CONFIRMED: Full of left wing political/social commentary
Save your money unless you want to be lectured about patriarchy and sexism for 2 hours.
shareInteresting. Why do you care so much? Were you in the potential audience for a Barbie movie, but now you feel ostracized because of this?
Seriously, if it didn't have this political ideology are you going to see a Barbie movie?
Parents will definitely want to keep their kids away from this unless you think developing a sense of misandry is healthy for society.
shareI’m afraid that will be overridden by young girls incessantly yanking their mother’s dresses until they take them to the theatre.
What is misandrist about this movie? Specifically?
shareI think the Critical Drinker's review on YouTube sums it up pretty well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7aJtGphVs
I wish you could tell me in your own words instead of giving me some other guys take on it.
shareI could, but A) I haven't seen the film, and he has, so would you rather get an informed opinion or not? B) Since he summed it up so well, why should I rephrase it when I won't put it any better? C) It's not important enough to me to spend the time on. And D), if it is important to you to find out, you shouldn't have any trouble just watching the video.
shareThink about what you're saying. You're arguing on behalf of someone else's opinions on a movie you haven't seen. Why is this worth your time?
shareI've found his evaluations to be pretty accurate on multiple other occasions. This isn't a movie of intrinsic interest to me, so I am not going to waste time watching it. Posting a few sentences on this site takes one or two minutes -- not exactly a real sacrifice. You asked a question, I provided a trivially easy path for you to find your answer if you are interested. And in the end, you can always go see the movie yourself to see if his assessment is accurate, and I encourage you to form your own opinions rather than uncritically accepting someone else's word for it.
All that should be good enough for you, if it's not, I don't know what to tell you.
Here is a detailed description (contains SPOILERS):
The film is very anti-male. All of the Kens and all of the men in the real world are portrayed very badly. Minutes upon arriving in the real world in Los Angeles, a random man smacks Barbie's ass. This is in public in broad daylight. Barbie punches the man and gets arrested. The police, who are all men, make obscene comments to Barbie. Barbie approaches a group of construction workers, again all male, who all make more obscene comments. Later on, Barbie gets arrested again and the male cops again make more obscene comments. Barbie goes to Mattel and the all male board of executives want to put in her a box. Meanwhile, Ken discovers the patriarchy and is excited and exclaims "men rule the world!" He goes back to Barbieland and takes it over along with the help of all the other Kens and oppresses the women. This involves forcing them to watch The Godfather and bring them beer. Barbie helps de-brainwash the Barbies and they trick the Kens into fighting each other so that the Barbie can take back Barbieland. Towards the end of the movie, one of the Kens ask if they can have just one Ken be on the supreme court, but the Barbies refuse and tell him that the kens can only have lower positions. There is also a long speech by a woman about how oppressed she is, no matter what she does. Also, a young girl makes the statement that everyone hates women. It goes beyond usual girl power and is not arguing for equality but is arguing for discriminating against men and allowing women to have all the power and privilege.
If I recall correctly, the construction crew, in L FUCKIN A, is all WHITE??!!! lol!!!
Yeah, that's really reflecting the real world diversity... NOT.
Oh great, I love reading a huge block of copy-paste. "arguing for discriminating against men and allowing women to have all the power and privilege."
How did it do that? What was said that argued for discrimination against men?
Towards the end of the movie, one of the Kens ask if they can have just one Ken be on the supreme court, but the Barbies refuse and tell him that the kens can only have lower positions. In other words, men are denied the chance to even apply or compete for a position because of their gender.
shareThat's fucked up.
shareIf the movie was as goofy as the trailer, yes. But since it's apparently a leftwing diatribe, hard nope. Sigh. I was actually looking forward to it after seeing that trailer.
shareDid you expect any different?
shareNo, I didn't. And this is really the nuance of the issue.
I do find it problematic when Disney takes an established character, with 30 years of background, marketing, and products, and fundamentally changes that character.
I do find it problematic when heroes of an established film franchise are emasculated for the sole purpose of elevating their replacement to fill the hero role that has not been earned.
I don't find it problematic that a film built on the Barbie franchise, which has always been about what it is, stays in line with what it has always been. Why get upset about this one? This one was fully expected.
Why doesn't Mattel sue?
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