Posted on 12/16/2022 8:16:20 AM PST by Red Badger
I don't mean to get you too excited, but the newest clickbait trailer for a movie based on a 60-year-old brand just dropped:
TRAILER AT LINK.........
Wow, that just looks so bad.
Which is really surprising, you know, because I figured a loud, unsubtle movie made for nostalgic Gen Xers and Millennials about characters that have already existed for decades would be top-shelf!
Let's go over what's obviously really lame about this movie:
The 2001: A Space Odyssey sendup at the beginning. Boring, trite, overdone. Kubrick made that movie in 1968, which means it's almost as old as the Barbie product line itself. Younger viewers won't get the reference and older viewers have seen it parodied 3,500 times already. Completely played-out and unoriginal. So many movies these days are bereft of originality and just resort to clumsily standing on the shoulders of giants. Pathetic. The corny, garish set design. Of course, it all looks convincingly like a Barbie playset — big, loud, pink, plastic. That's the point. But you can imagine a more boring take on Barbie than just recreating the Malibu House on a budget of $100 million? Rumor has it that part of this movie will involve Barbie and Ken venturing out into the "real world;" if so, we can most assuredly expect an endless stream of lame jokes wherein the doll-people encounter things like toilets and one-story houses and kitchens that actually function. The LGBTQ/feminism vibes. This movie will almost certainly be hip-deep in LGBTQ stuff — gay dolls, gay camp jokes, whatever. It also looks like it will shoehorn some insufferable feminist dirge in there, as well. I mean the trailer opens up with little girls smashing open their baby dolls, literally splitting porcelain baby heads open on rocks. This is not a subtle message. This is going to be a bad movie. Save your money and don't see it. Buy a nice old-fashioned Barbie doll for your daughter instead.
The throwing and smashing of the baby doll is disturbing.............
Well, there is always the new ‘avatar’ movie where kids will be reminded once again that “humans” are THE real evil and destroy everything they come in contact with. Subliminally of course but there.... Pandorans are wonderful and live in harmony with gaia. 🤔🐎💩
I’m not exactly the target audience for this but it just looks like a regular musical to me. At least it has color in it unlike 90% of movies released since they switched to digital.
Dances with Smurfs Part 2....................
That only reason for this movie to exist is to sell TOYS, nothing more....................
Worked for Transformers.
Maybe they will have a crossover movie (both are Mattel I think)
I remember there was a pull cord on the back and if you pulled it, Barbie would say things like "Let's Go Shopping" and "Time to make brownies."
Even back then, the "Ken" doll was seen as faggy and queer.
Never has such a cast been wasted on such an unappealing movie! Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Emma Mackie, Kate McKinnon, Ncuti (Doctor Who) Gawa, Michael Cera, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell...
The 1-minute promo felt like an hour.
I can only imagine the actors did it for the money. What adult would possibly go to see this?
“ I remember there was a pull cord on the back and if you pulled it, Barbie would say things like “Let’s Go Shopping” and “Time to make brownies.”
The early Simpson’s episode with Malibu Stacy spoofing that Barbie thing still makes me laugh. When Lisa pulled the string and the doll said “Thinking gives you wrinkles” I had to have emergency surgery to fix my burst spleen from laughing so hard.
“Even back then, the “Ken” doll was seen as faggy and queer.”
My G.I Joes would shame Ken at every turn. They were manly men who stole Ken’s girlfriend (or was she his “beard”?). Unfortunately for Joe, and for Barbie, the manufacturers were frugal with the plastic resin, and Joe was almost as neutered as Ken.
Well what else did anybody expect? I mean it’s a movie based on a toy line, so derivative was guaranteed. And the dirty little secret of Barbie is that gays are a big chunk of the customers, especially the serious collectors, so that’s the target audience.
Who? Gladly SOOOOOOO out if touch with all that.
It’s target is 6-9 year old girls...........same as Biden..............
They must need money................
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