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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 08:23pm on 11/04/2024 under , ,
Barbie lives a perfect life in Barbie world, which is ever so pink, and where the Kens exist to be decorative. Until she starts to experience interference from the Real World, and must go to investigate. The trailer has more spoilers than that...

This is an odd movie; it has some laugh-out-loud funny moments, too much cringe for me, and a plot that begs you not to look to hard at it. And what happened to the narrator for the middle two-thirds? I think it can't work out if it's a satire of Barbie, a homage to Barbie as a feminist icon, marketing for Barbie, or nostalgia for adults who remember when they played with Barbie; given some of its content and its 12 rating in the UK, it's really not aimed at kids who currently love Barbie.

The streaming platform I watched it on offered me Grave of the Fireflies as "watch next", which would have been quite a tonal shift...
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posted by [personal profile] ptc24 at 09:40am on 12/04/2024
How does Grave of the Fireflies compare with Oppenheimer, the film I watched afterwards?

Judging by the laughter at the cinema a lot went down well with a younger audience - it seems to be one of those "works on multiple levels" family films.
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 10:04am on 12/04/2024
I've not seen the latter, but I suspect it's not quite as grim...
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posted by [personal profile] doseybat at 06:58am on 14/04/2024
Grave of the Fireflies will make a greater proportion of the audience cry. Also about WWII, but less factual than Oppenheimer, and is not a biopic. Granted the audience for Barbie does now have more in common with Miyazaki/Ghibli.
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posted by [personal profile] doseybat at 06:53am on 14/04/2024
The bit that really did it for me was Slash (ex Guns and Roses with all the hair + teenage rock music nostalgia for me) supporting Ryan Gosling at the Oscars singing I'm Just Ken. That was awesome.
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posted by [personal profile] emperor at 01:41pm on 14/04/2024
I had not seen that, but now I have, and it was indeed pretty good (and very silly) :)
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posted by [personal profile] hooloovoo_42 at 03:18pm on 14/04/2024
Loved Barbie. The other people in the cinema when I saw it were several small females and their mothers. I think they were less impressed. Also, ai am too old and they were too young to get the Bratz references. My osteopath, beingbthe correct era, had to explain.
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posted by [personal profile] yrieithydd at 11:44pm on 21/04/2024
I went with people from church with very very low expectations and loved it. Found a lot of it hilarious and it sent up the things I dislike about Barbie. Eg the feet set for heels
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