@AngryMadMan0 you would probably benefit from watching the movie and learning men don't have to have no personality and revolve their lives around what they're taught masculinity is lol
@@watcherinmaze But they didn't market it to kids, you just heard that there was gonna be a movie about Barbie and came to the conclusion that it was for kids by yourself. The first teaser released was literally a parody of a space odyssey lmao
Honestly one of my favorite jokes in the movie (besides the Ken’s threatening to “beach each other off”) is when Barbie’s trying to convince the mom she’s not pretty, then the narrator jumps in and goes “Note to the writers, if you want to get this point across, Margot Robbie is not the right woman”
That was hilarious! My friend and I were in tears, but we had to somehow get it together, because the scene immediately afterwards was so serious and heartfelt.
Thats not *my* Barbie. My Barbie was rescued from my friend's sister's pastel hell and recruited by my GI Joes to be a ninja doctor. Because her lab coat wouldn't fit my Joe's and they had a surplus of ninja gear. I was diversifying my fighting forces before it was cool.
In my opinion, I think a big point of the movie was missed in your analysis. Of course I’m just some guy on the internet so what do I know, but I think a big theme of the movie wasn’t just female empowerment but equality across all genders. We see Ken create basically a “guy paradise” and then Barbie come to topple it and restore women as the leaders of society in Barbieland, as the movie started. But when she does restore it you also see that she’s unhappy with how the Kens are being treated because now she’s experienced what that’s like in the real world. There’s also that dialogue with the old woman at the end that i really liked where she said “we make up words like patriarchy to make ourselves more comfortable with how much life just sucks for everyone no matter who you are”. To me, the message of the movie was that a world dominated by women isn’t good and neither is a world dominated by men. True Equality is what we should strive for. I think that’s a really important concept to highlight because we kind of live in a time of media where the two genders are pitted against each other. You have chumps like Andrew Tate and all of sigma male youtube basically talking about how inferior women are, and then you have the female music industry talking about how they don’t need men and just use them for money/ sex/ power. It’s a negative rhetoric on both sides in today’s media and Barbie was really refreshing to me because it showed that both sides have their own things that suck about life but that doesn’t mean one is better than the other. Of course, this is just my opinion. Love your moist meter videos and the dialogue they create Charlie!
it's relieving to see takes like these, especially being a guy, because most of the takes I'm seeing from guys is either "this movie hates men and is too woke" or "this movie was only good because of ryan gosling" and don't get me wrong, gosling was amazing, but it feels almost...dismissive.
I don't think it achieved that equality message, if that's what it was really going for. For starters, just about every woman in this movies is competent and intelligent, which is great, but there isn't a single guy with either of these qualities. They are literally as dumb as they can be. And if the only way for women to be equal/better is if men are dumb, it just kind of kills the message, no? Also, at the end, when the Barbies beat the Kens and are back in charge, lowkey only Margot's Barbie learns a lesson of "wow you guys were in our position before this, sorry for taking you for granted, we should do better". No other female character has that much consideration for the men, and they're like, a nudge better off than they were at the beginning. We're back to "girls run the world and I guess you guys could maybe do your thing. But not the important stuff, of course!". I'm all for female empowerment and girlbossing and whatnot (I'm a woman myself, ffs) but I really wish it'd be done right for once.
when did andrew tate ever say that women are inferior how can you say that while the main thing he says about them is just that they should be protected and i dont think this movie delivers a message of equality but rather female superiority as barbiland comes back to its exact original "perfect" state when its ruled by women
Even if the jokes didn’t always land (which was rare imo) there was a group of ppl in my theater who laughed nearly every time ryan gosling was on screen and it made the movie even more enjoyable for me
the mother daughter relationship & the discourse about how mothers give up everything to watch their children succeed really got to me, it was super relatable for me & made me cry
That’s what being a parent is. For at least 18 years your desires and wants are 100% secondary to the well being and betterment of your children. Even after the 18 years, you’ll still be looked to for advice and guidance. It’s something that requires a lot of dedication, patience and commitment… That is assuming you’re intent on doing it properly and want a functioning human being at the end of the journey of course. If you don’t care the process is way easier and all it costs is your respectability.
