{"id":26684,"date":"2023-07-18T14:32:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=26684"},"modified":"2023-07-18T14:32:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T18:32:17","slug":"christian-reviewers-warn-against-taking-children-to-see-barbie-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/07\/christian-reviewers-warn-against-taking-children-to-see-barbie-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"Christian Reviewers Warn Against Taking Children to See \u201cBarbie\u201d Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Greta Gerwig-helmed \u201cBarbie\u201d film, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as iconic toys Barbie and Ken, is set to be released July 21st. While Barbie and Ken have always been popular with children, parents are being cautioned that the upcoming movie is not appropriate for children. There is, first, to consider the <\/span>film\u2019s PG-13 rating<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for \u201csuggestive references and brief language.\u201d Christian movie review site, Movieguide, warned against taking children to see the film with an article entitled, \u201c<\/span>WARNING: Don\u2019t take your Daughter to Barbie.<\/span><\/a>\u201d The site warns that the movie \u201cforgets its core audience of families and children while catering to nostalgic adults and pushing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender character stories.\u201d A Movieguide staff member lamented that \u201cMillions of families would have turned out to the theaters and purchased tickets, but instead, Mattel chose to cater to a small percentage of the population which has proven over and over to abandon the box office. Movieguide\u00ae\u2019s 40 years of research indicate this just isn\u2019t true, and Mattel has made a grievous mistake.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The film features a bevy of actors who are part of the LGBTQ+ community. In an email to \u201c<\/span>Out,<\/span><\/a>\u201d Gerwig, who has been tapped to direct two new \u201cChronicles of Narnia films,\u201d stated the LGBTQ+ community was essential to the film. \u201cWe are opening the doors to the Barbie universe. There\u2019s no way we could have told this story without bringing in the LGBTQ+ community, and it was important for us to represent the diversity that Mattel has created with all of the different Barbies and Kens that exist today.\u201d Three actors were featured on the cover of \u201cOut\u201d as the \u201cLGBTQ+ Dolls of \u2018Barbie.\u2019\u201d Hari Nef is a transwoman, a biological man who identifies as female and is playing one of the iterations of Barbie, Doctor Barbie, in the Barbie Land universe of the movie. \u201cBarbies are Barbies, they\u2019re not human women. They\u2019re dolls. They don\u2019t have genitalia,\u201d Nef told \u201cOut.\u201d Nef does not play a \u201ctrans\u201d Barbie in the film but did state the inclusion was positive. \u201cAs much as there\u2019s a celebration of femininity and being a girl in this [movie], I think there\u2019s also an encouragement of letting go of the checklist we ascribe to living and living your life and being in your body your way, on your own terms,\u201d said Nef. \u201cThe best that we can do as women, as trans women, is be there for each other and take ourselves at face value, without relying on the green light from someone or anyone else.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Two other actors, Alexandria Shipp, and Scott Evans, brother to Chris Evans of \u201cCaptain America\u201d fame, also spoke to \u201cOut\u201d about their inclusion in the film. \u201cI think that that\u2019s what Barbie represents, a state of being where we can do and be anything. We can dress however we want to dress,\u201d said Shipp. \u201cIn this movie, you see people in Barbie World who are perfect\u2026everyone\u2019s just perfect. And then you see someone go through this existential crisis of learning about who they actually are and why they actually are,\u201d said Evans. The three actors are not the only members of the LGBTQ+ community in the film either, with actress Kate McKinnon, a lesbian, making an appearance. It is unclear what, if any, LGBTQ+ storylines are present in the film, as details of the actual plot are scarce, and its review embargo will not be lifted until <\/span>July 18th<\/span><\/a>. Speculation, however, abounds in the gay community, with many excitedly hoping that even\u00a0<\/span>Barbie herself will be gay<\/span><\/a>. As journalist Alex Berg wrote on\u00a0<\/span>Twitter<\/span><\/a>, \u201cThe Barbie movie trailer is so camp and gay, the film will be pure cinema or used as a torture device in the future. Either way, I\u2019m in.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greta Gerwig-helmed \u201cBarbie\u201d film, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as iconic toys Barbie and Ken, is set to be released July 21st. While Barbie and Ken have always been popular with children, parents are being cautioned that the upcoming movie is not appropriate for children. 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