Barbie Movie Is Officially Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes

Come on Barbie, let’s… go to the movies! Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie is heading to theaters this week and the reviews for the film hit the Internet yesterday. ComicBook.com‘s Nicole Drum gave the film a 4.5 out of 5, and called it “insightful, hilarious, and packed with thoughtful commentary.” The film also has the most ticket presales since Avatar: Way of the Water was released last year, so it’s expected to do well at the box office. Barbie is currently up on Rotten Tomatoes with an 89% critics score, which means it is officially “Certified Fresh.” 

“Barbie Summer just got even better… #BarbieTheMovie is officially CERTIFIED FRESH! ✨ Get your tickets now, and see it in theaters THIS FRIDAY: Link in bio,” the official account for Barbie shared on Instagram. You can check out their post below:

Margot Robbie Talk’s Barbie’s Journey:

Recently, ComicBook.com had the chance to chat with Barbie star Margot Robbie about the film, and we asked her about taking on such a “mythical” character which led to Robbie comparing Barbie’s journey to “Buddha’s journey to enlightenment” and the book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. 

“It was very clear. Greta said right from one of our first conversations, she was like, ‘I think Barbie goes on the classic hero journey.’ Kind of like the Buddha’s journey to enlightenment, is the journey that Barbie should go on,” Robbie explained. 

“Which is, when you know Greta, you’re like, ‘Of course that’s what Greta’s take on Barbie would be,’ but anyone else would never say that in a million years, and as soon as she said it, I was like, ‘Wow.’ It’s weird. I was reading Hero with a Thousand Faces. A hundred faces? A thousand? You know that book? … James Campbell.”

“Anyways, it’s all of that,” Robbie added. “Yeah, it’s a book that has a lot to do with the hero’s journey, et cetera. But she started there and I realized like, ‘Oh, I haven’t really done this before.’ I haven’t played the lead character that many times. And when I have, it hasn’t necessarily been the classic hero journey before. So as far as the approach as an actor, I did the things I normally do when I prep for a character. But because it was this classic hero’s journey that I hadn’t really done before, it ended up being a lot of conversations with Greta about life and happiness and what it means to be alive and just big existential questions and I didn’t see that coming.”

What Is Barbie About?

In Barbie, to live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken. From Oscar-nominated writer/director Greta Gerwig comes Barbie, which hits theaters on July 21st. Barbie stars Oscar-nominees Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, alongside America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Michael Cera, Ariana Greenblatt, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Will Ferrell. The film also stars Ana Cruz Kayne, Emma Mackey, Hari Nef, Alexandra Shipp, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Simu Liu, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Jamie Demetriou, Connor Swindells, Sharon Rooney, Nicola Coughlan, Ritu Arya, Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Dua Lipa and Oscar-winner Helen Mirren. Gerwig directed Barbie from a screenplay by Gerwig & Oscar nominee Noah Baumbach, based on Barbie by Mattel.