It also got me when they showed her flashbacks of playing with her daughter and then how the daughter is an angsty teen now. I could imagine how lonely it is to be there from your child's first breaths, where they used to play and laugh and sit in your lap, and now they don't even want to talk to you or a hug. Made me feel a little guilty for my grumpy teenage years.
I'm a Dad who gave up as much to raise my children as their Mother so I can (almost) relate, since I didn't actually carry them nine months, give birth to them, and nurse them the way she did.
The movie was definitely not targeted to little girls, but to adults that get nostalgia because they played with barbies. And I feel the movie is very much about Barbie, and how people think of Barbie, as in there is a lot of conversation on if Barbie is feminist or not. It's such a complicated thing where Babrie is a woman with so many careers and meant to be a role model but at the same time setting unrealistic standards on how a woman's body is supposed to be. I believe the movie and the message behind it is deeper than most people see (partly because it's a comedy) because of Barbie is seen as just a toy when it is so much more.
Barbie is still a toy? If I get a small wolverine toy in my childhood, I don’t fucking overthink about how hard Logan had it when they pierced adamantium into his body cuz I was a fucking child and I couldn’t care lesser about the meta and both wolverine and Barbie are fantasy characters. And yeah wolverine has abs and a very good body type but I don’t see any boy complaining about the men’s body standards.
@@dr.downvote sure but Barbie is THE TOY for little girls. What makes it so amazing is that it was the first doll that girls were supposed to see themselves in, because up until then it was mostly baby dolls to simulate motherhood. There are many studies that show the impact of Barbie dolls on body image etc. Maybe it´s also because us girls are confronted with beauty standards at a much earlier age than boys.
@@dr.downvote boys don’t need to overthink about things like toys because the world is catered for them, girls on the other hand have been raised for thousands of years to be something in a man’s life, be it a wife or a mother. If you think this is about toys you are already in the wrong mindset… I’m not gonna explain to you the entire history and psychology behind feminism and the patriarchy etc.
In a hundred years it will still be marketed for adults. Somehow. Just like how the target audience for anime is always teens and young adults for the past 40-50 years.
Honestly, my theatre was laughing through the whole movie, and at the end, people actually started clapping. The experience in the theatre really does depend on the audience you're with.
Had the same experience in my theatre. Most people came wearing pink (including the men) and at the end people were crying and clapping and all the jokes landed (I’m in the UK tho so our humour is probably a bit different to the US). Also the cinema was almost fully sold out.
Yeah same, my theater was cackling at a lot of stuff that I didn't find funny (I don't laugh much, though) so I really think the experience very much varies
I'm Dutch and my theater was generally laughing at most of the jokes I found funny. I know some people who cried, but not sure if there were any in my viewing. I think that ending is just a worse version of Lady Bird's ending, so I meannnn
@@WritingGeekNL I saw the film in Amsterdam and everyone was having a good time! Might just be a US humor thing, we're not very good at laughing at ourselves
the theatre i went to see the movie in was the same way, the audience was super reactive throughout the entirety of it. pretty much everyone in the theatre was wearing pink too, lol
@@biteofdog??? What not really there are a bunch of movies that appeal to young adults because it’s about stuff they grew up on and now it has a more mature take cause : the kids have grown up That being said I could see kids enjoying it too at around 12 or older Although every kid is different and depends on the specific kid It’s just that kids aren’t really the intended audience based on the tone, humor etc
It was marketed that way. At least in my country. I was in the theaters with my friend and we were surrounded with toddlers in their pink dresses along with their moms
Blame the marketing. The geniuses behind the movie decided to market and openly state it being for kids but put messages in the movie that is not for kids at all
For me the focal point was Ken dealing with Barbie's rejection in toxic ways and in the end in a healthy way, also I loved how Barbie was able to empathize with him. I actually like your comment about Will Ferrell, you are right, they have no effect on the plot, but maybe that's the point, the story is telling us that Barbieland exists despite the corporation and not as a result of It, It exists because of consumers and their relationship with the product and the corporation is there with no motivation other than to make money.
