BARBIE (2023) MOVIE REACTION!! Margot Robbie | Ryan Gosling | I'm Just Ken | Full Movie Review
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Barbie Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, Ending Explained & Spoiler Review! After the Barbenheimmer Billion Dollar success, our Barbie Trailer Reaction, it is now time to FINALLY experience the Warner Bros Barbie Movie from Greta Gerwig. The hilarious feminist comedy movie has a major cast including Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Kate McKinnon, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adair, Michel Cera, John Cena, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Will Ferrell, Issa Rae, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, and MANY MORE! Here's our reaction to the best & funniest scenes including the I'm Just Ken Music Video (Musical Number) & the soundtrack.
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Kens story is the story of many young men, not knowing what to do, but find something that is meaningful and doing what is cool and fun for him, it just kinda left him open to the wolfs, his insecurity at know being able to know what he could be, is universal, and it just shows how the issues of men, can't be solved easy and is certainly not being solved now, as it is compounded by this conflicting notion of how to reconcile the relationships that are left with how a world that couldn't care about men in the most basic sense. No one teaches boys to become men, and then that is taken over by the boy learning from the most beneficial and good for himself thing, which will not be the best thing for others. It is time to understand that Ken is Me, is not the lesson, but the subject that you must train and understand before any kind of bridges can be made, to cement the proper foundations for better men.
Just don't treat thing the way they are, but the way they are able to move towards.
Men being able to understand and feel loved.
I'm so glad you guys stay away from all Barbie spoilers it is definitely making for great content were you guys especially during the strike. But please make your way to the theater and watch this in all its awesomeness. It will be playing in IMAX starting September 22 for about a week. This movie is too gorgeous to not see it on the big screen
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Ok i was thinking to give this a CHANCE but, yes the CRITICS are right this is a WOKE mess.
There is nothing funny here.. its PUMPED FULL with NEO MARXIST ( stealth communist ) rhetoric and talking points.
The people who think this movie is anti-men heard the word patriarchy and then ignored everything else. This movie is anti-patriarchy, yes, but it is pro-men. It takes so many steps to show how our society also hurts men and our ability to feel and grow and be confident. The world tells us we are not "Kenough" and this movie acknowledges that
Perfectly said! I was excited about this movie but I was also afraid it would be anti men in order for it to be feminist but I was shocked and happy that it wasn’t even though it did lean towards a female perspective it approached those topics in a way where it didn’t put men down at all it called out the fact that the patriarchy has unrealistic and unreasonable expectations of men as well as women and which is something a lot of modern feminists movies don’t talk about well if at all and when it did poke fun at guys it wasn’t mean spirited at all imo. This movie is the perfect balance between dealing with a lot of heavy themes and still being a very fun movie i loved it.
Exactly
as someone who isnt a man, i was also really happy they explored that, because EVERYONE faces pressure from society, even if it manifests in different ways. i was pretty scared going into the movie that it would have undertones of misandry but was pleasantly surprised :D
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I enjoyed the movie, but I didn't think what the Ken's did made them the "bad guys" of the film. The men had 0 power at all in barbie land. They were barely even acknowledged. All Ken did was flip it around. Not saying its right for either side to have all the power, but it was reasonable to see why Ken was upset and did it lol.
But then the movie just ends with basically 98% of the power back to women, which was weird. Kinda felt like the lesson wasn't really learned. But at least they said sorry to Ken.
Ken not being as excited about patriarchy when he found out horses weren't a part of it was the funniest thing to me for some reason.
I still think that we should've gotten a reference to the old-school Barbie horse computer games in this film. What a missed opportunity.
I found that quite telling for most people seeking power. They want the power for one thing but then they find that thing isn't what they expected but then don't know how to get out of it.
@@JeshuaSquirrel Exactly! I was just gonna comment that. 😂😂
Ken's a Brony! XD
Honestly I freaking love this movie and I adore all the Barbie references they included but I'm so sad they didn't include the Barbie horses bc i loved them as a kid, I had a whole stable with pink horses 😂
Fun fact: When Greta Gerwig went to Mattel about Ken, they had a similar reaction to that in the movie. They didn’t care what they did with Ken. Only focused on Barbie.
