The Barbie Movie Was Different, But Better Than I Expected | Review
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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tbh the thing that’s interesting to me is barbie’s biggest crime is that men are ignored most of the time. they dont abuse them, kill them, make them serve them, barbies just aren’t interested in them. meanwhile when ken brings the patriarchy he makes women go into servitude, removing them of their agency. barbieland is a matriarchy but its so much more innocent
Yeah, this is what I have been saying!!! It’s like womens’ fantasy of taking over the world is just… to be able to be left alone . Men fear that women would like to enact violence against them in the same manner that they have subjected women to. But they just want to be free from men, or rather free from Patriarchy ™ . Men , as individuals, can be really nice, but as a group are rather stupid
Yes. Also, in Barbie land, no one is stopping the Kens from doing things for themselves. If they wanted they could build their own houses and develop their own systems. I feel like sometimes, men expect women to do things for them. The Barbies weren't responsible for the Kens but a lot of people act like they were.
I think where it lost me is that a) all the kens and barbies were brainwashed and b) the reason the kens went on the destructive rampage due to how often they were disrespected and ignored.
If the kens were respected and still did this stuff, that would be a whole other story.
@@myperspective6207that I didn’t think of.
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as a woman, I think the end was meant to show how the Kens won’t just immediately get all equal rights because they’re treated how women are in the real world, and women didn’t immediately gain all their rights
They aren’t treated the way women are they just don’t get attention. They aren’t servants, they aren’t forced to do anything, it’s not a reversal of how the real world is to women, it’s not even close.
I'm a girl and I also wanted kens to get more rights and maybe see where they live or see them get homes
Absolutely same. I’m actually a bit miffed that after everything the movie showed us Kens are still told they can’t have any real power.
Don’t get me wrong, I still loved the movie! But the end message result made me a bit sad
I agree, but imo it portrays the message that women are still not liberated, even if things are better than they were a century ago
I would’ve loved to see the Kens getting more power through this and we saw Barbieland is Barbie and Ken land. Just a world where everyone is equal
i agree because it would have pushed the gender equality message more, but i think they did it to kind of show women’s struggles and how they aren’t really ever noticed but reversed
@@catminecraftyas Oh absolutely I get what they were going for- I just would’ve rather seen the Barbies actually breaking the gendered lines instead of a Matriarchy
i walked out of Barbie sobbing hysterically and feeling horrible for what the women in my life went through
jesus christ 😶
Tell me about it... I cried in the restroom
King
bro what😭 fuck is you saying
Oh boy buddy, wait til you hear about menstrual cramps !
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I think the ending implied that the Kens would slowly but surely gain more rights in Barbieland, and that the Barbies are still a bit unaware of how they (the Kens) feel about their social standing. I feel like the line near the end that goes "Kens will soon have the same amount of power in Barbieland that women have in the real world" points toward the narrative being supportive of Kens having more power, even after the attempted coup, but that it will be a long journey that won't have an immediate resolution.
It sort of felt like the movie was subtly going for an oppression role-reversal angle (e.i. that one Dove Cameron music video that incels wouldn't shut up about for like a week) by comparing the Kens of Barbieland to the women of the Real World, but I can see how it ends up getting a little muddied since the Barbies of Barbieland are also compared to women of the Real World. Also, it would've been interesting if Midge got more of a role, since it feels counterproductive for the narrative to make fun of Mattel for disregarding her for being a pregnant Barbie while also disregarding her in general. It's a really fun and cleverly written movie altogether, but I agree that there are some aspects that could've been a bit better explored.
I really like this comment cause I was talking to my sibling and their thoughts were similar.
In the real world, women didn’t get rights just cause they mentioned the system was rigged against them. I do think as a movie that doesn’t work because you’ve essentially set up a story line you didn’t finish, but I do think as a metaphor it’s very well done (and pretty funny in the movie too)
I think that ending is brilliant. It suggests that the Kens have to put in the work to get equal, just like women do in the real world.