@@blankblank2370 yeah but that's because I loved the movie lol. Remember that we live in a world where male characters always get the girl at the end of the movie and the patriarchy is a prevalent theme in the movie. So It makes sense that they would explore the theme of male ego and romantic rejection. Ken identifying with the patriarchy is presented as a toxic way of him dealing with her rejection, and in the end Barbie empathizes with him but she doesn't fall in love with him, instead she helps him deal with it in a healthy way.
@@renasouza8261but in the movie they are said to be girlfriend and boyfriend and she is not really nice to him. And in the end shows fake interest in him and causing the Kens to fight.
@@thecube844Yeah it's an awful message unless the point is women thing miserable men is a happy ending which I wish wasn't the message we are trying to send.
my small town theater was filled with adults and the occasional teenage girls dressed in pink. it was full of laughs and ended with shared tears. the movie was beautiful
@@mitty9109 I mean…yeah I guess? Not trying to diss y’all for crying or maybe I’m emotionally stunted. But I have read a lot of stores with truly heartfelt messages. Barbie’s was just …okay lol
I feel like most of the people criticizing it for it being “woman are better than men” clearly didn’t pay attention to the last part. Barbie in the end wanted Barbie’s and kens to be equal.
No she didn't, she wanted to keep the Kens with less power than them, just being a tad "generous" for giving the Kens some small level of power, but still being inferior.
@@MiggyBiggy Yeah, I just hope more people realize that the Barbie movies is nothing more then feminist garbage. And it's hilarious most defenders are calling out people who rightfully hated this toxic men-hating movie as "Toxic and Insecure", it shows just how much they project their own insecurity lol
I will say that airing at the exact same time as Oppenheimer was honestly genius. The fact that people are buying both tickets to see both films at the same day really does say something.
@@Blanktester685barbie is artistically oscar bait. they would win “best set design” or something like that where as oppenheimer might win “best leading actor” or “best cinematography”.
I can't believe Charlie didn't expect this movie to blow up. I mean, I seriously haven't seen a movie with a marketing campaign this huge and aggressive. They've been hyping up this movie hard since the end of last year, and people have been eating it up. The hype is real with this one.
Gotta be honest, this is the hardest I've ever disagreed with Charlie. Everyone was laughing their asses off for the entirety of the movie in my local theater. Even I, someone who's only experience with Barbie was the ads on TV and my cousin, had an amazing time with this movie.
@@gerardoruiz6613 If you consider Charlie to be the epitome of humor, then I can see why you don't like it. (not saying Charlie is unfunny, but his humor is of a certain type.)
@@andrescd9327no he probably just doesn’t find movies that shit on men every opportunity they get funny in the slightest. Not really hard to understand
This movies is definitely not just for kids. It’s surprisingly mature film and it doesn’t take an easy way out on the themes and the jokes just because it’s for kids. I think this is a movie that appeals to any demographic who likes comedies really. Also you rarely see this kind of comedy come out nowadays, so to me this has been the most surprising movie of the year. Very fun and creative.
Having will Ferrell be the ceo really made me think it was gonna go down the trope of Barbie vs evil corporate heads but was pleasantly surprised when it wasn’t. Felt intentional.
I'm glad Will didn't play into that "men rule everything you're just an accessory" role and that he actively wanted to help the dreams of little girls. He didn't care how well the kencasas were selling
Are you people braindead? Mattel paid for this movie, you think they are going to portray THEMSELVES that way? That's exactly why they serve no purpose in the movie, because they knew the messaging they were going for would clash with anything else they did. And the messaging of the movie is absolutely "muh ebil patriarchy"... Wtf movie did you watch?
@@lxi..yeah actually liked that twist and seemed like he realised where he was being a sort of blind ceo and was acting in the same way barbie was with the we are helping girls.
