Why Barbie is WORSE Than You Remember 

The Super Mario Bros. Movie was *this* close to being the highest-grossing film of last year. THIS. FUCKING. CLOSE. And then came this movie and people would rather see this sorry excuse of a Barbie movie (STOP HATING THIS VIDEO AND DEFENDING THIS MOVIE, YOU DISNEY SHILLS WHO THINK “WHITE FEMINISM” IS BETTER THAN REAL FEMINISM WHERE REGARDLESS OF THE COLOUR AND GENDER, EVERYONE IS TREATED LIKE EQUALS INSTEAD OF SOLELY WHITE WOMEN!!!!!!!!!) so that they could make fun of TSMBM losing to… THIS!!!!!! (and a few other movies for that matter, even one or a couple animated movies. It lost to at least one of the Frozen movies (TSMBM on its own, for as amazing as its success is, is only this much more successful than Frozen 1, yet opening weekends aside, more people would rather see another Frozen movie and anticipate more Frozen sequels than Illumination’s Mario movie sequels, but what if TSMBM2 is the highest-grossing animated… or general… movie in the late 2020s and Frozen 3 & 4 surprise the world by making less than, say, half a billion on a 2 hundred million dollar or more budget?) and The Lion King, which wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t the 2019 version (and its upcoming prequel that will lose to Sonic 3) because I’m sick and tired of people talking shit about the Disney Renaissance films just to make the remakes look better despite having all the more political (in)correctness, visuals that replace beautiful and lively hand-drawn with CGI that is supposed to look more realistic but also looks faker and less originality, but I just know that making failure after failure after failure, because of the sheer likeliness of Mufasa: The Lion King making under three hundred million dollars at the box office, if the Lion King remake were made in the 2020s, it would also make this little money or less)

Missed you!

Nutsa if you ever need someone to eat you like an ice cream cone, i know the man for the job. It might be Ryam Gosling. But if it isn't, don't be disappointed 😥

@kieranstark7213 also wtf are you talking about dude? The Lion King Remake and Frozen have literally nothing to do with last year's movies. TSMB is dogshit btw. Also it is the second highest grossing animated film of all time. Frozen anf Frozen 2 never came close to TSMB and none of the films you mentioned EVEN CAME OUT IN THE LAST4 YEARS LET ALONE 2023

This video is different than your previous ones. Not sure what specifically changed, but something did. It's still good, but I think I prefered your earlier work.

No fr fr it so is

Even films like Legally Blonde Soul Surfer(2011) Suzume(2022) Puss in boots 2 are way more Barbie than that trash

@@user-sv9we5bx2nagreed 💅 my mind always makes me forget soul surfer. I just remember a lot of Christian mission group stuff. And Carrie underwood lol.

@user-sv9we5bx2n not really barbie as they have completely different aesthetics to barbie a more barbie film from recent would probably be do revenge

The Life-Size (with Lindsay Lohan and Tyra) is a better Barbie movie than the Barbie movie.

What happens when you stopped watching the MCU lol

And good is seen as equal.

The problem is everyone keep saying "well nothing is perfect" when you want the most minimum standards lol

@@thtswutshesaid if every movie made fails to meet your supposed ''minimum standards'', then it's probably not minimum standards. That is exactly how it works.

@@FrenkieWest32 You say this as if nobody with standards has reasonable ones. Some movies are actually shit, _THAT_ is exactly how it works~

Did you fall asleep during it? IT WAS NOT FINE!! sheesh. I was so angry leaving the theatre. "THIS is what I just spent an obscene amount of money on? AND MY TIME??" I kept waiting for it to be better at some point, and it never was. The cringe levels were on red since the beginning of the movie and then I got also very angry as it ran it's time. And WTF was the ending about?!?! Calling it mediocre or fine is being very nice.

