When Ruth is pouring tea for Barbie, she pours it, begins to hand her the cup and when the camera cuts away and back she is pouring it again and hands her the cup again.
While Gloria and Sasha are driving away from Barbieland and after the radio has changed to show Ken Radio with a blue background, in a cutaway shot shows the radio is pink again. In the next cutaway shot, the radio is back to blue.
When Gloria first sees Barbie at Weird Barbie's house, Barbie is lying face-down on the floor. Immediately after, when Gloria helps her sit up, Barbie is face up.
When Barbie brushes her teeth she is in front of a bubble bath, but there is no bathtub in her house, just a shower. The bubble bath is in another Barbie's house.
Barbie is still in the elevator when the Mattel CEO goes into the same elevator. This is noticeable by the wall color and the "only" sign matching in both.
Gloria drives a Chevrolet Blazer SS EV, yet during the car chase scene her electric vehicle makes conventional gas engine acceleration noises.
At 4:12 minutes, when the audience is meeting the Barbies in Barbie Land, two Barbies are seen playing chess, but the chess board is set up inappropriately. However the improper backwards set up of the chess board is obvious. It has been rotated 90 degrees; the square in the right corner should always be white. Unfortunately the chess board was incorrectly set up, so that the bottom-right square is dark (pink).
Barbie (Alexandra Shipp) has the dark (pink) chess pieces, and Alexandra Shipp plays "Writer Barbie".
Barbie (Hari Nef) has the white chess pieces, and Hari Nef plays "Dr. Barbie",
Unfortunately as a consequence, the dark (pink) queen and king, plus the white queen and king are all on the wrong starting squares. No one ever plays the game of chess with the bottom-right square as dark (pink), because then all the kings and queens would then be incorrectly placed on the wrong color starting squares. How to set up the pieces on a chess board: First set up the board so that the bottom-right square is white . . . Place a rook on each of your two corners . . . Place the knights next to the rooks . . . Place the bishops to the inside of the knights . . . Place the queen on the remaining, matching-color square . . .
Barbie (Alexandra Shipp) has the dark (pink) chess pieces, and Alexandra Shipp plays "Writer Barbie".
Barbie (Hari Nef) has the white chess pieces, and Hari Nef plays "Dr. Barbie",
Unfortunately as a consequence, the dark (pink) queen and king, plus the white queen and king are all on the wrong starting squares. No one ever plays the game of chess with the bottom-right square as dark (pink), because then all the kings and queens would then be incorrectly placed on the wrong color starting squares. How to set up the pieces on a chess board: First set up the board so that the bottom-right square is white . . . Place a rook on each of your two corners . . . Place the knights next to the rooks . . . Place the bishops to the inside of the knights . . . Place the queen on the remaining, matching-color square . . .
In the initial board room scene with Barbie, the Mattel CEO says "Every single one of these men love women." It should be "loves".
However, the CEO using poor English is not only perhaps intentional/realistic - not every character in a movie will have perfect grammar - but also allows for a double meaning.
However, the CEO using poor English is not only perhaps intentional/realistic - not every character in a movie will have perfect grammar - but also allows for a double meaning.
Though a good portion of the movie, Ken expresses wanting to have his relationship with Barbie be more than friends, and Barbie mentions at least once that she doesn't want that. But, earlier Ken asks about staying over, to which Barbie asks why, and Ken replies "because we're boyfriend and girlfriend."
However, it's made clear throughout the film that both are essentially sexless, and begin with no true understanding of what being "boyfriend and girlfriend" really means.
However, it's made clear throughout the film that both are essentially sexless, and begin with no true understanding of what being "boyfriend and girlfriend" really means.
During the chase scene, the driver's side mirror in Gloria's SUV has the typical "objects in mirror are closer than they appear" note, but that is never used on the driver's mirror, which is not curved.
When Ken plays demo on Yamaha keyboard, the music is the demo from the Casio MT-140 keyboard.
When the Barbies are announcing to the Kens that they've reinstated the Barbie constitution, Ariana Greenblatt (Sasha) raises her hands to her mouth too early when cheering and quickly fixes her mistake to cheer with the rest of the Barbies.
At around 1:41, Ruth Hadler says, "Nobody looks like Barbie", yet the face of the original Barbie was modeled after sculptor Anthony D. Bulone's then girlfriend and future wife, Lylis. As a contractor, he was paid $800 in 1957 to create the mold for the original doll.
However, the comment is not to be taken literally but metaphorically, Barbie being an impossible ideal. Also, the story of Barbie's creation is largely a fiction within the film itself; this is a narrative about a doll with sentience undergoing an existential crisis, not a documentary.
However, the comment is not to be taken literally but metaphorically, Barbie being an impossible ideal. Also, the story of Barbie's creation is largely a fiction within the film itself; this is a narrative about a doll with sentience undergoing an existential crisis, not a documentary.