‘Black Barbie’ Review: Witty and Weighty Doc Dives Into the History of the 1980s Doll
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variety.comLisa Kennedy “I hate dolls,” writer-director Lagueria Davis states early in her debut documentary “Black Barbie.” By turns a celebration and an interrogation (sometime both simultaneously), the film delves into the history of the titular Black doll Mattel released in 1980.
That was 31 years after the first Barbie began her rise to becoming the most iconic, uncomfortably influential, doll in American history.
Davis makes a jam-packed argument that the road to Barbie diversity and inclusion has been long and marked by detours, intersections and, maybe a dead end or two.
Davis’ first-person, inflected journey — often witty, often weighty — will lead her to a reconsideration of her antipathy (which she attributed to being a tomboy).
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