With all these recent shows not respecting the original IPs, there is no such thing as reading too much into anything

I don't understand Hollywood's obsession with "responding to the criticism of the original". Oh yeah, just cater to the Bitter McNasty people who hate the original. Ignore the kids and the grown up fans who would probably spend way more on the merch and on seeing this in theatres

I like that in Barbie life in a dream house it really explained that ken’s job was being barbie’s boyfriend and he enjoyed it. There’s a whole episode where it shows him trying out new jobs but it never works out which makes him realize taking care of Barbie is his job. I like that he was okay with that and was happy about taking care of her.

"Nobody plays with Ken." I played with Ken. Pretty much anytime I played with my Barbies, I also played with Ken. 😑

Barbie:Life in the Dreamhouse was really funny and a lesson on how to do meta humor. These people have no idea about Barbie and Ken. I played the heck out of my Ken doll until he literally snapped in half and I had to fix him with tape. He was never the same again. RIP Ken😢.

I'd understand if the jokes with Ken are that, because he's not a real person, he thinks that dressing up as a doctor with all the appropriate accessories makes him one, but then I'd think that those same jokes would apply to Barbie as well, entering the human world and thinking that she'll effortlessly slip into any job. I can also imagine a joke about Barbie just trying to live in the real world and, say, cook breakfast for herself, but she has no idea how real appliances work. She expects that after she closes the microwave or oven and opens it again, the breakfast should already be made. I want to know what men Hollywood has been interacting with, because if Ken is supposed to be a reflection of men in the real world, I don't see it. There is no epidemic of men walking into hospitals wanting to perform operations they aren't qualified to do. Using myself as an example here, I'm a software developer. I went to school for it. I practiced and learned on my own time as well. I had an internship. I applied for and interviewed for numerous jobs before I got the one I currently have, and I was not called back for many others. And I continue to fight hard to make myself a valuable employee to make sure I hold my job. No one said "you're a man so yeah, you get this job without any qualifications."

The story I expect from the Barbie movie is an exploration of "being enough." Discussing how Barbie always feels like she needs to be perfect to be a role model for girls and Ken feels like he’s just an accessory and they both help encourage each other through their struggles

Okay, hear me out. This CAN work. What if instead of Barbie and Ken assuming the real world is a patriarchy, they discover it’s a world where both men and women can be anything? Maybe that’s the point of the female doctor’s role. And at the end of the movie, Barbieland becomes a place where Kens are more than just the Barbies’ boyfriends. Do I think that’s what the movie will ultimately be about? Absolutely not, because that would go against Hollywood’s narrative. But I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

I hate to say this, but it sounds like DISNEY treated Ken better with Toy Story 3. Let that sink in.

Man, I actually did kind of hope that this movie was just going to be a fun, campy, potentially surreal but in a cult classic kind of way adventure, not a soap box disguised a movie :(

I really hope this won’t be a man hating fake feminism story 😭😭😭

Whag if the plot was ken realizing that he doesn't just wannna be a ken another accessory of barbie and decides to stay in the real world

So if I’ve got this straight, this movie appears to be about a group of second-class citizens rising up against their oppressors and the movie wants to demonize them for stepping out of line? That’s... certainly a message to be teaching your impressionable audience of young girls.

Sounds like the Ken portrayed in Life in the Dream House (let alone Toy Story 3) will end up being more sincere and nuanced than the movie version.

"They never played with Ken" He seriously thinks little girls didn't play with the boy dolls? cause they were boys?? who else am I going to let Barbie make-out with while making loud obnoxious kissing noises?! If Barbie is supposed to be what girls aspire to be, then Ken is supposed to be the boyfriend girls aspire to have-- Good looking, compassionate, loyal, motivated and successful. And yes, girls love romance and often think about who they're going to marry when they grow up. This commentary is so off the mark it's CRAZY.

I thought this movie was going to be about Barbie learning that things change over time, that her main audience (being little girls) grow up and that she has to grow too and accept the changes that happen in life, explaining all the changes that are happening in her world, talking about real stuff like dying and going into the real world. I also hope that Ken doesn’t become the antagonist in the film. I honestly thought that the scene where he talks to the female doctor is just him being dumb. Ken can be dumb at times but he is useful and his own character. As a side note, I used to play with Ken dolls too. I had them and would play with them either at my house, when I went out or I would play with my friends’ Kens at their place. Ken is more than an accessory.

