@@DaveRedskyAs an autistic woman, I hear it as "I prefer historical movies to fru-fru pink doll movies." I hope that makes sense! I myself like both. I have watched horror since childhood and I hated the color pink as a child as well and refused to wear it until my 30's.
I make the Barbie Tik Toks at Mattel. All the outfits are actual Barbie outfits and we couldn't believe the things Mattel let WB get away with lol which is a good thing
I read that Gerwig's tactic to get away with the maximum amount of truth without Mattel squashing her was to put so much objectionable material in the script that Mattel was forced to prioritize a few rules that were important for Gerwig to follow and let everything else go.
I had such fun with this movie. Yes they message is a bit heavy handed but unfortunately still needed, which is clear from many of the comments here. Ken's song is just sooo catchy I can't get it out of my head.
the messaging was not only messed up but poorly delivered... there was nothing subtle or clever about it. the best message delivery is always done in a smart way not a sledgehammer in fairness tho the acting was superb, the sets and costumes great and at times the jokes were funny
@@Yggdrasil42 no that only works in a movie trying to be deliberately flippant like team America world police for example. barbie wasn't trying to flippant it was trying to act like it had a real serious message but then using a sledgehammer and saying look at me Well lots of things were messed... the women throwing away their baby dolls and idolising the materialistic barbie... a symbolism for career/independence > motherhood. or how about the idea that if women ruled the world it would a paradise utopia and men would be useless without purpose? oh and how about men in societies with the power only being tyrannical and using women as slaves and doing nothing for them? not only historically inaccurate but what awful messages to give to young ppl. and that's only a couple of messages within the movie there are few positive ish things to take from the movie as well but overall the messaging and tone is a pretty bad one for young ppl today. it's everything wrong with modern day feminism and will only divide and make ppl more miserable
@vkdeen7570 you misread all the points. 1st of all there is nothing wrong with women having careers. Or being mothers. The whole point there was everyone having the ability to write your own ending. Also, barbie land was an exteme mirror to the real world. It wasn't perfect at first because of how bad the Ken's were treated. Afterwards it still wasn't equal but the kens gained some traction (mirroring the slow progress of women in the real world).
Great reaction! I worked in a toy warehouse back in the olden days. All those dolls are real, and more! Even Growing Up Skipper! Also, Helen Mirren was the narrater. Also also, Greta Gerwig is phenomenal.
After seeing the movie, I looked up Barbie's origin. There really was a Ruth Handler, and she re-designed the original German Bild Lilli, and commissioned a fair number of fashions for Barbie to wear. And yes, Ruth named the doll after her daughter.
I love movies that can be silly and serious at the same time. I haven't laughed and cried so hard at the same scene since Everything Everywhere All at Once.
"Note to the filmmakers: Margot Robbie is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point" I love how they just brought the narration back solely for that. Best line of 2023. Also, Ryan Gosling was actually perfect. "I'm just Ken" is the greatest song of the year.
So happy to see you react to this one, especially all the social commentary involved in the movie. Loving the new highlights 👍🏻 Thanks for the reaction while managing new motherhood, we appreciate it!
Haha, even I have something pink, a tank top, and I wore it to see Barbie, on opening day. I have 2 sisters, one is one year older than me and the other 1 year younger, and they both had Barbies, so I'm very familiar. I myself had a huge Star Wars collection, including a remote-controlled Artee-Dootee. Anyway, sometimes my younger sister and I would play together with our toys and have Star Wars and Barbies interact with each other. Sometimes we'd have Luke Skywalker be Barbie's little boyfriend 'cause there was no Ken around.
When I was 7 or 8 our class went on a fieldtrip to the Mattel headquarters, or as my family called it, Barbie's house. They moved out of the big building next to the 405 freeway in Hawthorne in 1991. I miss seeing Barbie's house on my way to LAX. I don't know if Mattel still offers school fieldtrips, but in the 1970's they did.
It's mind blowing how triggered some grown men get over a movie about a doll for girls. But I'm happy for them that it gave them the safe space to come out as Barbie experts.
Seeing this in a sold out theater was a really fun experience and I've been looking forward to your reaction since I walked out of the theater. I thought it was funny, moving and really well made by everyone involved. There were some guys in line for the bathroom talking about how they were dragged there but laughing how much they enjoyed it. I feel sad for the guys who can't enjoy it because of how angry they are.
and Alan was named after Barbera Handler's husband. When they got divorced the name was changed to Allan. So, Michael Cera's character is not pregnant Midge's husband.
I loved this movie. Ken is my favorite character though. Ryan Gosling was a standout for me in an extremely stacked and talented cast. Thank you for your reaction.