@@ThatWeirdFinn Good point in the video is that a lot of audience reaction is dependent on expectation. I'm kinda there with op, I went in with very low expectations and came out with little by way of disappointment >w< But I didn't watch it in theaters, it wasn't playing yet in my theater and I only really see movies with friends

@ ThatWeirdFinn sheesh a little self center much

@@ThatWeirdFinn holy shit, please just respect opinions

I agree. I told one of my friends that I didn't care much for it, and he told me I'd missed the point. I said I understand existential crises (I have them every ten minutes). I understand the often contradictory expectations placed on a woman and how you can't really meet them. I understand that the Barbie world, where the Kens were essentially treated as accessories (like women are, especially to wealthy men, in the real world) was not a "better" version of the real world. I understand the need to find yourself. And with all that content, the movie managed to make me feel absolutely nothing about any of it lol. The execution was very meh. They had a lot to say and didn't say any of it well. But if I say that, I'm a "woman-hater." Correction: I hate everyone equally.

This is not about you, Bob - it’s about Greta

also in the first Incredibles movie, his son responds to “Everyone’s special in their own way” with “that’s just another way to say nobody is”, one of my favorite lines

@@L-xd6eu Especially since it parallels Syndome’s “And when everyone’s super… no one will be.”

like which movie is genuinely special that was not appreciated?

if everyone is special then no one is

It’s Kenough

There could have been so much potential with its aesthetic. It could have been comedic with romance and room for another sequel even. It honestly is a dark movie with some weird agenda behind it. It really let me down for everything it could have been and even the training of the actors where meant to look at movies that where totally different then the whole “message” of this movie… like why did they waste their time…

I only cared about Ken. I loved him so much. I hated how it infantilzied women while also trying to say they are girl bosses. Like wtf??

@@Loch1210it’s kinda Kenough

I made the mistake of watching it back to back with Oppenheimer: I took the BarbenHeimer Challenge

That was "verilybitchie", saw the same video you did (The Plastic Feminism of Barbie) And yea the movie more than anything.... _aestheticizes_ feminism if we're bein generous haha. Only bothers to have the most surface level resemblance to actual feminism _or_ how it relates to barbie

​@@ExpertContrarian Honestly there was as much unintentional misogyny as there was parodical misandry, but I may be steppin on ur toes given ur username >w

@@ExpertContrarian You really fuckin think I agree with the barbie movie's gender politics? That's fuckin hilarious

@@ExpertContrarian Nope. Couldn't be more wrong lmao

@@ExpertContrarian I'm a feminist who recognizes the movie as a twisted mockery of feminism that conforms to the perceptions of the simple-minded

That show needs more credit than the movie

The continuation, Barbie: Dreamhouse Adventures, is also pretty good stuff. Puts this movie's writing to shame on every level I can think of.

I love that show, I wish there was more honestly

I wish they still continued that show :( one of my fav series ever

This

It’s so they can claim that they came up with certain ideas when it succeeds

It's more so the investors and studios want a recognisable IP rather than something original. The writers would love to create original works, but to get the funding they basically have to do an in name only adaptation of an IP because that's all that gets greenlit. Like the Velma series was originally just a passion project Mindy Kahling wanted to make but it had to get tied to the Scooby Doo brand to get off the ground

Or the 4th season of True Detective. It should not have been a 4th season but a stand alone series about 2 women detectives in Alaska. Like "the frontier" or any Norwegian detective.

Because they need to exploit the name of the brand to attract audience

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The way they ignored the lore really irked me. Not only did they ignore her name, but all her friends and family over the years: Stacy, Kelly/Chelsea, her parents, Teresa, Christie, Raquelle, Kira, Becky etc. The movie should have been a love letter to Barbie as a pop culture icon, and they just didn't do that

@@PlaystationSimmer they especially did my girl Midge dirty ... and her man Allan.

i'm not even that big of a barbie fan and even i know this. it's such an easy thing to get right but they refused to do so

I screamed!

@@PlaystationSimmer Bro...Raquelle's absence hurt me deeply.

The only thing this film had going for it is i wanna put my finger IN it definitely not on it though

My sentiments exactly.