Now I’m worried ,the flat feet scene made think that Barbie is a girlie girl and the more the movie progresses the more she is gonna be a “socially acceptable “ girl or “ real girl “ the high heels and flat shoes scene withe the crazy Barbie made think this too I could be over analyzing it and honestly I hope i am

I have an idea for a plot. Barbie and Ken go around the country just for fun, only to find people who are down in the dumps because of confidence issues, anxiety, etc. Then the movie could be about Barbie helping people achieve their dreams, since she’s a doll of all trades and such

I would honestly not be shocked if that’s the turn they’re taking with Ken and the Barbie movie in general. Media nowadays have been following a very specific formula, so “Ken now bad because patriarchy” is the most predictable route they could take.

I'm not the biggest Barbie fan either but I always hated how she was treated by so many supposed feminists. Barbie dolls being diverse isn't even new as they've always been so different little girls could get a "Barbie" that looked like them, likewise with so many other doll lines out there. Pretty sure I even remember a wheel chair Barbie some point in the 90s.

When a Toy Story 3 represents a better Ken then what a movie actually focused on these toys Ken do, something's really gone wrong.

i feel like this movie has gotten sm hype to the point where i wouldn’t be surprised if it gets hate on release day for not fitting the viewer’s expectations, but that’s just me 🤷🏽‍♀️

I hope I'm not the only person who entirely forgot Barbie was planning a movie.. Great video btw

There has been this very ugly trend of making strawmen of old IPs and media: trying to give them messages they never said, and deliberately making things up about them. And with social media and marketing departments, lies get halway around the world before the truth can even put on it's pants.

Why does Hollywood keep hiring people that very obviously hates or is ignorant about a certain media to create adaptations of said media?

Here in Vietnam the movie is banned because of the nine-dash line, which basically marks the territory of the South Asia Sea that China illegally claims as theirs. Westerners may not care, but it's very controversial and also the reason why Dreamworks' Abominable was banned in Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. The territory claim of China is also rejected by many Western countries like the US, UK, France, Germany, etc... How does a movie about a goddamn Barbie doll coming to the real world include the nine dash line??? Many Vietnamese people were exicted for the movie but changed their mind because of Warner Bros' greed and catering to the Chinese market.

Not a Barbie guy either, but YEESH. If these rumors are true, this will be a massive bomb… ironically outgrossed by a film about the creation of the nuclear bomb. Here’s how I’d have done it. Keep the same basic setup of Barbieland being separate from the real world BUT change the conflict from Ken trying to enforce a patriarchy to Barbie growing bored with her “overly perfect” life, despite how good she has it with her family, friends, and Ken. She flees to the real world in the night… causing every blonde, pink-clad Barbie to vanish from shelves in the real world. Without “classic” Barbie on shelves in our world, Barbieland is sent into chaos and starts falling apart, reverting to just a bunch of doll and accessories. Ken, understandably worried about the disappearance of Barbie, follows her into the real world in hopes of finding her before it’s too late. Meanwhile, Barbie starts to realize the real world has its ups and downs- some things are worth bringing back (like flat feet and more diversity), others are not. Throw in an exaggerated caricature of Mattel trying to take advantage of the “real” Barbie running around, and you’d have my take.

Honestly, I was NEVER excited about this movie. It feels like a parody of Barbie while also serving as a vehicle for social justice which makes me mad. Barbie should be celebrated not mocked. This is also why I hate modern feminist movies (I'm a woman myself saying this). If anything, making a movie about Barbie coming to our world should be about her and Ken making things better and reminding people of all the good things they brought to BOTH genders: fun, imagination, confidence, unconditional love, the joy of being romantic, etc.

Also, no one played wity Ken? I was literally upset and "called out" my mum when I was five because she hardly ever got me Kens lol

As a child who only wished for more clothes for my three Ken dolls, I hate what they're doing to my boy! Why is he a villain?! He's a sweetie who loves and respects Barbie, at least from all the lore I've seen. Why are they going for the out-dated 'girl vs boy' scenario? I was looking forward to this movie, but as someone who cares for both genders (I have a son and brothers who are sweet and amazing), I really wish they would move on from that sort of thing. The villain chasing Barbie down to force her back to Barbieland would make a decent enough villain. I don't want a surprise villain from Ken.

