Barbie - A Hot Pink Mess

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

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[@Portersona69420]

This guy hates everything more then I Hate Everything. Like dude, we get it. Your sinicle and take the fun out of everything. Can you stop ruining movies for other people now? Especially the people who haven't even seen it? There's a lot of really good stuff that you "hate" that's actually really good. But people won't go see it because their mindless drones taking "advice" from people like you on the internet. If you don't like it then just don't watch it and stop ruining shit for the rest of us. It's THAT simple.

[@NDenizen]

holla holla

[@Coconut-219]

no

[@Joemamma664]

I would have but then you said i couldn't be number one.. so now I don't wanna

[@cryhavoc196]

Reminds me of choas from Sonic Adventure 2. I might actually check this out

[@biotrekker]

Strangely, Margot Robbie's analysis is more coherent and based than the director's - by a long shot.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I get the sense Robbie was really genuinely invested in it as a project.

[@veronicab15]

The movie itself is more balanced than the marketing lol

[@brusso456]

Barbie is not interested in ken because ken does not have the D. Barbie chooses the patriarchy world so she can get a V. then she can chase some D.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

One of the women interviewed had a brain.

[@glitchinthesystem4798]

@@Kyle-sr6jm I thought Gerwig proved she had a brain when she made Little Women

[@stiofarnog]

"My sister's Barbie was stabbed with the laser sword of a gundam. By me." - The Little Platoon, 2023

[@barrybend7189]

I actually wanted to see that. The imagery was too good to not show.

[@FlyingHeadbutt100]

*guitar riff* "IT'S A GUNDAM!!!"

[@txag007]

@@FlyingHeadbutt100 The crossover we so desperately need!

[@Dharengo]

I think that might have been the best anecdote in the whole video.

[@draketheduelist]

And that's not just _any_ Gundam. That's the Gundam _Epyon._ Ain't no pissant RX-78-2 royalty-free lightsaber, and Gundam beam weapons are already _way_ scarier than anything in Star Wars, and not just because of their size. And then there's Epyon, arguably one of the top melee oriented suits in the franchise. Just imagine how scary _its_ beam weapons have to be to earn that distinction...

[@starkillermarex]

The interview about how everyone was complementing Ryan but not Margot completely nullifies the message the real world scenes are trying to push and Gerwig is completely blind to it

[@SpecterVonBaren]

With feminism, the conclusion has already been reached, so when something is observed, it is not a matter of following a logical path of deduction, but instead figuring out how it validates what you already believed to be true. Man flirts with woman, patriarchy, man doesn't flirt with woman, patriarchy, man treats woman as an equal, patriarchy, man treats woman differently from men, patriarchy.

[@Ergeniz]

@@SpecterVonBaren Very well put. I call it a 'civil religion for/of women'.

[@realnamehidden1314]

@@SpecterVonBaren Isn’t there a name for such a fallacy? I feel like there is but I’m drawing a blank for some reason

[@SpecterVonBaren]

@@realnamehidden1314 Could maybe file it under the Galbrush Paradox.

[@Metalgarn]

@@realnamehidden1314 Confirmation Bias

[@AliceBowie]

Gary Buechler was right when he said Ken is like Archie Bunker and Rorschach. Characters designed to be hated, but they turn out to be the most sympathetic and likeable.

[@keiththomas1416]

No-Ken and the rest are a cyphers, the good obedient proles, like an East German factory or a Hungarian agricultural worker. He is all performative, an imaginary fuck buddy for Margot and Greta. When he finally has that moment of gender or more correctly class contentious, like Winston Smith in 1984, he really does imagine a stilettoe stamping on a human face forever. I am surprised they didn't reprise him crying as the announcement of the victory over the Patriarchy in the Barbie land equivalent of the Old Chestnut Tree. Those cheering him on, rather like witnessing a Soviet show trial, or Saddam's first Baath Party Congress, are cheering on a pathetic voodoo doll of a 'man' for the entertainment of the riot girl faction of the Party that runs Hollywood.

[@scarlett19b]

*Gotta💓The Underdog!*

[@sthubbins4038]

None of those characters were supposed to be hated 😂

[@ninjanibba4259]

​@@sthubbins4038then why was he the way he was on Toy Story 3 for? Tell me, make it make sense and you'll get a like

[@Wanda711]

Just like The Don became a sympathetic character after Captain Marvel brutalized him and stole his bike. The creators of the movie were convinced that they'd done a terrific creating a hateful foil for their heroine, but the harder the propagandists squeeze, the more thinking humans slip through their fingers.

[@theludico2880]

I never knew that a Barbie movie would be more politically driven than frickin Oppenheimer!

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

They "hid the ball" in Oppenheimer to make everyone believe that "The Red Scare!" was just a N×zi witch-hunt to persecute poor slightly left-leaning people, instead of the entirely justified rooting-out of dangerous, violent subversives that would ultimately spawn BLM, public school teachers, woke universities, and Hollywood in its current form.

[@happynihilist2573]

Oppenhimeimer just invited a big bob that failed to kill as many people as bunch bats with nepom glued to them, ending an active war and setting up cold one that was ended by time Barbie is film about the one of the biggest political taking poind of the last 2 decades

[@AlexJoneses]

are you serious, where we not watching the same movie?

[@Coconut-219]

I don't know, there was probably somebody in the Oppenheimer team that desperately wanted to do a history raceswap ala 'Cleopatra' but they managed to play it straight good on them.

[@doodleBurgers]

​@@AlexJonesesare you?

[@lemon_w0ter196]

The director needs an award for “most words used to explain absolutely nothing”

[@newtpondskipper]

She has a future in politics.

[@kehammer100]

She's in a tight race with Kamala Harris

[@tranquilthoughts7233]

That award already belongs to judith butler for lifetime.

[@RydarkVoyager]

The way Margot Robbie can hold a smile for a supernaturally long time is both charming and creepy.

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

Truly Whorely Quinn

[@tjroelsma]

Margot Robbie is an Australian who's desperately trying to be an American, complete with perpetual fake smile and terrible fake accent (that she can't hold for even two sentences).

[@vsznry]

I dont understand her appeal.

[@Dmanacyde5]

Ironically, this trait is part of what makes her a good Harley Quinn... despite the movies being... meh... in writing.

[@Сайтамен]

Have you heard of editing?

[@RangerRobin0404]

There's hardly anything more hilarious and telling than STB coming back and tearing Barbie Land apart and remaking it in her own image, only to then leave Barbie Land behind in the end for something *else* she wants, Barbie Land now poorer for her "help".

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

*FEMINISM FTW!*

[@elysemeyers1256]

“Thank you, next ex.”

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Yes! I’m annoyed I didn’t spot that one. That’s really quite funny.

[@scarlett19b]

@@DeadlyPlatypus *Third Wave Feminism is only supported by Shallow Women/People..*

[@iratepirate3896]

Classic woman moment!

[@insane_troll]

The part about the rollerblading scene at 45:50 is quite illuminating. We've had years of women complaining about men having the temerity to say "hello" to them, and things like the Gillette ad where a man is going to try approaching a woman (gasp!) and he is held back and told not to do it because that would be evil toxic masculinity. And the result of this is that when they are filming, people are afraid to talk to her and only talk to Ryan. She then somehow interprets people being afraid to talk to her as an "undertone of violence"?!?

[@jrd33]

At this point, anything a man says or does can be interpreted as misogynistic. As a result, many men are just avoiding women in an effort to minimize their chances of finding themselves in a situation they regret.

[@DMCMaster550]

Everything is problematic to the femoid, including things that they said weren't problematic, two years ago. If they can find a way to make something sexist or misogynistic, they'll do it, even if it's exactly what they asked for. They're zealots.

[@NateO123]

It’s almost like it is impossible to win when people are desperate to validate their own victimhood.

