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Sooo where's the Barbie discussion at? What did y'all think? (lemmy.world)

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I'm not sure if there is a bigger platform here on Lemmy discussing new releases, but Barbie was awesome. I had a smile on my face pretty much the entire time. The kens were hilarious. I thought it was a bit heavy handed at times but as a male, I'm sure it's just a bit of ignorance on my part.

Would love to hear what everyone's thinking!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Saw it yesterday and I really liked it. I think some people are kind of exaggerating how groundbreaking and subversive the feminism in it is, while it strikes me as fairly standard liberal feminism, but I think it was executed about as well as it could have been and I only cringed one or two times. Besides that it was consistently funny, occasionally moving, the plot was compelling enough, and it was all round a fun time. Also bonus points for having a Charli XCX song over a car chase.

I guess probably my biggest gripe would just be that the capitalism aspect of things was approached in a really shallow manner (maybe or maybe not Mattel's influence going on there idk), such that tbh I almost would have preferred it not touched at all, but this didn't hugely affect my enjoyment of the movie either because I wasn't expecting it to really go deep into that.