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He even claims, incorrectly, that Ken is portrayed in the film as a lifeguard, when Ryan Gosling’s character makes clear that his job is actually “beach.”Īs a one-time aspiring screenwriter, Shapiro might have taken note of such basic details as Ken’s job, why the character Allan exists, and that people have in fact come and gone from Barbieland before, but he appears to have fixated instead on his own jealousy, which is transparent throughout his takedown.

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Shapiro also misses the plot of the movie that he claims to have taken pages of notes on, saying that “the point of the film is that the matriarchy is amazing” and that “all the Kens are gay” even though “Earring Magic Ken,” popularly considered a gay incarnation of the character, is reduced to a brief cameo, and the portrayal of a fantasy matriarchy where men are seen as peripheral at best is a clear critique of patriarchy shown by narrative inversion. (Hilariously, Ben complains in his review that many men “are husbands and fathers, many of us have daughters,” unintentionally echoing a joke from the movie where the CEO of Mattel refers to himself as “the son of a mother and the nephew of a female aunt.”) But the Barbie movie is rated PG-13 “for suggestive references and brief language.” It’s intended neither for kids without parental guidance nor, perhaps, for podcasters who over-identify with the protagonist’s foil. He says two minutes into his review that the movie is aimed at mothers and their “8-year-old” daughters, something that he repeats again 10 minutes in, 32 minutes in, 36 minutes in, and 39 minutes in. It’s immediately clear from his review that Shapiro does not understand the intended audience of the movie he has decided to DESTROY in a rant nearly half as long as the movie’s runtime. (This article contains spoilers about the Barbie movie)

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