Barbie Has One Particularly Gratuitous Product Placement That's Hard To Miss

We get that the film often highlights how a good idea can be repackaged into something else once a corporation gets its hands on it. What might detract from that message, however, is having the one that's running the show hovering in the background while another gets welcomingly mocked. It just doesn't land as well as it should. Such a shoehorned bit of placement feels more suited to "Space Jam: A New Legacy," a film that's just as dependent on IP, but bares nowhere near the same smarts as Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie) and her buds.

With that said, perhaps there's more to this slightly blurred-out building than meets the eye. While it might feel like some corporate decision-making, adding the Warner Bros. Discovery building into this world could be setting up something that is just one of many things that audiences might not have anticipated for this thought-provoking picture wrapped in product placement. "Barbie" could end up with a sequel — and Warner Bros. Discovery could be the next target on Gerwig's list if her hopes for the future actually come to fruition. After all, it's a very big world out there and an even bigger Barbie Land if our crayon-sketched-out map is anything to go by.