Barbie

  This is the best day ever...Welcome to Barbie Land!

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.

Cast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Emma Mackey, Will Ferrell, Simi Liu, Michael Cera, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, and Ncuti Gatwa.

Director: Greta Gerwig.

Worldwide Box Office: $1.445 billion! (so far!)

Trivia: 

Barbie is 23% larger than everything in Barbieland to mimic the awkward, disproportionate scale that real Barbies and Barbie activity sets are produced in. This is why Barbie sometimes appears too large for things like her car or why ceilings seem to be too low in the Dreamhouses.

According to Ryan Gosling, he accepted the role of Ken after seeing his daughter's Ken doll lying face down in the mud next to a squished lemon. He then took a shot of the doll and lemon and sent it to Greta Gerwig, saying, "I shall be your Ken, his story must be told."

Barbieland was created almost entirely using practical effects and clever scenic design choices. The backgrounds are all hand-painted backdrops, and most locations like the Dreamhouses were real sets. The transition scenes between Barbieland and the real world were also practical, using old-school movie tricks to achieve the feeling of motion, such as crew members turning cranks to make waves move in the ocean.