"People hear Barbie and think, 'I know what that movie is going to be,'" Margot Robbie has said, "and then they hear that Greta Gerwig is writing and directing it, and they're like, 'Oh, well, maybe I don't...'"

The first teaser trailer for Gerwig's Barbie proved as much when, of all movies in the history of movies, it riffed on 2001: A Space Odyssey. Because, when you think of the Barbie doll, who doesn't instantly think of Stanley Kubrick's esoteric sci-fi masterpiece? A new trailer is similarly light on plot specifics but provides a better sense of what to expect from the pastel-hued motion picture, which stars Robbie as (a? the?) Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken. "To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken." Watch the trailer below.

Barbie is Gerwig's follow-up to 2019's Oscar-nominated Little Women and 2017's Oscar-nominated Lady Bird before that, directing from a screenplay she co-wrote with Noah Baumbach. Alongside the trailer, the studio released character posters revealing who in the cast is a Barbie and who's just a Ken.

Barbie arrives in theaters on July 21.

Margot Robbie as Barbie

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Kate McKinnon Is Also Barbie

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Issa Rae as President Barbie

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Dua Lipa as Mermaid Barbie

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Emma Mackey as Nobel Prize-Winning Barbie

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Ritu Arya as Pulitzer Prize-Winning Barbie

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Hari Nef as Doctor Barbie

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Alexandra Shipp as Author Barbie

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Nicola Coughlan as Diplomat Barbie

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Ana Cruz Kayne as Supreme Court Barbie

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Sharon Rooney as Lawyer Barbie

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Ryan Gosling as Ken

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Kingsley Ben-Adir as Another Ken

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Simu Liu as Another Ken

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Scott Evans as Another Ken

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Ncuti Gatwa as Another Ken

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Emerald Fennell as Midge

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Michael Cera as Allan

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America Ferrera Plays a Human

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Ariana Greenblatt Also Plays a Human

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Will Ferrell Is the CEO of Mattel

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Jamie Demetriou as a Mattel Suit

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Connor Swindells as a Mattel Intern (or Something)

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Helen Mirren as the Narrator

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