The New York Post’s criticizes the “Barbie” film and scores it a 25 in new review

The New York Post’s criticized the “Barbie” film and scores it a 25 in new review:

“#Barbie  is an exhausting, spastic, self-absorbed and overwrought disappointment.”

The packaging of “Barbie” is a lot more fun than the tedious toy inside the box. 

Ingeniously, a yearlong barrage of Mattel propaganda was foisted upon us and created a resistance-is-futile Summer of Barbie before anybody knew if the movie was any good. 

There were pop-up cafes, a Forever 21 clothing collaboration and viral Instagram filters galore. 

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.