Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) wakes up everyday in a pink world with all the other Barbies who have all attained top societal roles as doctors, astronauts, the president etc all supported purely as accessories by a series of dumb Kens - including Ryan Gosling. Robbie's Barbie however starts thinking about things she shouldn't, including death, and seeks advice from Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) who says that someone in the real world is having these ideas and she must go there and sort things out, which she tries to, accompanied by Gosling.

Before I went to see this, I never really really understood what this was supposed to be about or what it was trying to say. Having now seen it and hopefully understood things a bit better there are elements that still confuse me a bit. Ok, the battle of the sexes is tackled very nicely with deft explanations around woman still clearly having a more difficult time in a modern world of supposed settled equality plus the distinction between reality and the need for fantasy is well played. However, whilst it appeared to make a lot of sense and told its tale well, I still left the cinema with a bit of a confused frown on my face as ultimately men and women still seem as bad as each other in their attempts to outdo each other - was that the idea? Still, I must say I thought it was on the whole fun and original film with 2 fine performances and Gerwig has cleverly brought the 2 worlds nicely together. I guess it really is a unique film and one I think I need to see again one day to check out everything I must have missed - most odd and clever rather than likeable.