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Seeing the mother daughter relationship as a mom myself actually felt more real then it looked if that makes sense. I have a 16 year old son so I'm watching him get ready to leave. And I have a 6 year old daughter that still thinks I'm the coolest. It felt so fleeting to me on a deeper meaning then it may to some. I feel like Will Ferrell's character being satirical in the real world kind of corresponded quite well with how they portrayed real world mother daughter. It's not real, but nothing else really is either
I saw it opening night. I thought it was incredibly ironic that the best thing about a man-hating feminist movie was the male actor….Ryan Gosling stole every scene 😎
No, it does not hate men at all. There is a strong irony and parody about a very specific idea of male/man (as there is irony about several other stereotypes concerning both the sexes). Assuming that such representation is the "man" in its entirety and that a movie, by making light satire about it, hates "men" as a whole, is just a clumsy mistake.
I mean, they say in the movie that ideas like Barbie and feminism are just ideas for people to cope/deal with being human. Which I thought was very poignant. I think it is impressive that there are many lines that are funny that hit but at the same time there are so many that got different people to laugh (the Ken explaining Pavement is definitely niche to the comedy that not all women would get and vice versa)
Hate to part ways with you on this Vito. Garbage movie. Everyone has an opinion and I appreciate your view. You can call Ben Shapiro many things however stupid is not one of them.
As I said to someone else, Shapiro is a smart man who sometimes pretends to be stupid to achieve his political goals. His Barbie review is him pretending to not understand the movie.
@@vito no his review is spot on. It’s 43 min long and he very intricately details his view on the movie. He just understands it differently. I’m more in-line with his worldview and happen to agree. Still can be friends but think your wrong on this one.
Regardless of what anyones specific opinion is, this will likely gross ~$1B at box office and is a cultural moment - biggest box office weekend since 2019. So yes, grown men are entitled to an opinion on a Barbie movie.
Dude there is no way in hell this movie will hit a billion dollars. Thats ridiculous. Do you understand how rare that is? Maybe 40-50 movies have ever done that and many of them came from gigantic franchises. Not a random feminist movie
The sheer variety of takes on this movie is fascinating. I haven't seen it yet but this movie seems to be whatever people bring with them into the cinema.
And yet, despite ALL this extreme diversity of opinion, Vito is the first one to ever say he "got into tears" watching it. But hey, remember, he has the right opinion and we should listen to him.
@@Pers0n97 I always take two days after watching a movie to check out a review to form my own thoughts cause people on youtube purposefully make extreme takes
The concept isnt the issue, its how heavy handed the concept is. They dont have subtle themes anymore, characters literally have to say what the messages are
@@vitothe theme underneath would then be that feminism is a shallow critique of the patriarchy. So simplistic and lacking any real understanding of the power dynamics that men shouldn't take women serious.
Aren't you one of the guys that trolled the trans Netflix Dave Chappelle protest? Just seems kinda funny that someone who pulled off such a masterful troll (jokes are funny) would get upset at how everything is politicized these days.
@@mindlander Idk man, I'm pretty hard left who hangs out in lgbtq+ online spaces and I've never seen anyone say or imply that. Many of us are just talking about the fun we had with the movie. The people you're talking about are VERY likely fringe extreme minorities who speak for less than 0.01% of the general population.
You got your own opinion and i respect that i didnt hate this movie but i dont understand what you saw in it and i even get why people say its woke because its probably got the most pushy feminist message ive seen in a movie. All in all this movie is mid i would have liked it to have focused more on comedy
@@ImNotPhaT Or rather that men are mostly either dumb, self-absorbed, caddy, or can easily take or be taken over. And that they should be put back in their place and the status quo. Now some may say that it’s being ironic, that the Kens are treated the generally same way that women are in the “real world”. But even then, putting aside how the “real world” somehow feels more unrealistic than the Barbie world, them taking over (and somehow manipulating the supposedly strong Barbies) is still seen as a bad thing of course, then they’re defeated by their own egos and turning on each other. Implying that women in the real world are like this too. So either way you look at it, there’s at least something problematic.
It was literally intro soft feminism the movie and people are still whiny lol maybe ask yourself why any avert feminist messaging in a movie is seen as “pushy or too much” too you and why that might be
@@Carmen-rb2yd “Intro soft”? Let me ask you this, why even make a big deal about gender to begin with? Also, whining about whining? To quote Hbomberguy, “that’s healthy”.
I agree with Vito 100%, I only wish Hollywood would quit with injecting the 'woke' into movies. When the 'woke' is poked fun at, then it seems to settle better with viewers, but shoving weird crap down our throats constantly is getting old.
