"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.
I loved that Ken was only interested in patriarchy because he thought that it involved horses. Ironically, horses are a maternal animal. Also, my entire cinema cracked up at the unexpected "I'm Just Ken" musical number.
Okay, but Weird Barbie is actually so accurate with how girls play with Barbies. I would throw around some of my dolls, cut their hair, paint on make-up, and I even chewed on the hand of one of them. I also had soap opera level plotlines for them to act out and the drama was messy lol. Anyone who believes kids are 100% gentle with their toys has never watched a kid play before.
Sasha and her pals were designed after the original four Bratz dolls, Barbie's biggest competitor. Sasha is nicknamed "Bunny Boo", just like her doll counterpart, and one pal was apparently named Jade.
The clips showing while “What Was I Made For” plays is people who worked on the movie and their loved ones. Greta wanted a way to include them and thank them for their hard work, and that’s what they came up with :)
I actually have an Allen doll and I used to have him and Ken go to battle with the other Barbies. When I saw the movie for the first time and they showed Allen I was cracking up! I didn't think Matel remembered him
@@SophiaPhannnTo be fair he's from the 60s so most people didn't know him before this movie (although he did have a comeback in the 90s as Midge's husband) my doll was an og Allan (I spelled his name wrong in my comment 🤦♀️) I got him when I was about 6 at a yard sale. He was in a box full of other Barbies from the 60s and 70s. My mom was only gonna buy me one Barbie but when she asked the woman selling them how much it was they both looked over at me and as my mom puts it I was "literally vibrating with excitement over those Barbies" and the woman said she'd sell the whole box for $5 😂 best day ever
They did actually have a Silkstone reprint of Allen available for a while after the movie’s release, I don’t know if it’s still available anymore though
I feel like people don't think about or recognize how sympathetic the Barbie movie is to Ken/men. His whole point is that having men being accessories and attachments for empowered women without any autonomy also doesn't fix gender issues but just leads to an inverse resentment, which would also lead to gender struggle/war when shown that they don't have to do it.
Hi Barbie! The blue hair is back and looks so pretty! 😍 I loved the vibe around the movie, I loved the movie, watched it 2 times, cried, and kept singing "I'm just Ken" for weeks. One of my friends also didn't wear pink to go see the movie. We said she's goth barbie.
Margot Robbie is by far among one of my favorite actresses. I love how diverse she is from Harley Quinn to Queen Elizabeth to Itanya to Wolf of Wall Street and to Barbie! She was great in this and Ryan Gosling was also great! His mug shot pose is iconic!
I love this movie because we came together to have a fun Barbie summer. When I went to the theater with my older sister and nieces, we wore our pink and all the other girls/women we saw kept complimenting each others outfits
Just to clarify, the Barbie movie is just as much about societal pressure of men as it is about women. It frustrates me when people watch this movie and say things like "why is Ken getting a musical number in a Barbie movie?". So many people watch this movie and interpret it as "women should have everything instead", rather than "both genders are in unfair positions". Where is the nuance in this conversation?
Tbh I was watching this more for a fun watch rather than an analysis, so it more so slipped my mind to look at both sides. If I had watched this more times prior, I probably would’ve picked it up and talked about it.
I agree. Though I personally don't think this movie does a good job highlighting any of that. Why did Ken not feel respected. I thought in cannon like "Barbie Dreamhouse" or whatever Barbie respected everyone, and her and Ken's relationship was strong. Why did the Barbies seemingly install a Matriarchy when it's been said before it would be no better than this. Why did the mom compare the Ken vs. Barbie to colonization spreading diseases. Why did the teen girl use patriarchal tactics to help the Barbies. Making Ken's questions their power over Barbies than their power over themselves. Seems like an almost play by play of how the working class is constantly pitted against each other, leaving no ability to focus on the people pitting them against each other. If every Barbie and Ken in this movie was white, it might as well have been a movie about white dictatorship from a "feminist" lense. Also this channel is a reaction channel not so much a movie analysis. This usually isn't the place to bring this up. Sophia was just having fun lol
My only question, does Sophia have her own Mojo Dojo Casa House? I remember when this came out, and thinking that it wasn’t for me. But then I saw a few little clips from it and thinking, I actually need to watch this movie, it looks funny as hell.
the only thing i dislike about this movie is the approach of her losing her hyperfemininity and taste of fashion to show her becoming "human" as if there's something not human in being feminine and fashionable. I hoped they did something similar to legally blonde because to ME that is being Barbie, focused on your goals and being confident in yourself, productive and being happy with your femininity. I loved the movie but in the final half it lost me, also i hated how everyone focused in Ken and it even had a performance in the Oscars like the whole purpose of the movie seemed lost.
@@rachezzel in my opinion that only makes it worse lmao, bc, it's like implying that being feminine, liking pink and girly things was something bad and "fake" when the message that Barbie always gave is to stay true to yourself and you can do anything. the "girlboss" "i don't need to wear pink to be powerfull" is old and very weird lol but yeah, i get the point they were trying to make, i just didn't like it bc it felt so forced.