@@buttershy_ Yea, it was nice that it wasn't that stereotypical but it also kinda goes gainst itself... in reality the Mattel CEO is still a man and the entire movie was just a giant Mattel and Chevy ad. There's already 50-60 dollar hoodies that say "I am Kenough" for sale on mattel's website... the movie really shows it can't actually say anything bad about mattel
this movie was definitely geared towards adults, specifically adult women who feel like we’re never enough. i’m a massive fan of barbie and a doll collector so im obviously super biased, but also this movie was basically tailored towards people like me and i appreciated it! esp references to the weird ass lore of barbie dolls like gay ken, pregnant midge, and puberty skipper
I'm pretty sure the main demographic for this movie is the people who grew up playing with barbies, so mostly adults! I think it hit the nail on the head at making the jokes subtle enough to fly over some kids heads, for the people who wanted to bring their kids.
Saw it earlier today with my grandmother and I can confidently say that the target audience of this film is not children, rather current adults/teens that played with Barbies when THEY were children.
@@Orion-V, Margot Robbie is a two-time Academy Award nominee and played Harley Quinn. She’s definitely a box office draw. 💀 As for Ryan Gosling, he‘a also a two-time Academy Award nominee, and he was in Blade Runner 2049, La La Land, First Man, the goddamn Mickey Mouse Club, and Crazy, Stupid Love. BONUS: Greta Gerwig, the director, is a three-time Academy Award because she’s an acclaimed director and writer. Meanwhile, you’re just a nobody. 🤡
My favorite part of the movie was when Ken said it's "Kenning time!". And unleashed his "Kennergy" in the final showdown with Barbie at the Mojo Dojo Casa House.
Dude, damn near all women had a Barbie. Every chick I know wants to see this. I can’t believe how surprised people are at how well it’s doing. Barbie was a big part of our childhoods for generations.
@@hayleyhellbound9513 honestly tho... greta even said her whole goal with this movie was to show people that movies/any form of art can be good AND girly/pink/whatever.
My guy friend had the same reaction. He was confused why so many people wanted to watch a barbie movie. His store sold barbie shirts and he was shocked how quickly they sold out.
I cried during the scene where Barbie is manipulating the beryllium hemisphere with a flathead screwdriver... the most chilling performance of her career.
@@fatcammal if the two halves of the sphere completely seal the plutonium core, the particles bounce a gorillian times ad infinitum and the entire thing goes super-critical in the blink of an eye. I didn't think they were going to cover the Demon Core incident in the movie, I figured it would mostly be about shoes and dresses.
I loved the Barbie cameo in Oppenheimer when she proposed at Los Alamos why they don’t just base the bomb off of the fusion of hydrogen and she got side eyes and laughs from the rest of the scientists
Personally, my favorite thing about the movie was Ken’s character arc. It’s a pretty good portrayal of how a lot of younger boys and some men feel when it comes to struggling with self-worth. Not gonna write any essays here, but I definitely enjoyed the movie.
Honestly, Ken's arc where he is figuring out he can exist without Barbie was great. I can relate to that after a bad breakup, I didn't know how I was supposed to go on without her. I'm not saying this movie helped me, I came to the same conclusion on my own, months before this movie came out. But it's still great to see on screen and be handled maturely.
My favorite part was how, during the big Ken fight, one of the Mattel employees gets shot. Like straight up shot in the arm, and they say something about bringing weapons over in a throwaway line, then never addressed again; but they make sure to have that employee in an arm cast later
Oh yeah dawg, I was kinda confused why they included that in there? Like I thought maybe Mattel was going to start like selling guns with Barbies in the real world, kinda like how Ken’s Mojo Dojo Casa House came alive in the real world. But no. Just a throwaway line with MANY implications
SAME LMFOA I THOIGUT THAT WAS SO FICKING FUNNY. Maybe the fact that they came from the real world made them get hurt like if they were in the real world, since we see that the dolls don’t really get physically hurt. Idk maybe it’s like Mario from the Mario movie, going to nyc and getting legitimately bruised
@@anthonypuente9072I think they were making another subtle nudge to the point that we all face mortality. That even in Barbieland you can eventually get hurt and face death. And you shouldn’t take your life for granted. But maybe that’s just me.