Also @5:10 Thank you! Seeing discussions among supposed Barbie “fans”, they always act like Ken has never been anything other than Barbies boyfriend when you can go on the Wikipedia right now and read that Ken has had over 40 occupations since his release, the latest being a marine biologist. He’s usually Barbie’s love interest IN THE MOVIES, but as a doll? Dude has his own thing going on along with being her love interest, and even wasn’t her live interest for a while during the period they broke up for no reason. They’re so adamant that he’s only ever been an accessory for her and like, yeah, he’s not nearly as iconic, but how are you a fan of Barbie abd don’t even know this basic stuff lol

I’m kinda nervous that this whole movie will feel like an SNL skit that’s gone on too long

I am an avid Barbie fan. I may not collect the dolls atm due to a lack of space and limited funds, but Barbie was my childhood, more than ANY thing else. She was there when I was at my lowest trying to escape what was overall a rough childhood (not as ashamed to admit I suffered childhood depression and was suicidal, I am totally fine now though). I was PRAYING that this would turn out all right, but my first concern was who the director was because I saw what she did with her rendition of Little Women, turning it to a lovely story about family and focusing on the 'activism'. So seeing that Hollywood is going to make a mockery out of something very important to me is just heartbreaking. And how could they do this to Ken?! I love Ken! I am just disappointed that Mattel isn't more involved in these adaptations of their properties. They really should have taken a page from Nintendo because I honestly don't think the Mario Movie would have been as nearly as good (or respectable) if Nintendo wasn't on top of things with Illumination since I don't trust any Hollywood studio now.

It's bad enough that Barbie get shit by other toy companies (mainly MGA even in Rainbow High, Barbie can't escape the potshots in a new doll line), it's messed up that the brand gets so much disrespect from behind and on screen of its own live action movie.

I was very excited for this movie but did hear some concerns recently as well. I'm still hoping it will be not as bad as you said, but I am cautiously optimistic. Too bad since I was planning to go see it on day one blind, but I'll wait for the general reviews to come up first.

Does anyone else think that Ryan gosling sounds like Fred from the old live action Scooby Doo movies? Every time, I hear Ken "Hey Barbie!", it still confuses me sometimes.

I’ve always liked Ken, and am disappointed they chose to diminish Ken and display him as a villain

Writers in Hollywood are just beyond mentally ill today. They don't know how to just have fun anymore, everything has to be about gender, or race, or sexual identity, etc. Really sucks.

Well, you were right to be concerned.

Here’s what I hoped that the movie would be about: remember in the trailer when Barbie asked her friends if they ever thought about dying, and they were so taken aback that they were nearly mortified? What if the film centered around the legacy that Barbie leaves behind, especially on little girls who played with her? Imagine this: there is tons of conflict going on at Mattel over what Barbie means to people, and it’s affecting sales and throwing her world off, hence the flat foot thing. Barbie and Ken then travel to the real world to resolve the conflict, and she learns that she’s immortal in a way. She’s an icon who was created to be an inspiration and role model to little girls, which leads to her putting a lot of pressure on herself. What morals should she put forward to be the inspiration she was made to be? Should she keep doing what she loves? Or cave to the corporate pandering and social pressure that little girls don’t think about when they’re playing with Barbies? She later realizes that if she was made to be a good role model, she’s going to do it by being a good caring person and doing what she loves to do. If Barbie can be anything she wants to be, then she’s going to do just that. Also, Ken goes through a crisis of his own: if he was given no choice but to love Barbie because he was made for that, then he questions his feelings and his own free will. He later realizes that he does love her and they reconcile. Also, I imagine Barbieland as a world without much of a governing system, as it would actually be a world of fun where everything comes naturally to everybody. Basically, it’d be a celebration of her character and legacy, and it explores themes of free will, immortality , corporate pandering, people who virtue signal to make themselves feel important, choosing your own path, and making a positive impact on the world.

I was hoping for something similar to The Lego Movie. Fun, no politics. I guess that's too much to ask for current year.🙄

i'm generally worried about every movie/tv show based on an old property coming out these days. hollywood is filled with nothing but woke zealots.