Greta said in an interview that Ryan got a bunch of t shirts made for the crew as a wrap present. He did a bunch of Barbie t shirts and Ken t shirts but had to get approval from Mattel to use any Barbie imagery. Ryan told Greta that Mattel had a list of requests when using an image of Barbie but didn’t care at all what he did with Ken 😄.
When Barbie and Ken join the toy story cast was the same thing
@@bpowick That kind of makes me sad. The image they put out to girls is so controlled.
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@Remy1848 it's less about that and more about the fact that barbie is the main focus? Most companies are very protective of their property.
When Barbie looks over to that older woman and says "You're so beautiful." It really makes me tear up a bit because Barbie stays the same forever, there are no older Barbie's, she's never seen someone look like her and that the first time she saw someone different her first thought was, This woman is beautiful. is so sweet.
I love that when Greta was urged to cut that scene for flow, she said "If we cut this scene, then I don't know what this movie is about."
Not to be pedantic but there actually was an older barbie released in the early 2000s, she was Midge’s mother (part of the Happy Family line). She had grey hair and glasses and wrinkles! I had her when I was little and I loved playing with her along with the rest of my barbies 🥲🩷
Yes and she looked very much like martha stewart
I well up every time. Impactful
I heard Margot Robie ran into John Cena a restaurant while filming and just asked him if he wanted to come by and shoot a cameo and he agreed.
That is true
She also gave Ryan a gift everyday during the making to get him to play ken
Amazing 😂
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@@Cassie-rx5glhe’s so Ken 😂😂😂😂😂
ryan gosling is absolutely kenning as ken. he’s kenning all over the place. he’s kenning all over everyone. he’s kenning everywhere and he’s kenning so hard that he’s gonna ken himself blind if he doesn’t stop kenning.
I ken’t get enough of him
My favorite part is when he said 'It's Kenning Time!' and kenned all over the place
truly one of the moments of all time
Movie is cringe but funny kind of cringe
@@JamJimRuthe term you’re looking for is camp
The line "Ken isn't something we're worried about, ever." was said to Greta Gerwig by Mattel Executives when she was discussing ideas with them. That's why she put it in the movie. Far from being Anti men, Greta was the one to give ken a voice and a chance to be Kenough, which is more than the men that controlled him cared to do.
Omg I love that! 😂 it makes sense tho, he’s always just been an accessory to Barbie & that’s awesome Greta wanted to give him a voice!
The amount of meta commentary in this movie is astounding.
Historically, Ken was literally created to be an accessory to Barbie. They did a great job portraying this using source material into the storyline.
"I'm a man with no power does that makes me a woman" that line is simply hilarious
The moment when Billie Eilish's 'What was I made for?' plays over snapshots of women's and girl's lives made me cry so much. Every woman I spoke to got emotional at that part I think because of how heavy it feels being a woman sometimes and how you yearn for simpler times.
That scene broke all of us.
Exactly I cried so hard and this old lady next to me in the movie theaters were crying too.
My boyfriend held me during that scene it was very emotional. Girlhood and womanhood and the positive experiences people have is just touching
this movie respected men and women at the same time, they gave barbie's development and sentiment for women and ken for the men
@@blue_ig1 OK...
I'm not a woman but I also teared up sitting next to my mom in the theater 😭
My ten year old son asked to go see this with me and he was tearing up during THE speech. After the movie he asked me if I really felt that way and I told him every single day and he just gave me the biggest hug. Very happy I went to see it with him and he keeps thinking about it’s themes and messaging a lot. He even said the movie wasn’t about hating men.
He was also super upset that in the end Barbie was still apologizing to Ken when he did such terribly things 😅
Thats amazingly cute, i hope he grows to be an amazing adult because he is an amazing kid
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You’ve raised an amazing young man!
This comment made me well up. Clearly you're doing everything right with that baby. ❤
This comment made me cry. And it gave me so much hope. ❤you are raising an amazing little human
Fun Fact: the women at the bus stop is famous costume designer Ann Roth who did work on the 90's version of The Birdcage and also worked on classics like Midnight Cowboy and Marathon Man.
