Minister Mohammad Mortada says the film was found to 'promote homosexuality and sexual transformation' and 'contradicts values of faith and morality' by diminishing the importance of the family unit.

'Barbie' faced off against director Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' in a box office battle dubbed 'Barbenheimer.'

Director Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer,' about the making of the atomic bomb, beat expectations with US$80.5 million at domestic theatres in a cinema battle dubbed 'Barbenheimer.'

'Barbie' is the latest movie to be banned in Vietnam for depicting China's nine-dash line, which was repudiated in an international arbitration ruling by a court in The Hague in 2016.