I thought it would be more about Barbie with himbo Ken but it was more about Ken and it bothered me

Same here! I felt like it didn’t impact me as it should’ve and I walked out feeling like…”huh…?” Like, what was the main message again? The takeaway? The story? What happened to Barbie? I REALLY wanted a Legally Blonde-esque movie, just lighthearted with a kind message of embracing femininity and empowerment as well as unity between both genders. But….it just felt very superficial and most of the “feminist dialogues” just made me cringe. When that girl said “fascist..” I cringed inside, this felt more like a twitter argument then a genuine, fun movie of the year about Barbie.

Yeah, the way the film ended was weird, so basically she leaves Barbieland, has a heart to heart with her creator, decides to stay in the real world with the girl and the mom, and the first thing she does is...go to a gynaecologist? And then BOOM! The end! Barbie Girl remix plays! And images of Barbie and Ken dolls (and Alan) flash across the screen while credits roll. I was like "What? That's it? That's how the movie ends? Well, that felt rather anti-climatic!" I guess maybe it's supposed to be anti-climatic, because it's funny, but...i don't know, dudes.

I wouldn't say thank god. Oppenheimer is just by comparison the best. I wouldn't serve it oscars on a silver platter either. But I guess my opinion is just double the unpopular

@@gabrielaaraujo4124 Yeah, but it's practically the one good movie being nominated. If you're familiar with the recent Oscars, good movies don't tend to win the awards they deserve.

Oppenheimer>Barbie

@@Segadrome Anatomy of a fall was pretty good.

@@zero-pl3tt Sure, if you can call a very stale, horribly paced slog a Best Picture. Sidney Lumet and Otto Preminger could have directed that in their fucking sleep.

I mean also like as a feminist.... Greta doesn't understand feminism lol

I feel like she is more concerned with feeling a personal emotional catharsis, primarily for herself but also for the audience, than actually exploring the complexity of the themes that matter to barbie. i want to know why she has to abandon pink and look like a 2013 buzzfeed employee at the end. i felt so offended lol

Or the two of them just really want to do something ambitious but they don’t know what They seemingly end up making up the movies plot as they are filming the damn thing. I dont dislike either of them as filmmakers generally but I’m basically describing Barbie and The Last Jedi It’s obvious as a mushroom cloud they want to do something ambitious but don’t know what, as I mentioned before. They are given the task of a modern installment of a classic franchise and they feel the need to do something unexpected with the main character but not only are they confused but they’re not considering how it effects these characters in the long run. Why would Luke Skywalker toss the same lightsaber his father wielded, the same object he lost with his right hand seconds before discovering his fathers identity.

You missed the part where it is fiction? The fact there is a barbieland might clue you in.

@@FrenkieWest32 wait are you being serious? They literally call it the real world so it’s obviously trying to represent the real world

@@MarcAlcatraz yes, and Jurassic park is a documentary...

Ever present troll in the comments you are I see... Don't be an intentional blockhead. @@FrenkieWest32

@@cutekitty4862 you must be very fragile is everything that you don't like is "troll".

She was stereotypical Barbie because she wasn’t the President, she wasn’t a scientist, she wasn’t part of the Supreme Court justice, she can’t fly a plane, she doesn’t even have a job, she’s just the Pretty Barbie, hence why she told Ruth Handler she wanted to be apart of the world that makes things and not the thing that’s made. All of this was explained in the movie when Stereotypical Barbie had her breakdown 🙄

I had that problem too Margot Robbie’s character basically disappears from the movie in like the third quarter and is mostly replaced by America Ferreras character. I know she’s Stereotypical Barbie’s former owner but it’s confusing particularly due to the world building that went into the film(or lack thereof)

Yeah I hate the amount of credit this movie gets, kinda feels like endgame again where people think it’s a masterpiece when literally plot was rushed, I hope more people will be critical of this movie bc this film is defo not a masterpiece

@@Femmeaesthetic I really didn't like it when I saw it in theatres, but I watched it the second time with my mom while we were decorating our apartment for Christmas and I liked it a bit more. Perhaps its not a bad background movie, and if you don't fully pay attention to it lol.

People dont think this is a cultural milestone empowering women at all... Most people simply thought it was very amusing. And if others don't think it is bad, it doesn't mean they ''can't see it''. That sounds like a fairly self-centered view. Totally spies and winx (and maybe the other stuff too) are for young children... This movie clearly is not.