Now it’s absolutely clear why men across UA-cam are having a nervous breakdown over a Barbie movie 😬😂😂😂 That makes it even more revealing. Appreciate you guys handle it so gracefully 👍
I thought since Barbieland had many switches between Ken and Barbie leadership I thought by the end they would have learned to appreciate everyone’s differences and held equal power which I think they could have done if they gave the movie more run time
That does makes sense Women do have power in the real world but are often the minority in it like the men to women ratio in the Supreme Court
@@mainframe1608 seems like there’s gonna be a sequel (I’m not too sure if it really even should have one but… WB obv wants money) so maybe they’ll address this more then
As a trans man who has gone through stuff like this (also an Allan kinnie fr /hj) I think that the point was an actual role reversal. Juxtaposing kens takeover of the barbieland would represent how fed up women in the real world are living their whole lives as accessories (ken was irl literally introduced as an accessory to Barbie) to men (as the kens are to the Barbies). To be totally honest, you have to know a lot of actual irl Barbie doll history I think to fully understand these messages and not get them misconstrued so I think they could have done a little better making it clear that barbieland being a matriarchy is *also* bad for those who don’t have an encyclopedia knowledge of all the Barbie products they referenced in the movie. Hell to even understand that Allan himself represents (more than likely) queer people you’d have to know that he was cancelled irl by Mattel back in the 60/70s or so because too many people thought he might be Kens secret boyfriend due to the line on his box reading “he’s kens buddy. *all of his clothes fit him*”
Alan is definitely in love with Beach Ken and I want to see the fanfics
I didn't realize that about Alan!! That kind of makes sense now that I think about it. holy shit
I love Allen bc he feels outside of the binary, not Ken enough to get out of rubbing feet.
Omg hello fellow trans Allan kinnie! >:D
I like to think Will Ferrell in this movie is the exact same Will Ferrell in The Lego Movie. And this movie was happening at the same time as The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, which is why Will Ferrell was barely in that one.
Also I love the axolotl necklace
Kind of reminded me of his role as mustafa in Austin Powers
Will Ferrell plays his one role, a business man in a suit
agreed that the movie overall was pretty great, but the kens whole thing was kinda strangely done, i definitely think barbies story was much more important anyway but the fact the kens created patriarchy because they're basically horribly oppressed but the resolution was just to reoppress them, but then again it's not real. the messaging about female empowerment and everything was much more important anyway, so i can let the ken thing go
I thought the conclusion was gonna be like "See what we're doing to the Kens? That's exactly the same way they treat women in the real world!" But I guess they just go back to the way everything was before, just that the Kens realize they're more than just Barbie's boyfriend.
@@johannaelloso9418omg that's what i thought too, for me it would it been perfect if the resolution was about understanding and letting man talk about their feelings and being vulnerable cause, idk barbie are just shoving them aside all the time
They did allow the Ken to have a part in the court even though it was still low position. But if this is a parallel to our world, the Kens will continue fighting for the rights until they have a somewhat equal footing like Barbie. Maybe even have jobs and can become anything!
The Kens were not horribly oppressed. They weren’t SA’ed, no domestic violence, no enforced servitude. They just weren’t horribly important to the Barbies. Ken wasn’t being treated fairly but it’s not a reversal of the patriarchy in the real world, which is why Barbieland even exists
@@jeihaynes7077 super fair point, although i still saw it as the kens having different social expectations than barbie and therefore being encouraged to be 'just kens' while the barbies rule the world
Hi. I am almost 70 years. I saw Barbie the Movie. I liked it. I gave it an 8 out of 10. Glad you liked it.
ken was soooo toxic tho. like he was straight up an incel himself. loved alot of the movie but personally every scene that had ken i hated. justice for alan
Yeah he was definitely supposed to a caricature of the nice guy stereotype, but he was also mistreated by Barbie and I think that made it worse. Although it’s not really Barbie’s fault cause she was kinda forced to be Ken’s girlfriend.
It's the opposite for me, and I still like Barbie in this movie. But I also understand where Ken was coming from and can somewhat feel bad for him.
I think the Kens' ending meant simply that they are, well, very underdeveloped and it's up to themselves to figure themselves out, since nobody else will. Mattel has never marketed this brand to boys, and since Barbie is meant for imaginings of ideal adulthood, there are very few children who imagine Ken as a representation of their future self. Ken is just an accessory to ideal future.
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he is evolving, this is forshadowing when he creates a second channel for spoiler free reviews
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the movie changed my life omg
I was not the same man I was 1 hour and 54 minutes ago
@@hikeilokei WELL EXACTLY !
