I'm so surprised that no reviews mention what I considered to be the primary story in Barbie - the mother and daughter conflict and resolution. Maybe you have to have been a middle-aged mom like me to see it? Barbie's "girl" was not a girl at all, but an unhappy mom. America Ferrara's character is a creative soul, searching for herself and trying desperately to reclaim her relationship with her daughter, who is mired in teenage angst. I just love how true-to-life these two are portrayed and I really appreciated their resolution. Truth be told, I saw this movie with my own angsty-teen and we both saw ourselves in these characters. Very healing for us, too!
It just made me said. It was all over the place in politics and feminism. Ryan Gosling was the saving grace. He was the only one who knew himself, had a sense of humor, grew as a character. Barbie herself just didn't. And the last scene? Ugh.
I finally saw it. It was a great movie. Between Ken wanting Barbie to be his "long-term long-distance low-commitment casual girlfriend" and the speech about women, and the fact that Barbie finally melts down with a pride and prejudice marathon, I felt like someone had been following me around taking notes.
"It is literally impossible to be a woman. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.
You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin.
You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.
You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.
You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.
You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people.
You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining.
You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood.
But always stand out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system is rigged. So find a way to acknowledge that but also always be grateful.
You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line.
It's too hard! It's too contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you! And it turns out in fact that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also... everything is your fault."
This is such a great assessment. It was funny and touching and you get to look at Margo Robbie and Ryan Gosling for two hours. I think too many people in our country forgot how to have fun. Not everything needs to turn into a divisive topic. Same way how some on the left hate Sound of Freedom, the right needs to take a breath and enjoy Barbie for what is is.
Wait a minute. I'm a pretty far right conservative and I saw nothing political in the movie at all....only fun and lots of it.....we all really enjoyed the movie.
When I reread books that were my favourite when I was growing up in the Soviet Union, I can easily notice what went entirely past me when I was immersed in the Soviet Reality--yes, the propaganda. The ones that used to elicit the most laughter (Nosov, for example) are so thick with propaganda AND poor writing that I wasn't able to read them to my Canadian children (vomit emoji). The others (Gaidar) are beautifully written and have so much loveliness in them, that it is almost a shame how much propaganda was delicately and skillfully inserted. Yet thers (Dragunsky) are just beautiful and timeless with no propaganda in them. Those who think that it is possible to just have fun and enjoy this movie "because the trans identifying actor passes well," and because everyone is so used to bashing men that we don't even notice it anymore--you are like a little Soviet child, laughing at what "the party" wants you to laugh at, even if it is at the expense of freedom.
I’m a huge movie fan, never stopped seeing movies even during covid, once the theatres reopened. Some movies are one side or the other, what isn’t these days 🤦🏻♀️ but I’m seeing some hope out of Hollywood, or wherever movies are being made. There have been some really good movies lately and I’ll include Barbie. It’s fun and silly and campy and makes you smile. Two very memorable moments; America Ferrara’s speech and Rea Perlman’s line about Mother’s standing still while their daughters move forward (I can’t remember the exact line but the sentiment was so lovely I teared up. I have two daughters and we’re all career women. I’m proud of the advances I made and my daughters are the beneficiaries of those advances...just as their children will benefit from their advances). I’m glad I didn’t read any movie reviews. One of my movie buddies saw it and said it has excellent messaging for girls. I agree and I wore pink 👚
“ I tried to avoid the marketing blitz around the movie, but since I have eyeballs, that wasn’t really an option.” I guess I should be proud of myself for not even knowing this movie was in the making! I first learned of it last Thursday when my son texted a photo of him and his wife geared up in pink and heading to opening night. 🤣. He said it was very funny, and having grown up in the Barbie era I am dying to see it — looking forward to some good laughs.
I haven’t seen the movie yet but I’m so happy for the girly girls that want to wear pink and be girly, that it’s available! I’m so tired of grey and tan and black. (Sorry Kardashians, i know you only neutral, but it’s okay to wear color) Bring on the COLORS!
I didn't predict that I would want to see a Barbie movie. I would have bet heavily against my husband wanting to see one. But we both want to go see it. Because it looks FUN.
I’m curious what you think. Respond here if you can! I saw it over the weekend and wasn’t a fan, but all the comments here are helping me understand why people like it.
Ya' joyless people exist on the left and on the right but the poor guy walking by the poster of a real life version of a plastic utopia, "Greek for no place", and the drug zombies on skid row strung out on fentanyl subsidized by the government in crack pipe despensers, "a real thing in our brave new world", one cannot help but being joyless. Burn it all down!
It sounds like it is full of feminism cliches. Also sounds like another message to males that they suck. None of it is helpful to move us forward- it’s like Fonzie jumping the shark on a repeat loop. BTW there are 5 females and 6 males on Mattel’s real board (credit to Ben Shapiro’s for fact)
I'm so surprised that no reviews mention what I considered to be the primary story in Barbie - the mother and daughter conflict and resolution. Maybe you have to have been a middle-aged mom like me to see it? Barbie's "girl" was not a girl at all, but an unhappy mom. America Ferrara's character is a creative soul, searching for herself and trying desperately to reclaim her relationship with her daughter, who is mired in teenage angst. I just love how true-to-life these two are portrayed and I really appreciated their resolution. Truth be told, I saw this movie with my own angsty-teen and we both saw ourselves in these characters. Very healing for us, too!
