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I’m NEVER gonna see this one….
But I’ve good little Granddaughetrs that WIULL be going to see the movie this week and they ARE excited……
Below is a Vanity Fair write up on the movie and the people who act in it…..
Barbie, the hotly anticipated film opening nationwide on July 21, has a lot on its mind. How could it not, when its creators—director Greta Gerwig co-wrote the film with her partner, Noah Baumbach—have been handed such a tricky task? The film, about the preeminent fashion doll, has to serve the interests of its masters, in this case the Mattel corporation, while also cheating out to the audience to convince them that what they are watching is not just some two-hour ad. The film must be extra conscious of what Barbie is—critical of it, even—while also celebrating one of the most famous toys ever made. What choice did Gerwig have, then, but to go weird?
That’s exactly what she does with Barbie, which is part satire, part earnest fable, and part big-minded meditation on the nature of existence. Those components don’t a cohesive film make—Barbie’s many fashions and accessories often clash—but at least Gerwig has made something worth thinking and talking about. Barbie does not give off the cold gleam of mere board-approved product, even if that is, at root, still what it is.
Robbie gamely commits to whatever bit is put in front of her in any given scene, but she has as much trouble following Barbie’s emotional throughline as we in the audience do. As the movie heads into its third act, it becomes Gosling’s show—of course it’s the guy who gets to have the real fun in the end. Gosling goes for broke and mostly emerges unscathed, even if the film’s depiction of dumdum (but ultimately harmless) himbo-ness grows tired in its repetition.
There is plenty in Barbie to be delighted by, even moved by. I have no doubt that the film will be a massive hit, cheered for turning a cynical I.P. project into a loopy treatise on being. But the movie could maybe have been stickier, more probing and indelible, if it had reined in some of its erratic energy and really figured out what it wanted to say. Still, Barbie holds true to its most pressing theme where it counts: at its most assured, it is proudly, ridiculously itself…..
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