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Be There in Five

Life in Plastic, It’s Scholastic (Barbie Movie Review)

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

Personal Journals, Entertainment News, News, Society & Culture

4.87.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

This week, Kate reviews the Barbie movie and all the whimsy, fun, and complex nostalgia of this pop cultural fixture that has historically represented both opportunities and impossible standards for women. Warning, lots of spoilers - she reviews the plot high-level, talks about her favorite parts, Greta Gerwig’s religious parallels, the recognizable throwback clothes/vehicles/characters, and then discusses her interpretation of the deeper meaning of Barbieland versus the real world, and the relatable journey from confident to self-conscious many young women endure following the age they stop playing with Barbies. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Hi everybody, welcome back to the Be There In 5 Podcast, I'm Kate Kennedy, your host.

0:15.7

Excuse me while I set the mood a bit, my god, I love this song.

0:20.1

Is there anything better than seeing a show or movie or when a pop culture event happens

0:34.6

and all you want to do is talk to somebody about it?

0:37.8

That's how I feel right now about the Barbie movie, which I went into with no expectations,

0:43.0

especially because the plot was kept under wraps by the promotional efforts.

0:48.2

It always was very surface level, and I just did not know what to expect going into it.

0:52.2

I saw it a little earlier than when it came out in theaters, and I currently just have

0:57.4

so many things to say that I figured I'd hop on the mic and put this out later this weekend

1:03.0

by the time a lot of you see it, if you're looking for a place to talk about this movie

1:07.8

because my god did I enjoy it.

1:11.0

I'm going to guess a lot of you did too, although I guess I don't know.

1:14.8

It's hard when the reviews aren't out yet.

1:16.7

Well, I've seen a lot of formal reviews, but I feel like some of them are kind of missing

1:20.7

the point, but I just think the best will really, really get this one.

1:26.0

One of my absolute favorite things to do on this show is to explore the complexities

1:34.2

of nostalgia, and I often say to both celebrate and criticize millennial experiences or

1:41.4

brands for the ways these things shaped us for better or for worse.

1:46.4

And today's topic, another than Barbara Millicent Roberts, aka Barbie, like other topics

1:53.5

we've discussed on this show, like American Girl Dolls or, I don't know, the lore of shopping

1:58.5

at an early-ought sabrecrombian fitch, Barbie similarly operates on this fascinating spectrum

2:04.9

where depending on your angle, depending on your vantage point, it's like not that serious

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