One of the most anticipated movies of the past year, director Greta Gerwig\u2019s subversive comedy fantasy Barbie\u2014starring Margot Robbie as the Mattel doll\u2014is finally here, and it triggers a truly radical thought: Ken has stolen the film. That may not have been what Gerwig, Mattel or Warner Bros. had in mind with this bright-pink extravaganza, but Ryan Gosling is flawlessly funny as the plastic male who exists only as a sort of chaste, chisel-chested consort to Barbie. In Barbie\u2019s heady but over-intellectualized script (by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach), Ken tags along when Barbie journeys to real-world Los Angeles. Dressed in a cowboy uniform that suggests either Toy Story’s Woody or Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy, he learns that men still seem to hold most of the power, and returns to Barbie Land with visions of establishing a new patrimonial order.<\/p>\n
Now favoring a faux fur coat that makes him look like a surfer pimp, he moves into Barbie’s Dreamhouse and reduces the whole Barbie line to subservient, man-obliging nitwits who don\u2019t mind pretending to enjoy a mansplained screening of The Godfather.\n<\/p><\/div>\n
Genres:<\/strong>Comedy<\/div>\nDirector:<\/strong>Greta Gerwig<\/div>\nCast:<\/strong>Margot Robbie, Simu Liu, Ryan Gosling, Helen Mirren, Ariana Greenblatt<\/div>\n
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