 A bone to pick with the Barbie movie is... Was Barbie actually the wokest movie ever? I got up and left. Barbie is everything. He's just Ken. I mean, how can Barbie not love Ken? Like, what is going on? Why I hated the Barbie movie? Barbie Land is a matriarchy or it's feminism. Because Barbie was terrible. Men have it difficult in 2023 too. And then there's Barbie, which stinks. To be considered like, great writing, something like that. Do you have to show me a way to think about something that I hadn't already done? I don't know. I just feel like it was just like kind of voodoo in a bussing. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hi Barbie. Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. Today we are going to be doing a very exciting video, a much anticipated video. And we are joined today by none other than Ashley. Oh my goodness. Hi guys. It is your internet mom, Ash, at the channel. Your internet mom, Ash. I am so excited to be here. We're going to be talking about all things Barbie. Me and Ashley are going to be going through the entire Barbie movie with you guys and covering all things. That includes the good, the bad, covering the discourse, covering the good reviews, the bad reviews. We're going to be talking about everything that revolves around Barbie. We're going to be talking performances. We're going to be talking plot. We're going to be talking execution. We're going to be talking Mattel. Mattel. Let's kick it off with the start of the movie. The movie opens up with none other than an ode to the hit movie, 2001, Space Odyssey. Now, Ashley, I have a very important question for you. I have a feeling I already know what the question is. Have you seen 2001 Space Odyssey? Absolutely. It's a movie, but I know it. I think it counts for a lot because I also have not seen this movie. So as iconic as that was kind of went right over my head. When that girl, I don't know if you know exactly the scene. There's a scene where the girl sees Margot Robbie for the first time and her jaw literally drops. That's me anytime I see Margot Robbie. I too, if I saw a giant Margot Robbie, even if I saw a life-size Margot Robbie, which if I saw Margot Robbie in real life, I think she's shorter than me. So I think I would actually be looking down. My jaw would too drop to the floor and I would start smashing whatever was in my hand. Literally. I don't care. I'm like, that's mother. She's five six, she's five six. Isn't that so cute? Why is everyone five six? Grow up. Okay, so moving on to the next scenes. This is the introduction of Barbie. Who is Barbie going to be in this movie? And it really does set up that this is going to be an object. And I say that with a little hesitation because I don't want anyone to mistake what I'm saying. I'm not saying that women are objects, but I'm saying that they are placing this as an object that we have known since childhood. We are starting with stereotypical Barbie and she is perfect. She literally is perfect. I don't know about you and I don't know about you when you played with Barbies growing up, but honestly, I don't think Barbie was ever with Ken. I hated Ken's. I hated having them. I just never found my stories really driven by Ken's within my Barbie collection. I did have the Barbie babies though and those really did narrate the entire storyline of my Barbies. It's almost giving like boss baby or like brats babies. They were doing the work. They were spies and there was a blonde baby and a brunette baby and they had really deep voices. Period. But they were babies and then they would like mess up the adult's lives of like the adult Barbies. So they would like sneak around and like plant like cheating evidence everywhere. Honestly, you might be onto something because you can start with the theory that kids are evil, you know? Yeah. And just go from there and be like, see, look, speaking of, did you notice because there are like little kid Barbie dolls and stuff? There's like no kids in this world. Oh, no. There's no children. And I remember having a lot of like the like short little like toddler Barbie. Yeah. Because they had chubbier feet. You couldn't put heels on them. They had flat feet. Flat. And you couldn't, they had like little like always they had like a Mary Jane shoe. Yeah. I was like, let's get some versatility. It was almost giving American girls all. Oh, with like the little teeth. And I do have American girl doll teeth. And if they make a movie about that, I can't, I can't, if they make a movie about American girl dolls, I really, that's something that I can't really support. Unless you get the lead role though, right? Like million bucks. Unless they're showing off my American girl doll teeth. And I'm not going, I'm not going to see that movie because it's like, what do you have to offer me? The trauma to behind it. So it almost is against women's rights and women's importance that she even gave Ken some sympathy in this movie. Oh, okay. Thoughts? You think he shouldn't have been in the movie at all. So what you're saying is. So you're saying Ken shouldn't have been in the movie. So what you're saying is Ken should die in a fire. It is kind of weird how much people liked Ken. I liked Ken's parts. I thought he was funny. I love Ryan Gosling. It is kind of a little boggling that people love the Ken so much. I wasn't expecting it. No, same. I mean, I really loved Ken just because I love a good himbo character. I don't know what it is. But even if it was just a story about Barbie just discovering womanhood and just like feeling empowered that way. I think the message still would have gone across without him. After watching it a few more times, honestly, the Ken's plotline and their importance in the movie, it loses a lot of that lore that it had the first time I watched it. The first time I watched it, I was like, wow, this