It's ironic that I first started watching Vito when he was slamming the wokeness of the Disney Star Wars trilogy. I totally agreed with hime then. At the time, I also watched Doomcock but it was quickly apparent that after those movies, he was just making shit up about KK and Lucasfilm in general. I am glad to see Vito say that he actually enjoyed this movie and speak on it honestly. I knew that there were going to be right wing channels that were going to hate it and had made their mind up before ever seeing it. After Vito's review, I kind of wantto see it. Sometimes a movie can just be fun. We need to quit looking at everything as us vs them. I do think that wokeness has ruined a lot of the Star Wars franchise and I wish they;'d just step away from the politics and gender identity and racial commentary.
If it was "hierarchies suck". They wouldn't have set up there own one sided all female hierarchy at the end of the movie. Instead of actually trying to have equality.
Yep, that's what many said about TFA and pretty much the rest of Disney's prequels and sequels and this looks like it's going to be exactly the same thing.
Many people who have written off majority of creative movies and media as a cultural trap or mind control device choose to be in echo chambers like the ones created by rage incentivized RU-vidrs. There's some like Drinker critical who pretend to hope that movies like Barbie should be "fun". "family" oriented confirming to a cowboy view of the world that he and his creatively bankrupt followers get cheated into watching somehow. I don't watch women centric movies like Barbie and even if I do I wouldn't make a big deal about it and certainly wont take any life changing advice from it because its a personal choice just like after watching Fast and Furious I didn't attempt to fly my car off a bridge.
Truth. Sometimes a movie is just a movie. I didn't go thinking loyalty to your friends is best shown by riding a motorbike off a cliff and parachuting down to a speeding train after watching MI7.
Kinda off topic, but I remember my siblings and I attaching fire crackers to G.I Jo's and blowing them up lol. Most would just be left with burn marks, and maybe a few broken limbs.....what were we talking about again? Oh yeah. Barbie
1:It's barbie, it was never gonna fail with its legacy branding. 2:Indiana Jones, Little Mermaid, Ghost Busters, Strange World, Lightyear etc speaks to your Anti-anti woke spiel.
Hi @Vito, I believe your review was shallow and pedantic. I feel a goal of a reviewer is to share with us your opinion of the movie. Not rake others over the coals of what you believe. That is them. Not you. You're better then this.
Honestly the amount of people who are offended by a movie that most of the time doesn’t even take itself seriously really shows how incapable some of us are at laughing at themselves
Yup. It's pretty insane that so many people are literally so low IQ they actually think this movie was ironic when everything in and around it (ie the cast and director) make it clear that it's not. The movie REALLY think the patriarchy is everywhere, it's literally the main plot of the movie!
I want to believe that Sasha being a super political weirdo is a joke, but the mom's feminist word vomit is played off as intelligent and as a way for her to impress her daughter so I'm really not sure. Also that kid at the school warns Barbie that Sasha is powerful and then her bs works. Which again makes it seem like she's supposed to be taken seriously.
@@vito I don't want to believe that a real person believes the mom's speech about "the hypocrisy of being a woman in the patriarchy" but a lot of people do, so it's hard to tell.
But it's precisely all that political weirdness that split them apart. Despite the mother's speach, she still wants to play Barbies with her daughter. I don't see how you can take Sasha seriously, especially when she's portrayed at the beginning as such an unlikeable character for basically tearing down the main character. Imagine a character castigating Winnie the pooh for distracting the working class from uniting against the proletariat. You would not take that character seriously.
@@rm06c I don't see how the political stuff split them apart. I don't remember any scene where the daughter goes on a rant about how her mom is a crypto fascist or smth. She's unlikable but is that because her politics are unlikable or because she's a meme? I can't tell what they were thinking with her. Everyone around Sasha treats her like an intelligent person.
I’d like to know why people being triggered by people are are triggered by other people who are triggered all breathe out of their mouths and live with their parents still
I'd say that people r triggered by other people being triggered by something that was purposely trying to trigger certain people an in that the triggering begins an it's a circle of people being triggered with there fingers on the triggers of their keyboards Triggered
These morons (shapiro, gary at nerdrotic, critical drinker, geeks and gamers) exist soley to create ad revenue through political division. If you think this is a moral issue, you're mistaken. Woke and anti-woke are all about propaganda and money. These "men" are influencing a generation of boys and teaching them the wrong lessons about culture, storytelling, and being a man. If money were removed from the equation, and they were not laughing all the way to the bank off of political division and societal decay, I'd think they were good men for making moral choices. This is the real world however and these guys are just profiting off of misery.
What a scumbag you are. He didn’t object to her saying that, he objected to the portrayal of men as lesser being and being treated like dumb villains the whole movie. In the movie every Barbie has a home, not one single Ken owns and lives in a house.
Treating everyone with respect wouldve been letting Kens have power too. They made them keep lesser career roles in the end. Barbie land literally ended up being just as bad as the patriarchy
@@martas7640 it shows that Utopia is unattainable and not everything it’s cracked up to be. Barbie chooses to live in the real world because there is more depth and meaning to living in an imperfect world.
