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Barney is a 2022 American live action musical comedy drama theatrical film based on the children's television series Barney & Friends. The film was written by Lee Sung Jin, directed by Daniel Kaluuya, along with Amandla Crichlow, Rowan Riley and David Carrico, produced by Sherly Leach and Mattel Films and released by Annapurna Pictures on February 14th, 2022 at GTC Valdosta Cinemas and worldwide on March 23, 2022 in the United States and on Peacock to celebrate Barney's 30th Anniversary.

The film received positive reviews and was a box office hit, grossing $145 million dollars against a budget of $16 million. This is the first film to be produced by Mattel Entertainment and Mattel Films.

Plot
Barney was a ubiquitous figure in many of our childhoods, then he disappeared into the shadows, left misunderstood… We’re excited to explore this compelling modern-day hero and see if his message of ‘I love you, you love me’ can stand the test of time.

Cast

 * Barney (voiced by Bob West & played by Carey Stinton) - A two hundred million year, six-foot (sometimes seven-foot), tall purple Tyrannosaurus-Rex with a green tummy and green spots on his back and his tail and yellow toes. He started out as a doll and then comes to life through Felicity wishing she has a friend to play with until the end.
 * Baby Bop (voiced by Julie Johnson & played by Jeff Ayers) - A three-year-old bright green Triceratops. wears a pink bow and pink ballet slippers and carries a yellow security blanket, calling it her "blankey". She is also the younger sister of BJ.
 * BJ (voiced by Patty Wirtz & played by Jeff Brooks) - A seven-year-old yellow Protoceratops who is the older brother of Baby Bop. He wears a red baseball cap and red sneakers.
 * Hayden Horn as Felicity (Lizzy for short) - A little girl with red hair, blue eyes, and a dimple on her right cheek who lived in an orphanage for most of her life until the age of four and is not able to make any friends. After she got adopted by her new family, she still felt like an outsider. Her older brother, Aiden, and sister, Mia, don't pay any attention to her as they're busy with their activities (her older sister with her boyfriend and her older brother with sports) and her new parents were too busy with work to notice her. It seems like the love and imagination had completely disappeared from the family, except from Felicity. On her first night in her new home, she made a wish on a shooting star for a friend that would always stay with her until the end. She a wears a pink shirt with a light pink collar and linings on the sleeve and pink buttons, a white skirt with blue polka dots and a light green button in the middle, dark beige socks, yellow shoes with pale orange bottoms, a dark red hair bow on her hair.
 * Jules LeBlanc as Mia Jane Larmer (Mia for short) - A 17-year-old teenager with black hair and green eyes. She wears a white crop-top like shirt, navy blue shorts, grey socks, and lavender and white Van's shoes. She also has hot pink eye liner, red lipstick, purple earrings, and has a nose ring. Covered up is a purple butterfly tattoo with two blue spots on the top of its wings. She is into a few things: her boyfriend Jared, her phone, social media, shopping, and her friends. Other than that, she doesn't care about anyone or anything else seeing that she's self-centered. She's always sneaking off on dates with her friends or boyfriend (much to her parents dismay) and takes so much time into doing her make up in order to keep up her reputation as one of the popular girls in school. She also loves going to the mall to shop till she drops. At sixteen, she got a nose ring and as a pre-graduation present for herself, she got a butterfly tattoo on her right shoulder without her parents permission and has to hide it order to not get grounded.
 * Julian Hilliard as Aiden Timothy Larmer (Aiden for short) - An 11-year-old boy with light brown hair, green eyes, freckles on his cheeks, and a gap between his teeth (Like Michael Strahan). His room is covered in sports trophies that he won in the past and with posters of sports heroes he admires. Every other weekend, he has sporting events and is known to break a window while playing in the backyard. Sometimes, when he comes home from school, he's either covered in dirt or banged up after a football game and is the captain of all the sports teams at his school. Aside from sports, he's also a video game master and spends his free time playing video games.
 * Selena Gomez as Ms. Larmer - The wife of Mr. Larmer and mother of Mia and Aiden who adopts Felicity.
 * Jack Black as Mr. Larmer - The husband of Ms. Larmer and father of Mia and Aiden who adopts Felicity.

Songs

 * Barney Theme Song (presented on TV)
 * Imagine
 * If You're Happy and You Know It
 * Do Your Ears Hang Low
 * Rainbows Follow the Rain
 * You Can Do Anything
 * Just Imagine
 * Everyone is Special
 * I Love You

Credits

 * Barney Theme Song (2022 Remix)
 * Someone to Love You Forever

Development
In October 2019, it was announced that Kaluuya was to produce a feature film based on the children's television show Barney & Friends through his newly formed production company 59%, alongside Mattel Films. According to Kaluuya, the Barney film would "surprise audiences and subvert expectations." The film was also rumored to have Selena Gomez to star in the film

Reception
The film received positive reviews and was a box office hit, grossing $58 million against a budget of $2 million in a single year. It proved to be better than "Barney's Great Adventure".

Trivia

 * This marks as Barney the loveable, purple dinosaur's second feature-length film.
 * The Barney movie will have no connection to Barney's Great Adventure which was a box office bomb and was rewarded 2 Raazie nominations for 'Best Worst Star'
 * The film was the second time that Bob West, the original voice of Barney, could be heard long after his retirement from voicing the character, the first being in A Day in the Park with Barney at Universal Studios Florida.
 * Some forgotten songs like You Can Do Anything, Imagine, Rainbows Follow the Rain, and Someone to Love You Forever are put in the film to celebrate Barney's 30th anniversary
 * It is the first Barney film to be rated PG-13.