I liked this movie. A bit heavy handed at times, but also surprisingly human and emotional. Plus just so FUN :) plus plus Ryan Gosling's Ken lol The sets and practical effects were amazing. I hope we get more movies following suit. And congrats on your beautiful baby boy, Mary :)
30:25 And if it weren't like that, what would change?. If you didn't want your husband's last name to come before yours, you shouldn't have gotten married. It seems like you don't love your husband, because when someone truly loves, they don't care about those little things.
I thought it was a great movie. Even wore a pink polo short when we saw it at the theatre. The fact it has so many reich wingers upset- even banned in some countries, means the message was on point...
30:24 On the order of married people's names: In my work I see many deeds and mortgages, and when a party is a (het) married couple the man's name is almost always first. It's a small thing but the unconscious sexism in it drives me a little crazy.
Ken didn't have a house, a car, money or a job he was kind of like a trophy wife for Ken. He was not that popular, and a lot of girls never had a Ken doll.
honestly the biggest issue for me with movies like this is yeah they have a nice message and act like theyre self aware, but this shit is still just a giant marketing campaign for Mattel (and an incredibly successful one at that). This is just more rainbow capitalism that makes people feel nice for a few days without actually doing anything productive for progressive forces.
The movie looks great and sounds great. Awesome job on set design and costume design and choreography. But, the story is feminist trash on two different levels: 1. By making Kens just be homeless, jobless, moneyless, objects that cannot even live in the same town as Barbie, just sitting on the beach waiting for the female gaze, the feminists have made their messaging clear - men don't even deserve to be treated as well as we treat dogs. But, give one man a chance, he'll take over and ruin the world until women put him back in his subhuman place. Great message. I hope not one single young girl or woman learns this message, but many will. 2. The other level is how they show that all the Kens wanted was to be treated as equals, and unlike the Barbies, once they were in power they wanted to SHARE their homes and their lives with Barbies. See, the Barbies are the villains, shoving the Kens out to be homeless on the beach, but the Kens just want equality and a shared life. The Barbies were very, very happy after the Kens took over. They were enjoying sharing life with Kens. Then real-world Mom said the Barbies were DEFENSELESS against a happy life with Kens, like somehow it's important to defend themselves against happiness if that happiness involves having a Ken in their life, so Stereotypical Barbie and Weird Barbie figured out how to BRAINWASH the other Barbies to give up their happiness and MANIPULATE the Kens who are all, every one of them, too stupid to remember to vote. The funniest thing is that the second reason this feminist message failed is that they actually sent the opposite message of what they wanted to send: men and women can live happily to gether even in a patriarchy, and it was only under the matriarchy that half of the population was really unhappy. Whoopsie! Didn't mean to send that message, did they? In they end, it all worked out. Barbies have everything, run everything, own everything, and they kicked the Kens out of town, back to the beach to be homeless, jobless, moneyless, objects waiting for Barbie's gaze again. Yay? So the twisted message of the movie is: Women should own everything and run everything and be everything (except mothers because that's truly terrible) and they never share anything with men who are stupid evil subhuman monsters who shouldn't even live in women's towns until a woman decides she wants to spend a brief moment of time with one, then dismiss the beast back to the beach - BUT - women are truly the happiest when they live with men and get along and enjoy things together and maybe even let men run some things because at least men want to share what they have with women. The feminists running this show couldn't even get their own message right.
4:14 :If everybody is Barbie, isn't Ken fine then?" No. Absolutely definitely NO. No human, and by extension, no doll that stands as a metaphor for a human, should "Only have a good day if they are gazed at by anybody else." Period. Full stop. Ken should be able to have a good day on his own without waiting for the female gaze. Ironically, if Barbie had to sit on a beech in a bikini and only wait for the male gaze, this movie would be hated by everybody. As it is, every Ken in this world is homeless, jobless, moneyless, useless - just an object waiting for Barbie's gaze. What a pathetic statement for this movie to make.
I did enjoy your reaction. I've seen four reactions to this movie by female reactors, and you're the only one so far who raised an eyebrow at the blatant and ever-present feminist messaging. And yet, you simply blew past it and called the movie great and nostalgic. I'm waiting for one female reactor to stand up at the end and say "Wait! This is insane! We don't actually want this kind of oppressive matriarchy that turns men into subhuman beach objects." Haven't found one yet. Until people start telling Hollywood that nobody wants to live like this, they'll keep making this kind of messaging. Unless... Unless people really do? Is this really what women want? A world all their own, where they own EVERYTHING and men are subhuman sex objects on a beach to be visited if you want and ignored forevermore until you feel like visiting a man again? Well, thankfully at least my wife doesn't. Or does she???