@martas7640 Yes you rigth but the movie didn't send that message well and now what we have is this conflict. No one want a satire movie from Barbie people want a meaningful movie from Barbie because remember she suppose to be a icon.
@@aworte3266 you watched with your ass? is a sattire about how woman have a hard time climbing to te top, since is not a long time since they are even allowed to VOTE. They as well say: "maybe one day you can be where close to where the real men are to power". Try to use your 2 braincells to think, maybe u can get a third one and be less of a snow flake who dont get the jokes.
I think you see satire where there is none cause you can't imagine people being so dumb and meaning it for real. But they actually are that dumb, no satire.
What is your evidence regardging the Barbie movie? Why yo lefts and rights constantly project themselves onto the director without even using one single clip?
It has been funny to watch the criticism against the movie because the haters' criticism just didn't carry water. "Well, it's man-hating." Well, isn't it supposed to be? Girls play with Barbies in a way that I presume Ken is a non-entity. It sounds like this movie plays out as how girls play with their Barbies THUS Ken is a non-entity. I don't know if it's good for it to be encouraging older women to hate men because we don't need that but when you're younger the gender war is on! Go for it! The boys don't want to play with the Barbies usually. They want the G.I. Joe and I know that's old-fashioned these days- THIS MOVIE IS THROWBACK. Maybe it doesn't encourage older women to hate men but if it evokes the feelings they had as a girl and they laugh about it that's great! Tom Sawyer evokes feelings in me- if anybody ever asked about my childhood I'd just tell them to read Tom Sawyer. That's it. Yes, you are right this is hilarious from what I just saw of Ryan Gosling as Ken. I love him delivering those lines like he absolutely believes it and the fact that what the female doctor says to him just ricochets off him like he didn't even hear it is even better. god, you know, I think people who are reviewing this for the culture war did see that and did see the joke and purposefully ignored it so they could get their ideas across about what... whatever. Yeah, the negative reviews are selling this movie and the positive reviews are selling this movie on me. I can't believe it! They couldn't have done a better job on marketing. Yeah, maybe they didn't have Will Ferrel being more over the top because they didn't want him stealing the movie or even scene stealing. Mojo Dojo Casa House is working for me, though. I heard Lauren Chen be critical about this movie and when she said that I did laugh. I mean I've watched some Blue Collar Logic and the guy who uploads his spiel over there calls his trailer the Hobo Dojo. So it makes sense! Shouldn't they have a karate Ken anyway? I heard Ryan Gosling is Beach Ken- Beach Ken would do karate. Yes, throw that in there. It's more absurdity. Another thing people seem to like here is the music! "Well, Ken, you should just be yourself." Well, I get Ken taking that in stride and being shallow enough to just buck that kind of rejection. But I think I'm with you not for the sake of romance but for the sake of returning Ken AS AN ACCESSORY because if he's dangling out there alone who's going to play with him? The boys have their toys. Even gay boys want to play with the Barbies. They're gay! (Which is another way of saying they're women- pffft)
Obviously little girls don't care about Ken nearly as much as Barbie, thus he should naturally be a second class citizen in a world run by little girls.
Imagine if the patriarchy joke in this movie was done in Futurama or Family Guy or Rick&Morty. I don't think we would have gotten as much outrage. I think it has alot to do with just the image of the brand itself, and it's relation to people, particularly kids, and parents, role model things. It's not just a popular brand, it's iconic 'Merica. Subverting conservative ideas about the classic doll (it's just a silly toy for girls) that's rising up against them, making a comedic satire about their roles in society. Don't they ever get tired of being in panic mode all the time? Fighting these culture wars sounds so... exhausting.
@@UltraVioletKnight Well excuse meee I didn't know Drinker was a shill for conservitard media. I thought he was independent. /)_- every f***ing time I give a conservitard the benefit of the doubt I end up looking like the biggest fool.
Yes, he lied. They all lie to make money off of teen boys and insecure men. Everything Vito said about the film is true. My man and I watched it and we both loved it. I showed him some of those "reviews" from right ringers, he laughed at them. Called them douches and man babies. Any man who has to run around trying to prove how manly they are aren't real men. A real man is just a man and not a sensitive little bitch who can't laugh at themselves.
@@user-vw6ke3ok2m I don't know who those people are. But this is first time I have found TCD to be just making up sh!t for a review. As for his political views, well, he can shove it.