Cool! I was wondering who she was.
Thanks for posting. People kept commenting that she was Barbara handler so that’s who I thought she was. I’m glad now I know that’s wrong.
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@@mackenzie98I thought she was in the movie until I Googled whoever made Barbie and found out she died in 2002.
Fun fact: when you said Ken and Barbie looked like brothers because of their acting, the same way Ruth named Barbie after her daughter Barbara, she did Ken after her son Kennedy, Its a really fun fact that even thought they always make Barbie and Ken a couple, they were both named from their creator kids
That’s so fascinating! I felt like Stereotypical Barbie and Beach Ken here have a sibling dynamic, like when Ken popped up in Barbie’s car and when Barbie told Ken to take a walk anywhere while she was on the bus bench. They bicker like siblings would. They even mentioned it at 20:52.
You asked a couple times how this got past Mattel. Greta and Margot explained that, had it only been a few items Mattel had a problem with, Greta and Margot would have lost. But since it was almost the whole script, Mattel was just overwhelmed so they got to do the movie they wanted..
Apparently Mattel did push back a lot but I guess they eventually conceded at some point lmao
It’s actually bc Greta and Margot had their vision so clearly defined and talked Mattel’s heads off for I think a few hours that by the end, they weren’t overwhelmed so much as reassured that Barbie was, in every sense, in excellent, expert hands. They trusted that creative (and lucrative) process.
Margot said in an interview she basically told them it's gonna make a billion dollars stfu and she said she didn't think it really would but it did
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@@ianterrellbrown I'm so glad we all validated their vision. It was needed and it made history for a reason.
"Note to the filmmakers: Margot Robbie is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point"
best line of 2023
That was SERIOUSLY funny. 😂😂😂
The entire cinema was basically yelling at that point 😂
Agree!!!
Everyone started laughing in the cinema when she said that! 😂😂
True this movie is woke
I just want the studios to pay the writers and actors fairly so we can have I'm just Ken nominated as best original song and we can see Ryan perform it live at the Oscars
I'd love all the Kens to do the whole dance too
Yes, studios need to get their prioritize in order and actually pay people what they need in order to live. I want to see if anything from Barbie will get nominated, but I'm willing to wait so that all the lesser known actors and writers can get the benefits they need.
Am I wrong, or would this have been slightly superior as a musical?
@@hellfish2309a Broadway styled musical of this movie would be really fun to see.
@@turnipcrazy4602 Greta Gerwig had her last two movies nominated for best picture. If the trend continues, Barbie will absolutely be nominated.
The actress playing Ruth Handler is Rhea Perlmen and has been in the industry for many, MANY years. I think most people would know her from her role in Cheers but she was also in Matilda (As Matilda’s awful mother.) and many other projects. (A lot of people also know her as Danny DeVitio’s wife.)
I actually thought they might go into a Cid rant, lol. (She also voices Cid in The Bad Batch).
Oh yeah!
Yeah I was like, How do they not know Rhea Perlman ??
That was the shocking, glaring hole in their otherwise next-level knowledge of film. They are far beyond me, so how did I know Rhea Pearlman and they didn’t?! 🤣
It’s all good-love this reaction (and indeed lumpst all of their reactions!)
Sadly she and Danny broke up a few years ago
The absolute level of empathy John has when Barbie talks about how terrifying constant change is, and the reaction of Greg and John during THAT speech is the exact right (k)energy I wanted from this.
Removing the music and leaving the vocals just amplifies how talented all of these singers are🥰
IKR? Ryan Gosling just owned that role. I wasn't expecting him to be that perfect for the role. If he doesn't get at least a nomination for an Oscar or Golden Globe for best supporting, it will be a shame.
This was, unironically, my favorite movie this year, and one of the best movies I’ve seen in years. Really, truly special film. Glad y’all are reacting to it!