@@onlinegirliee i see what you mean, i feel like that colour was chosen because of the idea of pink being traditionally feminine and “pretty,”. saying she doesn’t have to be conventionally attractive or commercially viable to be a worthy person. i do see how that idea could be taken multiple ways though, and i would have preferred if she had kept some of her original style
My parents wouldn't get me a Ken for some reason; it's not like the doll has anything a kid shouldn't see. So I cut a Barbie's hair really short and put on a loose shirt and pants and his name was Ben. One day my super conservative parents discovered Ben and bought a Ken they forced me to use. Now whenever they ask how they have a child who is pro-Trans and LGBT rights I ask them who made me recreate Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast without a Ken.
Once again a banger of a vid! My favorite moment is the "are you guys watching The Godfather?" because I am that guy that's a huge film buff and will talk film with anyone who will listen. I guess I'm just Ken.
Hi Barbie! The more I watch this movie the more annoyed I am that the Mattel executives kept blaming real world changes on Barbie when all the problems were because of Ken. 🙄 I didn't notice it the first couple of times but now I'm like 😠
Awesome reaction Barbie is a absolute masterpiece and a rare original film we don't get often these days. Thank you Margot and Greta you proved that female directors and producers van make billion dollar hits!
I really love this movie, and after this last election here in the US where an incredibly qualified woman lost to the most unqualified man imaginable, it's clear that people need to hear this message more than ever.
I wasn’t really a fan of Ryan gosling but seeing he was cast as Ken I thought YES! His derpy eyes and derpy smile are effing perfect! And he was. He was perfect. There’s a reason he won for this (in the culture at least lol)
This was released during BARBENHEIMER, where Barbie and OPPENHEIMER released on the same weekend. OPPENHEIMER took him 7 Oscars: Best Picture Best Director Best Actor, Cillian Murphy Best Supporting Actor, Robert Downey Jr Best Film Editing, Jennifer Lame Best Original Score Best Cinematography.
A reaction from Sophia about the Barbie Live Action that’s released on my birthday?? Hell yeah! I love this movie so much, I went and watched it with my friends during the summer and we loved it. As a guy myself, I felt the empowering and beautiful message behind the movie. The monologue of the mom ranting about how being a woman is difficult struck way too close to home for me, despite not being a woman myself. I cried during that moment because I’m someone who has severe amounts of perfectionism, impostor syndrome, anxiety and self-loathing. I found myself wanting to please everyone and be strong and perfect as possible without showing so much a flaw or imperfection, and yes I still have some of that. But with age, I found that kind of mindset harmful to me in every sense possible. This movie saved me in ways I didn’t know was possible.
20:50 that's soooo real. I've always wanted someone to sing with but I've never found a guy that can even hold a note 😅😅😂 I was in chorus for 8 years so I want to harmonize dang it! ❤🎉
The Barbie movie was up and down to me like there were some parts I liked and some parts I didn’t like but overall I think the film was pretty good 👍 I loved the performances from all the actors and Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were pretty great as Barbie and Ken 🩷 I loved the soundtrack every song was hit especially I’m just Ken 👍 also love te costumes and outfits as well 😊 and it was funny at times too 🤭 thanks for the reaction Sophia and can’t wait for your next reaction 😁😃
Odd Sasha saying that Barbie's been making women feel bad about themselves when you find out that Ruth handler also invented the Nearly Me Prosthetic Breasts for women who've had one of their breasts amputated due to Breast Cancer - the same happened to Ruth Handler you see and the only prosthetics available were either uncomfortable or poorly made or just didn't look realistic (and they didn't match if you had to get two).
Sophia thank you so much for uploading this video it means a lot to me. I love your videos and I really like when you sing you have a beautiful voice😂❤ I really hope you keep making these videos and I hope you enjoy making them as much as I love watching them❤❤❤
I remember people, men women and “feminists” alike complaining about the movie, about the messages and the big speech and I was kind of confused and thought, did we watch the same movie? If you hold it to the impossibly high standard that it’s going to change the world and make everyone into feminists, yeah the movie will be disappointing because nothing can ever be that perfect. For me it was a fun movie with gorgeous set design and costume design so many cute callbacks to the original Barbie sets and an overall positive but realistic message
19:43 i didnt start wearing glasses until college and genuinely i think i look better With them, like they separate my face in a nice way or whatever, and now whenever i see like a picture of me without glasses it just looks wrong man
“Bold of them to assume Barbies were not used to👏👏👏” in my case I never has a Ken doll, so it was BARBIE dolls (or a mix of a Barbie and a bratz doll) that would 👏👏👏🙈
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this movie!! Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are PERFECTLY CAST as Barbie and Ken... One of my favorite parts of the movie is when Margot goes FULL BARBIE, when she's feeling all defeated... And she just like flops onto the ground and starts rolling around all stiff and Barbie like... Grade A Barbie acting!! And don't get me started on Ken... I literally have an "I am Kenough" hoodie, exactly like the one Gosling wears after the "I'm just Ken" number. Like with the tie-die and EVERYTHING just EXACTLY like the one Ken has. I'm literally wearing it right now as I'm typing this... BECAUSE I AM KENOUGH!!!