See as a woman who grew up with Barbie, I took my daughter and went in with an open mind. I was on board until main Barbie returned to Barbieland to find the Barbies have lost themselves: their brains and jobs, to now listen to and serve the Kens in French maid uniforms because the Kens decided to take their power. So women only have power when men allow it hmm? Then how do they decide to get it back? Not with negotiation for equality, but manipulation them and taking it over again, sending to the Kens back to be accessories. But in this process we see Ken awaken to how he's been treated and feel empathy for him. But I guess the Barbies won't be an example to the real world on how the sexes can work together. Instead they won't recognize the Kens as anything but accessories until women have equal rights in the real world. Missed opportunity
I disagree with the the first part as it was said in the movie that the Barbie's and Ken's are like the natives were to European diseases, completely defenceless. The Barbie's didn't lose power because the Ken's just decided to take it. They lost it cause the Ken's got a phycological weapon on their side. It would've been impossible for them without outside intervention as ken also brought some real world items to the Barbie world for example the god father movie.
They had to short hand it. They didnt exactly have the time to form an entire societal upheaval one way or the other. Ken brought back the concept of patriarchy and that was enough to alter the fabric of their reality. Its magic. Just go with it.
I don't understand how you can say that you love storytelling and think this is a good story. I'm not saying it's a bad story, but it's not a good story.
@@vito and that's great, but I guess I should of explained it better. In my (and wtf am I) opinion, a story maybe doesn't have to reinvent the wheel but it should be as original as possible while also invoking strong feelings. And I guess throughout the movie it didn't do that for me and was just a mediocre one at best. But I been watching ur videos for a long time and I respect ur opinion. Have a great day vito
@@vito I notice people unsubbing you 1) havent watched the Barbie movie, 2) didnt watch this video of yours and didnt actually hear your actually-balanced review, and 3) just watched the right-wing antiwoke hater videos. I agree that this is a comedy movie about some stupid dolls encountering the real world, just like Lego and Toy Story.
@@culturecanvas777 We have seen all sides but I am sorry but there is no justifying this. Vito saying that Barbie is anything but hateful dribble is like doing a video stating that Australia doesn't exist. We know that this film is woke and Uber feminist based on what the actual creators have said themselves is Vito saying that he knows more than the people who made this.
A film implying that men are automatically bad, should be put back in their place, and remain in the status quo, had gotten quite a number of people reasonably mad? Paint my shock. Who’s the “fake critic” again?
@@vito So like I said, the status quo of “men ruling in the real world” remains the same. Not to mention, the people running this Mattel in this “real world” seem to be depicted as incompetent, fragile, and dare I say, micro aggressive. What are we really supposed to get across here? Also, wouldn’t it be more impactful if Barbie and Ken chose to work for the Mattel company, and work their way to the top till overtime, Barbie becomes the next CEO?
Duuuuude, your review is the bomb. After watching it, I wanna go nuke RU-vid for recommending those reviewers (to my playlist), who just flamed Barbie for being too woke. The same people who laugh down "wokeness" as being too soft, are too f@cking sensitive to a movie about a doll. And I hate having to defend Barbie from these idiots, because I did not even find the movie as great as its RT score suggests. It was a bit too heavy-handed at times. But I would recommend it for people to watch as it delivers on the spectacle it promised. Sometimes a movie is just a movie and we should not be defined by whatever themes it wishes to uphold or subvert. Oh well, truly glad I stumbled upon your channel. Your insightful review earned you a new subscriber.
So the movie essentially makes all the men idiots or uber sexist, while Woman have all the power, Ken goes into the real world brings the literal "Patriarchy" back to their Barbie world, Barbie basically learns about modern feminism from a kid who talks about anti-capitalism and movie more or less ends with the Barbies demanding all the Kens continue to be borderline accessories to the Barbies. And you don't see why people are saying it's woke? I don't get this take I really don't.
The movie is about imaginary friends, that come to life. The creator of those imaginary friends is a little 7 year old girl, it's what a random (not ever shown in the movie) little girl imagines boys are like and what she'll be like as an adult, she can be anything, like Barbie, she'll be gorgeous, like Barbie. Grow up.
@@SkippyTheMagnificent Dude there are people out there with 30 minute videos breaking down exactly why this movie is terrible while you have a maybe 30+ word response. Unless you have an actually well thought out point, kindly back off.
@SkippyTheMagnificent so no mention of the patriarchy, then? I haven't seen it..and have no wish too. I'm literally sitting on the fence watching the fireworks. Wonder which side is correct here! Is your description exactly what happens in the film or is it your deconstruction?
@@chewie523 I hate the people who made the movie because they are using it a political prop. If they truly cared about child trafficking they would stop using the film to spread conspiracy theories and disparage the left.
To be honest, i loved the production design. There were parts of it that were genuinely funny. I got annoyed by some of the unchallenged statement lines of dialogue made throughout the film, but then I got confused by what the message of the movie was trying to say, because in the end of the movie (spoilers) the creator of Barbie says that patriarchy is just made up.
Genuine question, Vito. Do you think the feminism deprogramming monologue would’ve made more sense if we’d seen Ken subjugating Barbieland in an earlier scene?
