Barbie trailer: Margot Robbie sings, dances, and has an existential crisis

Finally, we can say that the Barbie The movie revolves around Barbie and Ken searching for meaning in the real world. This new trailer of the movie was released on Thursday. It gives us the best glimpse yet at Margot Robertbie’s Barbie, Ryan Gosling’s Ken and Will Ferrell, an executive from Mattel.

As in the teaser, the trailer begins with Barbie and Ken strolling through the perfect world of pink Barbie. But when a realization of her own mortality hits Robbie’s Barbie out of the blue, she visits a kooky Barbie played by Kate McKinnon who sends her on a quest to discover the real world and what exists outside of her high-heeled kingdom. Ken, of course, tags along.

From there the trailer gives us all kinds of gags about Barbie and Ken dealing with the real world, their fashion sense, them getting arrested, and their difficulty understanding that they’re world-famous toys that not everyone is so keen on anymore. It also seems that their disappearance has caused some concern at Barbie manufacturer Mattel, which seems intent on making sure that both Robbie and Gosling’s characters return to Barbie World immediately.

It is important to note that the word “you” means “you”. Barbie Movie to be released on July 21, 2009