C B

This is an inadequate movie that doesn’t belong in the Barbie universe! I said it, I don’t like it, but I wanted to. As a collector I really thought I’d love this movie and I did at the start, the dance choreography- the music and Gloria’s speech! But the rest just isn’t it. Margot’s character of Stereotypical Barbie or the what I understand to be original Barbie is grappling with a crisis of identity that is not resolved. Barbie is under the impression that they “fixed” the real world as she believes it’s like Barbie land where all the Barbies have the high-powered jobs and run Barbie land. When she arrives in the real world she is upset that’s not how it is. Instead of equality and true feminism this movie pushes the idea that only women or men can be in charge. In Barbie Land all the Ken’s don’t have proper or high power jobs. Ryan’s Ken character is just BEACH Ken, now if we were sticking to an actual representation of Barbie Land we would also have a BEACH barbie just like we have Crystal Barbie and Ken or Great Shape Barbie and Ken or even Animal Lovin Barbie and Ken! This perception that Ken doesn’t have a REAL job is just untrue, in fact there is many Ken Careers including DOCTOR KEN! This movie had a lot of potential but fell flat, it would have been more meaningful if Barbie realised that Barbie Land and the real world that in fact neither were perfect and that the Ken’s also had the right to have a say and have a voice equally as the women in the real world should too! The REAL Barbie stands for equality and women empowerment not to tear down the opposite sex and oppress them. This story line doesn’t even fit with the Barbie world Mattel has created as I mentioned Ken does in fact have Careers. As for their relationship; Ken has always been his own man and Barbie her own woman together an aspirational couple who don’t diminish the other. But the Barbie Movie is far from the Barbie and Ken we know and love. The Ken’s in Barbie land do not feel respected and are in shock when they learn that BEACH Ken was asked for the time in the Real world, Ryan’s Ken telling them how he was respected by this action. I’m sorry but what?! Since when has Ken been treated so poorly. I’m sorry but I grew up with Ken being the perfect boyfriend/ date. Some even say they have found their Ken when finding the man of their dreams. So why has any respect for Ken gone out the window? Barbie is self-centred and rude telling Ken he can go now at the end of the night. And constantly throughout Barbie is saying she see’s Ken as a friend…. I’m sorry but no. This is a movie about tearing down Barbie and Tearing down Ken both separately and together as a couple. They both are having an identity crisis with no satisfactory outcome! Stereotypical Barbie is basically killed off and turns human and the Ken’s are still treated like they have no worth. Barbie and Ken are broken up? Or were never a thing really to begin with in Barbies eyes. I’m sorry but this is not Barbie and Ken’s Story. Although the movie touches on Barbie having an identity crisis and self confidence as we women do. This is due to the human playing with her I feel that Barbie should have overcome this or start working through this after hearing Americas Characters speech. This movie is for the people who just want to see a Barbiecore movie that doesn’t have a real connection in the Barbie universe! Mattel should not of given this their stamp of approval it sure is not swell.