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Movies that feel likeBarbie (2023)

Barbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.

If you loved Barbie, the closest films we have are Dogma (1999), About Endlessness (2019) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). All three share Barbie's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Serious Man (2009).

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Greta Gerwigwittyplayfulepicdreamlikedarkly funny
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Hulu

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Dogma
1999 · dir. Kevin Smith
🍅 72%★ 7.3fantasy · comedy · adventure

A candy-bright quest skewering a sacred institution

The difference: Scrappy 90s irreverence — profane, talky and far cruder

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven.

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About Endlessness
2019 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 95%★ 6.8drama · fantasy · comedyRent or buy

Deadpan absurdist tableaux about how strange being human is

The difference: Glacial Swedish art film — barely any plot pulse at all

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1998 · dir. Terry Gilliam
🍅 50%★ 7.4adventure · drama · comedy

Reality warped into gaudy hallucination, funny and unsettling at once

The difference: Corrosive and drug-addled, with no warmth to come home to

Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

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🍅 85%★ 6.6comedyPrime Video

Satire that weaponizes silliness against real-world absurdity

The difference: Hidden-camera cringe — real people, real discomfort

14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.

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Isn't It Romantic
2019 · dir. Todd Strauss-Schulson
🍅 70%★ 5.9comedy · fantasy · romance

Trapped inside a genre's clichés and mocking them from within

The difference: A modest studio rom-com — the satire pulls its punches

For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But after thwarting a mugger at a subway station only to be knocked out while fleeing, Natalie wakes up and discovers that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare—a romantic comedy—and she is the leading lady.

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Jungle Cruise
2021 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 62%★ 6.5fantasy · comedy · adventureDisney+

A shiny manufactured world played straight, with a wink to the audience

The difference: Old-fashioned adventure — spectacle instead of anything on its mind

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

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★ 6.3adventure · comedyNetflix

A cheerfully absurd romp with a satirical wink

The difference: Broad Swedish farce — the wit is sillier and shallower

Drinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man’s step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft drink company.

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Jumanji: The Next Level
2019 · dir. Jake Kasdan
🍅 71%★ 6.6adventure · comedy · fantasyHulu

Slapstick built on the gap between how you look and who you are

The difference: Broad sequel farce with no satirical point under the gags

As the gang return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored in order to escape the world’s most dangerous game.

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A Serious Man
2009 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 89%★ 7comedy · dramaPrime Video

The same mix in both: wit, then play

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Barbie does

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. He scrambles to find a semblance of meaning as he loses control of nearly every aspect of his life.

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Monster Hunt
2015 · dir. Raman Hui Shing-Ngai
🍅 68%★ 6.1comedy · fantasy · adventure

Epic and dreamlike in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the dark humor than Barbie

Young monster kids try to make peace between the world of humans and the world of the monsters.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975 · dir. Terry Jones
🍅 92%★ 8.2adventure · comedy · fantasyPrime VideoPeacock

Gleeful demolition of a beloved myth from inside the myth itself

The difference: Anarchic sketch comedy with no emotional payoff being built toward

King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".

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Ted
2012 · dir. Seth MacFarlane
🍅 68%★ 6.9comedy · fantasy

A beloved toy walking and talking, and the mess that follows

The difference: Raunchy hangout comedy with no existential ache under the jokes

John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear or his girlfriend, Lori.

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