is so funny. I'm so glad they included it. And the more I watched it, I was like, there's another part that I wish I had more of and that is Barbie's relationship with Sasha and the mother. And that relationship, which might come that might age me as well because I'm like, I want to talk about motherhood and connection to your dolls and your girlhood. As much as I did have a fun time watching that part, I wanted more from that America for Era Barbie and Sasha. I wanted more of that meat of the story. Yeah, I noticed on my rewatches, in the beginning, Ken going with Barbie to Venice Beach and to the real world and all that, I loved those parts. But once it got to where Barbie goes back and sees patriarchy as a foot, I always get kind of let down when I get to that point because I'm like, I have to sit through this to get back to the meat of the story. Right, okay. It's honestly so nice to have some solidarity in that because I was really nervous because people really like that part and I did like it, but not to the point that I was like, I'm not waiting for it to happen whenever I watch it. I love Ken in the real world. I think him exploring the real world is so interesting. But when we get to them with the mission to unbrainwashed the Barbies and like undo the patriarchy that Ken put in place again, it is not something that I first of all think about ever. And second of all, it's not something that I wait to see. The parts that I wait to see is Barbie with Ruth. Barbie connecting with real women in real life. Those are the parts that I latch on to. And like I said, I think that also might age me in a way where it's like, I'm sure little girls are little children that are also watching this movie. Probably love the Ken parts and probably love being like girls rule, boys drool and kind of having that conversation around that. So I understand both sides, but personally, I would have loved more of the established relationships between humans, not so much the dolls. I agree. I mean, I don't know. Do you think that's unpopular? I don't know if it's unpopular. To be fair, as much as I talk about Barbie discourse and as much as I was like, there's a lot of discourse around this movie, something that I don't involve myself in is that discourse. I don't read it. Same. It's too much energy. I don't got the time. I'm good. I'll just go watch the movie. One of the scenes that I think about, and I think many people do, is when she turns to the older lady that's sitting on the bench and she's looking at her and she's looking around at everyone in this park and she's connecting. She's trying to find who brought her to the real world. Who was she tethered to, basically, that's bringing her? Who was thinking about her enough? And she's looking around at all these people feeling all these different human emotions. Margot Robbie tells an entire three-act story within just her facial expressions within this scene. She's looking at people laugh, people cry, people fight, people literally just sitting there doing mundane things. And then she turns to the older lady sat next to her and she looks at her and she goes, you're so beautiful. In the way she says it too. It's so genuine. That... I don't even know what to say, Ashley. I don't even know what to say. I don't even know what to say. It means so much. I think about that scene all the time. You have the motif of what was I made for instrumental in the background. And I just... It makes me cry. It makes me tear up just thinking about it. Because it makes you think of everyone in your life and like every wrinkle tells a story. You really did. You're right. Every wrinkle does tell a story. You're right. We are beautiful. Okay? We might have crow's feet and it's fine. No, I totally feel the same way. I think it's so funny because I feel like the people who get this scene usually are women. But people who have like a lot of strong women connections in their life as well. Because you have like the older women in your life that you see grow up and who are so experienced and then you see the people who are younger who are just trying to kind of figure life out. You're able to use this scene as a pinpoint in your own life and really reevaluate the relationships you have with the people in your life. And when I see that old lady like I think of my mom. I think of my grandma. I think of my aunts. And it's just so crazy how so much life was in that one scene. It's like 15 seconds and it says everything it needs to. I do not have a vagina. Barbie may not have a vagina, but that does not mean that I do not. Today's video is sponsored by Lilo. I'm here to see my gynecologist. I've also lost my voice, but with Lilo's new product, the series three, I do not need my voice to have a good time. The series three is a sound responsive vibrator that syncs to the beat of your favorite song. There are two built-in microphones into this that pick up the sounds with noise cancellation so it can sync perfectly to whatever song that you have on. The series three offers 10 different vibration settings varying from the intensity of a teasing murmur all the way up to a satisfying pulse. The series three also has premium silicone that's warm to the touch so you can feel as satisfied as possible and it's also waterproof and rechargeable with a USB port. 