@@wizardlizard55555that’s how I see it too. Like how when little girls play with Barbie’s, maybe they can have them battle each other and have one get hurt and die, even though clearly the weapons are fake
Honestly I cried like a fucking child at the end of the movie. Just seeing Barbie experience all the womens lives she touched (thats my interpretation at least) kinda makes me think that the focal point of this movie isnt about feminism, or equality (even though those are very major points, as they should be), I really think its about intent. Barbie never wanted to be a sex symbol that made little girls feel awful about their bodies, her intent was the exact and complete opposite. Her intent was to show little girls that they could have careers and make a name for themselves and have a life that is not at the behest of a man. Ken never intended to take over Barbieland to actually opress the Barbies- it was his intention to find an identity outside of Barbie so he didnt have to feel the constant hurt he felt when he failed to impress her (his sole purpose). (Side note: I also like how the movie takes an unapologetic look at how Barbie views Ken. Usually, even though his suffering is very sympathetic, in scenes like these the character rejecting is villainized for really no good reason. Idk man I just like that the movie didn't go that route). I honestly think this movie, alongide themes of feminism, kind of show how pure, good intentions can be very easily twisted by a world that already has a mold and expectations for the person intending- that their thoughts and autonomy dont matter as long as they have a box to fit in. This doesnt just go for Barbie and Ken, either. The mother character has good intentions to bond with her daughter, but it doesn't turn out that way until the end. Ferrell ceo seems to unironically love women in a way that isnt attached to what they can provide him- but his board room is full of men. I think that this movie is trying to say that intent doesnt cover the damage you mightve wrought without even knowing, that you have to put work into your beliefs to see a fraction of change you want to see in the world. I dont really know man, but I think that this movie is powerful and wonderful and messy and complex and I really love it :) Edit: spelling mistakes
now that you mention it, they never did explore the mom and daughter relationship. was the girl just frustrated with being unable to grow up faster because she's apparently the world's smartest middle schooler or did she dislike her mom for working for a company that embodies many of the problems in her world?
@sorenkair I do feel they very much could have explored the mother daughter relationship a lot more!! But at the same time the scene where the girl calls barbie a fascist does actually have a narritive purpose along with comedic. There were also criticisms of putting an unattainable body type as the standard for many girls who would never achieve it; at the same time the girl doesn't understand that barbie was meant to be a role model to look up to instead of an object to resent. That is also very much in part because of Barbies real life reputation in the movie not matching up with her direct characterization and the misunderstanding beginning between the two characters because of that disconnect. All of this circles back to your initial point. The mother sees barbie as a figure to pour her genuine emotions into, to create in the vision of what she is because she sees barbie through the more feminist lens. The daughter sees barbie as a symbol of something wanted and what she'll never be The intent=/=action theory holds true! Sorry I just love this movie so much and I love discussing it :)
My favorite part was when Ken traveled to Mordor, to the summit of Mount Doom, then declared for all to hear, “I am Ken!” And all of the 9 realms were then set free of Odin’s rule. Truly a cinematic masterpiece.
My favorite part was when a bunch of people went on RU-vid and just said the same exact thing just with slightly different spins. Yeah, the meme died after Morbius left theaters, but hey, why not kick a dead horse that’s so beaten the bones have been crushed to dust? Laugh at the joke everyone! ARE YOU LAUGHING?! ITS SO ORIGINAL AND FUNNY, LAUGH!!!!
I think the Mattel board is supposed to not only represent corporate greed, but also show just how out of touch multibillion dollar companies are when it comes to the people they sell their products to. They were very cartoonish but in this case it works. When it comes to relating to the movie, i think it was very relatable even as a man the themes of growing up, of losing your childlike innocence are still there and those are universal no matter what your gender is. Yes it is clearly targeted towards a more female audience, but if anything it had a lot of male centric themes too. Allan represents a man who doesn’t fit the mold into the idea that society has of what a man should be. We aren’t all blessed with perfect bodies, we aren’t all equally brave, confident or even interested in pursuing women in the same way that other men are. It depicts the pressures that society has put on all of us regardless of gender and while it is shedding a brighter light on women (which like dude come on, seriously? Its like blatantly obvious that was gonna be the case so if it bothered hou that much why would you even bother watching the movie?) it still does a good job at shedding some of that light onto how men are viewed by the world. Its about finidng your true self and being happy with who you are, because you are good enough, you are worthy of love, and you shouldn’t have to fit any mold to be noticed.