Sasha and her friends are highly likely a Myscene doll reference as Mattel also owns them and they were made after Bratz came out to combat their popularity. They were older and more "edgy" then Barbies style. I loved watching their films as a kid even if I never owned the dolls. But the girls are a direct copy of the main girls in that Madison, Delancey, Chelsea, and Nolee
Close. She's actually supposed to symbolize the Bratz. Her name is not only Sasha (one of the dolls) but her mom affectionately calls her "Bunny Boo" which was the dolls nickname. Though interestingly she should have been called Yasmin, as that's the Latina doll in the group. Sasha is the Black one. Then again, maybe that would have been too on the nose.
Sigh yes the only attempt I remember of really owning a baby doll was a baby alive doll that would cry, I would sleep right through it. Then when I would walk through the toy aisle I would want all the woodshop esq toys in the boy side. Meanwhile all the girl toys would literally be a vaccum cleaner??? It would annoy me so much.
This was a blast! And you're right, Jane Lynch would've been a perfect additon to the cast, omg! I loved this film. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first saw it, but it was fun. My sister and I actually owned 2 versions of the "Pregnant Midge" doll (mine was given as my birthday present by a classmate when I was 8. It's literally how my mom discovered I knew what a "pregnant" person was. I said "oh she's pregnant!" when I unwrapped her lollll). Her tummy was detachable & hollow; held to the doll's abdomen with magnets. There also was a lil newborn baby that literally fit into the belly. So you could role-play her being a new mom, as well as pregnant too. Kind of ironic in hindsight, considering the monologue that the film opens with, and the philosophy that that Barbie was founded on; luckily, a more nuanced take on feminism is what's examined in the film . Also, believe it or not, part of the controversy regarding pregnant Midge had to do with Alan. Barbie & Ken were historically marketed as fashionable older teenagers (like 17-19). It's only in recent years that Mattel has vaguely started leaning into Barbie & Ken being 20-somethings. But they were always polished, "mature"-looking teens. Midge, and then Alan, were introduced in the 1960's to add more 'youthful'-looking face sculpts and fashion aesthetic in the doll line, averaging a more 15-17-yr old look to them. (Barbie & Ken still embodied that done-up mini-adult 1950's demureness at the time). They were marketed as boyfriend & girlfriend, like Barbie & Ken. When pregnant Midge came out, decades done the line, the doll box made mention of Alan being the expectant father. And, besides the social taboo of treating pregnancy as a normal thing, around kids (gawd forbid!), there was an uproar about how Alan & Midge were still vaguely marketed as teens & also *gasp* unwed! But yeah, Alan is technically the baby daddy lol.
Fun fact most of the discontinued Barbie’s actually exist. Yes even the puberty skipper. Magic earring Ken is very sought after for some doll collectors. Sugar daddy Ken is called that because of the dog named sugar. Why didn’t they have the forethought of that meaning being misconstrued idk lol
I used to live across the street from my best friend for like 20 years and now she’s 3-4 hours away from me 😭 (I was the one who moved so far away but still)
@@SophiaPhannn LMAOO NOT THE INSTA FEATURE 💀💀 on a real note, i've been a long time subscriber and you've brought so much laughter and comfort into my life! love you queeeeen💖
When i was a kid i was in a disney store with my parents. They had a tour guide barbie from toy story 2. My mom was going to get it for me but my dad wouldn’t let her. I wasn’t even gonna play with it. I was going to put it with the rest of my toy story collection
I watched some of the 2023 Oscars best pictures nominees with my mom, we had different favourites (hers were Holdovers and American Fiction, mine were Anatomy of a Fall and Past Lives) but we both really enjoyed this one 🥰 edit: and that scene where Barbie is looking at the park gets me too, but for me for whatever reason it's the slow pan up into the random ass tree. I'm a Denis Villeneuve fan what can I say I'm a sucker for a slow pan up into a random ass tree 😂
My mum didn't really like this film because she thought it was too on the nose, but I think that was the whole point (?) Especially the feminist speech part. I guess we can't all appreciate the obvious approach hehe Btw I also tear up when Barbie talks to that old lady in the park (that whole scene, actually). It's beautifully done T.T Thank you for making a video on this, I really wanted to know your opinion because (surprise surprise) this movie is polarising Can't wait for the holiday season commentaries!
Yeah I can see how some people wouldn’t like the meta-nature of it. But with a movie about Barbie and a lot of young kids watching, I don’t think subtlety would’ve been the better approach 😂
I was admittedly super late to the party in getting around to this, watching it (and Oppenheimer too for that matter) roughly a month after it came out, but the experience of seeing it in the cinema was still truly delightful. Incredibly fun yet also very heartfelt, perhaps a little flawed in some areas, but undoubtedly a highly entertaining and compelling film, pretty much reaffirmed Greta Gerwig as a director whose work I'll be watching whenever a new one comes out (and to think that this is her weakest film, that's a sign of how good her films generally are). Everyone else seems to have jumped in to praise the performances, the music and the script, so I'm going to give a shout out to the production design, which was just fantastic. Between the brilliantly detailed sets, the gorgeous matte painted backgrounds and all the cleverly used props, this is pretty much a triumphant showcase of good practical effects, and proof that Gerwig could make an amazing old-school Hollywood musical if she wanted to.