[@pohjanakka4992]

And now we are getting women who complain that they can't find anybody to date because men no longer ask. Perhaps one example of something where in the very beginning there was something real to complain about, but it went way too far, partly perhaps because it became some sort of meme everybody - or too many - wanted to take a part in. Which seems to be kind of common. There is a problem, maybe a completely real one, possibly big, possibly quite small, possibly something in between, or possibly something that is a problem only in some instances or when taken to extremes. A few people point it out and suddenly that idea, that that something is bad, takes on in general in society, and it becomes fashionable to participate in the effort to "do something" about it. And suddenly lots of people find some meaning for their lives when they "do" that "something". They feel good. They feel like they are "doing something" that is important and meaningful. They feel that they are good as people, among the "white hats" of their society, fighting evil and defending good. Or they want the sympathy and attention they can get by claiming to be victims suffering from that something. Which of course then further fuels the efforts of their "defenders", who like to feel that their efforts to help are "doing good". The problem, the original one, mostly disappears, but the people who felt good "doing something" don't want to stop doing that something because, well, it made them feel good, so they keep doing it, and new people who see that those other people are feeling good and feel like they belong somewhere because they are part of that movement want to join in. And everybody wants to be good people, be "on the right side of history", and now for lots of people one sign of being a good person is to fight against that whatever. And other people take advantage of that, for one reason or another, and become new "victims". And the whole thing keeps being pushed way past useful, until it becomes a problem in itself, and creates other, new problems. Possibly worse ones that existed at the beginning.

[@DH-yz3cr]

satire flew over your head

[@babbit09]

So if dolls exist in their own unique "doll world" doesn't that mean that the beginning of the movie opens with a baby genocide?

[@nomad5544]

I don't think the baby dolls are valued in the same way as the Barbie dolls. You can take of that what you will

[@dragonmaster1360]

@nomad5544 No, they've got a point. The movie made the premise that barbies have an alternate world where they actually live, affected by the real world, each individual influenced by the real world. By making it so the barbies have an alternative world, it opens up the possibility that ALL toys have an alternative world, where there are living versions of those toys. Meaning it is ABSOLUTELY possible that those girls literally committed a mass baby genocide. Another notch against this movie.

[@babbit09]

​@@dragonmaster1360Especially considering this is supposed to be the start of, and I wish I was joking, the "Mattel Cinematic Universe". They're already working on an Uno movie, Magic 8 Ball movie, and American Girl Doll movies, implying that yes, all brands of toys seem to have their own respective worlds.

[@RecluseBootsy]

​@@babbit09it would imply that in this doll world, those dolls were sentient and alive in the same capacity Barbies are... The 2001 rip off makes me equate the baby dolls with the Neanderthal though. I didn't register it as infanticide until you made that point. 😂

[@babbit09]

​@@RecluseBootsyHaha, yeah, learning the barbies were connected like Voodoo dolls to their earth versions just made me instantly think of this baby doll universe where everyone just started shattering. Brutal.

[@oddbod4442]

I realised watching this that the problem with female representation as positive role models is that they are *never* shown as working hard to get to their exalted position. They simply deserved it. Which is a fine way to fuck up someone's ability to achieve those positions. At least until we got ESG...

[@javierlopez9789]

Because women think they deserve everything just because they exist.

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

That's because feminists are so stupid that they believe that's how men got what they wanted. To them, men just "got lucky" nearly 10,000 years ago, society just fell into our laps, and we've kept control of it JUST to spite women for no real reason.

[@MinisterOfTruth]

0 reply... thanks censorship, thanks minister of truth and thank you masters...

[@brusso456]

I would love to deport all feminists to barbie-land. but barbie-land has a border patrol that does not allow ugly people in.

[@jesusrivera521]

The Barbies (females) represent men. Who pretty much receive a position of power unearned. The kens represent women in the real world. You were rooting for kens? You were therefore rooting for feminism

[@robertbryant4669]

In her review of this movie, KZbinr Alteori presents a counterargument to Mom's speech from the male perspective. And in doing so, she (perhaps unintentionally) highlights the core problem of modern feminism: it demands empathy from men on the part of women, but actively discourages women from empathizing with men.

[@Locke350]

It also showed that she is a better scriptwriter as she used real examples of personal issues that guys face and brought along a few receipts as well.

[@verminvanaokigahara7859]

I'm just finding out how toxic she is. I watch (ed) for her Primal videos because she posts so fast and I love the show. Every now and then she would say some pretty sexist stuff that was sprinkled here and there (always referring to men and women and male and female not in the usual way but very pushy and kind of weird especially very recently) but it was becoming pretty obvious after a certain point and it made me wonder if she was some sort of alt right personality. So, I watched one of her other videos non Primal related and I saw her for her true colors. She is GROSS! Primal is an excellent show but I won't watch reactions from people who think women should be okay with being cat called.

[@Locke350]

@@verminvanaokigahara7859 Receipts or it didn’t happen.

[@SpecterVonBaren]

Not modern feminism. Feminism period.

[@sugartoothYT]

@@SpecterVonBaren women are selectively oppressed and live under unequal treatment right now across the world and have been even more in the past. Do you argue there was never any need to counterbalance that out through taking serious political stances in favor of women's value and interests, AKA feminism?

[@ChuckieGee-nc8jp]

I honestly feel the film would have been so much better if there was no "real world." Just have it exist in its own unrealistic Barbie aesthetic. Because I feel all that stuff was unique and looked great. But it falls apart when I start thinking about the implications of the fact these are dolls being played with, yet none have dog teeth marks on them, none have their legs ripped off, none have their heads melted from a magnifying glass under the sun, none are running around butt naked from me sneaking into my sisters room and stripping them when I was 6 years old to see something my brain is telling me that I want to see, but don't yet understand why I want to see it...er, um, that last part never happened. Shut up! Look! Congress is talking about aliens and UFO's!

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I think it needed to pick a lane and run down it. Either you really play with the Matrix analogy, or - as you say - you don’t go to the real world at all. The film half-arsed it.

[@tni333]

Absolutely. I mean even the portrayal of the Kens makes a lot of sense in the Barbie fantasy world.

[@hawkward957]

@@TheLittlePlatoonwait… you guys SPELL it that way too? I thought you just pronounced “ass” differently 😂

[@agentj3627]

@@hawkward957 "Arse" is actually the original word before "ass"

[@ChuckieGee-nc8jp]

@@TheLittlePlatoon I agree. And as I said in another comment, we are in an era where we can't have good satire, so I would just rather a goofy, light hearted Barbie film, over wannabe clever satire that isn't clever and contradicts itself.

[@dasunguy]

46:47 "People would go by Ryan, high-five him, and say, 'Awesome, Ryan, you look great!' And they wouldn't say anything to Margot." No sane person would do that to Margot unless they desire sexual harassment charges.

[@jamesp8164]

Agreed. You don’t run that risk high fiving Gosling.

[@jacklemm1518]

Since when is saying “good job Margot!” sexual? Stop trying to play martyr

[@thesupreme8062]

​@@jacklemm1518it isnt youre right, but it would be spun as that

[@ilias856]

@@jacklemm1518 That never stopped women lying about it.

[@8ligh7]

​@@jacklemm1518​You live in a world where a blind guy gets thrown out and banned from a gym just because some woman accused him of staring at her creepily even though he told them that he's fucking blind. It seems like you lack experience on the over zealousness of people when it comes to false accusations of sexual harassment especially on the internet.

[@MeadhildOfAvalon]

That girl throwing the little boy down a well was shocking and horrible. I found out he was rescued by villagers a few hours later... Phew. Now I can watch the rest of the video.

[@timkinss]

Yes. Perhaps stressing that might have been worth a couple of seconds of commentary!

[@MrShaun42088]

an awful moment i wish i never seen. FFS

[@realeyesrealizereallies1194]

That was a girl. Dummy

[@Peeps7468]

Thanks for that update! Much appreciated

[@Pr4Hypertrophy]

Thank you!! I almost lost it...I have a 2 year old daughter and I'm so soft now lol...that truly ruined me. You gave me peace

[@Eli-di1by]

I have to say you’re an absolute legend for putting footage from the iconic animated Barbie movie that is Barbie: A fairy secret 😌

[@blacksheep9505]

You can’t forget Barbie: Life in the Kitchen.

[@lucapeyrefitte6899]

Funny because most of the movies are iconic

[@FreyjaRKim]

Right? Barbie: A Fairy Secret is one of my favourites.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I actually found myself watching it as I was making the clip bin from it. It’s… an experience.

[@AJadedLizard]

@@TheLittlePlatoon This, *this* is the content I support you on Patreon for.

[@jesuly17]

Mom: Are you really watching an analysis about Barbie that is way longer than the movie itself? Me: Yes.

[@luismedrano6680]

u are a mom?

[@mikintana]

I agreed, the "real" world felt less real than the fantasy Barbie world.

[@Zach-hi5gw]

That is the point lmao

[@ggt47]

I said something similar. But two women disagreed with me saying the world is a bad place for women. I know that too be true,but it is not the 1950's. I feel like want to try and pretend it is.

