Barbie - full review
So it was, as I thought, preachy and I hate preachy movies especially ones that just reiterate messages I agree with. Why am I here ? Where's the entertainment.
BUT.
But it was good after all because you could watch and admire the skill in which the preachy stuff was baked into to the story. That's not to say the story was compelling. It's dolls after all... but the cleverness was something to admire.
Is cleverness enough ? I would say that cleverness in a film needs a few extras to make it worthwhile. One of the extras here was the production design, which was also excellent.
So, this movie will make misogyny types explode (it makes fun of men) and will bore feminist men, but but... if you have some writer in you, or maybe like great visuals or the music ... I don't know ... you might like it.
Certainly the chicks liked it. Like Bridget Jones' Diary, all I heard was chick laughter.... the chicks...