Review of Barbie (2023) by Kamenriderdark — 21 Jul 2023

I didn’t like it. Sure the costumes and set design are fun but that’s about all I liked about the movie, pretty disappointing with how long the wait for it felt. The plot, what plot when you think it’s going somewhere it go’s somewhere completely different, the characters are thin and the character relationship dynamics are non existent, apart from that there’s some identity politics thrown in that takes over the second half of the film, and regardless of whatever way you feel on that subject, the whole thing feels like an ironic take, like it’s going to have a gottach moment (like at the opening) but it never comes and then all of a sudden the films ending with a barely fleshed out story for the main barbie.

I can’t say kids would like this movie, if I could say anyone would like it it’s probably for young adults still living sheltered at home, but even then I’m not sure, like others have said “who was this movie even for?” I don’t think Barbie needed to be “deep” and making it that way really accomplished anything constructive either, I would of much preferred a fun pretty feel good comedy, the movie was a massive downer At the end my take away from this movie is “Nothing” I’m never going to watch it again and probably going to forget about it all together.