@@zhouyongkang5331 it is very sad but people would rather have a fight over the internet than actually have a discussion. Tis the world we live in unfortunately
I also thought the Mattel board was supposed to depict a child's idea of a big company, like the FBI calling an employee who's in a hollow cubicle with very dark lighting and who goes "all the way up" just to see the CEO who's in a board meeting, idk if it was intended to be interpreted like this but that's the impression I got
Alan felt a bit mishandled to me in the end. Seems like the movie couldn't decide what to do with him. In one scene he can take on a group of Ken dolls, but in another he's a bumbling buffoon and is a detriment to the Barbies, merely being strung along because he has nowhere else to go. In the end everyone seems to just ignore him and they don't care about him.
Watching Kens character development was amazing he had no idea what he was doing but he was doing it confidently and it made him feel like people noticed and respected him
What i love about the film is barbie's transtion emotionally she went from basically not feeling anything aka perfect to slowly experiencing a varied colors of human emotion, i have trouble understanding and expressing my emotions and have trouble crying when i should and when my body wants to so i really related to it
I think part of their presence was to highlight/make light of the consumer aspects of barbie and Mattel like how it’s all just about making money and maybe that self awareness can be used to evade certain criticisms people may levy against the film from a commercial standpoint.
especially when you know Will is married to a Swedish woman. He makes a joke about Sweden in the movie. If you know anything about sweden socially then you know how non-patriarchal sweden is. Especially compared to America. There’s meta commentary mixed in.
Will Ferrel and the board of directors being completely useless an unnecessary in the movie feels like a perfect metaphor of what they represent in universe
@@AirsoftKeksTVTo me they’re like the Team Rocket Trio from Pokémon. Seemingly diabolical, but ultimately dumb oddballs that want to get more money and fame through crimes that participate in cartoony hijinks and end up accidentally benefitting the protagonist. The only way they aren’t similar is that they don’t blast off into the sky cause of an element. But Ken already did that.
@@mackielunkey2205 Yes, but the important part is that IRL Mattel management, responsible for making "toys targeted for girls" is 11 men and only 1 women, which is absurd. Men get to decide what women are supposed to play with? It's great that this was allowed to be in the movie.
I disagree about the jokes, I watched this at 9PM last night and a lot of people are laughing with every joke and Ryan Gosling is a born comedian, he really delivered every joke flawlessly. Also, I think the target audience are 20 years old and above as this movie is pure nostalgia and you can actually see this as the real owner of barbie was the mom and not the kid.
man i dunno about this one, it feels like you went into Barbie with a preconceived notion about what it was gonna be and who it was gonna be for, and let that influence your enjoyment of the movie. i really enjoyed every minute and everone in my theater seemed to feel the same. mostly 20-30 year olds dressing up in all pink hyped af for the Barbie movie, it was a great experience. also, Will Ferrell and the Mattel board were an important and funny part of the movie
You enjoyed every minute of that absolutely enervating monologue towards the end? It’s not even that I disagree with the message, the movie just kept breaking the rhythm of jokes and grinding the pacing to a halt for the sake of bringing the hammer down a little harder.
