Michael G

7/10 (No spoilers) - It’s goofy and I liked it. Definitely a girl movie, but Ken is great and has taught me that I too can be kenough. I think all the reviewers I read beforehand praising the film as “radically feminist” are ridiculous people and those critiquing it as “too feminist” were viewing it through the same lens, finding it offensive and incoherent (which it would be if truly intended as radical). It’s not that film… It’s a traditionally liberal film, licensed by Mattel, lampooning radical feminist views of Barbie, the company, utopia, and the real world. It was a tactically smart move on Mattel’s part to show that the company is well aware of all the critiques raised against Barbie (made by the daughter character throughout) and is going to continue to sell Barbie anyway (good marketing stunt). I found the movie dumb and entertaining. My wife agreed, but found the ending more boring than she hoped. The latent masculinity of Doctor Barbie appeared to be off-putting to some, but I thought the producers tried well to hide it. The inclusion of this actor may have been the film’s one attempt to be actually radical, as the actor is both transg and far leftist.