Did the Barbie movie make you cry?

[sweetie19]

I saw it yesterday and I absolutely loved it.

The ending made me very emotional and I definitely wasn’t the only one in the cinema crying.

I felt like I could really relate to the whole film - life isn’t perfect, there’s lots of change, stereotypical Barbie not feeling like she is good at anything (pretty much how I feel most of the time).

Did anyone else find it emotional?

Yes

silentpool- barbie is from 1958

Wasn’t the end then bit where she walked into the gynaecologist in Birkenstocks? If so, no.

i got tearful but didn’t cry.

I cried quite a bit but I'd just had a little girl a couple of weeks before seeing the film so I think it got to me a bit and hormones etc. I rarely cry at films!

It was the best film I've seen in ages! I didn't quite cry but my friend did at America ferasras speech

Myself and teen thought it was awful. Cringe worthy almost.

Saw it twice and cried both times. First with DD, 19 - think we we were a bit overwhelmed to have a witty, well made film that landed some points about how normalised patriarchy is and passed the Bechdel test. (And the Billie Eilish song is heartbreaking in its own right imo). Second time was with two other mums of DDs, and my lens was more tuned to ‘where next’ for our young women? Do I hope my DD has children of her own or not? Really not known a worse time in my lifetime to be female, and this film made me feel a strange mixture of very sad, but slightly hopeful.

No, found it totally underwhelming. Shallow and heard it all before. It was like a fluffy made for TV movie but maybe it wasn't aimed at me. The montage at the end was the best bit.

Yes, but I cry at the Andrex puppy. But the emphasis on the general hopelessness of the feminist movement (I am a feminist) really got me down.

It really was a load of shite. The first hour was alright then after that it just got really, really weird!

I'm a very emotional person but I can certainly say I didn't cry. Some bits were a little funny but not laugh out loud funny.

I cried that it was 2hrs of shite, that my life will never get back! 😭

I thought the animated Barbie films (Barbie as X) were more fun and better at creating a Barbieworld narrative.

I thought the concept of Barbie having to come into the real world and the problems of becoming a real woman from having been a doll in a fantasy world was an interesting one, but it was only a small part of the film.

There was way too much focus on Ken. I watched the film on an online site, so I skipped a bunch of the Ken-focused time with the Kens fighting and singing etc. It was frustrating and unpleasant that even after Ken had introduced patriarchy (so easily!) and stolen Barbie's house and brainwashed Barbie's friends (the other Barbies) into acting as brainless servants for the Kens, that there were no repercussions for the Kens. The Kens took over Barbieland and wanted to make it completely male dominated and in consequence... the Kens improved their social position, all the other Kens got their Barbies back, and the main Barbie apologised to Ken. It's not that I would expect the Barbie film to end with Ken going to prison or getting guillotined, but there is a tonal mismatch between the extreme actions they have Ken take and the complete non-action in reprisal. Patriarchy played light and for laughs.

Mostly I just found it frustrating and an empty film. Of course it's an advertising vehicle, but I would still expect more of a film.