I disagree with the take on Will Ferrell and Mattel. He wanted to send her back to Barbieland but she escaped. They are definitely part of the plot and I enjoyed Ferrell’s performance. He’s timeless
So they wanted to bring her back to Barbieland, she escaped, then returned to Barbieland And later on the mother-daughter duo and Allen tried to get out of Barbie- well, Kenland, and they ended going back anyway Moral of the story: there's no escaping Barbieland
Naw, Charlie makes a fair point; Barbie went to the real world to meet whoever was messing with her doll and Ken went to the real world to learn about a world not dominated by femininity, Mattel arch was unnecessary except for Barbie meeting her creator but that's more to do with the Heroes Journey
It was surprising to learn how proficient Ken was in Kendo after picking up that stick and unleashing his 7 Verboten Kenjutsu, obliterating Barbie in one clean sequence of blows Easily one of the most Kentertaining moments of the movie, which made the second half of the movie where 87% the world experienced gradual Kentrification seem much more appealing of an idea
My theater was actually dying of laughter with most jokes. Which also had a large amount of people. But by far the funniest part had to be the Matchbox Twenty song Ken played lmao
@@samuelcollinsTXas someone who used military dolls/toys when I played with a neighbor who used Barbie dolls I can confirm there would probably be more nukes
The Mattel arc definitely made sense to be in. Barbies first thought they solved gender [job opportunity] equality but in the real world the Mattel C-suite was all men, who all patted themselves on the back for promoting equality but could barely even name a girl who ever had an exec position in the history of the company, and when Barbie came to the real world "causing trouble just by being there" they wanted to just put her in a box, but they didn't give a shit about whether Ken was running around
It made me so happy that Ken was almost a satire of roles that Ryan Gosling always plays where he’s the usual moody heartthrob but it’s dialed up to 100 here
I've been stuck in a dissociative state since watching Oppenheimer and Barbie back-to-back. They were so good it altered the very chemistry in my brain.
For some reason I just assumed you wouldn't like something like this.. but was pleasantly surprised to hear your review! It was great! You are spot on!
I watched it and absolutely loved it, I loved all of the parts where Mattel was making fun of themselves, portraying themselves as an evil corporation, even admitting that Barbie was never about feminism and the Shoehorned Feminism didn't work either. The film is very self aware and brimming with meta humour that I absolutely loved, I was laughing a lot during the whole movie, easily the best movie I watched all year and I'm a 21 year old guy. It's totally meant for all genders and adults
Because it’s a shit movie he know it but he’s too scared to go against the woke nazi agenda, this movie literally propagates a matriarchy, and division of men and women, it’s a man hating movie, pathetic.
@@WellytonNandi this movie is literally sexist, how is pointing out mainstream sexism misogynistic. Defending males has become a taboo nowadays, very very sad.
Your monotonic voice is the perfect tie-in strategy. Ive already consumed more than half of your godslap before any recognition that its a tie-in. Everything you say is hilarious😂
I think it's especially men that have to watch the movie because women are very aware of the problems they face in this world but a lot of men aren't. I also think exactly the people that need to see it and understand its message are the people who feel offended the most and end up hating it the most.
😂 So men need to see Ken actually doing better for Barbieland than how Barbies ruled it? And the ending that Barbie given visions of a mother and daughter that she’d rather live in patriarchial real world than her Barbieland? Sounds to me that women really need to be more aware of the irony of their ideology presented in this movie.
In the theater i went everyone was laughing and having an extremely good time with the film. Hearing my friends laughing their asses off with the godfather bit was the best part of that experience. Overall it’s a good movie in my opinion. I like the heartfelt moments too, they were pretty awesome. Goofy, funny and Ryan Gosling 9/10 would be my overall score.
I think I like the Mattel board, they are painted as kinda delusional and just as comical in the barbie world. It also requires some action during that point to get barbie and the family to meet. I guess it maybe diminishes the message that that is the real world, and that the real world is harsh though.
I think it was also used to point out the fact that so many companies that release items geared towards uplifting and inspiring women and girls are ran by old men in suits who at the end of the day will never quite understand their audience as they are men
@@ang841I mean you could argue women would have just as hard a time understanding what random kids want too. I think it’s more about age than gender, since different generations tend to like different things w trends and all that
@@ang841 It's still pretty weird and funny that Mattel's board in the movie is a bunch of old goofy men when their actual board of director's is pretty much equal with 6 men and 5 women, and only one of those men is above 70.
(SPOILER) Just wanted to comment on this but I wouldn't say the message of the film was to uplift only women. As we saw towards the end of the film, Ken expressed his frustration with Barbieland, and how he and the other Kens are not treated as well as the Barbie's there. I mean, Ken's whole character is defined by his love for Barbie, and at the end of the film, he realizes he needs to find out who he is. The main message of the film was about how both patriarchy's and matriarchy's are bad, and that society should strive to get rid of these inequalities. Men and women should live for themselves and not for the opposite sex.
