January 5, 2025

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.


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