As I was walking out of the theater, I felt the way I did after seeing Everything Everywhere All At Once, two movies that absolutely floored me with their originality and talent and emotion. 🩷
@@StoryTimewithMissAnna i totally get that, i wish i had seen everything everywhere all at once in theaters
Barbie is a real triumph in the art of production design. The way it encompasses the feeling of golden age Hollywood films, French new wave cinema, and more modern comedic sensibilities is incredible. Though I suspect it'll end up going to Robert Downey Jr, I could totally see Ryan Gosling winning Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Ken
It will be fascinating to see if both actors get nominated and if the competition will be between the two of them. It would be a first win for them and in a way a career win because they have both been working actors for a long time and have received previous nominations. I'm personally rooting for Ryan, but we will see what happens.
“Alan earned the power of self-respect” got me good
And “storm the beach at Barb-andy” too John was on fire
The line, 'We mothers stand still so our daughters can look back and see how far they've come" absolutely destroyed me! 😭😭They did an amazing job capturing so many aspects of the female experience in this movie. Great reaction, guys! Thanks for sharing!
i cried at that too.
@@phunk8607I texted my Mom to thank her for all the years she "stood still" for me... turns out she's been having a hard time lately and feeling like she failed as a parent 😢 I'm so glad this movie helped me realize I haven't been making my mom feel appreciated enough ❤
That was so precious
Greta Gerwig is a bigger genius than even the industry gives her credit for, this had great humor politics colors music and emotions, i didn’t know what to expect and i was so happily surprised, Margot Robbie and Ryan were so brilliant .. thanks this reaction is such a treat glad you guys enjoyed it just as much 🌸🍃
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The humor was bad and you could tell that the writers actually believed the jokes the politics were awful I mean I get putting it in your face as a type of story telling but this was just horribly done the b plot took over the a plot which was the beauty of aging and not feminism vs the patriarchy. The plot it self is irrelevant by about 30 years so it is neither interesting new or brave. The songs and sets were surprisingly great but that’s about it.😊
@@masonguthrie1257😂😂😂😂
@@masonguthrie1257Thank you i agree, i think this script was written in the 50's and Greta took credit for it..its a hateful movie and such a shame its getting away with its gender politics...I mean the songs are good and cast did their best with this horrible script, i suppose they were well played...
@@garydodd2837lol the fact you think this is a “hateful” movie is the funniest and most transparent thing I’ve seen in ages 😂
"Push" being the Ken's go to song had me dying in the theater.
the meaning behind the song fits SOOO well! makes it so much better lol
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Especially because the lyrics start with "She said..." Despite being sung by a man, it's actually about a woman telling a man she'll push him around and take him for granted. Brilliant.
Greta Gerwig quickly becoming one of those filmmakers I can always trust will come up with a great project. Lady Bird, Little Women, even with a big comercial brand like Barbie, she still managed to make it feel like her own thing. I can't wait to see what she does next :)
I believe it's the live action Snow White
@@mysredeyes she's just one of the writers on that, I'm talking more about something where she takes over full creative control, and I think she's doing Narnia next if I'm not mistaken lol
@@jamesbuchananbarnesssyou mean like one of the two writers of the live action right?
@amateurbarnaby yeah and I don't doubt she will do a good job with her part, I just want to see something that comes entirely from her
@@jamesbuchananbarnesss that will be hard, her last self-written and directed movie only from her was 2017’s Lady Bird. Everything else was co-written or someone else’s IP.
I really loved Barbie's fascination with the old woman, the first one she ever saw!
There's no 'old lady Barbie'.
Yeah. She’s around the age Barbie should be, as well.
i finally saw the movie, and i cried twice. Once during the speech about how hard it is to be a woman, and the second when barbie becomes real. I absolutly adore this movie and how it really talks about womans feelings and inner issues. Also the ken song is fucking fire
I also cried twice; the scene with Barbie taking in all the real world and telling the older woman she’s beautiful. I cried again near the end with the montage.
You... cried during the speech about how hard it is to be a woman? The speech where she complains about having to be extraordinary and then later in the same speech complains that nobody gives them a medal or says thank you?
You realize most of that speech is mostly about how women treat other women... right?