[@user-is7xs1mr9y]

@@ggt47 As a woman, the "real" world felt like a parody of the real world, hence making it not the real world if that makes sense. Both Barbie land and the real world felt like a parody and a bad one at that, the whole movie is a disjointed mess. At least it looks pretty.

[@ggt47]

@@user-is7xs1mr9y Definitely. You can tell this film was made by an "American" by the over use of the word "patriarchy. They probably say patriarchy more than character's names.

[@ggt47]

@@user-is7xs1mr9y Yes it does make sense. Apologies. I feel like people want to act like we have not made any progress as a society at all. People like Gerwig do not make that point any better.

[@StigMurcielago]

That rant about Mother's rant was... so cathartic.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I almost skipped over it with a quick joke, but it went on so long and became so annoying that, yeah, catharsis was necesssary!

[@RobotTanuki]

Seriously, when I hear that rant quoted by KZbinrs (eff watching the actual movie), I went "What the hell? How are all these problems uniquely female? Get the eff out."

[@jewelxiat]

I disagree. It was the worst argument of the entire video essay. It’s really hard to sit through.

[@zappruder7379]

I would be terrified if I saw Margot Robbie in the wild for fear of being accused of gazing, so yes I would probably acknowledge Ryan Gosling.

[@csabaszabo6859]

your pfp is UNREAL

[@alejandromolinac]

Don’t know if you have ever seen “catcalling” videos on KZbin…. For the most part the girls are told they are told “good afternoon pretty”….. while Hot Dudes get told nasty raunchy stuff….. it’s hilarious….

[@andy2172]

​@alejandromolinac I don't know if you have ever seen a Matt Rife comedy set, but he gets thirsted upon pretty aggressively by women in the audience, online etc. Unironically becoming what you dislike seems to be the new vogue in the last 5 years.

[@jdraven0890]

Yes - imagine a scenario where that would work out well for you. Pay Ms. Robbie a genuine and sincere compliment? You'll still be branded a horndog or creeper, so instinctively knowing this, no one bothers to. But you can come up and actually fawn all over Mr. Gosling and no one cares. Hmmm 🤔

[@mythrick7109]

My coworker, a 37 year old woman, literally talks about men like meat. Her last “boyfriend” she stated literally the only reasons she was with him was because he had a tongue and a dick.

[@madamefluffy4788]

Can confirm that girls will ruin their Barbie dolls. My baby sister, for whatever odd reason, loved to chew her Barbie's hands (she didn't eat them, just chewed; leaving the hands a mangled mess). She also got it into her head one day to see how the doll's legs worked, took a pair of scissors and performed surgery on Barbie's leg. My sister was a little weird when she was a kid; by thankfully grew up just fine.

[@ToaCody1]

My mom has repeatedly told me stories about her and her sisters doing much the same to their original run Barbies.

[@TOONYBOY]

She didn't happen to turn into that one Quarian Admiral from Mass Effect 2, did she?

[@mariecarie1]

Barbie as a movie represents today’s modern battle with feminism and, turns out, post-modern ideology: glitz and glam disguising the half-baked, hazy, contradictory messages that ultimately stutter on execution.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Yeah, hard to argue with that suggestion. It’s a fashion statement now much more than it is a positive ideology.

[@liamphibia]

Just like how Greta Gerwig stuttered in that interview.

[@AJTalon]

@@TheLittlePlatoon I recall reading some early 19th century stories about a bored rich girl adopting the suffragette slogans and activities not out of any genuine desire for equal rights, but simply because it increased her social standing and made her seem very serious. Do you know what I'm remembering, because I've forgotten the title. But it stuck with me that this is exactly how Hollywood works with all these social movements: It's just for the social credit with their peers and nothing else.

[@MariyahBrown-fi4hm]

What is feminism?

[@MariyahBrown-fi4hm]

@@TheLittlePlatoon yet u do agree it's a positive ideology.

[@ChuckieGee-nc8jp]

Was I the only one who saw them unintentionally make the villain sympathetic and would have been the hero of the film in any other decade? Lol

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Make Kendom Great Again

[@ChuckieGee-nc8jp]

@@TheLittlePlatoon From here, to Kendom Come

[@Shineinpoverty]

I noticed that with many other works of woke people. They try to show their point of view and tell the viewer who the bad guy is. And unintentionally, they write a character that actually feels human and sympathetic to the viewer. Roscharc comes to mind as one of the examples..

[@ChuckieGee-nc8jp]

@@Shineinpoverty I'm not sure Rorshac is a good example. I don't believe Moore was trying to paint him as evil. I honestly don't know what to think of Alan Moore when it comes to his public statements as opposed to his writing. I think he talks out of his a$$ half the time. That is why I really avoid most of his interviews. But yeah, there is a trend of there being such a polarizing ideological divide, that many modern hero's are unironically seen as villains by most average, politically uninitiated people and moderate right to left leaning folks. And the, let's call it for what it is, the commies who write the villains are clueless to the villainy, from atop their elitist ivory towers.

[@ChuckieGee-nc8jp]

@@Shineinpoverty I get what you are saying and wasn't outright saying you are wrong. I see why one could say Rorshac. Especially since the modern day "sequel" series all be retconning a b!tch like it was The Last Of Us Part 2 or some sh!t. Lol My point was, despite what Moore has said in interviews, or what retconning mofos try and force for a political agenda, I don't think us seeing Rorshac as a villain was intended in Moore's OG writing, despite him talking out of his a$$, in my opinion, in interviews. Lol There was nuance there. And Moore just seemed to be playing to a particular audience at the time of those statements. In fact, Watchmen was around way before this modern trend we are even speaking about. Which furthure lends credence to Moore talking out of his a$$ to cater to an ever leftward marching band of dolts. Sometimes it seems he just answers things based on his particular mood in politics that day, even if the evidence in his own writing from years before doesn't match with sh!t he says about it modernly. It's possible his opinion in politics has changed since then. But just say that, and don't be a weasel about it. Like, b!tch, I read what you are referring to and your own written word heavily suggests the modern words you speak are full of sh!t. Lol

[@animula6908]

Ken’s subplot redeemed this movie. I’m part of the subculture of women who wanted Ken to conquer the world.

[@ionutcristian9650]

The funny thing about the female soccer players saying they are paid less than the males. They sued and the judge threw their case out because the women were making more money 🤣🤣🤣

[@Ramsey276one]

O M G XD

[@wiseauserious8750]

I believe the same thing happened at Google a few years ago, it was hilarious

[@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133]

To be exact, the money they were making was indeed smaller than what the male players were making, but it was many-many times a bigger percentage of the total money that their matches were gathering. So in short, if the women's matches were bringing in nearly as much money as the men's, female players would be getting a lot more money than males.

[@derrickcrowe3888]

@@delivererofdarknessshoguno1133 To add onto this, the women's compensation package includes things like guaranteed pay and a bunch of benefits. The men have none of those things. So when covid happened and things shut down, the women were still getting paid while the men made nothing. The men have a high risk, high reward system, whereas the women have a low risk, low reward system. Comparing only the final outcome and none of the calculus of those two systems is inherently dishonest.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Yep, girls soccer makes WAY more. They ruined their own case by arguing against profits and market of the men. Trying to ignore the percentage of that getting paid to the players. Wayyyyy too funny

[@anon17472]

I still think the biggest question is how does Ryan Gosling still look 24 at 42

[@GigaChadh976]

Adrenochrome

[@uglybetty8747]

He chopped off his ba##s

[@kaelkirkby9191]

He's 42!? Jesus H. tap dancing christ he looks good for his age.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

@PrincessLovelyAngel What do you want a fuckin cookie?

[@osmanyousif7849]

Eat healthy, and live healthy people.

[@mayhemivory5730]

You make it sound like there was a seriously brilliant movie in there somewhere. You gave me the closest thing possible to that, thank you very much!

[@lollandgibbons878]

What annoys me the most is how anyone who defends the Barbie movie say that “if your mad your clearly didn’t understand the message of the movie” but yet give no example of how they views are right where if you put someone who was against the film they actually give very good points

[@BWMagus]

Or you see "It's just satire, no one actually thinks like this!" right after a comment that says "It was great, I think exactly like this!"

[@GigaChadh976]

@@BWMagusthats what i love about satire: that its not anything like real life and that it doesn't say anything about the real world

[@osmanyousif7849]

@@BWMagus, the problem is, though, that nobody in the audience even knows what is meant to be satire or not. There were so many moments where I was wondering, “is it supposed to be a punchline, or is it genuinely how the characters feel?”.