11:25 Which do we think it is? That she feels like she has to act this way for her friends or that her friends feel like they have to act that way for her? Or that they're both putting on an act of what they think they all want them to be? Either way I don't Sasha knows what a fascist really is, and I think that at least one of her friends still has all their barbie dolls under their bed and that every morning they dress them and every night brushes their hair and puts them to bed.
I felt viciously attacked and called out when depression Barbie watched the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, everyone else I’ve ever known who was in my age group watched the film adaptation with Keira Knightly. I had only first watched it last year but had watched it at least a few times again before Barbie and have probably watched it another 10 times. 🤣
It seems to be a shared experience for a lot of viewers, my sister felt specifically targeted by that moment, not helped by the friend she saw the film with, our mother and I all seeing that as a sequence that seemed to reflect her directly
"Does she even know what that means?", probably not. But also I think that may or may not be a reference to the fact Barbie was modeled after a German doll so calling her a "fascist" feels more directed to Barbie than you may think.
As a glasses wearer I also use to think I looked prettier without glasses but I actually feel naked without them cause I think I looks pretty all the time 🫶🏾
I got asked by more than one friend if I wanted to go see this movie in theaters when it first came out, and I regret not saying yes to one of them. I still had an amazing experience watching it for the first time at home and am maybe kinda glad that I didn't go see it in public because this movie did make me cry quite a few times 😅 I feel like this is one of those movies that makes you emotional for a new reason every time you go back to watch it. It does a great job at tackling so many of the sad and crushing things all women have to deal with throughout different stages of their life while still keeping a tone of humor and hope, and is a huge part of why I love it so much 🩷
Some people do think that the monologue is too “on the nose” & we already know all that. & that Sasha was too negative & cynical saying that “women hate women & men hate women, it’s the one thing we all agree on “ And to them I say… Our next president of the USA come January 2025 is, again….. I think Barbie needs to be re-released in theaters, some people clearly didn’t pay attention or understand 😔
"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.
I loved that Ken was only interested in patriarchy because he thought that it involved horses. Ironically, horses are a maternal animal. Also, my entire cinema cracked up at the unexpected "I'm Just Ken" musical number.
It’s weird though because many Barbie dolls had horses with them, actually she was probably the one who led to the horse girls trend
Okay, but Weird Barbie is actually so accurate with how girls play with Barbies. I would throw around some of my dolls, cut their hair, paint on make-up, and I even chewed on the hand of one of them. I also had soap opera level plotlines for them to act out and the drama was messy lol.
Anyone who believes kids are 100% gentle with their toys has never watched a kid play before.
Sasha and her pals were designed after the original four Bratz dolls, Barbie's biggest competitor. Sasha is nicknamed "Bunny Boo", just like her doll counterpart, and one pal was apparently named Jade.
the amount of tears shed when the final scene with the billie song played...bro i watched this with my mom and we both sobbed like babies
The clips showing while “What Was I Made For” plays is people who worked on the movie and their loved ones. Greta wanted a way to include them and thank them for their hard work, and that’s what they came up with :)
This was such a beautiful moment in the film. The part with Barbie sitting in the park and then that montage made me cry.
Ryan Gosling was so perfect in the role of Ken. And "I'm just Ken" is the one of the best bangers of 2023.
I actually have an Allen doll and I used to have him and Ken go to battle with the other Barbies. When I saw the movie for the first time and they showed Allen I was cracking up! I didn't think Matel remembered him
I totally didn’t even know Allen was an actual doll until I watched the movie 😂 I’m just not familiar with the Barbie lore
I'm still waiting for the film version of Allan to be made into a doll. MATTEL, GET WITH THE PROGRAM!!
@@SophiaPhannnTo be fair he's from the 60s so most people didn't know him before this movie (although he did have a comeback in the 90s as Midge's husband) my doll was an og Allan (I spelled his name wrong in my comment 🤦♀️) I got him when I was about 6 at a yard sale. He was in a box full of other Barbies from the 60s and 70s. My mom was only gonna buy me one Barbie but when she asked the woman selling them how much it was they both looked over at me and as my mom puts it I was "literally vibrating with excitement over those Barbies" and the woman said she'd sell the whole box for $5 😂 best day ever
They did actually have a Silkstone reprint of Allen available for a while after the movie’s release, I don’t know if it’s still available anymore though
I feel like people don't think about or recognize how sympathetic the Barbie movie is to Ken/men.
His whole point is that having men being accessories and attachments for empowered women without any autonomy also doesn't fix gender issues but just leads to an inverse resentment, which would also lead to gender struggle/war when shown that they don't have to do it.
Hi Barbie! The blue hair is back and looks so pretty! 😍
I loved the vibe around the movie, I loved the movie, watched it 2 times, cried, and kept singing "I'm just Ken" for weeks.
One of my friends also didn't wear pink to go see the movie. We said she's goth barbie.
I guess my friends were just Allen 😂
Margot Robbie is by far among one of my favorite actresses. I love how diverse she is from Harley Quinn to Queen Elizabeth to Itanya to Wolf of Wall Street and to Barbie! She was great in this and Ryan Gosling was also great! His mug shot pose is iconic!
and not to forget Sharon tate😍
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@@one-onessadhalf3393 IT ONY A MOVIE
@rachezzel SOMEONE ELSE GOT THE REFERENCE :D
Ryan Gosling's Ken was the funniest part of the whole movie and you cannot convince me otherwise!