Not liking that-if ken is the ‘villain’-hes also a second class citizen like that’s not a good thing we shouldn’t want that. If Barbie world is a matriarchy and our world a patriarchy the best outcome is Barbie realizing BOTH are bad and trying to fix it. Ken’s her boyfriend she shouldn’t want him to be mistreated

Wow you were right about everything :(

Barbie's a famous female character. Therefore, in the eyes of a certain type of people, she can't be an individual. She has to be ALL women.

The reason the Super Mario Brothers movie did well is because it was made by people who loved, and understood the franchise. Not people who wanted to deconstruct it, mock it, question it, or modernize it... This is s problem with most modern adaptations. (There's rumors Marvel won't allow anyone familiar with the franchise to work on MCU movies/shows anymore... Hence why they're being so innacurate lately.) And yeah, I tire of the "boys VS girls" cooties battles in media... I read hope they don't go that direction, as well. If Ken is the bad guy, it'd honestly be insultung to him, and Barbie. "Toy Story 3" already kinda toyed with that concept already, but it was more tongue-in-cheek and they thankfully reformed him.

.... Did... Did they just watch. "Toy Story 3." and thought they would be super clever is they stole their storyline and nobody would notice? We all know that Ken in Toy Story 3 is super loveable, and his arch going from friend to villain, to friend again works because of how earnest and kind of stupid he seems. And of course he really loves Barbie.

A theme about two ruling classes is okay, but not in a Barbie movie.

Ken doesn’t deserve this kind of disrespect. Do they think little girls don’t play with Ken or something? I played with my one Ken doll so much that his head popped off. We couldn’t get it back on and even then I still played with him but just made him the villain of every story and I kept the head for a long time cause I didn’t want to get rid of it. We literally called him Headless Ken and my mom and I still joke about him to this day. He’s honestly one of the toys I remember most from my childhood right next to my Princess and the Pauper singing Barbies which were my favorite. He was a very well-loved doll and I probably still have him in a box somewhere. It’s also weird they’d treat Ken like this because he’s always been portrayed as an good man and a good partner for Barbie, especially in the 2000s films. Also, I don’t know where this idea has come from that Barbie wasn’t multicultural cause I definitely had Barbies of multiple races and ethnicities when I was a kid over 20 years ago including one I got in Mexico who was sold wearing quinceanera dress and ironically, for the doll that looked the most like me, I don’t remember playing with her very much.

YIPPIE THE MOVIE DID IT WELL

I honestly thought that the Barbie movie would be like The Truman Show where Barbie was trying to escape the fantasy and escape to the real world

Bro they had the best opportunity to make this story about how the toys are being abused, used and being damaged by children. While having enough from the children using them. So the toys fight back against the abusers. And this movie could have been about ken and Barbie fighting along side against abusers. The message could have been about how humans should fight against abuse and hurting people or animals Instead we got a movie about nonsense.

The marketing "She's everything. He's just Ken" doesn't sit well with me. Why would you have to put down Ken in order to elevate Barbie? Elle Woods exists. You could genuinely follow the same formula with Barbie and it would work. Elle was bubbly and loved fashion, but she was also smart as a whip AND kind to everyone.

I WAS very excited about this movie... but now I'm worried too. :( I'm waiting for the reviews before I go to see it.

I really hope this is nothing more than a rumor. Ive been verry excited about this movie as a guy who loved playing with barbies and kens growing up and i really dont want to see ken be portrayed so badly

Idk. I mean, Ken being an accessory/"just boyfriend" it's essencially true, so depending on how it's portayed it would be just the same as always was. In fashion farytale while Barbie spends the movie creating style with her friends and aunt, Ken is trying to reach her and get back together, that's all. Prince Nicolas in charming school only shows up to the dance scene, so Blair could have a dance partner, and only appear again in the last scene to congratulate her. In the dreamhouse series, Ken tries to get multiple jobs and fails to the end realise that his "job" was to be Barbie's boyfriend and that he was happy that was his "job". In fairy secret he is kidnapped and Barbie has to save him, but he doesn't really do much plotwise other then being the boyfriend in need of rescue. Other male interests in the movies had more to themselves than just being a boyfriend, but not Ken. That's all he always is. (I haven't watched the new dreamhouse series to know what he does there, so I'm only including things that came before), so it's not completly wrong to see him as "just Ken". I actually only played with my Kens when Barbies would get married or go to an event and needed company, but he never was the center of the "storyline". He was there so she wouldn't be alone. I still have all of my Barbies today, and my two Kens. Honestly this whole "Barbie is damaging" ideia comes from adults not from kids. I was never blonde nor blue eyed, but Barbie didn't make me wanna be so, I was me and she was Barbie, we didn't need to look alike to be fun to play with her, although we had the same favorite color. Personally, I like the idea of making Barbie lines more diverse, because she can have as many friends as she wants. So Barbie is Barbie and she will always be Barbie because you can't change that by now, it's been stablished for decades, but her friends can come in all shapes and colors and hairs, she is a kind doll, she loves everyone.

