Barbie is easily the comedy of the year. One of the funnest and funniest movies ever made, it’s also breezily outrageous, starting with a wicked pastiche of 2001: A Space Odyssey’s ‘Dawn of Man’ scene. By refusing to play safe, star and producer Margot Robbie, and writer-director Greta Gerwig, have done themselves proud.
The plot boils down to a mission. Barbie (Robbie), has an existential crisis and is forced to leave Barbieland (a sparkly place where cute girls run the world) to discover why her pretty little head has imploded.