I hate to be a bummer but to be honest I disagree with Kens story arc being uplifting for men. I get the message - living for oneself and not the opposite sex (which is great!) but it was a bit disappointing how Ken learned the message. He went from lashing out and making bad decisions to basically being forced/manipulated into submission again, and then when he finally gives up Barbie pats him on his back and explains his character development to him. I don't know it just felt a bit... condescending. It would have been much more redeeming and relatable if it was something he got to discover himelf. Maybe I'm overanalyzing it but I thought it was a bit disapponting that no of the Kens (or men for that matter) had any qualities or realizations that could make me as a man relate to them.
@@malmcrantz4943 You're not being a bummer, I'm glad you pointed those things out. 👍 I agree that the story would have been better if Ken had found this out himself. I mean, they could have switched the POV, so we could see life from Ken's point of view and have a whole scene where he does this. I wish they made the Ken's more relatable too. I think (beach) Ken was probably the most interesting character in the movie, but he definitely was not relatable. I know they were trying to make Ken not very smart, but if they wanted to do that, I think it would have been better if they made him not very smart in an intellectual way, but smart in a human/emotion way (like Kronk or something). I think that would have helped make him much more relatable to everyone. (They also should have given all of the Kens more of a personality). In all honestly, I just think that it's cool that they made a movie about equality on both sides. But it definitely could have been changed... I mean, that whole last bit of the film was a bit strange 😂
@@chickencluck4059 That's a good point! if he had been intellectually dumb (living up to the stereotypical Ken image) but smarter in a human/emotional way... yeah that would have been perfect. Not only to make him more relatable but I think that would make the whole take on the patriarchy more nuanced as well (that it doesn't just apply to the dumb frat-guys). But yeah I agree, in the end it's still refreshing that a movie like this got made. The "Kenough" shirt was still pretty uplifting, not gonna lie 😄
An extremely heartless and anti-semitic comment, to be honest. Surprising coming from Hollywood, the most Jewish thing out there. I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple people searched up what fascism was and became anti-Zionist after the movie. As a Jew, we need a worldwide Nazi ban; free speech is not hate speech.
@@uhlexseeuh So they reference genitalia, sexual harassment, and arguably pedophilia multiple times but you draw the line at poking fun at internet users lol? It’s a pg-13 movie
barbie is such an open ended and imaginative movie that charlie joined along, wanted us to reflect upon ourselves and imagine the final score he gave the movie. such a visionary
charlie was referencing barbie's tagline of "Be whoever you want to be", applying it to the moist meter and re contextualizing it as "be the score you want to be".
@@Justin-pe9cl I swear lately he's just not been including scores lol I always have to go into the comments to find where in the video he even attempts to rate it
He didn’t forget, he did this on purpose, he is in fear that he’ll get canceled, this channel is going to fall off very soon and you’ll look back at this video at the start of it all
it took us two hours to look for what movie theater that was not full and after we found one theater the only seats available were the ones in the very front. and it sucked
The movie was fun and Will Ferrell was great. The board did serve a purpose? They wanted Barbie to conform to her stereotype. Barbie “playing her steretype” left her empty and left Ken in a perpetual loop of being used and discarded, which prompted him to become “toxic masculinity”. The board tried putting her “back in her box”. I really liked how the movie played both sides of the coin. Both men and women can do wrong and neither should be expected to do fill a certain role.
My mum and all her friends want to see this movie so the jokes aren't for parents getting roped into seeing it by their kids they're just for the adults in general, I'm sure they knew every woman who grew up playing with barbie dolls would be part of their target audience
I love the idea of them "maturing" the movie up, lots of the people who love barbie are now in their teens and adulthood. We can enjoy our childhood "role model" while still gaining nostalgia without just straight up watching a movie for 5 year olds
@@katlyndobransky2419what are you talking about? People loved the Mario movie. They had Easter eggs going all the way to the first Mario games. Don’t tell me you were expecting mature jokes in a Mario movie?
