I’m not sure if there is a bigger platform here on Lemmy discussing new releases, but Barbie was awesome. I had a smile on my face pretty much the entire time. The kens were hilarious. I thought it was a bit heavy handed at times but as a male, I’m sure it’s just a bit of ignorance on my part.
Would love to hear what everyone’s thinking!
It was great. Like the Lego movie it felt aware of what it was and did a good job of not just making fun of itself, but also having a surprisingly heartfelt message.
I haven’t watched it yet, but the trailer feels like The Lego Movie but with Barbie. It even has Will Ferrell as president business again.
I thought it was delightful.
Ryan Gosling was so funny as Ken. It’s right up there with his comedy chops in The Nice Guys
Awesome. I loved the nice guys. That scene where he falls off the balcony and finds the body is hilarious.
It’s a fun movie and some of the comedy is brilliant in its timing and execution. Re the movie’s messaging, this is personal taste but I wish they’d found a way to have the movie say all of that without going full “This is John Galt Speaking”.
Great movie, really did a good job of expressing the impossible expectations of women.
What really stuck out to me was barbie comforting ken after he wronged her through the whole film, him not apologizing or trying to right the wrong.
Love the dichotomy of a film made by matel, touting it recognizes the capitalist/patriarchical problems barbie introduces, while simultaneously spending millions making a film and selling it, and actually having a white male ceo
Saw it yesterday and I really liked it. I think some people are kind of exaggerating how groundbreaking and subversive the feminism in it is, while it strikes me as fairly standard liberal feminism, but I think it was executed about as well as it could have been and I only cringed one or two times. Besides that it was consistently funny, occasionally moving, the plot was compelling enough, and it was all round a fun time. Also bonus points for having a Charli XCX song over a car chase.
I guess probably my biggest gripe would just be that the capitalism aspect of things was approached in a really shallow manner (maybe or maybe not Mattel’s influence going on there idk), such that tbh I almost would have preferred it not touched at all, but this didn’t hugely affect my enjoyment of the movie either because I wasn’t expecting it to really go deep into that.
I hated the entire film. Usually I can understand why people like something even when I don’t but this time it just feels incomprehensible to me. I mean like what you like, it just feels like I watched a different movie than everyone else did.
I didn’t mind it but not gushing over it like some are.
Think it was a bit disjointed in parts and didn’t need the mother daughter arc. Definitely not a movie for kids although the bright colours and familiarity of characters would be attention grabbing. Thematically quite adult with some cool little philosophical-y bits thrown in.
On the plus side it was fun, self aware but not taking itself so seriously while getting a positive message across.
Not horrible, not great was my take. 7/10.
Idk, haven’t seen it but it looks like a fun movie