"What can possibly be worse than Velma?" Don't Tempt Fate Something tells me Mattel is going to experience a bit of the Rose Tico/Captain Marvel effect. It won't go well. Edit: oh dang, I forgot about MOTU Revelations. You'd think once bitten, twice shy.

I'm a male, i don't have much knowledge about Barbie. What does annoys me is the story. It feels very weak and fans will strongly dislike this for sure. I hope this isn't the actual script. Would be painful to watch.

Let's face it, it's doomed.

while ken tried to take over barbie land, they don’t treat him like a villain in the movie at all

You know how the hospital scene could actually work? Ken not believing this woman is a doctor because she’s not tall, blonde, young and pretty. Which is what he’s seen as true his entire life.

Yeah, it's fair to say that Oppenheimer will literally nuke this into oblivion.

Honestly, I wasn't going to watch this in the first place so the creators can have their fun. I just hope they pay the workers on the movie a living wage.

Okay, I'm not a Barbie guy either. But even I know that Barbie and especially Ken were never any of these stereotypes that they're trying to push in this movie. I've had to watch the new animated series with my nieces, and honestly, it was a good show. This movie is what happens when you allow ideologues power over your brand. They only care about their ideals and not about what the brand is really about. Aside from the Masters of the Universe Revelations debacle, did Mattel learn nothing from Nintendo about brand protection? That movie made a billion dollars thanks to Nintendo saying no to narratives in the movie about Peach. Basically another brand is about to take incredible damage because ideologues are about to Pander do individuals who are salty because a doll made them feel bad about themselves

I hear the initial scene of the movie is young girls playing with baby dolls, but then Barbie shows up, and they start beating the babies, and saying they no longer have to be mothers. This is supposed to be a nod at the fact that Barbie came along and became a doll girls could aspire to rather than just a baby doll to mother- which is great- but not when you start beating the baby dolls and saying we don’t have to be mothers anymore that’s weird and awful.

Man... I sure would love a good series or movie that respects the old fans, but alas, that shall never be...

I just want a film without politics non at all.

I’m super curious how the plot will go! From the trailers, I thought it looked like Barbie starts to lose her doll traits and thinks she is broken so she goes to Mattel in the real world to get repaired, and Ken tags along, hijinks ensue. If it is the plot you mentioned instead, I’m gonna be really sad 😞

I was really excited for this film but after learning about this information I am concerned, hopefully its a good film

I am a guy, and I've never been into Barbie, but I do understand how others would feel about how it's being treated with this movie. I am a huge fan of Thomas & Friends, which is another brand Mattel currently owns and has been screwing up in recent years. A lot of people say crap about it in the same way they talk about 80s He-Man and She-Ra: that they are just stupid kid shows with no purpose beyond selling toys. I use to believe that too, but it was this channel, with the help of M and J, that helped show me that was not true, and I now understand and empathize with why they're upset with how MOTU has been treated, similar to me with Thomas. I have Asperger’s Syndrome, and I sometimes do have trouble seeing things from other's point of view, but I've gotten better at it. There are many franchises and properties I'll probably never care about, but that doesn't mean that the opinions and critiques of those fans aren't valid, especially with how big corporations keeping screwing them over. While I may not be as big on Barbie and MOTU, I know why fans are upset and hope their franchises get treated better in the future. Thank you, M and J, for helping me expand my point of view. And I look forward to seeing the subscriber count keep rising.

I’ve had a bad feeling about this movie since I saw the first trailer and I felt like I was missing something cause I couldn’t get into the hype surrounding it. It’s good to know I’m at least somewhat valid in my concerns and not the only person who feels this way.

