Barbie (2023)

I felt much the same as yourself but would label it more along the lines of average than good.

You put it well re not being a normal movie and becoming difficult to get invested in the characters and outcome. The message is heavy handed alright!

Was hoping for more laugh out loud moments but I think the movie is trying to cast a fairly wide net and suffers a bit because of it.

Loved it!

Was brilliant!

Ken and Alan were gas!

Wonderful to see both doing so well, it's just great to see cinema becoming a real thing again post-pandemic. I was a bit concerned that Oppenheimer would be smothered by Barbie so I'm delighted to see both doing really well instead

So I seen Barbie today and loved it. I must say do there was some annoying parts like tha Barbie Barbie Barbie constantly part lol. But mostly it was fun but it is most definitely aimed at children.

but 2 hours nicely passed by, definitely not a kids film.

I have to disagree. This is must definitely a film aimed at kids the way the narrating is done and all the advertising of the dolls during and after the film

It's brilliant to see cinemas full all weekend. They badly needed it.

I don't think I've ever seen cinemas so full.

If you look at bookings even today, lots of screens are full.

Streaming is great and it's nice to have lots of content but I love going to the cinema still and hope they have a place in the future.

Dingle cinema has closed and is for sale and locals are fundraising to try to save it.

If I won the Lotto, I'd be tempted to buy it but Dingle is such a small town it's hard to see it breaking even.

I guess they make their money in the summer with tourists having nothing to do if it rains.

Was a pleasure to goto the cinema and see Oppenheimer. Think the over saturation of Disney / Super Hero Movies + Covid put cinema on life support.

The Barbie movie is an original movie for this generation to claim their own, is different from the Disney dirge and also FUNNY it seems. This is a very rare combination.

Definitely going to go see it. 👍

yeah but tom cruise is incapable of saying anything negative, especially regarding cinema so id take everything he says with a pinch of salt tbh. he was also asked recently to name his 5 favourite movies and he basically just said "oh i love all movies", they pressed him for a proper answer and he said the same thing.

i think if you asked him if he liked 'triumph of the will' he say yeah cause i just love movies, ALL movies.

saw barbie last night, enjoyed it overall without being in love with it. not exactly the target audience myself but i could understand why someone who grew up interested in the brand would love it. got a little bit ott with the 'god men are complete idiots arent they' schtick at times so i can see incel-types hating it (i see ben shapiro has done a review, havent watched it but im presuming he'll spend most of it complaining about this)

I thought it was rubbish. Way too serious for a kids movie. The "message" was a bit dodgy in places too. As for humour, it's Will Ferrell type humour, which is not funny IMO.

My 3 daughters often watch Barbie cartoons on Netflix and they are a lot lighter, funnier and give a more positive image of Barbie as a positive influence on young women IMO.

This will do well because of the pester power of kids as well as nostalgia in older girls/women, but it's not a good movie.

Fair enough, but it's advertised before other kids movies (the little mermaid) and it's about a kids toy and the posters are saturated in pink. What parents aren't going to bring their daughters who want to go?

Ok. It's still sh1te.

Yes those actors on actors interviews can be good

Greta Gerwig has made history as Barbie scored a US$377m (£293m, A$560m) opening weekend around the world, making it the biggest debut ever for a film directed by a woman

Really enjoyed this a lot, the quality and attention to detail in the set design was amazing.

I did find it dropped off a cliff after the climax with Ken's big musical number (which was absolutely brilliant) - was starting to look at my watch from that point on hoping they'd wrap things up soon, they didn't.

Saw this tonight and it was good. I was aware that it'd be different to what the title suggests but it was different again from what I expected.

It doesn't take itself too seriously and it took the piss out of itself quite a bit. There's some things I'm surprised Mattel left in, though it could also go a bit further with the boardroom stuff.

The speech about being a woman was a great moment. I did feel at one point it was going too far into 'dumb men' stereotypes but it actually swung back and broke down incels pretty well. I agree that they tried to address a lot and maybe could have given more time to some of them.

It's cheery and entertaining, though I don't think it was laugh out loud funny. I got a bit of a Rocky Horror vibe from. That said, there's a lot of serious stuff dealt with and it has a lot of heart, though it doesn't pull any punches (Depression Barbie).

Gosling was the star for me, he hogged so much of the film and had a pretty thorough arc. Robbie was great too. There's a lot of pressure on whoever does that role, it is the epitomy of that speech that the mother gave and Robbie was convincing at it. The mother was good, too. I liked that they didn't explain the father away. No 'he died young', divorce or alcoholism; he seems like a.perfectly.fine father. Allan was charming too and the Weird Barbie was a good touch.

It's a film that has a lot to say and will start conversations. If ever there was a 'don't judge a book by its cover' film, this is it.

Warner Bros marketing team had $150 million marketing budget that equalled the production costs for the entire film

Saw it. Laughed a bunch. Had feels at the right moment too. Liked that.

lol, can't say I'd have survived if I tried to do both Barbie and Oppenheimer in the one day 😀

One extra special shout out for using the camera trick .. I can't remember the name .. to do the

Hated it. Tbf, the sets look great, there was a few funny moments and Gosling and Robbie are clearly having a blast but what a steaming turd of an entry into the gender wars that never gets past the level of "boys are stoopid, throw rocks at them"...

Judging by the screening I was in, and the fact my 8 year old niece went along with a group of her friends, I reckon there's going to be an awful lot of very confused kids being brought to this.