I personally think that the narrator was funnier
I love this movie because we came together to have a fun Barbie summer. When I went to the theater with my older sister and nieces, we wore our pink and all the other girls/women we saw kept complimenting each others outfits
Maybe that last part will happen if this film gets the stage musical version treatment.
I LOOOVE the blue hair, every hair colour you do suits you so well 🩷🩷
Thank you babe 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Just to clarify, the Barbie movie is just as much about societal pressure of men as it is about women. It frustrates me when people watch this movie and say things like "why is Ken getting a musical number in a Barbie movie?". So many people watch this movie and interpret it as "women should have everything instead", rather than "both genders are in unfair positions". Where is the nuance in this conversation?
Tbh I was watching this more for a fun watch rather than an analysis, so it more so slipped my mind to look at both sides. If I had watched this more times prior, I probably would’ve picked it up and talked about it.
I agree. Though I personally don't think this movie does a good job highlighting any of that.
Why did Ken not feel respected. I thought in cannon like "Barbie Dreamhouse" or whatever Barbie respected everyone, and her and Ken's relationship was strong.
Why did the Barbies seemingly install a Matriarchy when it's been said before it would be no better than this.
Why did the mom compare the Ken vs. Barbie to colonization spreading diseases.
Why did the teen girl use patriarchal tactics to help the Barbies. Making Ken's questions their power over Barbies than their power over themselves.
Seems like an almost play by play of how the working class is constantly pitted against each other, leaving no ability to focus on the people pitting them against each other.
If every Barbie and Ken in this movie was white, it might as well have been a movie about white dictatorship from a "feminist" lense.
Also this channel is a reaction channel not so much a movie analysis. This usually isn't the place to bring this up.
Sophia was just having fun lol
Omg when I went to see this we all wore pink, it was so fun, also mean girls the musical was also a event to wear pink
The friends I watched Mean Girls with wore pink!! They understood the assignment 😍
Yeah but Barbie was good
YAY! We blue haired Sophia again!
My only question, does Sophia have her own Mojo Dojo Casa House?
I remember when this came out, and thinking that it wasn’t for me. But then I saw a few little clips from it and thinking, I actually need to watch this movie, it looks funny as hell.
the only thing i dislike about this movie is the approach of her losing her hyperfemininity and taste of fashion to show her becoming "human" as if there's something not human in being feminine and fashionable. I hoped they did something similar to legally blonde because to ME that is being Barbie, focused on your goals and being confident in yourself, productive and being happy with your femininity. I loved the movie but in the final half it lost me, also i hated how everyone focused in Ken and it even had a performance in the Oscars like the whole purpose of the movie seemed lost.
I feel like it wasn't really intentional, since the pink was used as a way of showing what things were "fake" like the sand, using it as an indicator
@@rachezzel in my opinion that only makes it worse lmao, bc, it's like implying that being feminine, liking pink and girly things was something bad and "fake" when the message that Barbie always gave is to stay true to yourself and you can do anything. the "girlboss" "i don't need to wear pink to be powerfull" is old and very weird lol but yeah, i get the point they were trying to make, i just didn't like it bc it felt so forced.
@@onlinegirliee i see what you mean, i feel like that colour was chosen because of the idea of pink being traditionally feminine and “pretty,”. saying she doesn’t have to be conventionally attractive or commercially viable to be a worthy person. i do see how that idea could be taken multiple ways though, and i would have preferred if she had kept some of her original style
A reasonable discussion in a UA-cam comments thread?! That's it. You're both banished from the site. 😉🩷
My parents wouldn't get me a Ken for some reason; it's not like the doll has anything a kid shouldn't see. So I cut a Barbie's hair really short and put on a loose shirt and pants and his name was Ben. One day my super conservative parents discovered Ben and bought a Ken they forced me to use. Now whenever they ask how they have a child who is pro-Trans and LGBT rights I ask them who made me recreate Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast without a Ken.
Once again a banger of a vid! My favorite moment is the "are you guys watching The Godfather?" because I am that guy that's a huge film buff and will talk film with anyone who will listen. I guess I'm just Ken.
The film bros cannot escape the stereotype LOOOOOOL
Hi Barbie! The more I watch this movie the more annoyed I am that the Mattel executives kept blaming real world changes on Barbie when all the problems were because of Ken. 🙄 I didn't notice it the first couple of times but now I'm like 😠
Awesome reaction Barbie is a absolute masterpiece and a rare original film we don't get often these days. Thank you Margot and Greta you proved that female directors and producers van make billion dollar hits!
Yes it was the filmmakers family's clips used during that montage
I really love this movie, and after this last election here in the US where an incredibly qualified woman lost to the most unqualified man imaginable, it's clear that people need to hear this message more than ever.
We could’ve had a woman president just like Barbie 😔
That old lady on the bench was the costume designer for the movie!
Your hair looks so good!!!