I thought this movie was both hilarious and really heartfelt, but I do agree about most of the background character being underdeveloped- none of the Barbies other than Margot Robbie Barbie felt like they had much of a personality and America Ferrera's character could have used some more depth
(SPOILERS) As a woman, I too thought the ending could have been done a little better. The whole reason the Kens revolted was that they weren't treated the same as the Barbies, so I had hoped that the Barbies would realize that and install a more equal government. However, Barbieland was supposed to be the opposite of the real world, so I think they were just trying to convey that while women do have more opportunities than they used to, the real world is still not 100% equal.
I LOVED THIS MOVIE I SMILED SO HARD THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE MOVIE
I overall had a very fun time with this movie and thought the acting was amazing, but I agree that some of the messaging was a bit confusing.
I think that it would have worked a little better if Barbie had realized how Kens are like women in the real world (or as close as they can get in Barbieland) and if the Barbies weren't just trying revert things back to exactly the way they were (until the end of the movie). It came off as a bit too "women are better and should have more power than men," when the message should have been more along the lines of "everyone is equal and having societies oriented towards only one gender is harmful to both."
I also wish the Kens were made equal to the Barbies at the end- it would have made the message more hopeful for our future in the real world.
In general, 10/10 on the fun scale, 8/10 on the writing scale. I'm not going to take it so seriously that it loses writing points because I'm not the target audience and the movie was clearly more for fun than meaning.
I only watched the initial teaser trailer and had no idea what I was walking into. I was expecting just goofy fun with Barbie and Ken in the real world, so I was a little surprised at the first mention of politics. The message hit really hard for me though, and I came out pretty enlightened.
I also agree with the bit about Ken. I wasn’t sure about his writing in this movie, but I think that’s just cause I’m used to the animated Barbie movies where he’s like, normal. And Barbie has mutual feelings for him. But I really like that they tried to push Ken as an equal character (as a doll) than just an accessory at the end with the line, “It’s Barbie and it’s Ken”.
10/10 will be seeing it again
You’re so right about how masterful the comedic timing was in this movie 😂 It’s nice to see a movie balance humor and seriousness relatively well.
Barbie as The Princess and The Pauper at home
I definitely agree that the Ken story was a bit murchy, if you dig deeper and analyze the movie more you can start to understand what the movie was going for, but on surface level it can be a bit confusing which I guess leads to a lot of the problems some people are having with the movie. But overall the movie was great and made me so so emotional
I love when Beach Ken got flung across the shore like a child’s toy
One thing I wish they had done would have been the direction I thought they were going. I really love the feminism aspect, but I was kind of hoping they'd carried it over to Ken. A lot of time, men are kind of taught to not show their feelings and talk things out. It would have been cool to see that aspect with Ken explored at the same time Barbie was going on her journey. But maybe that would have undercut the comedy. Idk XD
There can be comedy movies that can know to stop for intelligent scenes Instant Family is a great example of a movie knowing when to have comedy and heartfelt moments.
I enjoyed this movie. It was hilarious, existential, and it touched my heart. When I look at some of what other people are saying about it I keep thinking, "Chill, it's the Barbie movie." It also kinda reminded me of the 3 Lego movies, which were all pretty excellent.
Whoever got mad when the film talked about the patriarchy (which is brought up in a pivotal scene featuring Rhea Pearlmam, an actress that we don't see in many movies nowadays, never seen 2019's 'Cats'. THAT was a film that you could walk away from in the middle of the film & never feel guilty for missing the rest of the content. What a baby he was.
my take is that kens storyline is about how men that feel ignored or pushed aside can get swept up in the patriachy and machoness and shit because they feel bad abt themselves....ken fell into the pipeline because he spent his whole life being ignored by barbie. in the end, ken even says that he didnt even want to do any of that stuff. he just thought it had something to do with horses...Ken just wanted to ride horses and he ended up falling victim to the pipeline bc barbie made him feel bad about himself
those are just my thoughts! i think its trying to say something about how insecure men get tricked into being a cog in the system. i thought the barbies becoming subservient was weird asf tho and so was the solutoon.
