Anyone on the fence about how good a Barbie movie could be is likely to be won over by that scene, the filmmakers demonstrating they're clever enough to open the film this way, and trusting their audience to be clever enough to get the joke. It can also be considered a sly wink to a portion of the audience: "Smart people, this movie is for you, too."
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** Like Eve, Barbie gained knowledge of "good and evil," seeing the incredible beauty of the real world, but also its flaws and hardships. Early in the film, before she has knowledge, she tries to choose to just stay as she is, only for Weird Barbie to inform her the choice was an illusion and she ''had'' to go. At the end, with her knew knowledge, she ''can'' choose, and chooses the joy and hardship of reality over the static contentment of Barbieland.
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** It could also be seen as not {{Greed}}, but "keeping score." If something is wanted by a consumer base, they will buy it, and it will make money. "Ordinary Barbie" being confirmed as a definite moneymaker means there's a market for her, that there are ''a lot'' of people who would resonate with that doll and what she represents. Which means fulfilling the dreams of and inspiring little girls everywhere, which is what the CEO said he really wanted. That a lot of that money would find its way into the board member's salaries is just a bonus.
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** Also, when Barbie asks ''why'' Ken would want to stay over, and what they would do, he sheepishly admits that he doesn't know. Of course, there's [[SexyDiscretionShot one very obvious thing]] they might do. . . but neither Barbie nor Ken have genitals (though they are aware of them). So even if Barbie ''did'' let Ken sleep over, they wouldn't be able to "[[RelationshipUpgrade take their relationship to the next level]]" because, for them, there ''is'' no "next level." The relationships between Barbies and Kens is, ultimately, shallow and surface-level, with no foundation of compatibility to build on (the Kens are "with" their Barbies just because Ken A goes with Barbie A), and nothing to build towards. A kind of sneaky reinforcement of one of the main themes: Barbieland is "perfect" but only on the most superficial level; the real world has seriously deep flaws, but it's ''real'', and has depth and complexity.
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* Why does Barbie go to a gynecologist after [[spoiler:she becomes a human being]]? Because despite her long and varied career, this is the one thing she's ''never'' done (or needed to do before), due to her [[BarbieDollAnatomy lacking the requisite organs.]]
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** In spite of their sheltered existences, the Barbies aren't entirely ignorant of Real World concepts: in the opening sequence, we see a Barbie speak intelligently about corporate plutocracy, a concept that also shouldn't exist in Barbieland. It's possible Barbie knows the ''definition'' of fascism even though she's never experienced it. After all, she knew what a vagina was even though those don't exist in Barbieland either.
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* When Gloria goes on her rant about the difficulties of being a woman, the camera pans over to Sasha twice in two key moments: when she mentions the duality of a loving mother vs stop talking about your kids and when she says "Don't forget the system is rigged." Pay attention to Sasha's reactions to both moments:
** Sasha looks sad during the former moment because she realizes she is a part of the system that has led her own mother to think like that and therefore keep the patriarchy intact; pessimistic, hating feminine things, calling Barbie (the one thing that made her mom happy besides her and her father/Gloria's husband) a fascist. And she's probably realizing that Gloria must've been shamed by not just her, but total strangers because they were annoyed by the idea of a mother loving her child as much as Gloria loves Sasha.
** Her second look, she's much happier because she realizes she's not the only one angry at the patriarchy for constantly discrediting women and their femininity. Not only did Gloria break Barbie free from her BSOD with her speech, she also broke her daughter free from her borderline misogynistic way of thinking about women and Sasha gained a newfound respect for her mom.
** Sasha looks sad during the former moment because she realizes she is a part of the system that has led her own mother to think like that and therefore keep the patriarchy intact; pessimistic, hating feminine things, calling Barbie (the one thing that made her mom happy besides her and her father/Gloria's husband) a fascist. And she's probably realizing that Gloria must've been shamed by not just her, but total strangers because they were annoyed by the idea of a mother loving her child as much as Gloria loves Sasha.
** Her second look, she's much happier because she realizes she's not the only one angry at the patriarchy for constantly discrediting women and their femininity. Not only did Gloria break Barbie free from her BSOD with her speech, she also broke her daughter free from her borderline misogynistic way of thinking about women and Sasha gained a newfound respect for her mom.
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* The Mattel execs run aimlessly after Barbie and are almost thwarted by a turnstile they could have easily stepped over, while the CEO is hilariously [[CringeComedy awkward]] in every interaction with others. The joke is that the execs never ''leave'' the boardroom and are so out-of-touch with the rest of the world that they have no idea how to perform even basic tasks.