Eh, ideally, we'd just love to have a place with no men in it at all. Doesn't have to be the whole world, but maybe a continent would be cool. Then you men can go ahead and do your thing somewhere else, and we'd just get to live in peace. Imagine how great that would be, without the people who commit 90% of violent crime over 95% of sexual violence! Statistically, women are unhappier when they're married as opposed to being unmarried. The person most likely to rape and murder them is their husband. They sleep worse when they share a bed with a man. They get worse grades when they have to go to school with men. In basically all aspects, we'd be better off without you. I don't even want you as beach (let alone sex) objects. I just don't want you around. All just a utopian dream of course, that's not gonna happen. But my point is, the Barbie movie was very very friendly about you guys, and real radical feminism goes way further.
You didn’t even watch the movie it seems. Especially the ending. Barbie acknowledges she took Ken for granted and Barbie world becomes a place for everybody.
@@SoupyGal That didn't happen in the movie I saw. Kens took over. Yes, one Barbie told one Ken she took him for granted. Then she dumped him and left Barbie Land forever. That doesn't mean he suddenly has a place to live or any dignity. It just means he's the ONE Ken in all of Barbie Land who cannot enjoy happiness under the gaze of a Barbie. The saddest Ken in the newly restored Barbie Land. 2 Barbies brainwashed all the happy Barbies to "make everything the way it was". They succeed by manipulating the Kens who are too dimwitted to know they're being manipulated. Then the Barbies take over and make everything the way it was. No mention of building homes for Kens. No mention of letting Kens live in the homes with Barbies. No mention AT ALL of where Kens are going to live. But they did mention making things they way it was before when Kens were homeless, jobless, sex objects on the beach. If you want to pretend it all worked out as a "place for everybody" go for it. But that wasn't what happened in the movie. I will grant that President Barbie said she would look into letting Kens have some menial jobs. That is literally the only thing that might not be "the way it was before".
Sure. Sounds fair. Now let's round up those baby dolls, give them to boys and don't encourage them to play with anything else so they can take pride in fatherhood, for a millennium, or two.
I think it should be taught to take pride in both motherhood and fatherhood, and selflessness. That will make the world a better place.@@floraposteschild4184
Good luck with your reaction on this movie. I'll see you in the next one. I have seen it, unfortunately, a terable sexist movie. Prime example of terable garbage coming from Hollywood today.
"What a smartass...but yeah." Well, it's nice to know you think the group of 'men' hate the group of 'women'. Interesting to know. This movie is full of over the top messages that they hardly try to be subtle about. Anyone who can't see that for reasons of either ideology or to make a satire (since I'm not sure which, I'd have to say that as satire, it fails). If it was all about nostolgia, there'd be no need to go into all that political garbage. I mean that teenage or young twenty something daughters tirade against Barbie was embarrassingly bad, almost like a parody of a deranged feminist. Barbie, who has now been trying for at least two decades as a brand to be all inclusive of girls of any color or body size and who mostly is represented as leading a fun life is a 'fascist'. Why not a Nazi to boot? Then there's the factual things it gets wrong, such as all of Mattel's upper management being men. Crap, women have run the Barbie division and more than once, not to mention other parts of the company. At times the movie seems to be misandrous (hatred of men) and other times characters veer into downright misogyny. The movies ending COULD have made a case for equal treatment between the sexes, but it fails to even do that. In short, this movie is a mess and I'm not even sure what the message is supposed to be, but given the ending, and on the face of it: men are stupid or evil (The "Patriarchy" in the "Real World" gives men a degree of power they haven't had over women for well short of even the last century) and the world would be better off if women ran it entirely or maybe only ran 99 percent of it (If I recall the men do get representation with ONE WHOLE "lower court" Judge), but I know there are some times in the movie that seem to go against that message. I'm not even sure this movie has a single underlying message.
@@takemeaway285 Your absolute inability to make a coherent counterargument is showing. But then, as I said to Fountain, I don't think you have the education or intelligence to even understand my post. You probably cut- and pasted your 'reply' which was composed by someone much more intelligent than you.
I haven't seen the movie, but based on these clips, I wouldn't hate it for "the message", I'd hate it because the acting looks wooden and the 'jokes' are unfunny.
You'd be wrong though. Don't base your opinion on a cut up summary. Most people felt the acting was great, in the context of the Barbie world, and the jokes worked very well in the cinema.
Watching it for the first time chopped up in a reaction is the absolute worst way to watch a movie. You miss context, set up, payoff, story framing, story structure, etc.
@@Eidlones Context, etc., doesn't solve bad acting. They 'act' like they are doing a low budget teen sitcom on Disney -- there's no illusion that they aren't part of a movie.
I hope to see you react to real films again soon instead of the "made for profit" movies with zero substance like this one or every single super hero movie.