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This is a really weird part of the movie that in my opinion, I thought was unnecessary. Thoughts? I completely agree. If you look at my letterbox review from when I first saw Barbie, I literally said it in there. I was like, Will Ferrell's character did not do it for me. I don't know, I think just kind of going back to what we've been talking about. I just wanted so much about the relationships between all the women that every time you popped up I was just like, okay, sure. You have so many different freaking relationships built around these fucking boys and the kens and you have like dynamics between the kens but you can't give us a little bit more of explained around Barbie's relationship with her person. Clearly, because like, I know they say it at some point in the movie. I don't remember if it's like in the beginning. I think weird Barbie says to her, like it takes two to kind of like create a portal. Well, what exactly started that? Was it her just like starting to think about her daughter and got upset and it affected Barbie like what is that relationship really like? Yeah, because is it only because and is it only because they played with them together or is it like she talks about how she had all these Barbies growing up? Like why don't we ever see her as a child? And I know that probably delves in people are like there's not enough time for all this. There would be enough time if we didn't see all the stuff about kens and Will Ferrell. Just give us five minutes. It's not going to hurt you babe. It's okay. And it's like maybe I'm being too like, oh my God, I want such deep meaning but like they when Greta Gerwig like directs and creates these characters she does it so well. And so when I see that potential like executed so well like Barbie is an executed character like they really like drive in like what is being a human and what would her going into the real world be and I love that. And I love her relationships that she flushes out with Ken and how that's just like she's like I just don't like you. We're missing one. We're missing one, which is the reason this all happened. Even if they had just taken like an extra 5-10 minutes like I know it's a close like two hour run time just sprinkle in a little bit more. It's not going to kill y'all because like I know you have like thinking of the whole test audience thing there's probably a lot of men and even with the way that the movie is set up now people have an issue like Ben Shapiro literally almost shat his pants in a theater. I would shit on Ben Shapiro. Let's start there. That should have been like an extra scene at the end of the movie. I know the Ken's like taking over and like making the patriarchy was like funny but like the idea placed within the movie that like rejecting a man could have him like take your land and like steal everything from you is like kind of really scary. I get it. It's funny but when I was watching it and I was like wait a second like wait. No, that's how I felt when they went to the real world and they were talking to the construction workers and she was like I don't have a vagina. I was like oh a hate crime is about to happen. Like they overthrew their government in one day. Let's talk about that because they did it awfully quick. Like I know the timeline like everything is just kind of within the matter of a couple days but like how did you rearrange the houses? How do you have like the planes flying around the Capitol building? Like y'all went to work. Is the time different in Barbie Land? Let's get into it because that's my theory is that time moves different because you're telling me every day is the same thing. What is going to happen when Barbie goes to the real world? Is she going to age super quickly? She's on the roller blades and her boobs just like fall to her knees. God, she just like her knees give out because she can't like she like breaks up she's like Bella and like Twilight cooking bomb part one. She's literally Renesmee if you think about it. She just starts like that on the beach. But like, yeah, like does time or is she going to be like age of Adelaide and like lively and just stay the same age and they're going to be like bitch like you're a criminal. What's your ID? What's the social security number because you're not from this universe? I think ponder this thought. Ready? I think that the first movie should have been about Barbie going to the real world finding her person that tethers to her and then sequel is the Ken's overthrowing Barbie Landon. Beautiful. Beautiful. Greta. Yep. Fucked up Greta. Greta, you heard it here first. This is why you're not getting the best director nominee. This is why. This is why, of course. No, but like that kind of would have ate. I'm not even going to lie because then you can really dive into that because it does give sequel vibes. Like we could have dived into the relationships, done all that. And then the sequel is like, well actually what if everything flipped? Ha ha, quirky, fun, different. And it still would have made like a billion dollars. The next scenes that we have is really them unbrandwashing the Barbies. But before that we have none other than the monologue done by America Ferrera and this part is a very vital part of the movie and it's a very talked about part of the movie. We have a lot of different opinions surrounding this monologue and I did not come out of this theater watching this monologue thinking that everybody and their mother will be talking about it and have so many like differing opinions. I thought we were all going to be like, cute. Like that was supposed to be the sisterhood moment where I look at you in the theater and I look at you in the theater and we just nod. Because it's like, yes, I agree. I understand what she was saying. Like it's not supposed to be like, oh my god, like this line was good but this line wasn't. And this part was perfect. No! No! Stop! I was just supposed to be like, it was supposed to be this, like a... Yeah, like if you know, you know. And this is coming from all angles. You're having people who are like, this feminist stuff. And then you have people who are like, it's not feminist enough. She's stating the obvious. And you have these two opposing sides and it's like, I don't know honestly what anyone expected from the Barbie movie. But I think honestly in referral