@@bellidrael7457I think you missed the point of the speech lol. She wasn't saying she agreed with it; she was explicitly stating the contradictory expectations patriarchy places women under - which yes, a lot of women enforce because society teaches them that male validation/attention is key and that in order to get said attention, they have to follow the patriarchy's expectations. The last part, about not getting a medal or congratulations, is her expressing her frustration at how even if a woman somehow meets the expectations perfectly, people act like that's the bare minimum she should do to be respected. She's not so much asking for a reward as asking not to be punished in the first place.
The fact we never got to see their reaction to "Sublime!" kills me.
It wasn't a huge reaction. I watched with the watch-along and that moment didn't hit as big for them.
That's unfortunate, I've (fortunately/unfortunately?) adopted it into my everyday vocabulary and it makes me giggle like a child every time
Hi. I love Barbie
"Any power you have must be masked under a giggle." This right here.
Another fun fact - Gerwig and McKinnon were great friends and roommates at Columbia University. Making this film together after so much individual success since then must have been super surreal and satisfying for both!
And for it to become a BarBillion dollar success is just icing on the cake, HAPPY DAYZ!!
I thought they were the same person
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I'm a total Alan and at the end after Ruth says "now feel" I wept. It was so emotional. Also love that song by Billie Eilish. I watched it with two of my women best friends and we just sat there after it ended, just taking it in and smiling and wiping our tears. We went to a toy store right after and it was hilarious to see Matel selling the barbie movie barbies. So ironic. What a great movie. I wish more men appreciated it because its so brilliant. I wish "woke" wasn't an insult because it was so real. Glad you two enjoyed it as much as I did!
In a world of Kens, be an Alan! He was my favorite
Between this film and Blue Beetle, I'm discovering I have a weakness for old women telling me to feel/cry
I can’t watch that ending sequence where she feels that human experience without sobbing.
@@legendswarble2845oh, friend, I immediately cry at any old lady being a good person when I'm watching movies 😭😭😭
This movie is amazingly beautiful, funny, intricate, and introspective. I loved playing with Barbies as a girl and I felt the emotion provoking speech by America F. as a middle aged mother. It’s not in my eyes a woke movie because they didn’t change the reality of what Barbie was made for or meant to be, which was a way to encourage girls to be more than what society demanded at the time of her creation.
The movie is great. At it’s core, being about a mother & daughter relationship (Ruth creating Barbie & naming it after her daughter, and Stereotypical Barbie fixing the relationship between the mom & daughter). Ken’s journey of going what women went through in the real world (not being respected & only seen as lesser and side pieces, to getting lower jobs than Barbies and “working their way up the ladder” as the narrator says). The contrast between Barbieland and the real world, and how Ken feels in Barbieland vs how Stereotypical Barbie feels in the real world. Then the history of Barbie dolls and their unrealistic beauty standards harming women, all making her want to stay in the real world and be a little of a contributing factor to help the real world
Fun fact: Sasha and her friends are a nod to the Bratz dolls. Not only do they resemble them but Sasha’s nickname from her mom is the same as the doll.
Did she call her Bunny or Boo in the movie? I don't recall
This movie does such a great job at deconstructing who Barbie is, as an individual and as a doll, and what she represents. By the end you really feel like she's gone from a mass produced entity to her own real person.
Simu offered to do a backflip because he knew ryan couldnt lol. They ended up working it into the movie
Loveee this movie. My favorite part was when Barbie just wanted to be friends with Ken. I think we as the public put Ken & Barbie as a couple but why can’t guys and females just be friends strictly platonic. Loved that part 💗
My Barbie’s never dated my kens. She dated Aladdin and Alan (yes I had one….GO ALLEN)
I love the fact that John Cena joined last minute. He wasn’t even in the cast, but he was working next door and when Margot asked him if he wanted to be a part of it he leapt at the opportunity. 😂
That does not surprise me at all 😂
He has said he will take most roles coming his way, no matter how silly or small the role. It's about learning and expanding as an actor.
Its interesting that I'm the beginning the Kens are not the center of attention, Barbie just didn't corresponded to his feelings. But when Ken changes the Barbieland, they put women beneath them. I liked that it's a way to illustrate patriarchal is bad for everybody.
