This isn't the first time Vietnam has banned a movie. In 2019, the Vietnamese government also pulled DreamWorks' animated film Abominable and in 2022 they banned Sony's action movie Uncharted - here's why.
The movie, which had been due to open in the country on 21 July, has been banned from domestic distribution over a scene featuring a map that showsThe U-shaped"nine-dash line" is used on Chinese maps to illustrate its claims over many areas of the South China Sea, including areas that Vietnam considers part of its continental shelf, where it has awarded oil concessions.
"We do not grant license for the American movie 'Barbie' to release in Vietnam because it contains the offending image of the nine-dash line," Vi Kien Thanh, head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films, told Tuoi Tre newspaper.Barbie is not the first film to face a ban in the country.
In 2021, Netflix also removed Pine Gap from its services in Vietnam following a complaint from the country's broadcast officials. Other shows and movies banned in the country according to IMDB include Family Guy, The Hunger Games, Full Metal Jacket and Platoon - among many others.
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