
He has five green spots on his back and three spots on his tail. He loves hugs.īarney is bright purple with a green tummy, eight green spots on his back and tail, and yellow fingers and toes. He never gets mad, but he will be patient and mature about certain aspects of life. He speaks as a voice of reason when they are mad or sad. He loves hugs.īarney is a loving, wise, caring, playful, and a kind father figure. He's good at singing, dancing, magic tricks, making his friends smile, and giving everyone hugs especially his friends. All rights reserved.Barney likes to play with his friends and to give them advice. If you hate Barbie this movie is for you.”īarney and Friends, which debuted in 1992 - and incidentally at one point starred a very young Selena Gomez - certainly has enough people in both of those camps.Ĭopyright © 2023, ABC Audio. Incidentally, the angsty angle is also a through line in another Mattel movie co-production, Greta Gerwig‘s upcoming Barbie, the trailer for which trumpeted, “If you love Barbie this movie is for you. McKeon says the “surreal” project shows toy company Mattel “is here to make art.”

Not that it’s R-rated, but it’ll focus on some of the trials and tribulations of being thirtysomething, growing up with Barney - just the level of disenchantment within the generation.” He says of the Mattel co-production, “It’s really a play for adults. The in-development movie, to which Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya is attached, will lean “into the millennial angst of the property rather than fine-tuning this for kids,” executive producer Kevin McKeon tells the New Yorker, comparing it to something that might come from the aforementioned films’ independent studio, A24. While an upcoming big-screen movie starring the purple dinosaur Barney might not exactly come to mind when thinking of heavy movies like Everything Everywhere All at Once or Uncut Gems, that’s apparently what its producers are going for.