the deep cut messaging behind and in the movie is pretty good using real life storys behind the toys they refrence to create a basically mulimedia story some of the deep cuts cut like.... REALLY DEEP
This movie made me love Ryan Gosling. He’s such a good actor and he actually improvised the line “sublime!” He’s so funny and he did do some method acting but in the most wholesome way unlike Jared Leto’s method acting for Joker
Highkey* was too high watching the barbie movie and cried at the words "do you ever think about dying"
Friends and I agreed that we wished it didn’t act like all women face the same struggles. Like the women from the real world were Hispanic so we wished there was some acknowledgement of racism
even the one line that acknowledged it (("go, white savior barbie!")) was glazed over pretty fast :/
especially since a common criticism of the barbie franchise was how often it depicted blonde white women as the face of womenhood. it says something that the bratz franchise-- a franchise heavily criticized for depicting bad role models for young girls compared to barbie --was more ethnically diverse in the early 2000s (granted it wasn't the BEST representation, but it was something).
Same, although Sacramento private school upper middle class Greta Gerwig was probably not the ideal writer to address it.
@83croissant with talks of a potential sequel, it'd be really interesting if they handed the pen to a different writer/director to explore these ideas
it could be like the zombies franchise, but you know...good
So theory about the kens and not having houses is probably a reference to the fact that most of us growing up had places for barbie to live and a "kens mojo dojo casa house" never really existed like not to my knowledge at least was there any sort of specific ken based toys (but probably would havw made money like they joked about in the movie) lol i love this movie and i cried sm the first time i went and saw it because it sent me back to the kid who used to be care free and didnt even think about the sexism and misogyny in the world. Like its a super sad movie imo bc theres no real resolution and the real world sucks balls😭😭😭😭
The matriarchy of Barbieland and the patriarchy of the real world are supposed to change both Barbie and Ken, pushing them to equilibrium so that they can see eye to eye.
We assume that Kens are the lower class, since Barbieland is a matriarchy and the Kens don't have a lot of power. Ken gets a taste of power and respect in the real world, and Barbie learns what its like to be ignored and unrepresented. This should give Barbie some sympathy for the plight of the Kens back in Barbieland, and make Ken want to bring that power he feels back to Barbieland. A role-reversal arc where the Kens get a bigger say in how Barbieland is run.
But Barbie doesn't really do that?? She doesn't connect her experience in the real world to that of Kens in Barbieland(I might be wrong about this, let me know!). She bemoans how awful it was to feel disempowered, and just wants to go back to where people like her were in charge. She's a little self-centered, which is fine as a character flaw but the way it plays out is kind of narratively unsatisfying.
Men's rights and their role in society are very relevant in the feminist debate! Give the Kens closure, or else the ending may come off as a millennial feminist wet dream where the women are right all the time because they are women and the men are ignored and put in their place because they are men and therefore toxic. If that's the message men are getting, if they feel as though the movie is attacking them for being men, is it _that_ surprising that some of them are reacting negatively?
That being said I really appreciate your respect for the target audience of the movie, and separating yourself from those jabs at the collective of men. In my humble opinion I feel like you can give a bit more credit to the opposition. but not too much though.
As a girl I felt really heard while seeing the Barbie movie and was sobbing so hard at the end because I felt like everything that barbie was experiencing about just being the standard barbie and not really knowing her place is how I feel in the real world and watching how seeing what the patriarchy was doing to ken made me see what certain men in my life do after realizing they have a lot privilege because they are men and how they change from sweet to having a toxic masculinity but overall the Barbie movie was really amazing and I would definitely watch again!
at the end of the film is when they admit to and start working on Kens (and alan) being equal to barbies when the creators board say they’ll turn it all back to how it was before and all the barbies admit they don’t want that anymore and add a lens to jobs of power in barbieland
*kens not a lense
I also had that feeling that the movie was about to be over twenty minutes before it was over. And I was thinking it would be a terrible ending, so I was glad the movie ran longer. And while I understand the artistic direction, I wish in the last scene Barbie was still wearing pink. Won't explain my reasons behind this, since this was purposefully a spoiler free video, but Barbie should be worn pink in that last scene.
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I disagree. I feel like the movie conveyed pink in Barbieland as the matriarchy color/before change/before the Kens got acknowledgement & before Barbie recognized the real world; the change in colors represented the change that the Barbies went through. It would be counterproductive for Barbie to go back to pink, to the color that represented the Kens repression, that represented her as 'stereotypical Barbie' after all that change, no?
i thought she was wearing a pink shirt ??