Yes. I also think it would have worked better if it was clear the mom barely believed what she was saying and was just regurgitating things she'd heard elsewhere.
Women so often and historically have been taught to define themselves through their relationships. Mothers, wives etc. so Barbie telling Ken that he shouldn’t define himself through Barbie is teaching girls not to define themselves through the men in their lives.
You just got a new subscriber. I'm nowhere near the intended demographic for this movie (straight childless man in his 30s) and I was shocked at how much I genuinely liked it. And I didn't think the movie was "man-hating", at no point did it feel like the movie demonized the Kens - it actually made it clear that they were just lonely, insecure, and unsure of their own place in Barbieland. They made the Kens and their perspective relatable, not evil - which is my favorite type of film antagonist.
Thanks man. You can help replace the hundreds of dummies who are angrily unsubscribing because they need to constantly be told that wokeness is the worst thing in the world.
People are unsubscribing because Vito is acting like a woke fascist muppet. It's rather ironic how his logical inconsistency is just no big deal and yet anyone who disagrees with him is stupid. He also defends pedos, so not really too shocking that he truly acts like this.
@@vitoI saw the Kens only use in the film was to keep perspective of a woman while the film flipped around. The problem is the movie is too meta, so they spin wheels and it’s hard to know when an idea is supposed to land. I went in figuring it was going to be femenist. I just expect certain measures of messaging. I saw zero men besides Ceras character (the male feminist) be of any service other than to laugh at. It never at any point relented on the dumbing down of men. Kens we’re fun and cute but as far as any sort of appreciation of men, there wasn’t anything I found to even be endeared. Movie was well done on almost all fronts. Really enjoyed it till it just made me sad haha
Wait u considered the barbie movies plot beautiful? Dude theres no way i can believe that u legitimately cried over barbie Theres nothing wrong with crying I cried like a baby when my mom an dad died When my gf of 13 yrs was cheating on me. These r things that actually brought me to tears. Hell i even cried to the land b 4 time When i was 8. There is something wrong with being brought to tears by a less then intelligent movie plot. Ive alwys liked your content vito and i dont care about your political leaning But this......... sayin i was crying b cuz of barbie needing to c a gynecologist Bro...........
Barbie finding beauty in the human experience and desiring it for herself is incredibly touching. She essentially chats with god in the form of her original creator.
Good review. I like hearing from both conservative and moderate perspective, but some of the conservative reviews were so off the wall. Like saying the baby doll scene was really an attack on mothers, that's not what i got at all
Man, all this salt, the movie might be right in the end. I don't get it, it's just a lot of pink and a message of "being woman it's difficult", I can't understad the "in the face"/forced message and concept. It's a fucking comedy
If this movie got you in tears Vito, maybe you're way too invested to the point you are unable to recognize the bad things in it. If you think a movie that repeats the word "Patriarchy" like 50 times and makes clear that ALL men are either idiots or psychopaths isn't trying to tell you something, as I said, maybe you just didn't get it.
I am invested in art, yes. The fact that I had an emotional reaction to a character discovering the beauty of the human experience says I am more able to connect with art than these disengenous grifters.
@@danielmelendez3546 if a poster tells him to shoot himself, he'll comment on the artistic merit on it, and then walk off forgetting to shoot himself. And then guys like you come in and tear the evil posters down and arrest the criminals that put them up. Division of labor, I guess.
I literally hate all those channels that Vito listed. I hate Ben Shapiro. I also hated Barbie. I just wanted a movie about Barbie learning a universal lesson and having fun along the way. The filmmakers wanted to make a movie that shits on men and traditional femininity. That's fine. They can make their movie however they want, but I don't have to watch it or say that I like it. I watched the first 22 minutes, which my friends who loved the movie said was the best part, I was honestly shocked at how cheap and basic the sets were. Compare this to the Lego movie or Truman Show. It's not a technical achievement by any stretch. I saw no reason for Ken to be depicted that way. It was just mean-spirited. Also for a film that goes out of its way to do body-positivity, all the men had to be perfect and the man who wasn't physically beautiful was RIDICULED by the same female characters who embrace every body type and colour. Again, solidarity and equality and diversity only applies to women. Men have to adhere to traditional gender roles and presentations. And respect is only for women, men are never to be respected. We are just bumbling fools, standing in the way of perfect women. How can you ask men with self-respect to watch and enjoy a movie like that? I'm sure the Klan makes movies, but you wouldn't be shocked if black people didn't like them, right? Again, Ben Shapiro sucks, but this movie isn't some neutral comedy film. Like She-Hulk the creators went out of their way to attack men and so how surprised can you be that primarily men don't like it?
The movie does not "shit on men" because the Kens are not men. They are highly stereotyped fantasy depictions of men, who have completely different needs and desires compared to actual human beings. You have to acknowledge the disconnect.
