Barbie film for 5 year old

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Is it suitable?

is it worth going?

Dd is asking but I’m thinking no?

It's a 12A

I personally felt it was more an adult film rather than one for children, which surprised me! (I wasn't aware it was 12A)

No. It's about feminist issues more than anything, and nothing like the Barbie cartoon films/ series. It is not a storyline for young children.

The vocabulary is advanced (patriarchy, for example, being an important word) and I found the last half hour kind of... intense. I was worried my 11 year old might be struggling with it as the pace suddenly seemed to drop off. I saw a headline that children were cartwheeling in the cinema, they were so bored.

It’s a film made for adults. Barbie goes to the real world and dealing with mortality and sexism. Even if the movie is technically appropriate, a five year old will probably be bored rigid and ruin it for the rest of cinema goers.

Not sure on a 5 year old.
I took my 9 year old and I don't think he understood the deeper meaning, he enjoyed the film and his run down was that "Barbie got glitchy and went to the real world to try and fix herself, when she came back to barbie land Ken had taken over so she teamed up with the other barbies to get it back".
I think the colours and music were great and my son didn't get bored or fidgety, I did see younger children in the screening and none of them were cartwheeling or out of seats.

No! It’s for 12 plus.

There are over 40 Barbie movies specifically made for children. Let her watch one of those, rather than taking her to sit through a 2 hour+ film at the cinema that she won't enjoy or understand.

No. It’s a film for adults.

It’s a bit long.

Do people not understand classifications or why they exist. The film is not a film for young children, the classification was a clue. I know I’m being snippy but you are asking a question to which you already know the answer.

They’d be bored as hell

My 7 year old enjoyed the pink barbie aspect and the clothes etc but the story went totally over her head and she was bored.
I loved it.

No. We had a few young ones in the cinema when we went and it was obvious they were bored as hell. One of them constantly shouting, can we leave now, even although the parents just ignored her

I was bored too, so I can relate

But my 11yr old and her friend loved it

They'll be bored. I wouldn't say it's inappropriate but the jokes/storyline will go over a child's head

As @Weetabixwithberries - there's a level that older children can follow and enjoy, the Barbieland with bright colours, all the outfits, the Kens being silly and trying to one-up each other, the fish-out-of-water of them going to the "real world" and everyone thinking they're strange.

But fundamentally it's about Barbie having an existential crisis and thinking about death and getting cellulite, because in the real world there's a frustrated mother who feels disconnected from her pre-teen child and the little girl she once was, and all the hopes and dreams she had, and how society/the patriarchy has crushed those out of her. And the Kens bringing the patriarchy back to Barbieland and becoming fully toxic masculinity on steroids, with the Barbies no longer being doctors and nobel prize winners and presidents but settling for bringing Kens beers and rubbing their feet while they get mansplained at.

I don't think a 5 year old will get much from it.

there's been multiple threads about this already.

the content has mild language and innuendo, so in terms of it offending, upsetting, or being inappropriate there isn't much to worry about when compared to things like Shrek.

but it is aimed to entertain adults, which mean the themes, pacing, humour... are all wrong for a young child, who won't understand and will be bored stiff.

Having seen the film recently, and as someone who is not precious about kids seeing it, I would say five is too young. There’s nothing wildly inappropriate, but she will be bored and confused. She might like some of the scenes set in Barbieland because they’re pink and sparkly, but the plot, which centres on feminism and the difficulty of living up to an ideal of what a woman should be, will go entirely over her head.

Not inappropriate (its rated a 7 in my country, which is basically the equivalent of PG) but not aimed at children, under 10s will likely get bored in parts, and won't understand the point of the film.

God no its not a live action barbie movie that would appeal to kids

The film is rated 12A for brief sexual harassment, innuendo and one use of bleeped strong language. As the parent, it is up to you to decide whether it's suitable for your child on those grounds.

That's putting aside the fact that the story might well bore her of course.

Sounds awful, I'm sorry your screening had that kind of disruption

Children that age were running, shouting and doing cartwheels in my cinema, so no, please don’t.

I thought this film was really good but it deals with lots of brown up concepts which will go over a young child's head

Barbie has "inescapable thoughts of death". I'm not sure five year olds are really ready for what it means for someone to confront their own mortality for the first time.

The Barbie branding aside, it's actually quite a consistent follow on from Gerwig's other films insofar as it's about what happens to girls as they grow up, and about mother/daughter relationships. Save it for when your daughter is 13.

To give you a send of what it’s like, there’s a joke in the film where someone calls Barbie a fascist and Barbie says to herself “She thinks I’m a fascist?! I don’t control the railways or the flow of commerce”.

Not very interesting for 5yos.

No she’ll be bored, as has been said there’s lots of Barbie films on Netflix for their age group