My 40 year old son told me that he wants to watch Barbie with me. I told him that I am not comfortable going to a movie targeted at preteen girls. But he tells me that plenty of adults have been talking about the movie and that it is a great chance to mock over-the-top feminism.
He said that from what he has heard in conversations, in the end, it is a bunch of guys who save the uber-feminist Barbies from themselves.
I don’t know. But the movie does have fairly decent reviews.
Your local library should have a copy un a few months
Tell him to first go see it with his wife, and then to get back to you if it's worth it.
Regards,
RE: My 40 year old son told me that he wants to watch Barbie with me.
I’d watch Barbie just to look at Margot Robbie, :)
๐๐บ 40 ๐บ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ต๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฆ. ๐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐จ๐ช๐ณ๐ญ๐ด. ๐๐ถ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข๐ฅ๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ข ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ-๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ-๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ.
I’m about your son’s age, and I saw it last night with a lady I’m currently seeing. I didn’t take it as what the Critical Drinker, or some others reviewed it to be. There are jokes aimed at both sides, but at time you can see the feminism that went into the writing at times. A fair amount of the jokes in the movie were humorous, some juvenile. Some of the jokes at men’s expense to seem to be a bit harsher than others. I was surprised to see that the main Ken actually got something of a character arc, as did Barbie, and a few of the other characters (to a lesser extent IMO). I don’t think it was terrible, but I don’t think it’s going to be something I’ll actively look to view again in the future. If you should go to see it, just go to a matinee.
I’ll also note that Will Farrell’s character, and the fact he was in the film as all was just strange. He wasn’t the same Will Farrell we know from Anchorman, SNL, Talledega Nights, Elf, Step Brothers, that people are used to. I don’t doubt he could take serious roles, but his character, his place in the movie just made little sense, and it doesn’t really feel like he should’ve been there for much more than maybe exposition.
I don’t patronize Hollywood anything but would certainly not go to a film that makes little girls cry.