I'm with you if I'm being honest. What's sad about all this, is that they're catering to an audience that will NEVER be satisfied, no matter WHAT they do. The same people will always, ALWAYS, find something to complain about cuz nothing will EVER be good enough for them. I'll just wait for the reviews of this film when it comes out and see how it goes.

This is exactly what I had been thinking after the last trailer! It's like you read my mind!

Pretty much my own concerns with the movie right there. I had a lot of Barbies growing up and I loved dressing them up and putting them on display in various scenes (I had a little Barbie Gym) and it was fun. I will admit the Ken doll I had didn't get as much play as the others but he was important to making things complete. I once tried emulating Barbie's smile and my mom told me how unnatural it looked and to knock it off XD I did... and that's also where I fell out of love with Barbie. She told me she never had one as a kid so one of them in my collection was actually hers that we gifted her. I like the idea of flat footed Barbie (not everything has to be high heels now, does it?) though I do think that some variants of Barbie are probably too niche if they are over produced, but I'm not against them being there. The movie though? I.... I really don't trust them.

Not even Barbie is safe from being used as a platform for preahy & woke messages

I feel like the doctor joke is more coming from the fact that he's from a fantasy land that originally was created in the 50s when those gender stereotypes WERE the norm. Now that he's in the real world 21st century, he's learning to understand those stereotypes don't fly anymore. I feel like we'll definitely need more context in the full movie, but that's how the joke reads to me. That he's just out of touch, because he's a doll where those gender stereotypes HAVE been the history of the Barbie brand until recently.

If that's true it would be awful... I grew up with Barbies. Barbies got me into writing. Imagining stories/story telling. There wasn's one second I thought of it as shallow or materialistic (well she does have a lot of stuff) but I think when it comes to barbies (or dolls in general) there is no limit to how you can use them. It's about the kids who play with them. Using their individual/unique minds and personalities. This movie should rather be about this. It sounds like what's important is the doll itself and her role instead of how she was helping in shaping people into who they are. (For example I love talking about how my writing all started with playing Barbie). This includes Ken too. There might not be the same variety of Kens but he is just as important as Barbie (at least for me). If they use this movie for a gender fight I think that's really a problem. Can't people just acknowledge everybody has their strength and weakness? I'm still curious but after hearing about this theory I'm worried too... Thank you for this video

I was super excited when I saw the trailer at first. I didn't read too much into it cause I thought it would be a fun movie about Barbie and Ken discovering the real world. But now I'm scared it'll play into the whole girls vs boys shit and make me not wanna watch it. Loved the commentary tho, thanks for giving us a heads up 😭

Ken is the most popular street fighter 6 character right now. Gosling is confused.

Oh dear. I had thought this movie would be a fun romp with a little bit of poking fun at themselves ala Lego Movie. Or maybe how how life is bright and colourful when we are children but the real world seems droll when we become adults and Barbie would help bring some colour back into adult lives while balancing responsibility etc.

I enjoyed your commentary. As a lifelong Barbie collector of all of her eras, I’m very excited for this movie. Unfortunately all the negative talk about Ken really bothers me. Ken is a doctor so yes he could perform an appendectomy! He’s not “just beach” and he’s not “not important” to the Barbie cannon. He is very much a part of it. We had five years of Kenvention (Ken collectors convention) where Ken got his due! These conventions were focused on Ken collecting and were a blast. My Barbie play as a child would have been very boring without my Ken dolls! In additional there are historical facts that are inaccurate in both the footage we’ve seen and in the way the press has covered this movie. Thank you for bringing up the issues that are concerning.

Personally, I'm still excited, but yeah I really hope they don't go the whole "girls vs boys" route.

“Ken is just an accessory” is such BS. I had TONS of Barbie stuff when I was a kid. Dolls, clothes, *actual* accessories - and I had multiple Ken dolls. I used them every time I would play with my Barbie’s. Every time. They never would have made the Ken doll in the first place if kids didn’t want to play with him!