It just made me said. It was all over the place in politics and feminism. Ryan Gosling was the saving grace. He was the only one who knew himself, had a sense of humor, grew as a character. Barbie herself just didn't. And the last scene? Ugh.
I finally saw it. It was a great movie. Between Ken wanting Barbie to be his "long-term long-distance low-commitment casual girlfriend" and the speech about women, and the fact that Barbie finally melts down with a pride and prejudice marathon, I felt like someone had been following me around taking notes.
"It is literally impossible to be a woman. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong.
You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin.
You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.
You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.
You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.
You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people.
You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining.
You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood.
But always stand out and always be grateful. But never forget that the system is rigged. So find a way to acknowledge that but also always be grateful.
You have to never get old, never be rude, never show off, never be selfish, never fall down, never fail, never show fear, never get out of line.
It's too hard! It's too contradictory and nobody gives you a medal or says thank you! And it turns out in fact that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also... everything is your fault."
This is such a great assessment. It was funny and touching and you get to look at Margo Robbie and Ryan Gosling for two hours. I think too many people in our country forgot how to have fun. Not everything needs to turn into a divisive topic. Same way how some on the left hate Sound of Freedom, the right needs to take a breath and enjoy Barbie for what is is.
This movie was boring. Does anyone agree?
Wait a minute. I'm a pretty far right conservative and I saw nothing political in the movie at all....only fun and lots of it.....we all really enjoyed the movie.
When I reread books that were my favourite when I was growing up in the Soviet Union, I can easily notice what went entirely past me when I was immersed in the Soviet Reality--yes, the propaganda. The ones that used to elicit the most laughter (Nosov, for example) are so thick with propaganda AND poor writing that I wasn't able to read them to my Canadian children (vomit emoji). The others (Gaidar) are beautifully written and have so much loveliness in them, that it is almost a shame how much propaganda was delicately and skillfully inserted. Yet thers (Dragunsky) are just beautiful and timeless with no propaganda in them. Those who think that it is possible to just have fun and enjoy this movie "because the trans identifying actor passes well," and because everyone is so used to bashing men that we don't even notice it anymore--you are like a little Soviet child, laughing at what "the party" wants you to laugh at, even if it is at the expense of freedom.
Saw it last night with my girls, laughed a lot, was pleasantly surprised and recommend it. Wasn't really that much woke horseshit.
And the last line in the movie made me laugh, completely unexpected.
I’m a huge movie fan, never stopped seeing movies even during covid, once the theatres reopened. Some movies are one side or the other, what isn’t these days 🤦🏻♀️ but I’m seeing some hope out of Hollywood, or wherever movies are being made. There have been some really good movies lately and I’ll include Barbie. It’s fun and silly and campy and makes you smile. Two very memorable moments; America Ferrara’s speech and Rea Perlman’s line about Mother’s standing still while their daughters move forward (I can’t remember the exact line but the sentiment was so lovely I teared up. I have two daughters and we’re all career women. I’m proud of the advances I made and my daughters are the beneficiaries of those advances...just as their children will benefit from their advances). I’m glad I didn’t read any movie reviews. One of my movie buddies saw it and said it has excellent messaging for girls. I agree and I wore pink 👚
“ I tried to avoid the marketing blitz around the movie, but since I have eyeballs, that wasn’t really an option.” I guess I should be proud of myself for not even knowing this movie was in the making! I first learned of it last Thursday when my son texted a photo of him and his wife geared up in pink and heading to opening night. 🤣. He said it was very funny, and having grown up in the Barbie era I am dying to see it — looking forward to some good laughs.
I haven’t seen the movie yet but I’m so happy for the girly girls that want to wear pink and be girly, that it’s available! I’m so tired of grey and tan and black. (Sorry Kardashians, i know you only neutral, but it’s okay to wear color) Bring on the COLORS!
I didn't predict that I would want to see a Barbie movie. I would have bet heavily against my husband wanting to see one. But we both want to go see it. Because it looks FUN.
I’m curious what you think. Respond here if you can! I saw it over the weekend and wasn’t a fan, but all the comments here are helping me understand why people like it.
I hear the film is also, like much leftism these days, negative & mean-spirited/stereotyping toward males. Big surprise.
It felt very mean and overly pessimistic to me, a man. But lots of other people think differently.
Ya' joyless people exist on the left and on the right but the poor guy walking by the poster of a real life version of a plastic utopia, "Greek for no place", and the drug zombies on skid row strung out on fentanyl subsidized by the government in crack pipe despensers, "a real thing in our brave new world", one cannot help but being joyless. Burn it all down!
I totally forgot this and YES! I don’t think I paid any attention to Ken.
It sounds like it is full of feminism cliches. Also sounds like another message to males that they suck. None of it is helpful to move us forward- it’s like Fonzie jumping the shark on a repeat loop. BTW there are 5 females and 6 males on Mattel’s real board (credit to Ben Shapiro’s for fact)