A summer blockbuster by Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach? It's as incongruent as it sounds, but works well enough on each level (Hollywood and indie) to narrowly compensate the whiplash.
They could have made a full parody (I heard Amy Schumer was considered), or tried harder to welcome men to a stereotypically feminine franchise, but they actually doubled down on the feminine to backdrop the satire. The movie doesn't really pick an angle on Barbie, instead trying to host complex perspectives, but it does pick an angle on women, to poignant effect.
I resent the rampant humor these days that would derail narrative at length for bad jokes. Writers must assume the derailing itself is creative enough that the joke needn't be good to justify the dramatic misfire. But it's not creative anymore, it's tedious and ubiquitous. For each decent joke in Barbie there was a dramatic misfire for a bad joke.
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