There is no patriarchy though. Hasn’t been for a long time.
@@LD_92 so you’re a Barbie living in an imaginary world? I guess it takes time to adjust to living in reality. You can do it!
@@BelBelle468 Point to the patriarchy. Where is it exactly? You can’t? Aw, that‘s what I thought.
@@LD_92Sealion goes "bargflaghrahjsvb"
@@LD_92people that don’t let others actually answer their questions just know the answer will upset them.
4:48 “Little pregnant girls deserve to see themselves in a toy as well”
There is something really fucked up about that sentence 😂😂😂😂
I missed that the first time.
It was meant to be an absurd comment, and comes across that way.
One of my favourite things is her sulk at losing her privilege. It’s a great reflection on how the simplistic view of having the world that’s perfect for you and not wanting to have to change is hard.
It's interesting how insecurity leads us to unintentionally harm our own wellbeing and others around us. Ken and Barbie's archetypal insecurities were part of the sadness and frustration each of them felt. Well put with, "Wanting to have to change is hard."
I laughed and cried so much while watching this in the theater! My 16 year old daughter loved it, too. The haters just don't get it, they misunderstand the intent. Glad you guys liked it, and I really enjoyed your reaction!
Giving choices to give a sense of control when in reality the choice is clearly defined already is what adults are taught to do with children when they become toddlers…. I love how she uses it here for Barbie as it really fits for so many situations .
Thank you both for reviewing and giving your thoughts. It got deep for me on so many levels, especially America Ferrera's speech...so many of those thoughts run thru my head on the daily. So refreshing to see everyone enjoy it on their own level. I think everyone has something they can either relate to or just find hilarious. Great review!!
America Ferrera contributed a lot to that speech.
Can’t believe how good this was. Thought provoking, funny, insightful and lots of emotion. A lot like the unexpected Lego movie about 10 years ago.
Greta Gerwig is now officially the person who can proudly say she's made a good live-action Barbie movie. That's amazing.
I was really surprised when i realized you guys had not seen this film in theatres, but then became really excited at the thought of being able to see you experience it here instead.
I went to see this with my mom, friend, and younger sister and i actually found myself really interested in the conversation the movie provoked in us afterwords. My mom, for instance, is a very tradition woman with traditional values and she actually felt bad for Ken in the end, and was upset that Barbie never ended up accepting him as her signigicant other. She was uncomfortable with many of the topics brought to the surface and she felt that a lot of it was untrue. While the 3 of us, and especially my younger sister felt that it was extremely accurate and poignant, while also being hilarious.
I thought it really showed us how much our eyes have opened to the way we are tricked into believing we have autonomy and choices when we are still being told what our choices are in the first place.
As a woman growing up watching my mom manage a business and smiling and giggling while telling men what to do, so as to soften the blow of her being their boss, it really hit me how much she doesnt even realize this was something she had to do. She just thought it was normal.
One of my aunts who's 80 yo tried to convince me last summer that actually women didn't have it bad in the past and she never felt opressed at all. I was like girl, when you were my age you had to get the permission of your father/husband to be able to work and open up your own bank account. As a grown adult! The men in your life could decide to keep you financially dependent on them forever. By law. What do you think opression actually is??
I like the idea that Will Ferrell's character is another Ken who came to the real world.
Sometimes you just gotta remember that you are Kenough
What I love about this movie is that it echoes Gloria Steinem’s remarks on Barbie’s influence on girls (from the tiny shoulders documentary), “the idea that you’re strengthening your daughter by saying you can be anything, really ends up making her feel guilty if she can’t”. Because things like glass ceilings and rape culture exists beyond the valley of childhood, within the real world. I also love how you picked up on the bright, sugary candy coating that cloaks the underlying sense of despair and depression. I think that’s a sad and beautiful way to put it.
I love that you guys had so much fun with the "illusion of control" because let me tell you, as a teacher, that is one of the things they teach you on day 1. I guarantee your teachers did that to you until at least 4th grade.