THIS SO MUCH! And when I voiced this, people looked at ME like I was crazy. I know good movies. This was not it. I will be in my dungeon watching Shawshank Redemption, The Fifth Element, Demolition Man, Tango and Cash and others if anyone needs me....

@@flannuu Well if it's a good background movie then it's not a good movie. I want to engage with the content. If I want to do something else, I'll put some no-brain music on and do the thing. Movies should be seen, felt and heard.

And I laughed to myself at the men and the ladies Who never conceived of us billion dollar babies(la da da da da…)

And unlike the film, Nutsa's video is worth watching. 😁

​@@charlesws7825This needs more likes! I wired you a like, bro!!

Longwoman BAD!

when i spread misinformation on the internet

It's actually 9 minutes shorter, but still feature-length and Oscar-worthy (:

Upon retrospect I realized that I loved the first half of the movie in Barbieland, the scene with the old lady, I'm just Ken and the soundtrack overall. That's about it. I still belt out "what was I made for" it's a gorgeous song, and the montage it plays over COULD have been really powerful if literally ANYTHING in this movie prior to it lead up to it. But in reality, Barbie's decision to become human comes right out of nowhere. She had maybe one or two nice moments in the real world. If we're being generous. A shame really. I still love Barbie dolls, though.

@@marcellacassab4331 Yeah, what made her want to leave Barbieland? What did she want to stay in the real world for? It made no sense!

Spoodus-man Dos

@@tomjames9681 A ton of AAA games to be honest. Although (without spoilers) what are the normies saying about Spider-Man 2 now?

@@mrshmuga9from what I can tell, SM2 is to SM1 what OW2 is to OW1. Nothing too innovative, all the movesets feel samey, so a continuation of the first. So if you liked the first, you'd like a continuation of it, but a lot of people wanted new and innovative stuff, considering it's a flagship first party title exclusively on the PS5 and not available for the PS4, people wanted innovation that comes with ditching the last generation console.

@@wilhua3083 Okay so they’re bothered for typical reasons, barebones sequel. I didn’t care for Miles’ powers but it seems like that was a poor choice to have a side game when it would’ve made the sequel stand out better.

Ur absolutely right

Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Rapunzel, Magic of Pegasus and 12 Dancing Princesses are my favs 🩷

those early 2000s barbie movies are a thousand times better than this live-action one lmao. also, the nutcracker one is my favorite too

that speech was awful. i've seen it be praised as groundbreaking so many times but america literally says pretty much the same thing word for word in a throw-away scene in her show superstore eight years prior. it just felt cheap and recycled.

@@promisemochi the speech really didn’t work for me (especially bc even tho im a woman i couldnt actually relate to it-i know a lot of women will, but not me). it’s definitely not groundbreaking to say any of the things she said. thats a message that has been said by a billion different people in a billion different stories and all of those were better written than this one. like you said, it’s recycled. and a feminist speech does not make for a good film or good characters. those are infinitely more important to me than any political message

@@shhimreading906I think the reason why women relate to the speech is bc it validates there feelings about some struggle they go through even though it wouldn’t really be a big deal since people have shitty lives in general, feminists love to push this idea of “invisible women” when male disposability existed for many years where a woman’s life has more value, men struggle being bread winners providing for there family etc but hey it’s a chick flick movie with cringe monologue

@@Femmeaesthetic i do understand why people relate to it. it lists a lot of things a lot of women go through (not me personally, but ik plenty of women who have). it’s a speech that’s supposed to invoke a superficial feeling of relation without doing the narrative or character work to back itself up or make any genuinely insightful social commentary. it doesn’t seek to do anything but appeal to people who already agree with that point of view. the entire film feels like it has such a surface-level understanding of gender inequality. the whole film it felt like i was being lectured with the same points over and over again in the least subtle way possible “all men bad, do assault, oppress. women best in world.” which is just a lie because there are positives and negatives that come with being either gender.

​@shhimreading906 Why can't you ait that you probably can't relate to that speech because your behind is privilege.