@@vito Dude, they are men, split hairs all you want anyone with eyes can tell what Men are and reminder Ken brings the "Patriarchy" aka a Male thing, to Barbie World.
@@vitoThen why are the men in the real world portrayed as misogynistic, oppressive monsters? Why is Ken enamored with their Patriarchy? Why is feminist dogma, intended for real women, what liberates the Barbies? The idea that they're fantasy creatures with different needs doesn't hold up.
@@vito you said "kens are not men." i viewed it again, and yes you are right. The kens are indeed not men. Men are human beings with complexities, kens are cartoons. Yes there is woke messaging in it, but this one is easily tefloned away.
@@vito Are you serious with this? I honestly can't tell if I'm being trolled here...If you liked the film that's fine. I'm just saying that not liking the movie doesn't make a person crazy or some crazy reactionary. There are legitimate issues about the way men are represented in this film. If you say "I don't see that issue" or "I don't care about that" that's fine, but then why are you weighing into this conversation? Just post a review about how much you liked it.
I haven't seen the movie, but what I don't understand is if the Barbies reflect the personalities of the owners and the Barbies are in charge, doesn't that mean that the girls who own them are also in charge, completely undermining the idea that there's a patriarchy?
Barbie proves that misandry is still profitable, as long as it's in media targeted at women. You go out of your way so much to excuse and dismiss all the misandry and say "it's parody" when they blatantly preach the intersectional talking points right to the audience. And why do you have to excuse yourself from critiquing certain messages because you're not a woman? Would it be ok the other way around, in a movie geared towards men, where they went on rants about how bad the gynocracy is and how hard it is to be a man, and women reviewing the movie should just gloss over that? You say it doesn't h@+e men, but there isn't any male character in the entire movie that isn't depicted as evil, dumb, incompetent, and/or pathetic. Any movie that treated its entire female cast like that would be excoriated in every mainstream media outlet and all across the internet.
I guess what most fools in the comments don't realise is that: 1. This film is not suitable for children, so using a famous toy as a cover it's basically a trojan horse for the underlining message. 2. Critique of a film doesn't matter if it comes from Shapiro (a guy that I personally don't like, but whatever) or s simpleton like me is a valid critique. It's not a meltdown, critics are simply doing theirs jobs and pointing the issues at hand. Some guys might overreacted but that's not from nothing, there's already a very long running series of movies specifically targeted to divide the audience, and obviously doing a film targeting children with this kind of politics is the straw that broke the camel's back. It has history behind. Unfortunately this is what happens when you divide people and make them extremist, for either side.
You, Ryan Kinel, and EVS make me want to see this. I love listening to the discourse. From what you describe, it sounds like what's really happening at the end is not that Barbie is choosing the real world, it's the girl playing with her, which is the gen-x mother. It sounds brilliant.
Another Movie where it's cracks will appear move once the hype dies off around a year or so. Once the youtube film essayist get their hands on the film. TBH I think the film is overrated because of its brand power. If y'all enjoy the movie good on you, and don't let an indifferent person like me tell you otherwise.
@@pinkspider28ideological consistency has never been vito's strong suit. i don't think he's conscious of it, though, i think he just has the lazy version of bipolar or something.
I'm sorry, but that last quote about "You should just be Ken and I should just be Barbie" is the DEFINITION of woke-ness. Woke-ness is all about splitting the sexes and population control. Just as Barbie and Ken never get together and have babies, they hope YOU never get together and have babies either. Ruins what looks like an otherwise good film. And a better way to explain why Barbies need to be in charge of Barbie-land would be more along the lines of the Toy Story movies. The toys in Toy Story understand what their purpose is, you know? The purpose of Barbies is to help young girls fantasize about their ideal future self.
@@mattcollins3591 Ken doesn't love Barbie because he "isn't being himself". He just loves Barbie like a normal guy who has fallen in love with a girl. (They push it to cartoonish levels but still.) They are treating being in love with someone like a psychological problem. This is a terrible thing to teach little girls. "If somebody likes you, it's bad." What? Ken was always supposed to represent the "ideal boyfriend" just as much as Barbie represented the "ideal teen girl". If a teen girl doesn't want the IDEAL boyfriend, then what does she want? A girlfriend? To become a nun? In real life, teen girls want boyfriends, and younger girls like playing "house". Where is the "let's play house" in this movie? It's not there because they are trying to teach young girls to stay away from boys, for population control and to promote general unhappiness. It's a bad message and it's not by accident. Just because the movie isn't as bad as the last jedi doesn't mean it's free from poisonous nonsense designed to screw with young girls' minds.
Respect for your opinion and honesty, Vito. As a fellow human that loves good storytelling and hates the ‘everything is woke’ discourse, I can only approve.
I'd say the only valid criticism I've seen is the people who thought it was an actual children's movie. It's PG-13, so they should have known better, but still.