The biggest moment for me was when America Ferrera talks about how lonely and sad she feels now that her daughter is growing up. I have two daughters about the same age as Sasha. That bit made me cry. I think that is the power of the movie, that there are references to people from various walks of life struggling in the same way but for different reasons. I also love how when Barbie sees America for the first time she has a look on her face like love, like she knew who this person was even before she they spoke to each other, like a baby looking at her mother. Thanks for acknowledging that as men you wouldn’t fully understand some of the references that the women would get - I expect there are things Ken goes through that hit you in different ways than it hit me. Great review, guys!
Watching this, most of the time I was like "oh...I remember that...I wanted that...I HAD that!" for a lot of the Barbie stuff. It's very much a love letter to those who grew up with Barbies, and a great movie for everyone else!
Took my sisters with me to see this, we all loved it. We did burst out laughing at the Ken fight/dance!
I watched this and Oppenheimer with my parents on the same day! I wanted to watch Barbie while my mom wanted to watch Oppenheimer with my dad, so we watched both!
I just want to thank you guys for being the first male reactors I've seen that didn't talk exclusively about Ken and reflections on maleness in the movie and how it makes them feel as men. I'm not kidding.
I have seen this movie 10+ times and I never picked up on 'Peli-Ken' in the "what bird am I thinking of" moment 😂
It's been refreshing rewatching this as a reaction video, especially from the POV from you guys!
I loved this movie. I texted a friend as the end credits were rolling to tell him how fantastic it was.
Ryan Gosling is perfect. He’s such a goos actor, he can be both subtle and extravagant at the same time 😅
13:30 love that u described it as a “sugary pop song with sad lyrics” because that’s literally why they chose dua lipa to make a song for the soundtrack!
such an intelligent discussion abt this movie that i was really craving!! and i loved seeing two guys giggling nonstop throughout the entirety of this film lol
Skipper is always the babysitter. In fact (I work for Mattel) we are finally trying to find other things for her to do
When I saw in this in theaters, a woman at the other end of the row I was in shouted a reverberating YES when Barbie says gynecologist. The whole theater burst into applause. It was amazing.
Gosling’s PERFECT satire of Push is Oscar-worthy in itself.
I've been checking out reactions to the Barbie movie (and I admit, specifically by dudes because I really like the perspective) and although I am not subbed when I watched this, this is my favourite breakdown of this movie I've seen on youtube. I genuinely really loved your discussion and breakdown of a lot of the themes and concepts that this film SOMEHOW manages to do so well when so many other corporate films and shows fall short tackling the same topics.
if they ever [EVER] sold depression barbie, THAT will be bought and stored
fun fact about the earring Ken: they came up with his design by going to clubs and looking at the male fashion there. The reason he was discontinued was because his necklace is, well.... A cock ring.
Nooooo!
I am so happy to see you guys react to this. I love this movie. When I first heard about this I thought it would be ridiculous and lame and then the more I saw the more intrigued I got. I saw it twice in the theater and I notice new things each time. One thing someone noticed that I thought was interesting is how Barbie apologizes at the end, but ken never apologizes.
My 14yr old nephew told me the movie made him feel bad and i asked why and he had a tough time expressing why so I let him in on how this movie is a great way to show what women go through every day and that he could choose to be a Ken or he could be an Allen. Allen never needed Barbie or Ken's validation. Allen also knew what was happening to the Barbies was unfair and he helped them. I love this movie.
It made $1.4 billion dollars at the box office!
It should’ve made $1 Barbillion worldwide
Because audiences are stupid
And yet it was still a flop
@@JamJimRu how is $1.4 billion a flop??? 🤨
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I saw an interview with Margot Robbie and apparently the John Cena cameo was purely a coincidence; they were shooting different films at the same studio in London and bumped into each other, and Robbie asked him if he wanted to come have a cameo and he JUMPED at it
I can feel the Kenergy!!!!!
Of all the movies to become a cultural sensation, this was the last one I would have expected. I love how men by and large have embraced this film. I went to see Oppenheimer a week later, and there were still droves of dudes in pink. And I live in a red county.
I never thought the Barbie movie would make me shed tears or have a lot to think about once it was over, but here we are.
It was a very special movie to share with my Mom.