My video length has doubled since the last time we've watched

Well. It’s a mattel ad at the end of the day so is that really surprising

@@lpsloveandgame6046 Not at all, I just think it's ironic for a "feminist" brand/movie to ignore history and other women's accomplishments.

where did the movie push that narattive? Sounds like you just made that up.

​@@FrenkieWest32Opening line talked about how they were only baby dolls and girls could only be mothers. Which yes could be a joke, but the company itself says this too, saying that girls only had no dolls they could dress up in fashionable clothes only paper dolls or baby dolls. There's a really good vidoe M.J. Tanner that talks about the matter and shares a few more companies, founded by women, who made fashion dolls.

@@norabeth1951 yes, in a story where barbieland is an alternate dimension with barbies that are linked spiritually to humans playing with barbie dolls... It's fiction, not a documentary on the history of dolls.

There was a trend on, I think, Instagram where people judged ones romantic interest based on whether they like the Barbie movie To be honest I was disappointed with both movies, Oppenheimer particularly. It just lacked an encompassing theme/focus but it kept setting so many different ones up and then abandoning them

Feminist Mommy issues 😅

She actually has two sons, but this conversation would probably stay the same (lol).

Oh, could you imagine the convo to sons. That’d be awful. “Darling boy, you are a product of the patriarchy, your defining characteristics are dominate and oppress, …….. “ “but mummy, why does daddy seem to brow beaten?” 😂 @@lmahu6627

"And didn't you steal Daddy away from Jennifer Jason Leigh?"

@@NJGuy1973they aren’t ready for that conversation 🫢

Feminist? Lmao. Maybe liberal feminism at best. Intersectionality could never.

"feminist propaganda" 💀💀

feminist propaganda is wild

It's kinda funny that you understand feminism even worse than Greta Gerwig

What exactly about the movie is propaganda?

Yes, dear.

Nut

God, Enchanted was bloody excellent. What aspects about Enchanted do you think are better than the Barbie Movie?/genq

@txwtw I think it is a better portrayal of the fish out of water story where Giselle really gets to explore the real world and fall in love with it, the good, the bad. She learns new emotions that she never had before and concepts she hasn't heard of and we actually really understand why she wants to change worlds. Barbie was fun but the real world seems to be told to her rather than experienced by her. She gets told how women feel and how men act. She's only in the real world for a little while before she has to go back to Barbieland to reset everything and in that short time it's hard to imagine she was given a genuine valid reason to want to go back. Giselle truly falls in love with the new world while Barbie seems to want to leave just because she can

Wouldn't mind controlled demolishing Nutsa's best picture ammirite

I recommend JesterBell too

DUDE SAME I love their takes and they are usually completely spot on with all their analysis

this is the comment that convinced me to unsubscribe to nutsa lol

Critical drinker? Really? The right wing chud? You need to reflect.

Not the critical drinker

Did you watch it?

@@fralanasko2900 watch what? The you tube video, Barbie, or Lego movie? Did you read my whole comment?

Is the babrie movie made for ''barbie fans''? Aren't barbie fans 4 years old?

@@FrenkieWest32 dont be that guy

@@foul-fortune-feline and what guy would that be?

Same I’d volunteer too to be part of making it. I’d want it to be recorded with old 2000s or 90s video film equipment to give it that girly 90s/2000s movie feel yk? Lol

@@txwtw I could see that. I would really like something princess themed or ballet themed since those are kind of iconic for Barbie movies.

this idea of "you have to find yourself" pretty much came from feminists, it's very obvious they hate Adam and Eve working togather since these radicals intention is to segregate the opposite sex, ken didn't need to "find himself" the only thing he wanted was a basic level of respect from Barbie, the same people who say "ken is just an accessory" are the same people who say "Ken needs to find himself to get out of Barbie's shadows" people defending this movie just gets worse and worse. Ken is meant to be a supporting character for barbie & barbie has that appreciation from him which this movie destroys the healthy relationship between these two characters. *not to mention ken dolls did have occupation*

Why would women be more relational than men if we are supposed to relate with each other?

