Wednesday, 9 August 2023

Barbie (2023 Greta Gerwig & co-scr)

With Noah Baumbach. What audience is this film aimed at? I enjoyed most of it, until Ryan started singing and there was a sort of war between the men (OK, yes, I do get that) but the rest of the film seems unbalanced and that's when I started wondering. Instead of sharp and satirical it tends towards lame.

Still no problem with cast. Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, Issa Rae, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra Shipp, Emma Mackey, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Ncuti Gatwa, Michael Cera, America Ferrara, Ariana Greenblatt, Rhea Perlman, Helen Mirren (narrator, who has the film's best joke, beginning 'Note to the producers...'), Will Ferrell, Connor Swindells, Lucy Boynton (briefly), Rob Brydon (briefly).

It was the most marketed film I can remember (must have cost a fortune) and didn't live up to the hype. Loved the reviewer who said something along the lines that there may be a few remote tribes in the Amazon who haven't yet heard about this film...

Photographed by Rodrigo Prieto.

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