Love ya Vito. Hey people,this man is not a political commentator and thank christ for that,, he just talks shit about movies. Shame he cant even say he likes a film now without feeling obliged to address the politics before he's even said a word. Still one of the funniest youtubers IMHO
Saw the movie with my girlfriend. I didnt care for the movie but she liked it. I dont mind a movie thats actually for women instead of a female hero shoe horned into a male role.
I was skeptical about the Barbie movie, but if it's got Vito's seal of approval, then I'm all in. As for the right wing crazie. They are insecure loosers who's only sense of self worth comes from how they can put other people down while pretending to be the victims.
@@mfmageiwatch I'm curious as to how that's projection. I'm quite secure in sense of myself and my masculinity. I don't put others down to make myself feel better, and I support more diversity and representation in all forms. Pretty much the exact opposite of the right-wingers who are losing their minds over this movie. Perhaps do some self reflection, my dude.
It really comes down to "This movie is not for everyone". There are a lot of non-political youtube movie review figures I have seen who have stressed that this movie will not be for everyone due to it's extreme feminist messaging, so I don't think it's fair for you to call out folks for not liking it due to those issues just because you really did like it. Even some mainstream media outlets have put it in their titles to there review where they praised the movie but brought up the messaging issue that might rub some the wrong way. It's also hard to really blame people for being highly sensitive to "woke" messaging when it's been in, and has ruined multiple once adored pop culture productions such as everything Lucasfilm, and Marvel Phase 4 just to name a few.
@@vito Let's take the word "wokeness" out of the conversation and use the term "agenda" instead. While it is fair to push a movies story using a certain messaging such as feminism, it has caused issue in multiple productions because it altered the story/quality of those productions because "agenda" was front and center before story. Hence Rey being written as a Mary Sue, John Connor killed off to get replaced by the latino woman in Terminator Dark Fate, race swaps such as The Little Mermaid, and countless other disney productions instead of making new characters. That is where "agenda" has gotten in the way. You can't blame folks for being hyper sensitive about it. There are, at this point, countless flopped movies where "agenda" has left a scorched earth of failed productions.
@@vito It didn't. I said that "agenda" was promoted with the race swap. The DEI initiative (Diversity Equity Inclusion) agenda has been pushed in a lot of productions and that is one of many of them. Not that the race swap affects the production, it's the point that this type of behavior in productions has made people hyper sensitive to "agenda" in films where even something like "Barbie" that may or may not have been agenda first gets called out since feminism is written into the dna of the story. In normal times this wouldn't even be an issue but because of the DEI push, people are sick of it, so unfortunately everything with some or a lot of messaging gets caught in the crossfire of modern day discussions in the pop culture scene.
For real. Saying you liked that awful mean-spirited movie is one thing, but saying it got you in tears? That dude may need to consult a specialist for that, it doesn't sound like the reactions an healthy adult should have to that kind of movie.
@@Littledidtheyknow Damn, I didn't even thought about the possibility that this cringy take was an attempt at getting some puss, Vito is so soyfilled I legitimately believe he actually cried in that theatre.
@@LittledidtheyknowI'm beginning to think Dick has some bizarre hazing ritual that emasculates his cohosts. Vito is going to self immolate before BPITU 108. Vito has become Maddox, bringer of had takes.
What if I were to tell you that men are allowed to experience emotions and it's a healthy and natural response to both external and internal stimuli. What if I were to also tell you the idea that men shouldn't cry has been shown to be a modality of "tertiary" brain thinking aka: the primitive lizard brain? What if I were to also tell you, you're a fucking idiot?
Maybe some of us dont like it why do people always have make videos and statements saying we dont like it cause we think it's woke or if we dont like something we are transphobic why cant we just not like something just cause it's not are cup of tea we dont have to agree on everything
No one blames anyone for not liking it .Vito doesn't complain about disliking it, he talks about politics being involved for no reason and calling content woke when it shows anything vaguely related to themes like feminism or patriarchy.
@vroom7815 didn't he say some of the scenes in the movie was woke? I'm pretty sure at the beginning of the video so why are u complaining about another video when u admitted some of the scenes are woke
@vroom7815 but he admitted woke stuff Is in the movie it and some scenes are stupid and some are good but does that mean it's a good movie if some scenes are good and some are bad?
I heard so many 'reviewers' say that Mission Impossible was going to 'save us all' and Tom Cruise would show Hollywood how it's done....and yet Barbenheimer seems to have kicked all those guys in the family jewels...
