Barbie and Ken travel back and forth between Barbie land and the real world, with fairly predictable results, in a feminist spoof on the toy dolls and their immense world of merchandising. I'd been curious to see it because it was very well-reviewed, but ultimately my curiosity wasn't justified.
It starts off cute enough, with a fair bit of sly wit and fourth-wall humor, but eventually settles into just-slightly-above-average, too-saccharine Hollywood fare. Lots of positive messages here for girls, which is hard to argue with, and a fair dose of mild misandry, also hard to argue with as it's absolutely no worse than women regularly get treated with in mass media (which may be the point), but also wore a little thin on me personally, because I need more than that in a movie. A plot as clever as the passing jokes would have saved it.
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