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They couldn’t let the film end on the one triumphant moment for Annie where she tells off Ivan’s mother? We did not have to drag on this woman’s suffering till the bitter end.
I would have rated the film higher because the story actually had me interested in if the marriage would actually get annulled or not. I loved what a spitfire our protagonist was. I loved how utterly useless she left our Russian goons at times. I couldn’t wait…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
FULL DISCLAIMER: I am a grown woman who played with Barbie dolls as a girl.
Much to my disappointment, this film was a cynical, mean-spirited, vindictive narrative about how women don’t need men. Which is wild considering that this message doesn’t even respect the intellectual property, Ken was literally made FOR Barbie. For context, Barbie is canonically a teenager originally created in the 1950s. Her and Ken are not even married, they are going steady. The dolls are designed with…
5 stars might seem like too high a rating for a mid 2000s animated animal movie for families but hear me out
A movie like this could easily have chosen to have lazy writing, immature jokes, cheating out on the animation, etc. but effort was actually taken to tell an engaging underdog story. And they made something different by taking a sports documentary approach to filming. The jokes they made leaning in to this gag actually landed and you find…