Thank you babe 🫶🏼
Love the blurring of the feet 🤣
I wasn’t really a fan of Ryan gosling but seeing he was cast as Ken I thought YES! His derpy eyes and derpy smile are effing perfect! And he was. He was perfect. There’s a reason he won for this (in the culture at least lol)
This was released during BARBENHEIMER, where Barbie and OPPENHEIMER released on the same weekend.
OPPENHEIMER took him 7 Oscars:
Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor, Cillian Murphy
Best Supporting Actor, Robert Downey Jr
Best Film Editing, Jennifer Lame
Best Original Score
Best Cinematography.
A reaction from Sophia about the Barbie Live Action that’s released on my birthday?? Hell yeah! I love this movie so much, I went and watched it with my friends during the summer and we loved it. As a guy myself, I felt the empowering and beautiful message behind the movie. The monologue of the mom ranting about how being a woman is difficult struck way too close to home for me, despite not being a woman myself. I cried during that moment because I’m someone who has severe amounts of perfectionism, impostor syndrome, anxiety and self-loathing.
I found myself wanting to please everyone and be strong and perfect as possible without showing so much a flaw or imperfection, and yes I still have some of that. But with age, I found that kind of mindset harmful to me in every sense possible. This movie saved me in ways I didn’t know was possible.
🥹🥹🥹 I love that it was impactful for you as well. It’s okay to just be you 🫶🏼
The final talk between the creator and Barbie makes me cry every single time. At the start of the note of the song I’m already crying.
yess the blue hair!!! you look so beautiful!!!!!
20:50 that's soooo real. I've always wanted someone to sing with but I've never found a guy that can even hold a note 😅😅😂 I was in chorus for 8 years so I want to harmonize dang it! ❤🎉
No one would be laughing at all. Ken & Barbie look totally RAD 😎 roller skating
The Barbie movie was up and down to me like there were some parts I liked and some parts I didn’t like but overall I think the film was pretty good 👍 I loved the performances from all the actors and Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling were pretty great as Barbie and Ken 🩷 I loved the soundtrack every song was hit especially I’m just Ken 👍 also love te costumes and outfits as well 😊 and it was funny at times too 🤭 thanks for the reaction Sophia and can’t wait for your next reaction 😁😃
Also that seen with the old lady at the buss stop was nearly cut out I think it was Margo or greta who fought to keep that in
Odd Sasha saying that Barbie's been making women feel bad about themselves when you find out that Ruth handler also invented the Nearly Me Prosthetic Breasts for women who've had one of their breasts amputated due to Breast Cancer - the same happened to Ruth Handler you see and the only prosthetics available were either uncomfortable or poorly made or just didn't look realistic (and they didn't match if you had to get two).
13:28 idk if you know this but that’s the actress that plays the mom in Matilda
Sophia thank you so much for uploading this video it means a lot to me. I love your videos and I really like when you sing you have a beautiful voice😂❤ I really hope you keep making these videos and I hope you enjoy making them as much as I love watching them❤❤❤
Omg 🥹 thank you for watching my videos and supporting me 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
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I remember people, men women and “feminists” alike complaining about the movie, about the messages and the big speech and I was kind of confused and thought, did we watch the same movie? If you hold it to the impossibly high standard that it’s going to change the world and make everyone into feminists, yeah the movie will be disappointing because nothing can ever be that perfect. For me it was a fun movie with gorgeous set design and costume design so many cute callbacks to the original Barbie sets and an overall positive but realistic message
Can we note how this has the best soundtrack I’ve ever seen (For a Film That’s not a musical)
Knowing the patriarchy is still in full swing is when you find out that 'I'm Just Ken' won best song over 'What Was I Made For?'
Imagining seeing your president, the most powerful woman in the land, serving "brewski beers" on the beach!😂😂
UR HAIR LOOKS SO GORGGGG
Thank you baaabbbeeee 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
19:43 i didnt start wearing glasses until college and genuinely i think i look better With them, like they separate my face in a nice way or whatever, and now whenever i see like a picture of me without glasses it just looks wrong man
The speech actually made me cry 😭
“Bold of them to assume Barbies were not used to👏👏👏” in my case I never has a Ken doll, so it was BARBIE dolls (or a mix of a Barbie and a bratz doll) that would 👏👏👏🙈
6:46 NAW not the birks disrespect
27:19 oppositely we wore all/mostly black thanks to the Barbenheimer craze lol
omg i love your hair
Thank you 🫶🏼
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this movie!! Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are PERFECTLY CAST as Barbie and Ken... One of my favorite parts of the movie is when Margot goes FULL BARBIE, when she's feeling all defeated... And she just like flops onto the ground and starts rolling around all stiff and Barbie like... Grade A Barbie acting!! And don't get me started on Ken... I literally have an "I am Kenough" hoodie, exactly like the one Gosling wears after the "I'm just Ken" number. Like with the tie-die and EVERYTHING just EXACTLY like the one Ken has. I'm literally wearing it right now as I'm typing this... BECAUSE I AM KENOUGH!!!