[@madelynabeyta7205]

I know right, it’s the LAZIEST argument, if you could even call it that. Like I don’t think everyone missed the point just because they disagree 🙄

[@avivastudios2311]

There's several videos you can watch from fans of the movie. I'm sure they explain it along with the comments section.

[@enGeneration]

It's like Greta walked into a surprise essay with the prompt "choose something from pop culture and explain why it is feminist" and then she had 45 minutes to pull together a defense for why she chose Barbie

[@markpostgate2551]

I think that is probably spot on, because I think the whole purpose of the movie is to rehabilitate Barbie from previous feminist criticism that has been a speed bump for Barbie sales. You know the end is the mom who had helped proselytyze feminism to the "brainwashed" Barbies (despite being an adult who plays with Barbie - authors message: you can be feminist and still play with Barbie) instructs the CEOs of Mattel that what they really want is a Barbie that can be anything - which is basically original Barbie, so it's reinventing the wheel as a feminist wheel! "We wanted to redesign the wheel to serve women better, since statistics show that the vast majority of traffic accidents have involved vehicles fitted with toxically masculine wheels designed by men for the benefit of men. So to correct this injustice, we arranged some all women consultation workshops and there was an overwhelming agreement that wheels should be round exentuating its femininity. And whilst patriarchal wheels have been historically penetrated by axles in a violent way, emblematic of rape culture, we decided that a feminist wheel would instead embrace the axle, taking it inside. So the first feminist wheel will be going into production in time for the international festival of the uterus in the first week of this Vulvember (formerly known, problematically, as August)" And then they say well you know it is better to be the imaginer playing with Barbie than to be Barbie. Only you can liberate her with your mind! If Barbie was male no one would criticize her so all the critics (that ahem, were all feminist, but let's ignore that; it doesn't support the thesis) slut-shaming Barbie are all misogynists! I mean, joking aside, it would actually be a lot easier to argue that G I Joe is a fascist; at least he has a uniform! Yet it is Barbie that gets all the intense criticism. We know the real reason why Barbie is more under scrutiny than any toy designed for boys is people are more concerned about harm to girls, and when they do worry about boys toys causing harm they are not worried about harm to the boys but the toys causing boys to harm others (e.g. first person shooter video games) and then that gets quickly swept over as excusing bad behaviour (because males are seen as hyperagents but females seen as hypoagents) and so the toy immediately gets defended. BUT if you were trying to construct a feminist argument to deflect criticism from Barbie, claiming she is being singled out because of misogyny is a clever ploy. It's a good parlour game - pick anything at random and come up with an argument for why it is misogyny!

[@kylekatarn5964]

To put it succinctly: Performative Screed, A Tragedy in 3 Acts

[@uglybetty8747]

Lmaoooooo so truuuu

[@Dan-bp8ts]

You can tell this is fiction because they get arrested in California for theft. 53:54

[@tomcoop9750]

😂

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Lol

[@A_YouTube_Commenter]

But they were on the streets immediately after so ......

[@petery6432]

@@A_KZbin_Commenter Usually, the violent attackers are the ones that get same day no bail release. Shoplifters don't even get arrested.

[@sladewilson9741]

The dichotomy between what Gerwig thought she was making and what she actually made speaks volumes in regards to the idiocy of her philosophy. Its amazing that Robbi knew exactly what the film said, and Gerwig was so oblivious she got mad when it was pointed out to her.

[@scarlett19b]

*But the fact that Margot Robbie went along with everything tells all you need to know about Her and Her mindset/thoughts about certain things.. like Men/hatred of Masculine Men who won't obey a Woman... let Me remind You that She played in other movies about Men who loved Sex.. like for example: 🎬The Wolf🐺 of Wall street💰 starring Leonardo DiCaprio!*

[@othertalk3313]

I think that also had a lot to do with using a bunch of vaguely defined terms. For example, "feminist" can mean wildly different things depending on the individual, and many will take offense at the suggestion that anything could be "too feminist." As if something could be "too good." Coincidentally, religious zealots/extremists tend to find themselves in a similar situation.

[@scarlett19b]

@@othertalk3313 *I'm a Woman&Feminist but this Barbie movie is simply disgusting in a whole lot of ways.. and actually quite offensive to both Women♀️&Men♂️!*

[@alexkaplan6581]

@@scarlett19b "It's all about the money, spider man."

[@sladewilson9741]

@@scarlett19b Only if your IQ is 3 and blatant satire is blind to you.

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

"But if you think the existence of crime makes it impossible to be a woman, then you might as well fly into Canada, and get yourself some healthcare, because really, you are finding it impossible to be a human." I laughed so hard once I got the joke

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Laugh too hard and you, too, might need some Canadian healthcare!

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

@@TheLittlePlatoon It's such a clever veiled threat, a more sophisticated form of the stereotypical online harassment of "go unalive yourself".

[@pensandshakers]

@@TheLittlePlatoon What makes it even funnier is that there's a donut shop in Houston that has a reputation for the most decadent, unhealthiest donuts in the state, if not the country. One of them is called the Canadian Healthcare. And a dozen of those would save you the cost of the plane trip.

[@Dharengo]

I hope this euphemism becomes more widespread.

[@jamesp8164]

I went “oof” out loud. That was nuclear tipped savage 👍

[@frasert8779]

When Margot Robbie pointed out how it is basically misandry at Barbieland you could see it actually blow the director’s mind in real time… it was like she never even considered it that way and made her become immediately incoherent when answering questions 😂 that was amazing

[@othertalk3313]

I love that phrase, "Putting a hat on a hat." It's clear, concise, and creates a great visual. Apparently it has been around a while but I just hadn't heard anyone use it. Hat(s) off to whoever came up with it.

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

It makes me think of Team Fortress and that makes it a great quote.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

The pace by which you're able to pump out high-quality long-form review content inspires awe. Tell us, what is the secret behind your excessive stamina?

[@bojannisic2906]

@hectorpenalver2023 it's called beer 😂😂😂

[@MegaSpideyman]

​@@bojannisic2906Not wine?

[@MegaSpideyman]

@trygveplaustrum4634 Is it possible to learn this power?

[@bojannisic2906]

@@MegaSpideyman wine strikes me more like a French.

[@Matthew10950]

He must be supernatural at script writing. I would write a paper and the re write half of it over the next two months, a piece at a time. I wonder how much he doesn't nail on the first draft.

[@robertmathews7971]

Whether Robbie knows the word 'misandry' or not, I'm kind of impressed that she'll sit next to the director on camera and say that the movie has that feel. Maybe it was unintentional, but if not, ill give that some kudos.

[@ballfondlercum]

I think it's supposed to feel that way, that was the intention I'm pretty sure. Like little platoon said, it's supposedly mirror the "real" world but reversed.

[@leob4403]

Yeah Gerwig didn't like Robbie saying that

[@micaelasparrow650]

I am a woman in my 20s, so I think I'm the target demographic for this and didn't really enjoy it. The first part where they were just having fun with the absurdity of the living dolls was fairly entertaining, but I think it really went downhill when they left Barbieland. Even in the theater I was thinking that they had gone so hard at punching you in the face with the messaging that it sounded like a parody, but you could tell that you wanted it to be taken very seriously. These expositional speeches about the struggle of being a woman just don't resonate with me. I've never felt this cognitive disonance of womanhood, so personally, it was really off-putting for the whole plot to devolve into this tell don't show diatribe. It's certainly not a film I would recommend or ever watch again.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Agreed. It’s a shame because (especially in that opening 20 minutes) there’s some genuinely great work. It wasn’t just a soulless gimmick, and it introduced some ideas that could’ve made for an excellent comedic film. But then the rest of it happened…

[@JoFa876]

Remember what Rhea Perlman said, near the end? "Humans make up things like Patriarchy and Barbie just to deal with how uncomfortable life is.". I think that says it all.

[@jillianc7485]

also a woman in my 20s and i couldn’t even bother spending money to go see it. i had a feeling it would be preachy and im glad I was proven right. to be fair, i *may* see it when it’s streaming just for the ken arc !! someone needs to make an edit that strips away all the feminazi bs and focuses solely on gosling’s character- now THAT i would see lol

[@JoFa876]

@@jillianc7485 It had its funny parts, but the overall message was toxic. Ken's the best part of the movie, and probably the character most people will empathize with.

[@jillianc7485]

@@JoFa876 that’s what i’ve been hearing ! first reviews i’d seen were essentially “woke trash” so i didn’t consider watching it at all- BUT, seeing reviewers talking about gosling’s ‘ken’ makes me want to see it solely for him lol.