@themiIes you obviously don't understand what I'm trying to say. Another way to put it is you can eat a happy meal from McDonald's or you can have filet mignon from a 5 star restaurant. You get it?
@@gravewaxxsupercoven1980 I know what you are trying to say I just disagree. Every movie has it's right to exist. Just because you don't like doesn't mean its not a real movie
@takemeaway285 because it has awful messaging that is neither subtle or clever it uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut that in the end turns out to be an egg.... wrong approach wrong message wrapped up in a very pretty exterior and a stellar cast
@@vkdeen7570 Newsflash, a vast majority of critics and basically anyone who actually watched this movie loved it and found it brilliant. I think your fragile ego is over-compensating through your ridiculous analysis. How embarrassing for you
That monologue towards the end is total bs, unless you WANT to be someone who is totally unaware of human nature. The reality of life is you'll please some people but never everyone, so just decide who you want to become. "Barbie" will always NEED "Ken", & vice versa, to fully experience life.
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It's OK that you didn't have any pink to wear Mary you are still Kenough
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I mean what does "Oppenheimer girl" even mean though lol
@@DaveRedskywomen are allowed to like creating doomsday machines as well lol
@@thomasriddle7005 is that what "Oppenheimer girl" means .....?
@@DaveRedskyAs an autistic woman, I hear it as "I prefer historical movies to fru-fru pink doll movies."
I hope that makes sense!
I myself like both. I have watched horror since childhood and I hated the color pink as a child as well and refused to wear it until my 30's.
I make the Barbie Tik Toks at Mattel. All the outfits are actual Barbie outfits and we couldn't believe the things Mattel let WB get away with lol which is a good thing
I read that Gerwig's tactic to get away with the maximum amount of truth without Mattel squashing her was to put so much objectionable material in the script that Mattel was forced to prioritize a few rules that were important for Gerwig to follow and let everything else go.
@@Br0nto5aurus Perhaps, we only heard of one instance where the CEO got involved and then relented after the context was explained
@@FunkhousersNephew that is a really cool job
We men hate this film because it exposes our desire to tickle each other in board rooms, etc.😡 (31:07)
Oh gooooooooooood, I want to tickle and be tickled so badly!
They're really out here sharing all y'all's secrets.
Dudes just wanna beach and flip and tickle fight in peace.
"I'm Just Ken" will be my request the next time i get roped into Karaoke.
I had such fun with this movie. Yes they message is a bit heavy handed but unfortunately still needed, which is clear from many of the comments here.
Ken's song is just sooo catchy I can't get it out of my head.
the messaging was not only messed up but poorly delivered... there was nothing subtle or clever about it. the best message delivery is always done in a smart way not a sledgehammer
in fairness tho the acting was superb, the sets and costumes great and at times the jokes were funny
@@vkdeen7570 Nah, in a parody like this it can be heavy handed. What's "messed up" about it? I think they got it across pretty effectively.
@@Yggdrasil42 no that only works in a movie trying to be deliberately flippant like team America world police for example. barbie wasn't trying to flippant it was trying to act like it had a real serious message but then using a sledgehammer and saying look at me
Well lots of things were messed... the women throwing away their baby dolls and idolising the materialistic barbie... a symbolism for career/independence > motherhood. or how about the idea that if women ruled the world it would a paradise utopia and men would be useless without purpose? oh and how about men in societies with the power only being tyrannical and using women as slaves and doing nothing for them? not only historically inaccurate but what awful messages to give to young ppl. and that's only a couple of messages within the movie
there are few positive ish things to take from the movie as well but overall the messaging and tone is a pretty bad one for young ppl today. it's everything wrong with modern day feminism and will only divide and make ppl more miserable
@vkdeen7570 you misread all the points. 1st of all there is nothing wrong with women having careers. Or being mothers. The whole point there was everyone having the ability to write your own ending. Also, barbie land was an exteme mirror to the real world. It wasn't perfect at first because of how bad the Ken's were treated. Afterwards it still wasn't equal but the kens gained some traction (mirroring the slow progress of women in the real world).
I spit my coffee when Barbie was there to see the gynecologic and you said, "that OPENS a whole new chapter"
Great reaction! I worked in a toy warehouse back in the olden days. All those dolls are real, and more! Even Growing Up Skipper! Also, Helen Mirren was the narrater. Also also, Greta Gerwig is phenomenal.
Narrator: "Ken only has a good day if Barbie looks at him."
Mary: "But like if everyone is Barbie...isn't he fine then?"
No. The narrator is referring to the Barbie that's part of his matching set.
After seeing the movie, I looked up Barbie's origin. There really was a Ruth Handler, and she re-designed the original German Bild Lilli, and commissioned a fair number of fashions for Barbie to wear. And yes, Ruth named the doll after her daughter.
