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The first teaser trailer for Barbie is here. The clip, which hilariously spoofs Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, was shown for the first time ahead of showings of Avatar: The Way of Water and is now available to view online.
In a desert setting, the iconic main theme music for Kubrick's 1968 space epic plays. However, instead of apes crowded around an alien monolith, a little girl is awestruck by Margot Robbie's Barbie. Struck by the inferiority of her other dolls, the girl starts to hit them against the ground (echoing 2001's apes hitting each other with bones), before she throws one up towards the sky. Instead of transitioning into a shot of a satellite, like in Kubrick's movie, the screen instead fills with the Barbie logo.
Some eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that Robbie's get-up – a black and white striped swimsuit, white-framed sunglasses, heels, and curly blonde hair – is the same outfit as the original Barbie doll, which was released in 1959.