[@samhenson8177]

There were more people laughing in my theatre during Oppenheimer than Barbie…and Oppenheimer is dark

[@RecluseBootsy]

I had quite the chatty audience too watching Oppie. I was surprised how packed the theater was. There were several people laughing at the absurdities of fact. When the nuke went off, it was dead silent. Other than that, it was almost an open floor of discussion.

[@Ramsey276one]

YIKES

[@jillianc7485]

my fiancé did “barbenheimer” while i was visiting home and he called me after and said: “my friends laughed at me. i fell asleep during Barbie and missed 3/4 of the movie” fair, honestly lmfao

[@TheGoldenPlatoon757]

That is so fucking hilarious, wtf, lol! 💯

[@dannypalin9583]

Ken is on par with John Walker from the MCU. Despite their respective projects expecting the audience to think they're bastards, they're actually the best part.

[@osmanyousif7849]

The irony, when you realize that they usually portray the “sympathetic characters” as in the right, when they’re actually wrong. While the ones that are portrayed as evil, are actually seen as right.

[@DH-yz3cr]

its intentional. u just dont understand satire in this context

[@mrstrangeworld5977]

no

[@cmool]

Ken was not meant to be a villain..

[@ajsgaming474]

"My sisters barbie was stabbed with the laser sword of a gundam ... by me" is the greatest platoon line ever

[@DystopiaWithoutNeons]

Respect on the sponsor for allowing your sassy humor during the segment

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Yup, they were very good about it!

[@TurntBucket]

The fact that Margo Robbie doesn't know the word misandry is a sign of how propagandized our society is. There are way more misandrists than misogynists due to it being socially acceptable and oftentimes promoted. Yet everyone knows the word misogyny in a society where misogyny is relegated to the shadows and misandry is published in the New York times.

[@vskane]

I think this may be Platoon’s finest work. Do I say that every time? Well, in that case platoon is clearly becoming more of a master of this art with every video.

[@jamesp8164]

Agreed. Every day is better than the last for him. As opposed to myself where every day is worse than the last 🤣

[@Arukadia47]

Stellar review, but you may have glazed over the Ken-Beach off, the dance bit at the end of the fight shows the Kens overcoming their conflict and coming back together despite the Barbie Ploy. Again showing the Kens ability to overcome and grow as characters.

[@gumzy3000]

As a dude, Kens story arc was fascinating and I admit, it was somewhat relatable. They really should have explored the brotherhood of the Kens more. Overall, I think the movie had a good message for young men as well.

[@butters-vs-chaos]

The overriding messaging I read in this is that Barbie is vacuous and has no direction. Women are terrible to men. When everyone else is happy, feminists will band together to ruin everything. A grumpy sad arty/writing woman in the real world ruins Barbie's life. Grumpy sad woman has a terrible relationship with her obnoxious daughter with a bad attitude (a true representation of the worst feminists). True love is not a valid goal, nor is having a family. The goal is actually...well there is no apparent goal. The Ken's were good people treated badly, then they found happiness, then they fought each other because all the women cheated. Then at the end they are evicted because feminists cheated the legal system to get their own way. The morality of this story is completely bizarre

[@cyruswoolard3737]

My favorite unintended consequence of this flick is the rise of the Kentocracy. Strive, achieve, take care of each other, charish our women. Pround memeber of the Kendom.

[@Crippledsasquash]

The fact that Margot Robbie didnt know the word misandry says it all

[@PrincessFionaYT]

You expect her to know the meaning of any word over 5 letters?

[@mellowgeekstudio]

Narcissistic self indulgent vapid cheap plastic dolls.

[@Crippledsasquash]

@@PrincessFionaYT yeah good point ☝️

[@I-own-your-feelings]

She's too privileged to know. Men protect her from her own delusions.

[@blacklivesorblackvotes2985]

@@PrincessFionaYT not unless the word is “money”.

[@blatherama]

Honestly, at this point, I think construction workers should sue every writer/director who depicts them as cat-calling patriarchists.

[@blackosprey2219]

Considering the majority of construction workers where I live are hispanic, you can say the catcalling stereotype is racist for good measure!

[@givmi_more_w9251]

It's ridiculous. Maybe I'm just too ugly, but I have never experienced or witnessed construction workers cat-calling or otherwise harassing passerby women. They were too busy constructing and shouting at each other. And fucking hell, cat-calling in broad daylight is made to be this unbearable violence. It's rude and reflects poorly on the one doing it. Like jumping the line at the cashier in the supermarket. That's it.

[@weeee2457]

​@@givmi_more_w9251 hey don't let yourself down like that you are prob more beautiful than you think

[@defeqel6537]

@@weeee2457 nah, she is hideous

[@tarektechmarine8209]

@@weeee2457 why you lying to us.

[@jbug1979]

The chapter "Welcome to the real world" (45:47 to 53:34) was so great. I especially found the part about #MeToo to be a great example of how that movement has affected our culture in negative ways -- like how innocent interactions have gotten so tangled up in webs of fear of inappropriateness that people have ended up just completely avoiding communicating with others. This has happened to me several times. Recently it hasn't been so bad but it is definitely still there.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I’m glad you liked it!

[@tomektalk4671]

Oh it’s so sad that women being sexually assaulted bothers you not because it happens but because women feel free to speak about it. You poor baby.

[@archstanton9073]

@@tomektalk4671 The MeToo thing was started by actresses in Hollywood complaining about creeps in the Hollywood system (and you figure there would have been more men taken down by the movement than Weinstein and a few others if it were as widespread as they said it was). MeToo was never a large culture-wide problem. The vast vast majority of that kind of stuff was eliminated in the wake of the Tailhook and the Monica Lewinsky scandals back in the 90's.

[@Castragroup]

No. women throw themselves at men in all walks of life

[@LybertyZ]

It's broader than women's rights or male/female dynamics. It's more about the "social justice" politics. We live in an environment of fear of persecution. (This is similar to the idea of the Chilling Effect of censorship.) The pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. "so tangled up in webs of fear of inappropriateness that people have ended up just completely avoiding communicating with others."

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

Barbie Land was creating overworked and unimaginative Barbies and miserable Kens who wanted a more cohesive society. Ken brought real world gender roles to Barbie Land and everyone was happy, fixing the problems of both the Barbies and Kens. Ken is the hero of this film. Barbie saw everyone being happy and having a great time in Barbie Land with their new gender roles and decided that because they weren't doing things her way, she needed to dismantle the genuine happiness Ken brought to Barbie Land and rebuild it in her image (a thing dictators and/or conquerors typically do). Barbie is the villain of this film. Edit: I actually thought of something else too. The issue of the happiness in the new gender roles of Barbie Land only appears to be a problem to the board of directors at Mattel. Or said another way, Barbie Land's newfound happiness only poses a problem for the megacorporation. Barbie dismantled the happiness of her own homeland in service (willing or not) of not only her ego but also the giant company that would suffer from happy Kens and Barbies. She sold out her people for the power of some corpos who don't care about her anyway. This movie really is an accidental cautionary tale against radical feminism.

[@idawg7332]

Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn is unironically a less evil person thank Margot Robbie’s Barbie

[@BWMagus]

Except it wasn't even a problem for Mattel; we hear they are making money from the situation as well, but they reject it out of some undefined "principles." So there is literally no reason for her actions besides the assumption of the director that, well, OBVIOUSLY that world was bad; Greta thinks traditional gender roles are self-evidently as bad as, you know, murder or slavery, such that there isn't even a need to show or explain why it's a problem.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

"Fly to Canada and get yourself some healthcare" is such a hilarious reference to the MAID system! Permission to use that phrasing in the future?

[@William-Tyndale]

New way for angry gamers to get around chat ban systems?

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Go right ahead! Careful though. If you upset them they might just turn up at your house at night and healthcare you.

[@numba2bvi]

“This new culture is strange and cheap and regrettable “ 😂😂😂 well said

[@inferiorinferno8859]

Your comment about Barbie not liking other women holds even more true if you actually knew doll history. That whole intro was a lie, there were more types of dolls then babydolls before Barbie, and she's not even the first fashion doll, not even of the US as that right goes to Beatrice Alexander, whose doll company Madame Alexander still produces dolls. There were multiple female doll makers in the US alone, that Mattel has been trying to erase. Mattel, the company behind Barbie, has been trying to rewrite doll history in their favor for years, you see? Barbie was even inspired by a German doll that they defamed and they completely destroyed the German toy-company that created the Bild Lilli doll to clean their tracks. It's why the doll community has a love-hate relationship with Mattel because whilst they produce iconic and beautiful dolls, Mattel itself is trash.

