Barbie

A GREAT time! I didn’t feel like anything was done in poor taste or came off the wrong either. I went in hoping to have a fun time and that’s what I got. It’s very campy (maybe a little too campy at times) and very funny as well, but it’s an actually well-written screenplay with committed, entertaining performances. Robbie was exceptional, and Gosling was a delightful highlight. I do think it’s a tad too long, but I’m glad it exists and I’m glad so many watched this and felt seen. It’s Kenough!

Sacrifices greatness on the alter of palatability, which is inevitable when the best chance to reach mass audiences with a progressive message is through adaptation of a corporate product. The weirdness of this film is not weird enough to weird anyone out. Also, Barbie and Ken are jokes with cohesive arcs (which is good) while the real world characters are just jokes (which is bad), which means that the massive diatribe about gender is given by a lame character that I didn't care about.

I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to reconcile this well-balanced social and corporate commentary produced by the very corporations it lambasts, but maybe that’s part of the whole dreamlike allegory this film works within. Regardless, I saw this in a sold out theatre that was completely energized. The sharp and fast writing was an instant hit. Every joke landed. I had a blast.

Top satire. There's a couple of monologues that go kinda cringe and the moral signalling is more than a little preachy for a literal advert, but Ryan Gosling absolutely kills it in his performance as the lonely, unnoticed man who confronts the real world and realises that he is literally me. It's ironic that Ken is played so cool, and it gives the film so much more depth. Who is Ken? I wish the metaphors could have been edgier tho. Let me see Barbie and Ken fuck, but the studio wouldn't allow it

The (ugly) plasticity of Barbie Land is very well done, however the story is run-of-the-mill and flat, the humour mostly predictable, the characters and settings superficial and contradictory and the dialogues really bad. Of course it's a corporate ad, but the script is a cringe-worthy, facepalm-inducing collection of memes and slogans, a list of declarations and complaints, all presented in the most obvious, unsubtle, patronizing, crude way. For "Barbie" feminism is just another trendy product.