Midnight's Edge, The Critical Drinker and Ben Shapiro agree: The Barbie movie is garbage

Twitchy.com ^ | 7/22/2023 | Aaron Walker

[NetAddicted]

Ben Shapiro's movie review is 43 minutes long. I tried to pause around 33 minutes in, and it kept switching where the review was. I gave up, rather than try to find my spot. Shapiro points out a particularity egregious sexual segment. In the middle of a kids' movie? This film is trash, according to reviews.

[OpusatFR]

The worst part about this is not so much the woke and sexual aspect, but the commercialization foisted on children to buy this expensive dreck.

Star Wars toys were the rage at one time because the genre was new and exciting.

Barbie is just a rehashed mess to juice sales.

[Vaquero]

Meant for young girls or women who remember being young girls fondly. Why would Shapiro even bother?

It’s like mama Mia. What guy would watch it (unless coerced)

[NetAddicted]

I take it you didn’t watch Shapiro’s review video. The movie director and script writer hate men and capitalism. Barbie world represents that hate, and the heroes are marxists. The movie is toxic trash, to which children should not be exposed.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Although James Cameron did use a lot of strong female protagonists in the past, they weren’t boring, bitchy, and superhuman to the point of completely lacking any flaws like Rings of Power’s Galadriel or Star Wars’s Rey. But that’s what’s currently trending in woke Hollywood.

[Drew68]

Other reviewers have called the movie “anti woke” and said it reenforces the traditional gender binary.

One thing that can’t be denied is that it is a massive blockbuster.

[central_va]

Mattel needs a new Trans Barbie™ with detachable penis and removable breasts.

[Varda]

Since when is having a tranny playing Barbie and homosexual themes, “anti-woke”.

“some Barbies and Kens are portrayed by members of the LGBT community, and this occasionally comes through in their portrayals. Some male characters here could be seen as being quite effeminate, too.....Hari Nef, a trans performer, plays one of the female Barbies”
https://www.pluggedin.com/movie-reviews/barbie-2023/

[NetAddicted]

One reviewer said he thought the movie would start big, but when parents realized how anti-male it was, plus the sex jokes, plus other negative stuff I don’t recall, it will start losing big.

[outofsalt]

"What guy would watch it"

You couldn't get me to with a rope and a pick-up truck.

[Ikeon]

You missed james camerons “ sarah conner” from the terminator..

[NetAddicted]

There is more than one transgender “woman” in Barbie? I had seen photos of Dr fake-women Barbie, but in one of the reviews, I saw another shot of him, and he definitely looked he.

[equaviator]

"Barbie" is a doll toy for little girls while "Oppenheimer" was a real person in American & World history, and a "game changer" in the scientific community of the pre-Atomic Age. How "Barbie could have topped "Oppenheimer" in American movie theaters, I have no idea; but call me a "suspicious person" because now I'm suspicious of just about everything!

[pepsionice]

Based on commentary, I’d say the movie has no appeal to any juvenile or adult male. I’d even go and suggest that most juvenile females under 12 probably will have no grasp of the movie. I’d say by the next weekend, it will have peaked.

[Drew68]

Since when is having a tranny playing Barbie and homosexual themes, “anti-woke”.

Pretty sure Margot Robbie is not a tranny. If she is, that surgeon did a helluva job.

[Stravinsky]

There are multiple Barbies in the film, just like there are multiple versions of Barbie the doll. Robbie plays the main character called Stereotypical Barbie. I have not seen the film and will not see it, so I don’t know if one of the Barbies is tranny or not. But I do know from reliable review that they go to the real world, Ken learns about the American “patriarchy”, brings it back to Barbieland, which then must be overthrown. And yes, they say patriarchy.

[9422WMR]

Say what you will, but Margot is smoking hot!!

[Drew68]

One reviewer said he thought the movie would start big, but when parents realized how anti-male it was, plus the sex jokes, plus other negative stuff I don’t recall, it will start losing big.

Barbie grossed $150 this weekend. That’s massive. It received a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. There isn’t going to be a crash anytime soon.

[IYAS9YAS]

Other reviewers have called the movie “anti woke” and said it reenforces the traditional gender binary.

Except for the tranny Barbie.

[Vaquero]

Can’t at work. Not that I’m interested in watching it