[@georgeray1906]

I watched mjtanner's video about the history of dolls which is very informative and she indulged what Lilli was really like contrary to the popular belief that she was a "call girl" due to some out of context images.

[@Old_Man_Czernobog]

The wife and daughter knew nothing of any controversy regarding the movie and saw it as pink bubblegum summertime romp. When they got back from the theater, they felt it was completely mid, a 5 out of 10, and said it's worst crime was making women look like the age old fickle stereotype; not knowing what they really want.

[@Left4Coragem]

Barbie live action movie was a lisence to print money, and the studio wasted it.

[@stoneymahoney9106]

@@Left4Coragem lol, no. The production budget was a "mere" $100m, and the box office receipts are comfortably over the $1bn mark. Obviously we don't know what the marketing spend was like, but it's significantly outperforming the Mario movie, and both had the same $100m production budget.

[@allbullaside7778]

​@Left4Coragem um did you see the earnings? 1.4 billion 😅 Margot Robbie's studio produced it on a $145 million budget. You couldn't be more wrong.

[@Left4Coragem]

@@allbullaside7778 Indeed, I'm baffled this trash was popular, then again, Twilight and 50 shades of gray also were also massively successful. Sometimes trash just sells.

[@allbullaside7778]

@@Left4Coragem I don't get the hate, this was easily better than 95% of romcoms I've seen. At the end of the day thats all it is. BTW the other 5% are Ben Still, Judd Apatow movies. So stiff competition to be fair.

[@jonsnowight9510]

1:30 "Not mine, though. That's a two-hand job" made me literally laugh out loud so hard my dog jumped up and looked at me quizzically.

[@JohnWickin]

I think it speaks volume that most women don't even know the word for male discrimination

[@empiar5481]

The average woman doesn’t believe misandry is possible, let alone that it exists.

[@meredithcarroll6209]

Tell that to any non-leftist woman with a son. Trust me, lots of women know what misandry is.

[@givmi_more_w9251]

@@meredithcarroll6209 Don't need a son for that, a working brain suffices.

[@Zero-ds9ws]

You know, women are weird. A girl from my uni class once told me I had internalized misogyny after talking to me for about 10 minutes and now that this movie exists, for a moment I thought she might've been right given how alien it seemed.

[@censoredbybigbrother1175]

Why didn't you tell her to shut up? Why do you listen to retardation like her words are valid?

[@ladyerind199]

The edits while Greta was trying to explain Barbie were chef’s kiss. John Travolta shrugging and looking confused was perfect 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@HectorLopez0217]

Remember how the Barbie’s needing to break the conditioning of the patriarchy while Kens willingly listen. What did Greta Gerwig mean by this?

[@scarlett19b]

*To put it nicely: Happy Wife, Happy life!* *Or in other words: Obey or Get the Fuck away!*

[@newtpondskipper]

That she sounds exactly like my mother in law? Yes it's a special hell to deal with.

[@scarlett19b]

@@newtpondskipper *I feel bad for you!*

[@cassiopeia21]

Margot Robbie doesn't know the word for the opposite of misogyny. Imagine my surprise.

[@section7173]

They generally don't know anything that isn't covered in their "real life" script. Nothing but pride-filled puppets with no self-awareness.

[@luismedrano6680]

did u have to live thru it yourself? woe is me

[@thethrashyone]

@@luismedrano6680 Ok male feminist/future rapist. (Interchangeable, really.)

[@randyhavard6084]

They were talking to Ryan and not saying how great Margo looks because they didn't want anyone to say they were a creep and sexually harassing her. You see this in the workplace men feel like they have to tiptoe around what they say to women just in case anyone takes what they say out of context and tries to get them fired or canceled. The feminist are the cause of exactly what they claim to be against. Edit....You took the words right out of my mouth

[@landlubbber]

Gerwig is gonna make absolute mincemeat of the Narnia series Netflix has her working on

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

The subversion will continue...

[@john_michael97]

I shudder to think what she’s going to do with the explicitly Christian themes of the Narnia Books 😅

[@landlubbber]

@@john_michael97 the white witch will be a girlboss, no question

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I do think she has considerable talents. But she’s much stronger when treating characters as characters rather than as props and vehicles.

[@landlubbber]

@@TheLittlePlatoon Maybe being given characters rather than making them from whole cloth is better for her? I hear Little Women was okay. It's mostly a question of whether she's getting paid to adapt the books or to make something and put the books' names on them. Narnia's themes are so far away from everything she's used to that I'd be surprised if she really tried to convey CS Lewis' thoughts about the world

[@sheridanseale9647]

I've heard so many different and surprising takes on this movie that I otherwise don't care about. This critique provides an analysis that seems to conserve all those disparate opions. Great job.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Thanks very much!

[@codygriffin8256]

What an absolutely amazing critique. I watched it with my lady, she insisted of course 😄 and, although I did enjoy parts of it, I noticed a lot of the same things you discussed. So her and I had a wonderful conversation about it. But thank you very much for all your hard work in producing this. Excellent video

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Actresses still haven’t heard the word “misandry”, have they?

[@artnull13]

The oldspeak word has been struck from the Wokespeak dictionary - therefore doesn’t exist.

[@RedDeadDevilTrigger]

Tbh I even forgot the word, I’m a guy, Margot had the exact right idea she just didn’t know the word

[@radiantgale]

Rarely is it brought up if ever. I didn't hear about misogyny until after highschool and was hanging out with a friend at a restaurant and some dude was being sexist to me.

[@Dolfa_LPH]

This movie is literally about feminists being in their own dream world where everything is perfect, and then being upset that the real world sucks and they don't always get what they want.

[@DUKEzors]

What's wild is that Margot Robbie seems to interpret it the same way in the interview clips that were shown. But the Director comes across as fearful that her star sees it that way.

[@scarlett19b]

🤷🏽‍♀️ *You mean Toxic Third Wave Feminists NOT the Classic Feminists!* 🐸☕

[@Olebull93]

The movie definitely has that feeling of satire dripping from it. I kinda always wondered if feminist are able to have self irony.

[@scarlett19b]

@@Olebull93 😂 *Satire!?* 🤣

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

​@@Olebull93No. They aren't. That would require them to be open to the idea that ANY woman, ANYWHERE, at ANY time ever had a flaw.

[@manicmonochrome7098]

This is more or less how I felt about the film. My partner was suprised of my low opinion and my gut reaction basically boiling down to it being a "mess". As usual you express things far more coherently. Good show sir!

[@primmakinsofis614]

"The Patriarchy keeps women from power!" Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher would like a word.

[@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881]

Yeah never mind queen elizabeth ii was the longest standing monarch in uk history. And there was that first elizabeth

[@osmanyousif7849]

I still stand for the fact that not adding in characters like Barbie's sisters (and only reducing one of them to a cameo) and the THE MOMENT HERSELF Raquelle, was one of the worst moves for this movie. Seriously, get on the show Life in the Dreamhouse. It's way more comedic than the live action movie itself. And if an animated show "for little girls" is way more funny than the live action movie, you know there's a problem.

[@that1chickinFL]

Life in the Dreamhouse is the ironic, self-aware comedy this movie was supposed to be. I actually found that show amusing when forced to watch it with small children.

[@sonofzorro1]

Your rebuttal of the Speech points is a classic, it really should be adopted in Social studies classes everywhere.

[@Oskar0424]

I really want to see you tackle Oppenheimer because you’re generally a smart reviewer and not just a “reactionary” like other channels. Plus, I want to see you do a positive review for once lol

[@DrCruel]

I love that insult. It's what a socialist rapist calls a victim who tries to avoid being sodomized.

[@leonearl1903]

That would be great! Although I have some sympathy, considering it's more likely videos like this that pay his bills

[@no.1spidey-fan182]

​​@@leonearl1903 true...BUT people like in depth commentary about good movies as well😂

[@burnypython8230]

What does the word “reactionary” even mean? I’m more under the impression that it’s when someone responds with the exact opposite action from what’s going on without thinking it through. I don’t trust the google definition of it being someone who just opposes reform or being ultra-conservative.

[@no.1spidey-fan182]

​@@burnypython8230Your definition is pretty much spot on tbh💀

[@IronDragon-2143]

The fact this movie made over a billion dollars has honestly left me speechless

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

Women happily pay for their own indoctrination. Who subscribes to and buys Cosmo Magazine? Women. Who subscribes to make-up TikToks? Women. Who teaches and attends Feminist university classes? Women. Men spend too much of their time doing important stuff to bother programming women.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I think that’s pretty explainable really. Regrettable, but explainable.

