I think I enjoyed it, can't deny that I laughed, but I'm also not sure I've seen a blockbuster so firmly aware of itself as a product. Mattel the producer and copyright holder is also a sort of sub-plot villain—but further, in a very real sense, the undergirding hero, literally bestowing upon the protagonist the film's happy ending
What separates Barbie from previous movies-about-toys-and/or-comics is how it embraces the meta, plays with it. There's a self-consciousness there, but also a…
When I was 9, my grandma gave me this movie the day after my dad died, along with some donuts. I enjoyed the donuts
The singing’s fine, the costumes are good, but I need ppl to understand that I don’t dislike the changes to Alexander Hamilton’s story bc it isn’t “accurate,” i dislike it bc LMM’s “critique” (if u can call it that) is toothless and only serves to erase the actual harm Hamilton and the founding fathers caused. Like if 200 years from now there’s a Trump musical where the actor is black and the story is that he’s a “revolutionary” son of…