I loved Ryan Gosling in this movie. He was so unserious in his role of Ken comparing to his other drama roles he took in the past 😂
Sasha and her friends are highly likely a Myscene doll reference as Mattel also owns them and they were made after Bratz came out to combat their popularity. They were older and more "edgy" then Barbies style. I loved watching their films as a kid even if I never owned the dolls. But the girls are a direct copy of the main girls in that Madison, Delancey, Chelsea, and Nolee
Close. She's actually supposed to symbolize the Bratz. Her name is not only Sasha (one of the dolls) but her mom affectionately calls her "Bunny Boo" which was the dolls nickname. Though interestingly she should have been called Yasmin, as that's the Latina doll in the group. Sasha is the Black one. Then again, maybe that would have been too on the nose.
I never saw this movie until now. This was the pinkest movie ever.
Love the new hair!
Thank you 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
i could seriously talk about this movie for hours. i have a whole section in my notes app dedicated to it :)
Sigh yes the only attempt I remember of really owning a baby doll was a baby alive doll that would cry, I would sleep right through it. Then when I would walk through the toy aisle I would want all the woodshop esq toys in the boy side. Meanwhile all the girl toys would literally be a vaccum cleaner??? It would annoy me so much.
5:38 I would be in charge of cleaning my nieces Barbie’s cuz they would always use markers on them smh
😂 this was my way of changing up my dolls’ makeup
This was a blast! And you're right, Jane Lynch would've been a perfect additon to the cast, omg! I loved this film. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first saw it, but it was fun. My sister and I actually owned 2 versions of the "Pregnant Midge" doll (mine was given as my birthday present by a classmate when I was 8. It's literally how my mom discovered I knew what a "pregnant" person was. I said "oh she's pregnant!" when I unwrapped her lollll). Her tummy was detachable & hollow; held to the doll's abdomen with magnets. There also was a lil newborn baby that literally fit into the belly. So you could role-play her being a new mom, as well as pregnant too. Kind of ironic in hindsight, considering the monologue that the film opens with, and the philosophy that that Barbie was founded on; luckily, a more nuanced take on feminism is what's examined in the film .
Also, believe it or not, part of the controversy regarding pregnant Midge had to do with Alan. Barbie & Ken were historically marketed as fashionable older teenagers (like 17-19). It's only in recent years that Mattel has vaguely started leaning into Barbie & Ken being 20-somethings. But they were always polished, "mature"-looking teens. Midge, and then Alan, were introduced in the 1960's to add more 'youthful'-looking face sculpts and fashion aesthetic in the doll line, averaging a more 15-17-yr old look to them. (Barbie & Ken still embodied that done-up mini-adult 1950's demureness at the time). They were marketed as boyfriend & girlfriend, like Barbie & Ken.
When pregnant Midge came out, decades done the line, the doll box made mention of Alan being the expectant father. And, besides the social taboo of treating pregnancy as a normal thing, around kids (gawd forbid!), there was an uproar about how Alan & Midge were still vaguely marketed as teens & also *gasp* unwed! But yeah, Alan is technically the baby daddy lol.
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🥹 this is the sweetest comment 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼
Fun fact most of the discontinued Barbie’s actually exist. Yes even the puberty skipper. Magic earring Ken is very sought after for some doll collectors. Sugar daddy Ken is called that because of the dog named sugar. Why didn’t they have the forethought of that meaning being misconstrued idk lol
I used to live across the street from my best friend for like 20 years and now she’s 3-4 hours away from me 😭 (I was the one who moved so far away but still)
can we talk about Sophia's hair colour?? love it!
Hehehe thank you!! 🫶🏼
yessss 😍 title is truly up to par and please next reaction gossip girl😍
Always love a Sophia Phan video
i am not lying, on one of my rewatches, i was like "sophia is going to hate all this feet" LOOOOL
HAHAHAHA incredible that that’s my impact
@@SophiaPhannn LMAOO NOT THE INSTA FEATURE 💀💀
on a real note, i've been a long time subscriber and you've brought so much laughter and comfort into my life! love you queeeeen💖
FINALLY Barbie 2023 WAS SO PERFECT! anyways glad Sophia had to battle the copyright issues w this film and watched it, and don't forget to slay!
Blue hair is back! ❤
17:41 Those were real kens that really existed!
When i was a kid i was in a disney store with my parents. They had a tour guide barbie from toy story 2. My mom was going to get it for me but my dad wouldn’t let her. I wasn’t even gonna play with it. I was going to put it with the rest of my toy story collection
Omg your mom should’ve been able to buy it for you 😭
thankfully they’re only like $20 on ebay. I’ve been meaning to finally buy one but every time i have money i forget to do it. Lol
Your hair! It’s back to “normal” 😂
Before I eventually go back to my actual natural hair 😂
I watched some of the 2023 Oscars best pictures nominees with my mom, we had different favourites (hers were Holdovers and American Fiction, mine were Anatomy of a Fall and Past Lives) but we both really enjoyed this one 🥰
edit: and that scene where Barbie is looking at the park gets me too, but for me for whatever reason it's the slow pan up into the random ass tree. I'm a Denis Villeneuve fan what can I say I'm a sucker for a slow pan up into a random ass tree 😂
Your friends need to be put on trial for that. Unacceptable.
HONESTLY!!! This is why I go to movie theaters by myself LOOOOL
1:24 yes.....
yes you are.
My mum didn't really like this film because she thought it was too on the nose, but I think that was the whole point (?)