She was done with Barbieland, she felt there like fish out of water. I interpreted it as she was ready to grow up, as a woman in the real human world -even if it's not totally equal to women- she wanted the challenge of what she could accomplish as a human being, to find her goals for life. And she started with the gynecologist checkup, which marks a point when girls become women, and not because she wanted to find a hubby and have a baby but for self-awareness that women should visit their gynecologist for health reasons. And I don't think human Barbie will never wear pink, she wants to try new things, like wearing other colors
@@yyidhraano I think it was white with a brown jacket thing
I agree with the fact that it was disappointing not to have her in pink but it doesn’t really take away from the big ending and that’s what matters
As someone who doesn't even like to watch movies (I watch a movie less than once a month) I went back to watch this movie in the theatres for a second time so that's a pretty good recommendation for it
I thought the barbie movie was alright but it definitely lost a few points from me because it felt like pandering in some parts. Like bro, ain't no way they made the middle school girl call Barbie a facist and a white savior. It felt like boomer writers were making fun of gen z because haha woke liberal zoomer gets owned. It also felt like they kinda played the girl for laughs at some points and just having her say stuff only a braindead twitter user would say.
the line where the mom says "It's like the Native Americans in the 1500s! They didn't have any defense against European diseases!" or whatever, like yeah thats true but it's not really relevant right now?
I still can't believe u spoiled this on twitter for me with completely factual info
I heard they're already planning a sequel since the movie made back more then the budget the day of its realease
If so i think the Barbies and kens should definitely realize that men and women should co exist and realize that we need one another instead of a patriarchy or a matriarchy
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And maybe barbie could be the one to enlighten them because she'd has experience witnessing both from barbie land and the real world
I was proud of myself for not crying during the movie and then the Billie Eilish song hit me like a truck
6:51 You're Allan and we love you
I saw this the day it came out and it was definitely the funniest movie I’ve seen all year!
I am so enlightened after this experience
Shoutout to your sexism coach
Swag analysis & swag fit !
their angle on feminism was definitely kind of hammy and cliché but i watched it with my mom and she was like “THIS IS SO TRUE” when the big speech happened so i can understand who it’s for
I was reminded of a sort of spiritually similar speech inserted into Greta Gerwig’s 2019 Little Women, I think she just tends to write like this . She’s gotta have a few monologues in there it’s very theatrical and it doesn’t always work
I just saw the film, and yeah it was great.
i was actually gonna cry it was too good
i cant watch this vid bc i havent seen the movie yet, i keep hearing good things abt the movie and now i really wanna watch it
i couldn't enjoy the movie because my FEMALE cousin were acting like a brat, yawning(realy fakely) played with her phone etc the whole saloon was covered in bad vibes... i will watch myself alone again later
Looking good bubz
Wait I thought at the end of the movie both the Barbie’s and the Ken’s are in charge
I think the statement it makes is really good, but the story was unfinished and kind of awful. I’d watch it again for Ken though he was hilarious
I enjoyed the movie, but definitely all the jokes didn't land. And they touched on too many themes to really do them all justice in one movie. Maybe it should have been like a trilogy. Motherhood, marrying feminism and male rights to equal equality, and being human
HEY MAN, i loved the barbie movie too!! I also have that shirt i love that artist so much! But literally one of my fav reviewers glad u like the movie! Its my new hyperfixation 🥲
I definitely see where you're coming from with the imbalance in how the movie treats the patriarchy and matriarchy. And yeah, the message does get a little murky for sure. But I do like that this film prompts so much conversation.
First of all, I think it's worth noting that the way the Barbies are treated in "Kendom land" is different to how the Kens are treated in Barbieland. The Kens wanted the existence of the Barbies to serve them, and the Barbies wanted to be completely independent of the Kens (which I think is a spot-on representation of what some men and women think is ideal, given our current cultural and societal influences).
My personal interpretation of how this movie ends is that Barbieland depends on the state of gender equality in the Real World (since it is supposed to be the inverse of it, and Real World influences control it), so it can't ever *really* be a utopia of gender equality until the Real World is.
