Barbie

[emperor]

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...

Comments

[ptc24]

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.

[doseybat]

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.

[hooloovoo_42]

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.