Especially the feminist speech part. I guess we can't all appreciate the obvious approach hehe
Btw I also tear up when Barbie talks to that old lady in the park (that whole scene, actually). It's beautifully done T.T
Thank you for making a video on this, I really wanted to know your opinion because (surprise surprise) this movie is polarising
Can't wait for the holiday season commentaries!
Yeah I can see how some people wouldn’t like the meta-nature of it. But with a movie about Barbie and a lot of young kids watching, I don’t think subtlety would’ve been the better approach 😂
Barbie literally went "where my hug at?"
Even though I'm not the target audience for this movie, I genuinely enjoyed it and the message was fantastic.
the blue hair is back from the dead 💙
Hehehe it feels natural!
I was admittedly super late to the party in getting around to this, watching it (and Oppenheimer too for that matter) roughly a month after it came out, but the experience of seeing it in the cinema was still truly delightful. Incredibly fun yet also very heartfelt, perhaps a little flawed in some areas, but undoubtedly a highly entertaining and compelling film, pretty much reaffirmed Greta Gerwig as a director whose work I'll be watching whenever a new one comes out (and to think that this is her weakest film, that's a sign of how good her films generally are). Everyone else seems to have jumped in to praise the performances, the music and the script, so I'm going to give a shout out to the production design, which was just fantastic. Between the brilliantly detailed sets, the gorgeous matte painted backgrounds and all the cleverly used props, this is pretty much a triumphant showcase of good practical effects, and proof that Gerwig could make an amazing old-school Hollywood musical if she wanted to.
The sets were so amazing!
You’re so real for the cyber truck comment lmao
IT’S TRUE 😂
4:50 hearing the same song everytime you wake up is just having a morning alarm
Yeah but at least you can change the song when you get sick of it 😂
. Those clips in the end are from the ones who worked in the movie.
. If I was Barbie, I would fall in love with Ken easily.
. Allan deserved better!!
I love this movie, my beloved Hari Nef is in it
The end is so real, none of my friends wore pink either…
IT WAS SO CRIMINAL, LIKE DO Y’ALL HATE FUN??
Sophia Phan I was just at Walmart earlier and in the clearance section they multiple dolls of Ken from the scene where they enter the real world.🤣
Not the clearance section 😭 Barbie-mania is over
The pull up bar is the ultimate sign a man has moved into your space. Ask me how I know
11:25 Which do we think it is? That she feels like she has to act this way for her friends or that her friends feel like they have to act that way for her? Or that they're both putting on an act of what they think they all want them to be?
Either way I don't Sasha knows what a fascist really is, and I think that at least one of her friends still has all their barbie dolls under their bed and that every morning they dress them and every night brushes their hair and puts them to bed.
I felt viciously attacked and called out when depression Barbie watched the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, everyone else I’ve ever known who was in my age group watched the film adaptation with Keira Knightly. I had only first watched it last year but had watched it at least a few times again before Barbie and have probably watched it another 10 times. 🤣
It seems to be a shared experience for a lot of viewers, my sister felt specifically targeted by that moment, not helped by the friend she saw the film with, our mother and I all seeing that as a sequence that seemed to reflect her directly
"Does she even know what that means?", probably not. But also I think that may or may not be a reference to the fact Barbie was modeled after a German doll so calling her a "fascist" feels more directed to Barbie than you may think.
Hey the blue hair is back! 😀 I missed it. Although i have been hoping you might rock the purple look! 😊
I honestly thought about a purple look!! But I really loved the blue and wanted to go back
Hey! When are you reacting to Legend of Korra? It was ages since your avatar
As a glasses wearer I also use to think I looked prettier without glasses but I actually feel naked without them cause I think I looks pretty all the time 🫶🏾
RIGHT. Ppl ask why I don’t get contacts, but glasses are just a part of me now 😂
I can’t hear America in anything else besides Astrid, I even saw her in Ugly Betty before this and all I can see and hear is Astrid 😂
That’s so funny because I think of Carmen from The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants
also btw you probably have watched BUT if you didn't pls watch "hoodwinked", not necessarily for react vid but for yourself, it's such a ride
No
It needs to be a video if she never watched it before
I missed the blue hairrrr
I missed it too!! It feels almost natural to me 🥰
I got asked by more than one friend if I wanted to go see this movie in theaters when it first came out, and I regret not saying yes to one of them. I still had an amazing experience watching it for the first time at home and am maybe kinda glad that I didn't go see it in public because this movie did make me cry quite a few times 😅
I feel like this is one of those movies that makes you emotional for a new reason every time you go back to watch it. It does a great job at tackling so many of the sad and crushing things all women have to deal with throughout different stages of their life while still keeping a tone of humor and hope, and is a huge part of why I love it so much 🩷
I love this movie so much!
Some people do think that the monologue is too “on the nose” & we already know all that. & that Sasha was too negative & cynical saying that “women hate women & men hate women, it’s the one thing we all agree on “
And to them I say…
Our next president of the USA come January 2025 is, again…..
I think Barbie needs to be re-released in theaters, some people clearly didn’t pay attention or understand 😔
55 seconds ago is crazyyyy
Ayyye glad im not the only that nosed dive to click on this video lmao