Barbie: Dream Besties (2024)

Overview
Meet the Dream Besties: Barbie, Barbie, Teresa, Renee, Daisy, and Ken. They share their dreams, introduce their pets, and tour their awesome dream spaces.
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Overview
Meet the Dream Besties: Barbie, Barbie, Teresa, Renee, Daisy, and Ken. They share their dreams, introduce their pets, and tour their awesome dream spaces.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
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Primary
The film promotes mainstream liberal feminist themes of individual empowerment, diversity, and aspiration for girls; however, its focus on personal potential within a commercial framework avoids radical or systemic political critiques, leading to a left-leaning rating.
The series features intentional diversity in its main cast, including characters with varied racial backgrounds, body types, and the deliberate inclusion of a male character in a traditionally female-dominated lineup. The narrative focuses on positive themes of friendship and aspiration, aiming to reflect diverse identities without explicitly critiquing traditional ones.
Secondary
The 'Barbie: Dream Besties' series lacks documented explicit LGBTQ+ portrayals, focusing instead on friendship and empowerment. While the broader Barbie franchise has included diverse LGBTQ+ characters, specific information for this particular series indicates no identifiable depiction, leading to an N/A rating.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The series portrays all main characters, including Barbie and Ken, with their original canonical genders as established in the Barbie franchise, without any gender swaps.
The factual report does not indicate that any character canonically established as one race is visually portrayed on screen as a different race. While the series features diverse versions of Barbie and diverse voice actors, the on-screen depictions described do not confirm a race swap according to the provided definition.
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