# Barbie - Teaser Trailer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies, toys-models\ **Created:** [December 16, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbie-teaser-trailer/976667 "2022-12-16T20:10:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbie-teaser-trailer/976667/181 "2024-03-22T20:18:02Z")
As a boy in the 1980s, I don’t want to admit to playing with Barbies. But I do have a sister, and she had Barbies, and I probably did play with them. At least when the two of us were playing together. I did get most of the references in the movie, and I did enjoy it. I think my favorite was Weird Barbie, because every girl I know really did have that one doll with the cut hair and crayon marks. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > What I didn’t know is that every referenced Barbie model in the film was real! Video back barbie, pregnant Midge, the dog that poops puppies…all real. I kind of assumed they were all real, even though I didn’t specifically remember them. Allan was the one I was skeptical of, but yes, he was a real toy, too. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbie-teaser-trailer/976667/182 "2024-03-22T21:12:40Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > What I didn’t know is that every referenced Barbie model in the film was real! Video back barbie, pregnant Midge, the dog that poops puppies…all real. Sugar Daddy Ken ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2024, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbie-teaser-trailer/976667/183 "2024-04-11T21:28:02Z")
Well damn, there was more of Proust Barbie cut from the film. While I understand the decision, I will eagerly await the Gerwig Cut to see it. > **[Lucy Boynton says Proust Barbie was cut from 'Barbie' because test audiences...](https://ew.com/lucy-boynton-proust-barbie-was-cut-from-barbie-8629888)** > > 'Bohemian Rhapsody' star Lucy Boynton says her Proust Barbie was cut from Greta Gerwig's 'Barbie' because test audiences didn't understand references to French novelist Marcel Proust: 'We are kind of losing touch with that history' ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbie-teaser-trailer/976667/184 "2024-04-27T22:03:46Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > As a boy in the 1980s, I don’t want to admit to playing with Barbies. But I do have a sister, and she had Barbies, and I probably did play with them. At least when the two of us were playing together. Same here. I just watched the movie on a plane and really enjoyed it. I understood most of the references just fine and I thought it was the perfect combination of comedy, satire, and existential musing, and I even got a little teary-eyed when Ruth was explaining to Barbie what becoming human would mean for her. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbie-teaser-trailer/976667/185 "2024-05-04T04:34:12Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > When she’s talking to Ruth, in the scene quoted above, it is subtle, but she breathes. It is at that point she became human. With genitalia. And all the other organs. And cellulite. And flat feet. It’s only a single second shot but we can see the physical change when she gets out of the car to go to the appointment. She’s wearing the Birkenstocks and they do not have a heel on them. So the process of becoming human erased all the Barbie differences. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barbie-teaser-trailer/976667.md?page=9)