Barbie: Let’s firstly start with the trailers shall we?

So where do I begin, well firstly I wanna make this clear I’m in no way interested in barbie like at all, I’ve never been a fan so I thought this show wouldn’t be for me…and I wasn’t wrong nor was a I right…yes this film wasn’t for me but it sure as heck wasn’t childish as I thought it would have been…..so without further a due let’s get into the review shall we?

So surprisingly we open this film up with a narrator saying in the land before time when girls even existed there has always been barbies……yes I kid u not thats the first sentences that came out of this movie….apparently get this thr barbies these girls have are those baby dolls and they are taking care of them like a mother, which the narrator says it’s fun for a bit to pretend being mom, but after a while it gets boring….just ask ur mom, lololol….anyways a giant tall Margot Robbie Barbie shows up standing there which then the girls start smashing there baby dolls in the floor and kicking them, breaking the dolls heads….uhhhhh well this got dark lolo

So now in modern day we find out that there’s the human world and Barbie land, and in Barbie land it is ruled by Barbie….while the Ken’s simp over Barbies but they get ignored by them, what a terrible society that is……anyways every day Barbie wakes up and has a great day, oh btw everything in this world is plastic…the food, the drinks, the houses, the cars yeah I do mean everything…well except for the beds, yeah idk why either….guess so the actors are comfy? anyways also in Barbie land u don’t have to walk down ur stairs to get into ur car, u can just fly on down from ur roof into ur car or levitate I mean….huh I now wanna live in Barbie land, sounds freaking amazing I could levitate…lolo just kidding I don’t wanna live there…

Also our main Barbie who’s labeled as stereotypical Barbie lives near a discontinued Barbie who is a pregnant Barbie….yes that was a thing, no I ain’t making that up…and no idk why they thought that would make for a good children’s toy either…..companies are weird let’s just face it, can’t prove me wrong or u can? Idk try me…..anyways she drives off to the beach where everything is uhhh plastic oh lovely lolo…anyways there at the beach are all the Ken’s ans barbies, we see Ken played by Ryan Gosling….once again perfect casting in my opinion…also we see another Ken played by the actor who played Shung-Chi…..yeah that actor, good actor in my opinion….Anyways the purpose of a Ken is to be with Barbie…..I wish I was kidding when I said that, so he tries impressing her by going in the ocean to surft but instead he accidentally runs into the plastic ocean which bounces him backwards into the air somehow physics isn’t a thing here….lolo

So Ken gets embarrassed which the other Ken comes up and starts insulting Ken. 

(CARA TAKEOVER) 

Ken is overall a really silly character. All he wants is to impress Barbie and make her like him, which Barbie seems either oblivious too, or purposeful in ignoring him. 

From here, Barbie invites Ken to a party at her house for a dance party. The whole scene involves a major choreographed dance with all of the other Barbies, and the Kens too. The Kens seem to be competing against one another as they dance. 

The dance scene gets abruptly interrupted when Barbie asks if any of the other Barbies ever think about death. 

When they seem shocked, she covers it up by saying “I’m just DYING to dance.” 

This is where things start to change for Barbie. She wakes up the next morning with flat feet, cellulite, takes a cold shower, burns her toast, falls off her roof, and has bad breath. 

When the other Barbies find out, they encourage her to go visit “weird barbie,” which is a Babrie that got played with a bit too hard. That Barbie basically tells her that the person who is playing with stereotypical Barbie in the real world is not okay, and that if she wants to save her, she will have to go to the real world and intervene. Barbie says that she doesn’t want to go, but weird Barbie tells her she will continue to get cellulite if she doesn’t go.. so she agrees. 

The other Barbies throw her a going away party and Barbie drives off to the real world. Halfway through the trip she realizes that Ken is in the back seat!! As she is singing “Closer to Fine,” he chimes in on the chorus. She agrees to take her with him, and they travel through several Barbie lands until they land in the real world. 

Once in the real world, their hopeful optimism is immediately crushed. Barbie is continuously getting cat calls, and the weird stares are prominent. Barbie and Ken start to realize the real world isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. 

