The First Footage From 'Barbie' Is An Absolute Fever Dream

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Fans have been waiting desperately for footage ever since then, and they were finally rewarded on Friday, when Warner Bros. dropped a teaser for the film. The teaser is... really something. In lieu of giving away anything about the plot, the one-minute video harkens back to an earlier time period, when kids only played with baby dolls — until, boom, a monolith of a vintage Barbie doll appears. It’s all very 2001: A Space Odyssey. 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