The Barbie movie is an absolute box office juggernaut. It’s already the second highest-grossing movie of the year, both domestically and globally, and it’s also the second film of the year to cross the $1 billion mark at the global box office. At this point, one wonders if the only thing that might keep the film from being number one at the global box office is that it has been banned in some nations, and Algeria just added itself to that list.
Unlike Lebanon, which banned Barbie before the movie ever opened there, Algeria had actually been showing the film for several weeks. But the movie has reportedly now been banned by Algeria’s Culture Ministry. While Algerian news site 24H Algérie reported that the decision was made due to the film’s “damaging morals,” an “official source" told Reuters that the decision was made because Barbie….