Here’s my hot flaming take : Barbieland didn’t need to fix its Matriarchy , it’s a plane of pure imagination for girls to imagine themselves as anything, not a mirror image bizarro version of the “Real World’s” patriarchy. It’s a safe place for girls to play in . Every interesting job that can be had is held by a Barbie so that girls can have a role model. Kens are a second thought because that’s just kind of how girls play with them. (They show up when they need a groom or a date but most girls had more Barbies than Kens and were often forced to make the Barbies marry each other anyway) They’re not abused or harrassed , they’re just irrelevant-Barbies literally do not ask them the time of day. It’s not a full parallel to womens status in the Real World. I feel bad for them, but Ken’s overreaction is really way worse. He felt left out of Girl’s Night so he … takes over Barbie’s house and plans an insurrection??? It’s made clear that this would also affect the toy line in the real world so the stakes are very serious. Lots of things in the real world are for boys , and there’s this one of few things that is primarily for girls and would be taken over by Ken’s Mojo Dojo Casa Houses . I’m reminded of the history of things being “for women” that started making money and being taken over by men , no longer a thing for women anymore. Computer programming careers for instance . Beer Brewing, the commercial textile industry , etc.
In the seventies lesbian separatist movement, which had its issues I know, mainly what they wanted was to create all women communities where they could be left alone. They didn’t want to subjugate men like they’d been subjugated, they just wanted to be free from men.
The ending of the movie is maybe a bit confusing , I think the whole film had too many ideas that they tried to cram in there. I chose to see it as vague on purpose because there’s no easy answers and we have to live in complexity ourselves .
Ken kind of took over the last third of the movie which would be annoying if it was anyone but Ryan , he’s so perfect as Ken I didn’t mind too much. But I realized later , Barbie kind of goes through an emotional realization offscreen that Ken gets to have onscreen . She’s changed and matured so much that she even helps Ken talk it over and even apologizes to him , but he never even says I’m sorry to her?? I forgive him because he is basically a child learning to express his emotions (and he’s Ryan Gosling! ) but it’s just , I think this has to be intentional. Women are forced by the world to grow up faster , boys are allowed to be boys longer. So one of Barbie’s several emotional arcs is sidelined for Ken’s - though she gets another one right after that with Ruth Handler’s ghost .
I think the flaws in Barbieland were not primarily how the Kens were sidelined, though you could interpret it that way. Barbieland , pre-fall, was a corporate white Girlboss feminism seemingly over-correcting for the real world. But they recreated some aspects of the real world anyway- the Barbies who were successful and powerful were the most adherent to the white cis able-bodied heteronormative beauty standard AND also the most brilliant ever. You are expected to be brilliant or nothing , while looking impeccable. Weird Barbie, who has accumulated collectively all the complicated emotions of little girls “going through it” , is exiled. She’s more sidelined than the Kens or even Alan or Midge. She’s like the Giver in Lois Lowry’s The Giver . She’s this Shaman figure. She’s got forbidden knowledge. She hangs out with the other queer-coded and/or discontinued or problematic toys. So the standard Kens have maybe some grievances but they’re not really comparable to how the truly marginalized characters have been treated. I was happy that President Barbie acknowledged that.
Barbieland seems to be working towards maybe not gender equality but considering giving men a seat at the table equivalent to the one women have in the “Real World”. It would be unrealistic to ask for more . When the Real World achieves gender parity then Barbieland will no longer be necessary, as Barbieland was seeking to provide something kids can’t find in the Real World. Barbieland was not immediately transformed into an ideal paradise because we don’t yet have a real world example of that and so it’s hard to imagine. We have to create Barbieland on earth. A sort of Tikkun Olam- the social obligation to repair the world, in rabbinic literature in the reform tradition. Because there is no heaven , we create heaven on earth.
You actually gave me a much fresher perspective o. The film and I think your take is actually closer to what the message of the film is really trying to convey. Thank you!
I think it’s really interesting how a movie about toys and dolls can cause such big conversations and ideas to come from it. Crazy stuff.
MLP…
@@Twat_Dirt My Little Pony ??
@@83croissant You've mentioned things originally being targeted toward girls being taken over by men, so that was the first thing that came to mind.