I watched this with my family and immediately gasped when she said her name was Ruth then i realized i was the only one who got it lol
Funniest line:
"Do giant hands come in and play with you?"
"No, that would be insane!"
I was surprised how deep this movie was. I’m 69 and I remember the early days of Barbie.
I love movies that can be silly and serious at the same time. I haven't laughed and cried so hard at the same scene since Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Allan was marketed as Ken's buddy in 1965. He could wear Ken's clothes. In the 90's his name was changed to "Alan."
The kids group at 14:40 is based on the Bratz dolls. Popular competitors of Barbie.
I love america ferreras monologue about the impossibilities of meeting the expectations of being a woman
Great reaction, just came across your channel the other day. Looking forward to go though your older videos. Congrats on the baby.
"Note to the filmmakers: Margot Robbie is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point" I love how they just brought the narration back solely for that. Best line of 2023.
Also, Ryan Gosling was actually perfect. "I'm just Ken" is the greatest song of the year.
I loved that line as well
So happy to see you react to this one, especially all the social commentary involved in the movie. Loving the new highlights 👍🏻 Thanks for the reaction while managing new motherhood, we appreciate it!
Haha, even I have something pink, a tank top, and I wore it to see Barbie, on opening day.
I have 2 sisters, one is one year older than me and the other 1 year younger, and they both had Barbies, so I'm very familiar.
I myself had a huge Star Wars collection, including a remote-controlled Artee-Dootee.
Anyway, sometimes my younger sister and I would play together with our toys and have Star Wars and Barbies interact with each other. Sometimes we'd have Luke Skywalker be Barbie's little boyfriend 'cause there was no Ken around.
When I was 7 or 8 our class went on a fieldtrip to the Mattel headquarters, or as my family called it, Barbie's house. They moved out of the big building next to the 405 freeway in Hawthorne in 1991. I miss seeing Barbie's house on my way to LAX. I don't know if Mattel still offers school fieldtrips, but in the 1970's they did.
This made $1.4 Billion dollars at the box office!
Depressing.
I think you meant, "THIS made $1.4 Billion dollars at the box office?"
and boosted Mattel and Barbie sales and continues conspicuous consumption consumerism for Ynon Kreiz, the male CEO of Mattel. 😁
@@thomaswilkinson6101Aww poor baby
33:57 This exactly here. Mary this one sentence says it ALL! Its our moms and grandmas and now that's you too!
So many fragile people crying about this movie. I really enjoyed it, glad you did too! Great reaction!
It makes me happier that it made a billion dollars
Love to show of how little people actually care about their opinion
It's mind blowing how triggered some grown men get over a movie about a doll for girls. But I'm happy for them that it gave them the safe space to come out as Barbie experts.
@@_BangDroid_ Saying the movie is nothing but "about a doll for girls" severely undermines the message of the movie.
Seeing this in a sold out theater was a really fun experience and I've been looking forward to your reaction since I walked out of the theater. I thought it was funny, moving and really well made by everyone involved. There were some guys in line for the bathroom talking about how they were dragged there but laughing how much they enjoyed it. I feel sad for the guys who can't enjoy it because of how angry they are.
33:45 This part is true! Ken is also named after her son!
and Alan was named after Barbera Handler's husband. When they got divorced the name was changed to Allan. So, Michael Cera's character is not pregnant Midge's husband.
That's not Ruth Handler,that's Carla Tortelli😂🎩
Louie DePalma's girlfriend Zena.
Rhea Perlman and the Real Ruth Handler have the same Brooklyn accent.
No joke, "I'm Just Ken" should have won the Oscar.
One thing I know, your boy will, eventually, grow up to be Kenough. ☺️
I thought this movie was excellent. It really landed with me.
The opening scene was an homage to 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY
I loved this movie. Ken is my favorite character though. Ryan Gosling was a standout for me in an extremely stacked and talented cast. Thank you for your reaction.
I can relate, it surely wasn't what I expected, but I'm glad I watched it. Also gotta love how Ruth went with the IRS joke xD
I liked this movie. A bit heavy handed at times, but also surprisingly human and emotional. Plus just so FUN :) plus plus Ryan Gosling's Ken lol
The sets and practical effects were amazing. I hope we get more movies following suit.
And congrats on your beautiful baby boy, Mary :)
I love this movie. I think more men should watch and really listen to America Ferrera's monolog.
Congrats on your baby ❤
It’s depressing the number of reactors who totally miss the 2001 reference.
All of the clips of the familes were from the cast and crew btw
Thanks, Mary! 🌺 I love the message of this one. #MoviesWithMary #GretaGerwig #Barbie #BarbieMovie #BarbieTheMovie
The pregnant Barbie opened up like a C-section and you took out the baby.
