Just be aware: the dive is deep How many animated Barbie movies are there?Īs of this writing, Mattel has produced 42 animated Barbie films (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans are welcome to speculate on this). Fortunately for ineterested parties, Popverse has a handy watch guide for diving into the movies. If that sounds like a lot to watch, well, that's because it is.
Though the Margot Robbie-starring, Ryan Gosling-memefying flick will be Barbie's first live action cinematic offering with a full theatrical run, Mattel has been producing animated Barbie films for over two decades. The thing is, however, there's already a franchise of Barbie movies. Ahead of the July 21 theatrical debut of the Barbie movie, Variety approached director Greta Gerwig and asked 'Is the Barbie movie the start of a franchise?' Gerwig's response was to deflect, probably because there's no official answer to that, despite talks going on in creative circles.