Well, yes. Both men and women relate to each other. It is impossible to look at the male body or the female body and try to understand it by itself. It is only in relation to the other that it becomes clear. And that says something really beautiful about humanity as a whole: there is no "default" human body. There is no default human. Instead, there are two kinds who are made for relationship by nature. No human can withstand social isolation for long periods of time. It is just the case that women are especially relational. We can see an example of this clearly in a woman's reproductive system. Unlike a man who (biologically) has a very minimal and detached role in procreation (He only offers his sperm. The rest of the process takes place entirely within the woman), the woman is involved in the creation and her relationship with the child intimately at every step. Many women who have given birth describe feelings of this relationship being so deep that they cannot visualize themselves apart from their child. They feel like their lives are intrinsically connected to them, even after gestation.

Interpreting them as prospering under Ken is a stretch, in my opinion. It was just the other extreme. Following another status quo without actually knowing why or if it is actually what they want.

Right for all but the last point. Hollywood could never. Ken and Barbie don't realize that they need each other, but that they can only thrive atomized from each other. In other words, "It's Barbie and it's Ken." She point blank tells him he needs to be Ken without her.

This reeks of bad faith man you didn’t even try

I bet that comment would do really well on an incel forum

@@sina3602 Who's takin bets that it's ripped from one?

Someone would find a way to see that as a 'girl boss' moment

@@SLIKZRKKshe Gatekeeping and girbossing and gaslighting

Well nobody is perfect, it's a story that should still be told

@@SLIKZRKK I mean, men had the Wolf of Wall Street and Leo gave them many girl boss moments, us girlies would like to stan an iconic criminal as well.

Yeah, the classic film technique of 'show don't tell'!

I’ve heard people interpret the speech being simple as a way for the barbie to understand as the barbie don’t know about feminism

@@txwtw yes I get that. Still though Barbie identifying that problem before she even knew it was a problem would’ve made ppl feel seen.

If i ever hear her voice within 2 miles of me, she's gettin nutsa'd

Better use of our time, lol. That, and rewatching the old CGI Barbie movies.

"Marriage Story" was based on Noah Baumbach's breakup with Jennifer Jason Leigh and leaving her for Greta Gerwig.

Sorry I meant Mattel had 40% female CEOs

What?! She didn’t GROW UP with Barbie?! Unbelievable! Why did Mattel approach her to make this film in the first place, then?!

@@worthybutter2004bc she’s a feminist filmmaker famously known for indie movies, that’s all you need to know. Hollywood is a huge industry, could’ve hired any female director who knew the source material

She didn’t know or even grow up with barbie?? You gotta be kidding me rn 💀

@@worthybutter2004 ikr

America did get nominated though

Gosling carried the movie.

Gosling carried the movie.

I am doing same and comment for the algorithm

More like i wish she was on her back

If you watched any trailer or interview about it, you would have known it was not a ''barbie movie'' and not a family movie in the traditional sense...

@@FrenkieWest32 well not everyone is gonna have the time to watch every single interview or trailer on it, plus most of the trailers did make it look like a family movie with some of the childish jokes (like the foot joke etc)

@@txwtw not true. And if you just go to a 2 hour movie but you don't have the time for 2 minutes of trailer (which does not even make sense), then don't be surprised if it is an unexpected movie...

The little blue fluff fairy is Bibble is from the Barbie Fairytopia universe! He is a pet and sidekick character of Elina (Barbie) and is probably one of the funniest and iconic characters in the classic Barbie movies.

​@@key5270 I love him, he's like Alvin the Chipmunk wearing Sully.

Sounds great!

I’d like to see it

I hope you publish that story some day it sounds lovely

Same everyone I know loved it and adored it but I didn’t either 😭

The Barbie movie would’ve been much better if Mattel hired a female director who knew the source material

@@Femmeaesthetic I’m flabbergasted that they didn’t

Yeah, I just want pure silliness to come back in film like Rat Race and stuff. We don’t really get films like that anymore & even when we do they are always still gonna have something serious or try to comment on something like what you said

Without him the movie would have bombed