I must admit, this was a much better movie than I was prepared for.
self effacing means modest and self critical 🎩
So glad you watched this 🎉
its true. ruth handler named barbie and ken after her childrens names. barbara and kenneth.
Crazy movie, loved your reaction. 🥰
I think that the look of “weird Barbie” is modeled after comedian Phyllis Dyller
Love your reaction so fantastic❤
"I hope my boss never says that. Is this your secret?"
Oh no, boys. We've been found!
Who talked?
@@prollins6443 Must have been the kid. Lil' Momma's boy sold us out.
@@MoneyGist well, maybe it's time for a PERMANENT Time Out!
@@prollins6443 🤣
Congrats on the baby BOY! 🙂
cut content spoiler: After the end all Kens become passport bros.
30:25 And if it weren't like that, what would change?. If you didn't want your husband's last name to come before yours, you shouldn't have gotten married. It seems like you don't love your husband, because when someone truly loves, they don't care about those little things.
Thanks Barbie! Maybe buy a Ken doll for baby❤
Disney The Love Bug 1969 please
When Hollywood made good movies, great choice.
Yes guys just want endless tickle fights...
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I want to live in barbie land
I would love for you to react to Oppenheimer.
Now you need to watch Oppenheimer (2023).
100%!
Can’t wait to rewatch it
It’s a fascinating watch despite making you feel internal horror
Mattel makes Barbie.
I thought it was a great movie. Even wore a pink polo short when we saw it at the theatre. The fact it has so many reich wingers upset- even banned in some countries, means the message was on point...
Was waiting for thisss! 🙌🏻😍
30:24 On the order of married people's names: In my work I see many deeds and mortgages, and when a party is a (het) married couple the man's name is almost always first. It's a small thing but the unconscious sexism in it drives me a little crazy.
Ken didn't have a house, a car, money or a job he was kind of like a trophy wife for Ken. He was not that popular, and a lot of girls never had a Ken doll.
Your grandmother couldn't go to school? That's terrible. One of my grandmothers was a teacher and then a high school principal.
Being a Barbie isn't easy.
Did you know the daughter is also young Gamora from the MCU?
She also is young Ahoska! Anikans young apprentice! In Star Wars Ahoska!
The people that wrote this movie send their assistants to the same Trader Joe's where I go on Vine Street. What are the chances.
Grown men taking a movie about a doll for girls way too seriously is mind blowing.
Love this
You should watch Oppenheimer, Stranger Things, The Sopranos, and Indiana Jones 2 & 3 at some point
The video has a weird echo
I was excited for Oppenheimer and it was kinda ass,I them saw Barbie and it's been my fav movie this year lol
Why aren't you wearing pink??
She has nothing in pink, which she explains in the intro...
A cute movie if you’re not too concerned about reality or the future. I hope you react to Rocky 3 at some point.
I'll never understand why women love meta humor. Its not even a new gag. 🤷🏻♂️ I'm glad you had fun dawg.
Ryan stole the show.
honestly the biggest issue for me with movies like this is yeah they have a nice message and act like theyre self aware, but this shit is still just a giant marketing campaign for Mattel (and an incredibly successful one at that). This is just more rainbow capitalism that makes people feel nice for a few days without actually doing anything productive for progressive forces.
The movie looks great and sounds great. Awesome job on set design and costume design and choreography.
But, the story is feminist trash on two different levels:
1. By making Kens just be homeless, jobless, moneyless, objects that cannot even live in the same town as Barbie, just sitting on the beach waiting for the female gaze, the feminists have made their messaging clear - men don't even deserve to be treated as well as we treat dogs. But, give one man a chance, he'll take over and ruin the world until women put him back in his subhuman place. Great message. I hope not one single young girl or woman learns this message, but many will.
2. The other level is how they show that all the Kens wanted was to be treated as equals, and unlike the Barbies, once they were in power they wanted to SHARE their homes and their lives with Barbies. See, the Barbies are the villains, shoving the Kens out to be homeless on the beach, but the Kens just want equality and a shared life. The Barbies were very, very happy after the Kens took over. They were enjoying sharing life with Kens. Then real-world Mom said the Barbies were DEFENSELESS against a happy life with Kens, like somehow it's important to defend themselves against happiness if that happiness involves having a Ken in their life, so Stereotypical Barbie and Weird Barbie figured out how to BRAINWASH the other Barbies to give up their happiness and MANIPULATE the Kens who are all, every one of them, too stupid to remember to vote.
The funniest thing is that the second reason this feminist message failed is that they actually sent the opposite message of what they wanted to send: men and women can live happily to gether even in a patriarchy, and it was only under the matriarchy that half of the population was really unhappy.
