There were pop-up cafes, a Forever 21 clothing collaboration and viral Instagram filters galore. Running time: 114 minutes. Rated PG-13 (suggestive references and brief language).
In theaters July 21.And then the actual film arrived. To almost quote the Aqua song: Life in plastic — not fantastic. “Barbie” is an exhausting, spastic, self-absorbed and overwrought disappointment.Arthouse director/co-writer Greta Gerwig (the superb “Lady Bird” and “Little Women”) and co-writer Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story“) have churned out a smug tale that doesn’t boast a single sympathetic character.
It does, however, have plenty of moral platitudes and pinky-out intellectual jokes.Midway through this corporate cash grab masquerading as an art installation, a teenage girl shouts at Margot Robbie’s Barbie in a California high school cafeteria: “You represent everything wrong with our culture.
You destroyed the planet with your glorification of rampant consumerism — you fascist!”Barbie, not used to being criticized, cries, “She thinks I’m a fascist?!
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