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Barbie Movie Review
shizukaanderson101
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7/19/2023
Barbie Movie Review
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00:00
Yeah, clearly I'm the target audience of this film, so let's review it.
00:03
Barbie.
00:04
So Barbie stars Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, directed by Greta Gerwig, and it's...
00:14
based on Barbie.
00:16
Everything's going fine in Barbie land, things start to go awry,
00:19
and that adventure takes her and Ken into our world, she enters the real world, so it's a whole...
00:25
it's that, kind of.
00:26
I thought the beginning of this movie, like the first half hour, I thought it was...
00:29
it was interesting, if not visually compelling.
00:32
It did look like a Barbie world come to life, they have some fun
00:36
with some of the tropes of the Barbie world, some of the cliches.
00:39
Barbie land felt like an episode of Tales from the Trip, but not the scary ones, you know, the fun ones.
00:44
At first it's a little jarring, but you kind of do fall into it.
00:47
Now is Barbie a smash the patriarchy feminist film?
00:51
Yes it is, it's worth addressing, it's in the makeup of the film.
00:55
To its core, to the bone marrow of the film, reviewing Barbie and not even addressing that fact,
01:02
it's kind of like reviewing Oppenheimer and not even mentioning the bomb.
01:05
How is the movie good or bad?
01:07
Here's the thing, if you do what I do, if you review movies...
01:10
the dude next to me when the movie got over, he literally looked at me and he goes,
01:13
"Good luck reviewing that."
01:14
But I know something he doesn't know, there are ways you can preface,
01:18
bullet points, as it were, things you can say to soften the internet blows.
01:23
Things like, "Look, this movie wasn't made for me."
01:26
Or one that's derivative, "I'm obviously not the target audience for this."
01:29
A solid 7% of the time, those work 100% of the time.
01:34
All that said, how was the movie?
01:35
I was meh about it.
01:37
As much as the introduction I thought was nice and clever,
01:39
I thought, "Okay, we're going to get some pop culture movie references wrapped into a Barbie
01:43
package of sorts."
01:44
The first 20 minutes or so, it was actually falling into this whole Barbie land acid trip
01:50
fever dream that I was in.
01:52
By the end, the movie felt like it had too much going on in it.
01:55
Maybe it's because it really felt like it wanted to hammer home the message.
01:58
But the movie just felt too crowded.
01:59
You know, you have Will Ferrell and his crew of suits.
02:02
It would have been fine if it was one boardroom scene with them,
02:05
but they just kind of are dragged along to the end of the movie.
02:09
You forget about them, then it reminds you they're kind of trailing along.
02:13
You're like, "Oh yeah, them."
02:14
Then you forget about them again, then it'll show them again.
02:17
Just felt like the movie had reshoots and pickups,
02:19
so they were like, "We did not film enough with Will Ferrell.
02:21
Let's have a minute more."
02:23
But you already had enough going on in Barbie land.
02:25
You didn't need Will Ferrell in it that much.
02:28
And that's an example I'll use where the movie didn't know where the cartoon ended.
02:32
Like when you're in Barbie land, it kind of feels like a cartoon.
02:35
It feels surreal.
02:36
Then they get to the real world and it feels like the real world,
02:39
but Will Ferrell and his crew, when they're chasing after Barbie,
02:42
they feel like cartoons.
02:44
I know not in that way of cartoonish CEO and his cartoonish suits created Barbie land,
02:49
which is a cartoonish place, so it kind of makes sense.
02:51
No, it just feels totally uneven.
02:53
Margot Robbie was great as Barbie.
02:55
She's great in that way you know she's going to be great
02:57
from the announcement of Margot Robbie being live action Barbie.
03:01
I think we were all like, "That makes sense.
03:03
She is a live action Barbie."
03:05
But Ryan Gosling as Ken, he was a standout in here.
03:07
I was glad this movie got to show his comedic side.
03:10
We've seen his comedic side before, absolutely.
03:12
But he was perfect as this just...
03:15
Well, he was just Ken.
03:17
Then he was douche Ken and he makes all of it work.
03:19
The most I laughed in the movie was specifically when Ryan Gosling was doing stuff.
03:24
Rest of the time, crickets from me and the rest of the audience.
03:28
It's fun at times.
03:29
There's clearly talented direction and art direction behind the camera.
03:33
Also talent in front of the camera, but the cast is too packed.
03:36
Some characters feel like props, but you're dealing with dolls,
03:39
so maybe it's supposed to make sense like that.
03:41
There was a mother-daughter dynamic in here that worked by the end.
03:45
But I say by the end because the road to getting there was a bit of a grind
03:50
because the daughter was a really broody, grumpy, angry tween for most of the film.
03:55
But all in all, there were too many irons in the fire, too many characters to care about.
03:59
I don't necessarily even think alcohol is what you need,
04:02
but there's definitely something you can take that can aid in the experience.
04:06
- Yeah, now it's a party.
04:09
But this movie does hammer home the point of its message.
04:11
That message is a man should love the power to take over the world.
04:14
The moment he stops pathetically simping for that girl, he has no shot with.
04:18
Oh, that's not supposed to be the takeaway.
04:23
All right, so Barbie, have you seen it?
04:24
What did you think about it?
04:24
Whatever you thought, comment below, let me know.
04:26
And as always, if you like what you've seen here and you want to see more,
04:28
click right here to see more.
04:30
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