(via Wall Street Journal's Bitter Condemnation of Barbie Has Me Sprinting to the Theater)
Wall Street Journal’s Kyle Smith:
“While Barbie is discovering herself,” Smith writes, “Ken learns that real society is male-dominated and uses the lesson to turn Barbieland into the Kendom—a bro paradise of brewskis and weight lifting. In his ideal state, ‘Everything exists to expand and elevate the presence of men.’ Spot the joke? I don’t. ‘Barbie’ contains more swipes at ‘the patriarchy’ than a year’s worth of Ms. magazine.”
No offense to Ms., but any review that considers a magazine founded in 1971 to be the epicenter of current feminist thought is probably named c.
Smith continues: “As bubbly as the film appears, its script is like a grumpier-than-average women’s studies seminar.”