Well no one especially not Ben Shapiro said Barbie didn't have themes in it, they just say their comedic jokes are very rare to be good and are often not funny & that it has a massive amount of woke messaging within it. I can't tell if vito is just desensitized by to it or if he just toned it out in favor of the themes he liked. However if you was to say to Vito, "Well I luv the last jedi, because I love how they covered luke Skywalker. A deep story about how luke reflects on the failure of the jedi & how he ending up making the same bad decisions as them sending him into a spiraling depression as all humans would realizing their entire culture was set to failure and becoming disinterested with the whole wars & then a heroic story of overcoming your grief and protecting the new generation even to the point of giving up your own life so you can fix your mistake because you have regained your hope". Vito would say your flat out wrong & if he doesn't say your wrong his review & everything else hes done on the topic clearly does. Because that's a IP Vito is heavily invested in & to see them ruin it with garbage story writing in favor of a theme here & there that are common & overall just ok is not worth ruining a character. Which is exactly what reviewers are talking about with the barbie movie just here it's higher lvls of woke politics medium lvls of character assassination.
Vito is a real one. Unlike Critical Drinker or Ben Shapiro, he isn't a partisan grifter who doesnt just hate things because its what a right wing audience wants. I respect the fuck out of that. The mark of a really bad critic is if you can predict exactly what their take is going to be even before you've watched their video or read their review. These guys aren't actual movie critics they're peddlers of outrage. Btw, Barbie rocks. It's the most fun I've had at a theatre in a while. And just seeing how happy it made so many people was awesome.
I'd argue the opposite. If your loyal audience has no idea if you will like a film or not that's a tale tell sign of a contrarian who has "controversial opinions on film" just for views. It's fine if you don't like drinker or ben but at least you can't say they are inconsistent.
@@almalone3282 I don't think that's a real problem. No one trusts critics who just like everything that everyone hates or hates everything that most people like; those are instantly outed as contrarians. The problem with those guys I mentioned is it's OBVIOUS they go through an ideological purity test when they watch movies; it's really no different that a feminist film scholar overanalyzing every aspect of a movie to sniff out the ideological purpose of the movie.
What do you think of Jlongbones review? Shes a culture critic, woman of color, and hates the shit out of this movie. Her twitter review was some 30+ tweets.
I watched Critical Drinker and a bunch of his streamer buddies have an in-depth discussion about how the movie was woke propaganda when every single one of them _admitted they hadn't even seen the movie,_ and I think a lot of people are just gonna assume that it's true without seeing the movie based on the reactionary grifters out there perpetuating the idea - that's the danger and why it needs to be addressed. Hell for all I know it might be true, but the ones screaming about woke propaganda sound more and more like they have just as transparent an agenda as the people they built their reputations going after.
Barbie was like a South Park Cartoon episode - not in bad ways - many layers to the story. It has mirroring life development, which is hard to put together with each action has messages and meaning behind stages.
Yeah I though he was doing a better version of this take, but he is indeed not joking 🙃 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--qR5WheRT0I.html
Yeah, I kept waiting for the joke to drop and it just never dropped. I'm a little shocked. Usually his takes are so on the nose, but this is a complete swing and a miss. I think he's just seeing irony where none exists? Maybe he's overthinking it?
@@broco1163 Sometimes adults forget what children see. Children aren't going to notice the layers of irony, they're going to notice the fact that the boys are the idiot bad guys and everybody's better off when girls are in charge.
You’re just being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian. The movie is a blatant propaganda piece disguised as a lighthearted film about a children’s toy. You wanna make a man hating propaganda film? Cool go for it, what is sinister is that this movie is dressed up in a way to subvert unsuspecting audiences. Especially when you consider the primary market of Barbie dolls. As a father I’m disgusted I really don’t expect any less from Hollywood tbh 🤷♂️ enjoy Barbie I guess
Dude, who *F'N* cares. LIKE the movie - or DON'T like the movie. Whatever. Complaining about people I've never heard of with opinions I don't care about, who cares? Was the movie any good? Then good.
Shapiro reviewed the movie because it was overtly political. If a film is pushing a political agenda then it’s fair game for political critique. Shapiro didn’t only criticise the film for its politics. He said in his review even without the politics it was bad on every level; the scenes unnecessarily long and awkward, dialogue cringy, the plot full of holes and the jokes aren’t funny. My criticism is that the movie co-opts the franchise to be political. Throw in some adult jokes and the movie becomes completely inappropriate for the fan-base of the franchise which is girls under 10 years old and their parents wanting to take them to see it, falsely believing because of the trailer it’s a kid friendly movie.
First 6 minutes of this video and I have a completely new found respect for you, Vito. Always loved your analysis and, in the back of my head, hoped you were this type of person. Very satisfied to find out you are genuine. Proud of you for this one, man.
A reactionary to conservatives? A real one would discuss valid critiques instead of trying to find the worst people to respond to. He's just like the Barbie movie.
Not going to watch this the same reason I'm not watching cuties, I'm not a women. Anything worth watching this for, probably isn't for me. And anything else that it has worth saying is probably better said elsewhere.