[@IronDragon-2143]

@@TheLittlePlatoon Well it's still fun watching KZbin creators such as yourself rip the piss out of it. As always I do so enjoy your content.

[@avengemybreath3084]

Most people don’t care about the message. They like seeing Barbieland, and Ken being funny.

[@RebelsParadox]

Actually as I’m watching this vid I had a thought on how much it’s making. If you got to see your ideal fantasy (childlike sense) and everyone likes you, makes you feel smart, never is allowed to criticize you, what is the downside? So if can make many people (women primary audience) feel that “high” it’s understandable why they would go back for another hit. Just some thoughts

[@gymbledore9739]

A woman in a position of power making a film saying the patriarchy is somehow keeping her down

[@waterdog7172]

It doesn't matter how much power a woman has she can still be affected by the patriarchy.

[@christopherbennett6571]

@@waterdog7172 That has 0 logic. If you have power, no one is affecting you. You're affecting yourself. Stop blaming others for your own sick mind.

[@zawarudo1041]

It doesn't matter how much you can read and write you can still be affected by stupidity

[@leob4403]

She is also part of the richest like 0.000001% of the world population

[@Colonel_RamRod]

"Somebody else hasn't posted the opinions they plan to parrot yet" nailed it dude, way too common these days unfortunately. I think its a side effect of people becoming unnaturally reliant on phones but that's just a personal hypothesis

[@realistic_delinquent]

It’s because these streamers are ideologues, and a core component of ideology is restrictions on who is allowed to edit it. They are not allowed to edit it, because the audience to whom they cater receives their opinion from a network of streamers and late night “comedians”, all of whom must conform wholly in order not to upset the flock.

[@Matthew10950]

The phones are just the tool of society's crash, the flaw is people. No critical thinking and too much free time. Too much dreaming and not enough enough useful things to do.

[@TOONYBOY]

I would say it's a lot more than just reliance on phones, but it's more to do with the fact that people have claimed certain words as weapons to instil fear and control into people. People don't want to be the first to speak and risk being blasted by the "basic human decency" side if it turns out what they said doesn't line up with their consensus. Like when some people aren't sure whether a movie has been claimed by a certain side, so they'll hold off on talking about it until they're sure they're supposed to hate it or love it. That's why you get so many people pretending to love something they've never seen and will never actually take the time to watch, and the same with hating it. They've been told which side likes and hates what media, so now they know what they're supposed to say about it. Just remember how many people said Joker was liked by the wrong people

[@SatanLiterally]

Man. What a shock it is to hear all those Pokémon bits I absolutely did not pick up on as a kid.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

There’s a tonne more. Turns out kids cartoons are pretty filthy!

[@CazRaX]

@@TheLittlePlatoon Yep, the makers add them in to give the adults something while they are usually forced to watch the kids show.

[@TOONYBOY]

@@TheLittlePlatoon The "she can violate my rights" one had me. Honestly, the other ones didn't even come close to that.

[@ravenderose]

Margot didn’t know the word Misandry because women aren’t taught that we can also oppress and be prejudiced against men. That is why I can’t stand this movie. I love Margot Robbie and some scenes (mostly bc of Ken) but this film was not it. Hating men is not the flex you think it is. What about you father? Grandfather? Your husband? Your son? Do you really hate them? Of course not. You don’t hate all men. And If you do, I feel so sorry for you.

[@touchbytonymikael]

Exactly, thank you 💐 😊

[@reticamclovin9508]

"Somewhere in the crowd, Tarantino came." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@silverscorpio24]

"My sister's Barbie was stabbed by a laser sword of a Gundam. By ME!" 🤣🤣🤣

[@cowboycurtis4944]

Barbie as a Rorschach test is the same conclusion I came to.

[@silentandcliche]

You're quickly becoming one of my favorite reviewers/essayists. Haven't even watched this movie and I was waiting for your video drop to hear your opinion lol

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I delve into the Barbie lore so you don’t have to!

[@solarsailer4166]

I remember as a child plenty of little girls playing with Barbies and still playacting motherhood. I think girls will use toys to playact whatever they choose to.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

Im a guy and used to play with a girl and her my little pet shop toys. We would play Naruto and we’d use them like action figures, fighting with jutsu. I assume it’s a mix of imagination and what you’ve got. All mammal children play, human children are more cunning about it.

[@BWMagus]

What else do you do with a Barbie, anyway? Like, Doctor Barbie--okay, she does doctoring and...then what? Like, this is a very static idea. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were NINJAS, they fought things, they were active, they had enemies, but you have little choice with a Barbie but to DO something with it.

[@venuss2000]

This barbie movie made me realize just how prevalent brothers messed with our barbies 😂. My brother (1yr older than I), would always invade our barbie homes with his GI Joes and even TMNT. My lil sister and I hated it, but looking back it is nostalgic. My friends who had brothers also suffered the same fate as I, but I didn't realize that was a national or even international phenomenon 🤣. That's why, I think, I was so put off by the movie. It could've been so fun and not the hot feminist propagandic mess that it was. There was so much potential here.

[@TOONYBOY]

Would have been funny if the Barbies were waving hello at each other and went to the beach to see the Kens and then we go back to the Barbie mansion/house/whatever to find it exploding as Tyranids or something crawl over it as an endless war ravages the land

[@venuss2000]

@TOONYBOY now that would've been creative and hilarious 😂

[@master_samwise]

The level of detail and analysis you go into is mind-boggling. Do you have an eidetic memory or do you just watch the film an unhealthy amount of times? I watched the movie once and I probably remember 60% of it.

[@therealventures]

Good memory or he probably wrote key notes down while watching the movie

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I tend to watch them twice, first for general notes and impressions and then I’ll script the rest during the second watch. (I like to think I do have a pretty good memory, though!)

[@TOONYBOY]

@@TheLittlePlatoon Do you remember speeches and monologue's from scene's you watched almost once? Because Sovereign's dialogue from Mass Effect is my greatest example of me doing that. Obviously I've watched the scene way more than once by this point, but at the time...

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*How come the 3D animated movies you've displayed feel so much more genuine?*

[@Fionalah]

Because they weren't trying to be anything beyond entertainment for young girls, they weren't trying be 'on-message' and they weren't mean-spirited or spiteful. This one is just live-action 'Velma' with a better budget and acting.

[@no.1spidey-fan182]

Because they're from the 2000s...aka the BEST era of animated entertainment when writers gave a crap about what they fed childten

[@AnimaVox_]

Because they're not just soulless, corporate garbage written by cynics? That's my guess. The early 2000s was the last era where writing, for animation especially, was still consistently good or at least competent.

[@theludico2880]

I remember how I watched this Barbie movie with puppies when I was a kid. I don't know if it still holds up, but I'd take any Barbie movie over this inconsistent mess.

[@wingedyaga2914]

Because they were made to sell toys and not a message beyond "be a good person".

[@ChrisRoberts01]

It annoys me to no end STB destroyed Kendom via emotional manipulation and after still being depressed and miserable, she moves out of the state of California to Texas to do the exact same thing

[@burnypython8230]

The South Park episode, “The Hobbit” did a better job in pushing feminism in the right direction. This is due to there being a big difference with photoshop where people are under the impression that the standards in terms of beauty are high when in reality most of the flaws of the person are edited out.

[@jillianc7485]

south park, and i mean this quite literally, has the BEST critiques of society that i have ever seen. the randyXlorde episodes really stand out for me as well !!! the message behind young girls gravitating towards artists like lorde for not being grossly sexual really resonated for me… even though it’s heavily reverted since then. and as an aside, how fucking hilarious is it that real life lorde ended up completely leaving the industry shortly after Randy ‘gave it up’ in the show ??? trey and matt are sorcerers, i swear lol

[@shhimreading906]

ima be honest, im 20 and a woman and i dont think ive ever been discriminated against for being a woman. not that other women haven't been discriminated against, but like... i can't relate to any of this "women have to act a certain way" thing bc... i've never had to do that. and like u said, there are loads of ways women have advantages over men (custody battles, etc etc etc). so i don't really believe that the cards are stacked against me. like for various reasons both women and men have advantages over each other now. it's not like this is the 1800s and i can't have my own bank account or something. and about ur point on how if all women banded together to get something done we could do it---i remember while ago i read that about how all the women of iceland refused to do anything for an entire day as a way to protest the inequality between men and women in their country. and everything kinda went to shit that day, like schools/banks/shops etc had to be closed bc no women showed up to work. husbands had to take their kids to work with them bc the women refused to take care of them that day. so we could totally get shit done if we acted like the women in iceland, but we don't. people just like to complain.