Whoopsie!
Didn't mean to send that message, did they?
In they end, it all worked out. Barbies have everything, run everything, own everything, and they kicked the Kens out of town, back to the beach to be homeless, jobless, moneyless, objects waiting for Barbie's gaze again.
Yay?
So the twisted message of the movie is: Women should own everything and run everything and be everything (except mothers because that's truly terrible) and they never share anything with men who are stupid evil subhuman monsters who shouldn't even live in women's towns until a woman decides she wants to spend a brief moment of time with one, then dismiss the beast back to the beach - BUT - women are truly the happiest when they live with men and get along and enjoy things together and maybe even let men run some things because at least men want to share what they have with women.
The feminists running this show couldn't even get their own message right.
4:14 :If everybody is Barbie, isn't Ken fine then?"
No.
Absolutely definitely NO.
No human, and by extension, no doll that stands as a metaphor for a human, should "Only have a good day if they are gazed at by anybody else."
Period.
Full stop.
Ken should be able to have a good day on his own without waiting for the female gaze.
Ironically, if Barbie had to sit on a beech in a bikini and only wait for the male gaze, this movie would be hated by everybody.
As it is, every Ken in this world is homeless, jobless, moneyless, useless - just an object waiting for Barbie's gaze.
What a pathetic statement for this movie to make.
I found this a very sexist movie. Totally misandristic. But then I'm just a man, so what do I know?
you completely missed the messaging of the movie
I did enjoy your reaction.
I've seen four reactions to this movie by female reactors, and you're the only one so far who raised an eyebrow at the blatant and ever-present feminist messaging.
And yet, you simply blew past it and called the movie great and nostalgic.
I'm waiting for one female reactor to stand up at the end and say "Wait! This is insane! We don't actually want this kind of oppressive matriarchy that turns men into subhuman beach objects."
Haven't found one yet.
Until people start telling Hollywood that nobody wants to live like this, they'll keep making this kind of messaging.
Unless...
Unless people really do?
Is this really what women want? A world all their own, where they own EVERYTHING and men are subhuman sex objects on a beach to be visited if you want and ignored forevermore until you feel like visiting a man again?
Well, thankfully at least my wife doesn't.
Or does she???
Eh, ideally, we'd just love to have a place with no men in it at all. Doesn't have to be the whole world, but maybe a continent would be cool. Then you men can go ahead and do your thing somewhere else, and we'd just get to live in peace. Imagine how great that would be, without the people who commit 90% of violent crime over 95% of sexual violence!
Statistically, women are unhappier when they're married as opposed to being unmarried. The person most likely to rape and murder them is their husband. They sleep worse when they share a bed with a man. They get worse grades when they have to go to school with men. In basically all aspects, we'd be better off without you.
I don't even want you as beach (let alone sex) objects. I just don't want you around.
All just a utopian dream of course, that's not gonna happen. But my point is, the Barbie movie was very very friendly about you guys, and real radical feminism goes way further.
You didn’t even watch the movie it seems. Especially the ending. Barbie acknowledges she took Ken for granted and Barbie world becomes a place for everybody.
@@SoupyGal That didn't happen in the movie I saw.
Kens took over.
Yes, one Barbie told one Ken she took him for granted. Then she dumped him and left Barbie Land forever.
That doesn't mean he suddenly has a place to live or any dignity.
It just means he's the ONE Ken in all of Barbie Land who cannot enjoy happiness under the gaze of a Barbie. The saddest Ken in the newly restored Barbie Land.
2 Barbies brainwashed all the happy Barbies to "make everything the way it was".
They succeed by manipulating the Kens who are too dimwitted to know they're being manipulated.
Then the Barbies take over and make everything the way it was.
No mention of building homes for Kens.
No mention of letting Kens live in the homes with Barbies.
No mention AT ALL of where Kens are going to live.
But they did mention making things they way it was before when Kens were homeless, jobless, sex objects on the beach.
If you want to pretend it all worked out as a "place for everybody" go for it.
But that wasn't what happened in the movie.
I will grant that President Barbie said she would look into letting Kens have some menial jobs.
That is literally the only thing that might not be "the way it was before".
Kind of a weird message tho at the start of the film. "Don't take pride in motherhood, focus on yourself" lol terrible message to young women.
That wasn't the message lol.
@@ragtimeraver Then what was the message? Abort babies and worship consumerism?
Sure. Sounds fair. Now let's round up those baby dolls, give them to boys and don't encourage them to play with anything else so they can take pride in fatherhood, for a millennium, or two.
That was apparently the msg YOU got
I think it should be taught to take pride in both motherhood and fatherhood, and selflessness. That will make the world a better place.@@floraposteschild4184
You talked instead of feeling the Movie.