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i was very happy with this movie, and was waiting for u to make a video on it lol. very fun movie and i love how the jokes have layers. my favorite part was when barbie was called a fascist, and ken’s horse obsession.
also after watching i was *mildly* annoyed that ken’s didn’t get more rights, but i think there’s reasons for that. i mean, ken didn’t even apologize. and ken’s purpose is just to exist, and that’s all they ever wanted. ken only wanted to have the power of real world men because they were treated with respect. he just doesn’t wanna be “just ken”. so i’m actually really happy with the ending!
also i was waiting for the black hair ken to kiss beach ken the whole time. and the weird barbie to make out with the stereotypical barbie. i hope someone posts a slow burn fic of them on ao3.
if this sounds like i’m restating the obvious, it’s because i am. i just graduated the 7th grade leave me alone pls 😭😭😭
You are so right for that. The fics will be pouring in by sunset.
No, you’ve got some really good points here. I loved Ken’s line that he lost interest in the patriarchy when he realized it had nothing to do with horses. I hope the new and improved Barbieland empowers Ken to live out his best horse fantasy.
Your thoughts are very well put for someone your age . Please don’t dwell on the internet too much .
@@83croissant thank you, and i always try not to get *too* deep into the internet. it’s a very scary place and i’ve seen what happens to people who get used to pouring their whole lives out to the internet. not to mention just the basic dangers of things that seem harmless.
I'm unfortunately not too inspired to write fanfic about this movie, but I will celebrate anyone who did! :D
When I was in the theater there was someone behind me who whenever they laughed the would just go "HA!", also love the scrunchie
"Barbie" doesn't sound like a word anymore.
The thing is, I am the target audience, but had the same reaction to it. Maybe even worse. I went in hoping that the movie would not only tackle feminism, but also the role of men in a feminist world, and how men are also forced into restrictive and harmful gender roles. The fact that the posters were highlighting how redundant Ken was in the world of Barbie made me excited to see what they do with that, and the fact that it ended up being “basically all men love manly things and will immediately turn to into dicks if given the slightest exposure to the patriarchy” made me really disappointed. The fact that the “real world” ended up nearly as cartoony as Barbieland didn’t help either. This movie just didn’t challenge gender roles in the way I had hoped and in some ways reinforced them, and that left me very dissatisfied with the story as a whole, and then yeah, the message was annoyingly muddled and hard to untangle, so I came out of the movie theater pretty upset.
But also I 100% agree with the 10/10 fun score. Hilarious, had me crying multiple times throughout. Really fun if you turn your brain off. But the fact that it looked like it was going to be another Lego Movie and just ended up being a funny (though admittedly, out-of-this-world funny) movie prevents me from really liking it.
I feel like Ken's story was more about how insecure men who get rejected by women (barbie) turn into patriarchal dicks to make themselves feel better
Barbie is helping Oppenheimer box office because some people are watching Oppenheimer just to look cool and smart
7.5 for me. Originally 7 but extra points due to how great Ryan Gosling is
This feels like Mattel's answer to the LEGO movie.
Will Ferrell and his board of himbo parrot bois are such underrated characters
I also think the overall messages were a little muddied with the Kens, and I wanted to see more of the non-Kens and non-Barbies of BarbieLand, but I think that some things are vague, open-ended, and confusing because the movie is ultimately from the perspective of a child playing with Barbies and trying to understand the world. The whole movie, in all its ridiculousness and seriousness, is a child trying to make sense of the very serious things in our world. "The real world" isn't actually the real world, because it's how a child sees the real world, as they're trying to make sense of it.
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tbh why wasnt the lesson: BOTH extremes will fail society and we have to use and combine instead of take over with are different strengths
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First off I love the Zelda music in the background and secondly I loved your comment about the movie being a caricature of the real world in a sense. The movie has a lot of exaggerations but I mean the movie is also about a doll having feelings to begin with LOL. I felt so much through all of this movie and as a woman (this is Marissa from our channel, hi nice to meet you) and I felt like a part of my inner child was actually healed or at least spoken to through this movie 😭💕 great review - cant wait to watch the movie again!
Thank you for the review. I’m so glad this film is receiving all the acclaim it deserves💞
you should do a series on the hsm series because it's just so disney. also camp rock
Nooo Barbie woke! No good! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
I feel personally as a Afab trans person that the message was almost supposed to be anti-ken, in the sense that the world being based around men can make women feel uncomfortable and rejected they almost took a stab back to reiterate the dynamic switch and the ultimate message that everyone should be equal
but ur just a man you dont understand
I didn't know what the ending meant and my friend had to explain it to me and now I wish I was one of the kids in the theater wondering what the heck I just watched