After being arrested a few times (reasons not important) Barbie and Ken go on separate adventures. Barbie takes some time to meditate on where her human is, and Ken goes on a quest in which he ends up learning about the patriarchy. 

Ken assumes that the patriarchy is mostly about horses, but also appreciates that men seem to be in charge in the real world. 

When Ken and Barbie meet back up, they go to find Barbie’s human at the high school. When they find her, Barbie immediately gets chewed out and told she’s a fascist. Barbie then starts crying. 

At this point, Mattel (the company that owns Barbie) has been alerted to the fact that Barbie is in the real world. The Mattel executives go on a quest to find her. When they see her outside the high school, they ask her to go in the car with them. 

Ken sees Barbie drive away, and assumes she is fine so he heads back to Barbieland. 

Once at Mattel, the executives try to get Barbie to go in the box. At first she is relieved, but as they keep talking her red flags keep going up. She makes the decision to “go to the bathroom,” and runs away. At some point in this saga, the woman working at the front desk starts to overhear that Barbie is in the real world. 

After Barbie goes through a series of weird obstacles, including running into an old woman in a random room, she finds a way out. The woman from the front desk winds up beckoning her into the car, and they drive away! 

While in the car, you learn that the woman is the human Barbie was looking for! And the highschooler that bullied Barbie is her daughter. The three of them start to put the pieces together and connect all of the dots as to what’s happening. They decide to head to Barbieland as a team. 

Once they get back to Barbie land, Barbie starts to realize things are different than when she left. There are more men in all the usual Barbie places, and women in weird maid outfits. 

She drives to her house and sees that it is very “boyish.” This is when we realize that Ken brought patriarchy back to Barbieland. He called Barbie’s house the “mojo dojo casa house,” and explains that it is Ken’s world now. They have even made a plan to vote on it being “Kens Only” in the supreme court. 

Barbie is obviously devastated, and can’t seem to focus on anything but the bad. The three that traveled to Barbieland together end up back at weird Barbies. At weird Barbies, you learn that all of the Barbies can’t focus on anything but Ken and the patriarchy, it’s like they have all been rewired. 

In an attempt to cheer stereotypical Barbie up, her human gives a long speech about feminism and how difficult it is to be a woman in today’s world. When she finishes. all of the Barbies seem to “snap out of it.” They start to go back to normal. 

When they realize that all the Barbies need is a feminist rant, they concoct a plan. They are going to distract all the Kens in Barbieland and reprogram the Barbies by giving them a dose of feminism. 

Then, once all the Barbies are back to normal, they will make the Kens fight each other during the vote for Supreme Court, and the Barbies will take Barbie Land back! 

The plan is successful. 

From here, Barbie and Ken have a conversation about why Barbie had to take back Barbieland. You realize that Ken just needed to feel validated, and he was always seeking the feeling of importance rather than power. 

At this point everyone has made up and things feel great! But where does Barbie go from here? 

Remember the woman from the Mattel building? Well that was Ruth, founder of Barbie. Ruth comes to Barbieland to have a chat with Barbie. They talk about what Barbie was made for, and Barbie asks if she can be a human. Ruth says it is up to her. They share a beautiful moment in which they talk about human existence and experiences. Barbie then decides to be a human…..literally her final lines are to a front desk person….I’m here to see a Gynecologist……lololol I ain’t gonna describe what a Gynecologist is yall can look it up if yall want….but warning yall probably shouldn’t

Overall, this movie was great! It is not for everyone, but I give it a 9/10

That’s one of my best friends review on this movie….I thought it’d be something different to collaborate with a friend of mine and write a review together….so it seems she’s described the entire film but I do wanna give yall my rating oh and mention something that she didn’t mention….right as Barbie leaves Barbie land we see Ken wearing a sweater that says I’m Ken-ough………hahhahaha get it because he’s enough and he’s Ken? He’s Ken-enough….so with that out of the way here’s my rating

Overall this film isn’t for me I didn’t Care for it but I do understand the appeal to others who liked it….so I’ll give this film a solid 4.8/10 I hope yall enjoy me and my friends read on our perspective on Barbie….