Good luck with your reaction on this movie. I'll see you in the next one.
I have seen it, unfortunately, a terable sexist movie. Prime example of terable garbage coming from Hollywood today.
Go back to school, you might pick up media literacy and spelling
@@halfcentaur9836 how disappointed you will be when you find out I don't care about your opinion.
@@awelonstudio bold comment from someone so eager to share their own with everyone
@@halfcentaur9836maybe you should go back to school. You're nothing but a bully.
Grow up, I'm not wasting any more time on you.
"What a smartass...but yeah." Well, it's nice to know you think the group of 'men' hate the group of 'women'. Interesting to know. This movie is full of over the top messages that they hardly try to be subtle about. Anyone who can't see that for reasons of either ideology or to make a satire (since I'm not sure which, I'd have to say that as satire, it fails). If it was all about nostolgia, there'd be no need to go into all that political garbage. I mean that teenage or young twenty something daughters tirade against Barbie was embarrassingly bad, almost like a parody of a deranged feminist. Barbie, who has now been trying for at least two decades as a brand to be all inclusive of girls of any color or body size and who mostly is represented as leading a fun life is a 'fascist'. Why not a Nazi to boot? Then there's the factual things it gets wrong, such as all of Mattel's upper management being men. Crap, women have run the Barbie division and more than once, not to mention other parts of the company. At times the movie seems to be misandrous (hatred of men) and other times characters veer into downright misogyny. The movies ending COULD have made a case for equal treatment between the sexes, but it fails to even do that. In short, this movie is a mess and I'm not even sure what the message is supposed to be, but given the ending, and on the face of it: men are stupid or evil (The "Patriarchy" in the "Real World" gives men a degree of power they haven't had over women for well short of even the last century) and the world would be better off if women ran it entirely or maybe only ran 99 percent of it (If I recall the men do get representation with ONE WHOLE "lower court" Judge), but I know there are some times in the movie that seem to go against that message. I'm not even sure this movie has a single underlying message.
A very well thought out comment.
It's a shame you didn't include any white spaces in the text in order to make it more readable . . . . :-)
projection
Your fragility is showing 😂😂😂
@@FountainWeeper Didn't even know the meaning of half the words I used, I bet. Half-wits like yourself make me smug.
@@takemeaway285 Your absolute inability to make a coherent counterargument is showing. But then, as I said to Fountain, I don't think you have the education or intelligence to even understand my post. You probably cut- and pasted your 'reply' which was composed by someone much more intelligent than you.
GoodgodIhatethismovie.
"good god what a sad little life jane"
I haven't seen the movie, but based on these clips, I wouldn't hate it for "the message", I'd hate it because the acting looks wooden and the 'jokes' are unfunny.
You'd be wrong though. Don't base your opinion on a cut up summary. Most people felt the acting was great, in the context of the Barbie world, and the jokes worked very well in the cinema.
Watching it for the first time chopped up in a reaction is the absolute worst way to watch a movie. You miss context, set up, payoff, story framing, story structure, etc.
@@Eidlones Context, etc., doesn't solve bad acting. They 'act' like they are doing a low budget teen sitcom on Disney -- there's no illusion that they aren't part of a movie.
@@fewwiggle Exactly what characters are you referring to?
@@Eidlones Every single actor in these clips is affected -- there is no naturalness/authenticity in their presentation.
I hope to see you react to real films again soon instead of the "made for profit" movies with zero substance like this one or every single super hero movie.
1) every movie is making profit 2) this movie has a lot of substance
@themiIes you obviously don't understand what I'm trying to say. Another way to put it is you can eat a happy meal from McDonald's or you can have filet mignon from a 5 star restaurant. You get it?
@@gravewaxxsupercoven1980 I know what you are trying to say I just disagree. Every movie has it's right to exist. Just because you don't like doesn't mean its not a real movie
I understand the messege of this movie but man it makes me cringe so hard trying to watch. Not a hater just hard to watch.
That should tell you something. Have a think about why it makes you so uncomfortable.
@takemeaway285 because it has awful messaging that is neither subtle or clever
it uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut that in the end turns out to be an egg.... wrong approach wrong message wrapped up in a very pretty exterior and a stellar cast
@@vkdeen7570 Newsflash, a vast majority of critics and basically anyone who actually watched this movie loved it and found it brilliant. I think your fragile ego is over-compensating through your ridiculous analysis. How embarrassing for you
@@takemeaway285 should tell you something, I never said uncomfortable
That monologue towards the end is total bs, unless you WANT to be someone who is totally unaware of human nature. The reality of life is you'll please some people but never everyone, so just decide who you want to become.
"Barbie" will always NEED "Ken", & vice versa, to fully experience life.