My granddaughter is just hitting the age where she wants to play with Barbie dolls. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, in ANY of the marketing for this movie that makes me want to take my Barbie loving granddaughter to this movie. It looks like it's going to be a 90 minute feminist sermon; a PARODY of everything feminists have always complained about Barbies, and it's intended audience is twenty-somthing college students majoring in feminist studies. Not 6-year-old girls who want to play dress-up with their fashion dolls. We've got a lot of those Barbie movies on DVD (from when her mom was growing up) and most of them are watchable right here on KZfaq. I'll stick with watching 12 Dancing Princesses and Swan Lake and Fairytopia with her. Even when the animation doesn't hold up, the stories do. I actually liked the way those movies avoided "you can't do it, you're just a girl" sexism (most of the time the "bad guy" was, in fact, a girl, too) and this movie just seems to dive right into sexism (especially the "boys are dumb and always want to run everything and always, always hold girls back" sort of misandry). Or even watching Dollightful here on KZfaq and teaching my granddaughter how to sew her own doll clothes.

Ken is literally me. Fr Fr.

This movie's Ken: Tries to write a Himbo but the most likely the Cringe Fairy did some magic

they saw the ryan gosling memes and were like "we need to shut this down"

Exactly but I feel like they will F it up somehow because it’s Hollywood in 2023 making it not the 90’s or early 2000 good Hollywood making this movie.😔

5:21 joke's on him, because least for me, i didnt play with the ken dolls because i didnt know they existed. He probably would hvae been my second favorite after Kelly, the ball jointed Barbie. Unfortunately, marketing for Ken was so rare that i only found out he existed years after my doll collecting phase. Sorry, Ken

I watched the movie a couple of days ago. I thought it was okay. But everything you just say in this video, all true.

If any of the animated barbies saw the live action barbie movie, they would get a massive heart attack 🙂 I said what i said.

I've been waiting for this movie since the early rumours of them making this movie back in 2015, and if they truly go the route with evil Ken I will be so disappointed. To me, yes Barbie is obviously the main focus, especially considering the history impact. However, what made Barbie and Ken work was the fact that they were equal and both had as much control over their separate success and their relationship. I deeply dislike the pop culture idea that Ken is *only* Barbie's boy toy... Ugh. Why couldn't it be in this movie both realise they are just as equal to each other, as much as their own persona? Ken learns and leans into the sexism, but eventually realises what that actually means and how damaging it is, and thus, finds his own sense of self while also respecting Barbie. Promoting healthy, successful relationships to young girls? Now I am more disappointed after writing this. Hugely agree with Barbie being like a friend over a superficial 'bimbo". As the youngest and only girl of my family, I always looked up to her as a sister/aunt that I didn't have.

The attitude of the cast and crew screams "not like other girls" at this point. It's like they're implying that being feminine and finding pleasure in fashion and beauty is somehow as degrading as someone advocating for banning job opportunities for women. It's really disappointing that the crew is dropping all these red flags because I wanted to enjoy a fun and "campy" movie, not a "gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss" lecture...

I find it so tasteless to disrespect Ken like that. I mean, sure, he started out as an accesory, but he's obviously become more than that in the years since his introduction. Going back to Life in the Dreamhouse, he had his goofy moments, like everyone else in that show, but it showed us that he was actually good boyfriend material. He was nice, respectful and, even if he sometimes came off as clingy, it was in a good-natured sorta way. Let's not forget also that he's a mechanic, engineer, built a robot with a functioning AI, etc. Also this movie is obviously partially based on that show, they have Midge in there, so what gives.

Odds are you are absolutely correct about the movie, the problem with the people making the movie and with He-Man was that they probably knew about it from when they were kids or younger and dropped off them as they grew up, but now they have the chance to "Fix Them" and all the "Problems" they had but they never really understood them in the first place, or didn't realize how they changed and now we have to suffer for their benefit.

I have my... reservations towards the Barbie movie. Im gonna go see it. Im a Barbie fan and i hope they capture the essence of it. At the beginning i heard somewhere the words "its different" and my heart sank... Nowadays ive seen those words thrown around a lot for things that usually dont turn out well. But we'll see... Im hopeful that im wrong and this is all a big misunderstanding on my part.

I don’t get why they would make Ken the bad guy? It’s not like he evil in the Barbie franchise, hell he’s viewed as a joke so why make him even worse why not try to make him cool or an actual character?!

About to watch it this Monday because my friends outvoted me lol. I'll let you all know how it goes.

8:03 makes me* think: please stop bullying her, it's just her. imagine saying this to a real person for so long 😭 lol

Me having two Kens so I can have a gay couple.