to that scene, I think like a lot of people were like overreacting. I completely agree because I don't know if people wanted feminism to like be solved or to like world peace. I don't know exactly what they wanted that speech to be. But even with it being presented the way it was, I feel like it did its job because there is so much discourse and there have been so many people watching it who are like, oh, you know, they're only just for women and they come out with this idea that was not the movie whatsoever. I read a story on my channel like a couple months back on Reddit where this girl literally broke up with her boyfriend over the Barbie movie because he watched it and walked out and said, oh, it was sexist and this that whatever. So to some people it may seem basic but a lot of people need to hear it. There's even some women who need to hear it and be like, oh, okay, sisterhood, this is it. A major point that people came out of the movie with was that it was so obvious and for me, a 21 year old girl who lives online in a community that is really based around women my audience is mostly female the people I follow are mostly female I consume a lot of content made by women my age of course that kind of sentiment is going to be kind of obvious to me but not only do I think of like the children that are watching this movie that needs to hear the message because not everyone is already a 21 year old girl that's already like gone through me and girls in high school and like the misogyny coming at you from all ends not only girls your age but boys your age and boys older than you and girls older than you you experience it from all angles I also think it's like really good like you said for people that are our age that live a different life than we do or men our age men older than us I think that like stating the obvious is not always such a bad thing like and I think you have to recognize when watching this that like just because you know it doesn't mean everyone else does and also you can tell a lot of your own biases when you watch this and I think a lot of people that get defensive over it are people that might contribute to some of those parts where you're really over criticizing a lot of things that are just almost impossible to achieve all at once literally and it's so funny because I feel like even as girls like we've experienced it with our own family members like growing up because there is still like an internal misogyny like maybe that's not universal for everyone but it definitely was for me where I had to unlearn a lot of things and have conversations with my mom or my sister whoever and be like hey you know maybe that's like what we thought was okay maybe that's not okay and I feel like this monologue was like a good conversation starter for that let's get into the like basically final scene of the movie it's not the literal final scene of the movie but this is like the ending scene this is the part it's the final scene for me because I check the fuck out after this scene like I'm on the floor no so this is where she's like I don't know what I'm supposed to be I don't know who I am Mattel's like you're supposed to be like Ken's girlfriend like that's what you are and she's like I don't know she's deciding if she could even go back to the real world and then the ghost of Ruth Handler comes out the shadows and is like hey that's what I designed you to be she's like you were meant to be anything you wanted to be and she takes her little hand and then they walk into like heaven Barbie heaven or something I was gonna say is this like the in-between stage it's not hell it's not heaven it is but it's like she takes her to there and then they're standing like hand in hand and then Ruth Handler's like take my hand and close your eyes and feel and just fall and then I mean I didn't know it was a Grammy winning performance but that's just me now there are some parts that broke me this I was streaming it is a montage of real life women this is all footage that Greta collected from people that worked on the movie she told everyone to send in videos that they had of women in their life and it is a montage played to by Billy Eilish is what was I made for and it is showing Barbie what being a woman is and what she is going towards if she chooses to go to the real world tears stream down my face that's what I'm saying I checked like this is the last scene because I check out like the eyes are closed we're sobbing we're done because like I don't know about you like it's like suddenly I'm thinking about like everything in my life and every woman in my life and I'm thinking about my mom and I'm thinking about my sister and I'm thinking about like everything that is my life and what it means to not only be a woman but to be me like just to be alive like what is that to me I love this scene I love that it shows like crying I love that it shows mundane tasks like people just existing celebrating bringing a new life to the world you know I love everything that it encompasses and first of all I love a montage but this montage just like oh same it changes it changes everything it does it does it shows so many it shows the array of human emotions beautifully within such a short amount of time I don't know why when I was watching I was like there's a real people I know real people I'm like I'm a real person I love all of it I mean I know we just sit here and we're like honestly yeah we're criticizing it but to a certain degree it's like picking at it because it is such a good movie and like did we contradict ourselves this entire video maybe probably and you know what I've accepted it that was one of my add-ons for my Barbie I think it's fine like we've owned Barbies we experienced it and then we experienced the movie I really don't think there's anything else to say I don't think so either okay bye