The box scene really got me on this reaction! As a single woman who's almost 30 it felt like sush an important parallel for the messaging I've gotten throughout my life to get a corporate job for men, to marry a man and submit, to get in the box. Chills.
I find it crazy that they went through hundreds of different shades of pink and I think they finally settled on ten different shades and I'm pretty sure the Barbie brands literally owns a certain shade of pink lol how iconic is that. I wasn't a big Barbie girl growing up but I did have some so did friends, and I love the details they have Margot floating down, not really drinking or eating, no water running in the shower, and the pointed feet because Barbie only wears heels is so funny to me this was honestly so fun to watch.
Greta Gerwig serves up a frothy confection of fashion and fun coupled with searing social critique of the iconic doll in the movie Barbie.
I loved Ken's arc. As she became real so did he. He grew. The Kens were my fave. Them and Allen!
1:08:16 YES YES YES TO ALL OF IT. it's so nice to hear a man REALLY understand ken's character and everything he is meant to represent. loved the commentary btw, i'm glad you also had a fun time watching this movie ♥
The character of Ruth was played by Rhea Pearlman, Danny Davito's wife, the waitress in the 1980's show "Cheers".
I went to see the movie today and my mom actually told me that the Ken finale dance battle was from Ryan Gosling’s old dance routine he competed with when he was 11.
this movie was so important to me because everything in glorias monologue is relatable and its the first movie ive ever seen address all of it
this film hits so many topics and on so many levels! I'm glad it was the highest grossing film! I'm an Allan btw lol. its very rewatchable and I'm sure you can pick up on new things with each watch. i loved your breakdown and so grateful to be a Patreon member!
Their bubble is a Plato's cave of sorts. This movie is so beautifully layered with movie references, philosophy, humor, cinematography and astonishing set design🥰🥰🥰
So much fun seeing y'all watch this.
I’m Just Ken has a Grammy nomination I’m so excited!
The first two sentences of the intro already had me smiling ahahaha.
This mf better be nominated for at least two Oscars. Dealers choice, but it’s very deserving of multiple.
I am so excited to see the Reel Rejects react to Barbie!!!
in one viewing, i was been conditioned to start sobbing practically the moment "what was i made for" starts playing, with or without lyrics lol
Every single woman has gotten a guitar played at us 😂
Literally " Anyway, here's Wonderwall"
Not me, but I haven't met any men yet. I'm not in a rush. XD
💯 lol
@@pundertalefan4391 I'll play a guitar at you. I hope you like Push.
I absolutely loved this film. I’m so glad it’s receiving all the attention and recognition it deserves💞
To me Barbie and Ken were really only friends to begin with because they themselves don’t know what physical attraction is not having those inclinations or body parts. Their love always was platonic for those reasons. He was looking for her to be his exclusive best friend , but used the terms boyfriend and girlfriend to describe that since that is how Mattel labeled them. So when they didn’t end up as something more in the end it did not surprise me at all.
Surprised you guys hadn’t seen this yet but happy I got to see your reactions. I figured Barbie would let me down and was happy to see it be more than I thought. To be honest I should’ve known and expected better from Gerwig, Robbie, Gosling, and the rest of the great cast but I was genuinely shocked by the layers. I laughed, cried, and experienced all of the Barbie emotions.
Also, so impressed that you avoided so many spoilers because people still won’t stop discussing the movie. (At least for Oppenheimer we knew what happened historically, this one all we knew was the doll).
This is the reaction we all been waiting for
Ruth Handler is the creator. The old lady on the bus bench is a well known costume designer for movies
Happy y’all liked it!! What a joy to experience this movie again with you both!
I'm really surprised you guys didn't see this in theatres.
Suprised it doesn't say first time watching in the title
The bright pink from you guys was a bit of a jumpscare lol (affectionate) but this was unironically my favorite of the year so far. I went to see it with my mom so it hit even harder.
I, a guy, really wanted to see this movie, but all my female friends were on the fence. So, I went with my male cousin and we both loved it. None of us felt offended or anything like that.
To learn about Barbie's history, the show The Toys That Made Us has an episode about her.