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* Several people both in the film and out question how Ken could overturn the entirety of Barbie society in the time it took Barbie, Gloria, and Sasha to travel from the Real World to Barbieland (Barbie says he did it in a day, though it seems at most a few hours). But this is Play Time, baby. Just as a little kid wouldn't have the patience for Ken to recover from his beach injuries (leaving Dr. Barbie to announce that he was cured in the time it took to read his chart), they wouldn't have the patience (or indeed, the necessary real-world understanding) to play out all the steps it would take to change the world from a feminist utopia to a frat-bro's paradise. Any contrivances [[HandWave just sort of happen]] in order to facilitate whatever scene a child feels like enacting, much as a child might announce that all their Kens are cowboys today without bothering to explain how they all got horses or why they all work at the same ranch.
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* The movie goes out of its way to stress that there's only one Allan, though Allan later states that other Allans have escaped undetected to the Real World, indicating the existence of other Allens. The reason for this contradiction might be that there are no ''variants'' of Allan:[[note]]An Allan variant ''was'' released in 2002, decades after the original was discontinued, as a counterpart to Pregnant Midge, but the movie does not include this Allan.[[/note]] unlike the Kens, there was never any Beach Allan or Tourist Allan. ''Every'' Allan is just Allan. (This sort of implies that multiple identical Allans exist or have existed in Barbieland. Like Allan says, he's confused about it, too.)
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*** As Weird Barbie introduces the other Misfit Barbies (and Kens)[[note]]and Allan[[/note]], there's another Misfit Barbie standing to one side who does not get introduced by name. You'd have to recognize her outfit to know that this is Teen Talk Barbie. A doll who was sidelined due to accusations of being a negative female stereotype is now in a world where the majority of Barbies have been reduced to negative female stereotypes. You'd think ''she'' might have a working knowledge of the patriarchy, though whether she'd be for it or against it is hard to say.
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* The other Barbies state that Weird Barbie was once "the most beautiful Barbie of all" before someone played with her too hard. Looking closely at the flashback scene, we see that she started life as the wildly popular Totally Hair Barbie, the best-selling Barbie variant in Mattel's history.
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* Allan saying that all the members of Music/{{NSYNC}} are [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Escaped Allans]] seems rather silly… until you realize that [[https://youtu.be/GQMlWwIXg3M?si=4P8SOA1C22XqnSjw one of the band’s most popular music videos]] shows them as dolls escaping a store!
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* Allan saying that all the members of Music/{{NSYNC}} are [[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy Escaped Allans]] seems rather silly… until you realize that [[https://youtu.be/GQMlWwIXg3M?si=4P8SOA1C22XqnSjw one of the band’s most popular music videos]] shows them as dolls escaping a store!
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* There's no way Gloria's the first person to ever involve more mature themes like aging or anxiety in her play sessions with Barbie, so why is she the only one to cause problems in Barbieland? Most likely, its because she works for Mattel, and thus has more influence over Barbieland than the average person.
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* There's no way Gloria's the first person to ever involve more mature themes like aging or anxiety in her play sessions with Barbie, so why is she the only one to cause problems in Barbieland? Most likely, its it’s because she works for Mattel, and thus has more influence over Barbieland than the average person.person.
** In addition, there's also Barbie's line while riding to Mattel with some executives, which [[RewatchBonus gains another meaning]] in light of the reveal:
--->'''Barbie:''' Mattel! Of course it was you that brought me here.
** In addition, there's also Barbie's line while riding to Mattel with some executives, which [[RewatchBonus gains another meaning]] in light of the reveal:
--->'''Barbie:''' Mattel! Of course it was you that brought me here.
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** Given how a lot of Barbie's "sadness" "not-Barbieness" comes from Gloria's dark designs of her leaking over; it's entirely possible she drew one or "Worried About Fascist Takeover" Barbie during Gloria's embittered phase.Barbie, and that's where it comes from. Still leads to Fridge Horror if Gloria was on the verge of more extreme beliefs due to her alienation from her daughter's [[SoapboxSadie rather harsh]] views of the world.
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** Given how a lot of Barbie's "sadness" comes from Gloria's dark designs of her leaking over; it's entirely possible she drew one or "Worried About Fascist Takeover" Barbie during Gloria's embittered phase.
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* After taking over Barbieland and turning it into Kendom, Ken admits that patriarchy lost its appeal for him after he learned it wasn't all about horses. Horses are ''matriarchal,'' with the head mare's mate acting as her second-in-command at best.
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* [[InUniverseFactoidFailure Beach Ken initially believes that horses are masculine animals that embody the ideal of patriarchy, even though they're actually matriarchal.]] A herd of wild horses is led by their oldest mare, who is the one to direct the herd's movements, guide it to food and water sources, and otherwise control its direction and routine. Stallions, on the other hand, have the role of breeding with the mares and defending the herd by fighting predators and rival stallions. This is actually in line with what the Kens do in Barbieland; they just try to date their respective Barbie, and fight each other in the end when the Barbies manage to turn the Kens against each other.