[@paulware4701]

40:32 I've been married twice (not at the same time, obviously) and the one thing my wives had in common was their horrific treatment of their Barbies (or maybe Cindys, this being the UK). Hangings, burnings, beheadings, etc. Nothing was off limits. Keeps me awake some nights, glad there's no pink in my wardrobe.

[@SomeGuyXD65]

I am Kenough. You are Kenough. We are Kenough

[@booberrydraws]

I've never laughed so hard during a KZbin sponsorship, that was an absolute masterpiece of self-confidence👌

[@amitgabay3721]

I truly admire you for your articulate language, total repudiation of ideology from both sides and precision of thought, not to mention excellent humor. Great video as always

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Thank you very much!

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

Wheatley is a likable character in Portal 2 designed to be an idiot who hostilely assumes control of the system from its female management. Ken is a likable character in Barbie designed to be an idiot who hostilely assumes control of the system from its female management. No politics or sexism are required to make an entertaining story about power dynamics. Everybody loves Portal 2, with sympathy for Wheatley but preference for GLaDOS. Interesting plot and characters will keep audience attention without dividing the audience.

[@TOONYBOY]

As much as I appreciate the intention to describe characters in exactly the same way, there is so much about Wheatley being "an idiot" being glossed over here that he cannot be compared to Ken. Wheatley isn't more interesting because of the lack of politics, he's more interesting because of his relationship to GLaDOS, WHY he's an idiot and WHY he turns evil after assuming GLaDOS' role. It's like me saying Ripley is better than Holdo because "there was no politics", when they're actually two completely different characters that happen to both "take charge" of a dangerous situation. Holdo isn't poorly written because of politics, she's poorly written even if you were "allowed" to criticize her

[@MoonPrincess28]

As a woman, this movie makes me sick. I'd say Sailor Moon is a great role model for girls and she's been a thing since the 90's. And that series actually portrays women very well while not spitting on men or even hinting at a patriarchy. It's all about girl power and being a woman. That includes romantic relationships, motherhood, women who don't need a relationship to be happy, carrier driven women, women with dreams of stardom and so on. It shows all sorts of girls and all different kinds of paths that can be taken as a woman without blaming the hardships on others or on men or 'da systum' and about overcoming hardships. It covers the ups and downs of life and the hard truths. And the happiness and pride that comes with your chosen path, being who you want to be, etc. All while not being afraid of being girly and feminine, not girl bossy. Not to mention being selfless. We don't need a gross leftist, feminist spewing Barbie movie with an identity crisis.

[@Castragroup]

You think women dressing slutty is their true form? Well i agree. However women dressing slutty is in fact bad

[@luismedrano6680]

Sailor Moon? sure, if u don't mind the overt lesbianism lol

[@SatanicPizza-fo2ei]

Don't they die?

[@lightningmonky7674]

I love the whole telling women to "man up" thing. I think us men should make this a thing.

[@RanMouri82]

The Barbie movie pretended ordinary women like me don't exist, who love the men in our lives, nurture children, and couldn't care less about the so-called sisterhood.

[@conorgarrett5893]

Yeah because they’ll call you a pick-me girl

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

Internalized misogyny...

[@scarlett19b]

@@conorgarrett5893 *Which is beyond ridiculous and actually offensive.. since the "Pick Me" types were always the Shallow people in school.. I mean.. when I say "Mean Girls" you know exactly what I mean!*

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@scarlett19bthat’s what makes modern feminism so fun! It’s good mental training, because it always folds in. So you inevitably have to argue contradictory positions at the same time. Very interesting.

[@StonyStark]

@@DeadlyPlatypusit’s not internalized anything it’s called having a lifestyle preference that satisfies one’s own needs and desires. Get out.

[@GorpaDorpOrp]

4:55 is EXACTLY what I took from the movie and to hear the director try to stop her from explaining it by just "yeah. Yes. YES." all over it, and then later failing to even prove that she understood what she even said, instead boiling it down to "good vs. Evil" really shows how she feels about men in general.

[@williammiller3052]

Alright guys, here me out here. I think we just stumbled on the prototypical allegory for the change in fiction over the last 50 years. In 1968, a visionary director created 2001: A Space Odyssey, and shot what is potentially the best scene ever put to film that illustrates the nature of humanity, how it is implicitly tied to violence, and ultimately concludes that the difference between man and beast is technology that facilitates said violence. Not a single word was spoken in this scene, and it is accompanied by an incredibly memorable song. Ostensibly the director chose to have no spoken words because he trusted the audience to pick up on the incredibly obvious message from visual, sound, and contextual clues. The film is now lauded as the best in its genre and has been regularly referenced in scifi films ever since, as well as regularly making critical top film lists of all time. In 2023, a 'visionary' director created Barbie, and shot a scene that mimics the scene from 2001, but mischaracterizes the scene completely, misunderstanding the dark implications and deeply disturbing truth it portrays, instead simply referencing it because it is memorable. The scene is accompanied by a voice over explaining the scene, ostensibly because the director does not trust the audience to pick up on the contrived message obfuscating the purpose of the scene that it is mimicking. The film makes a billion dollars and probably launches a new wave of toy-related fiction based entirely on its financial success, but will probably be forgotten within a calendar year and referenced by no other films going forward. 21st century fiction ladies and gents. (((past - present) x (popular contemporary thought)) - (subtlety)) = $$$ Where (past - present) is equal to the set of all positive numbers

[@billjacobs521]

Hmm, the potentially best scene ever put to film is one that shows a message that is categorically wrong and profoundly ignorant?

[@williammiller3052]

@@billjacobs521 I'm not sure if I'm following (and not attempting to be hostile). I'm referencing the Dawn of Man scene from 2001, that basically claims that man is 'man' because of violence achieved through technology, which has been demonstrated quite a bit in the last century. We're talking to each other on computers that wouldn't have existed had they not been invented (in precursor form) as a weapon used in the greatest war ever fought. Said war also saw the invention of nuclear power for the same purpose, which came to define the entire era that followed it (atomic age), just as the computer defined the era after that (information age). The ape/man using a bone to 'become human' by killing (and notably being forced to stand on two feet to properly use the weapon) illustrates this idea, which was what I was getting at. As Barbie basically says 'girls weren't "girls" until Barbie' if taken in the same context. This makes no sense (at least to me) and was a very strange choice by Gerwig (at least from my perspective).

[@billjacobs521]

@@williammiller3052 Never saw your response til now, but yeah, that's the message I am saying is wrong and ignorant. The concept of computers and radiation existed before they were used for war, and we would have invented computers and the ability to split the atom without a war. Hitting things was done first for hunting, as was throwing things. Neither violence nor technology is what makes us human--that implies we are less human if we are peaceful. I'm not defending Barbie, to be clear, I'm just saying this reductionist view of humanity is silly. After all, our primate ancestors, just like our primate cousins today, fought and killed each other regularly; what makes us human is, if anything, the ability to resolve problems WITHOUT violence.

[@soldier257]

Lol. A director knows the word misogyny but not misandry XD

[@MegaSpideyman]

Of course.

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

They only know and believe in things they've been programmed to believe in and that serves their interest.

[@Spicy_Spores]

To be fair it's not really a popular term you hear a lot. There aren't really many misandry-driven communities in history.

[@DeadlyPlatypus]

@@Spicy_Spores There are in fact plenty of them. People just don't accept or apply the name because they deny its existence. Case in point: your comment, essentially.

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

@@DeadlyPlatypustbf, many matriarchies existed in early pre history. They just got out competed by patriarchies in the civilization game.

[@kazekamiha]

*Barbies After Ken Installs Patriarchy:* Wow! This is much better then how things were before! We're all happy! *STB:* Hey! That's not allowed! You're not allowed to like men who have self confidence!

[@MegaSpideyman]

Who's STB?

[@petalleaf2808]

​@MegaSpideyman Stereotypical Barbie I think?

[@kazekamiha]

@@MegaSpideyman Platoon uses it for the main Barbie in the review.

[@daisyfish-fn4js]

I honestly didn't think the barbie movie would be like it was. I naively thought it would be a feel good, silly movie, and was actually looking forward to be big chessy turn my brain of comedy. How wrong I was. The first scene when the little girls started smashing up babies kinda set the tone for me 😅