Barbie (2023) Movie Review

**** out of 5 Stars

I find it slightly ironic and parallel with a coincidental synchronicity that I reviewed this film shortly after The Truman Show. I think Barbie brilliantly ensues a matrix narrative, and does so with high calibre sensibility in hip formation.

Conventional generic ism is a commercial tool, a natural relationship, and a marketplace of ideas that reflect the attitudes and beliefs of our culture. It is also widely regarded as a bastardized and even enslaving art form that has devolved us into superficial, ignorant consumers.

Barbie brilliantly debunks and refutes such superficiality while cleverly mocking the very plush entertainment it provides to the narratives of imagination. Never does Barbie thrust an overt feminism, but instead eloquently reminds us that we're innocent and naive together.

The film is a congenial, and playful script that recollects the homely and sincere wisdom that comedy classics like Ferris Beuller and Toy Story did prior. Yet it does fit well into the current existential interest that millenials have been fond of in Linklater or Aronofsky films.

I was especially impressed and even inspired by the introduction. You know, the one in which Director Greta Gerwig narrates a monologue that encapsulates and explains the adoloesnt's fascination with fantasy lands, and other worldly dimensions celebrated by the human imagination. I was apprehensive to update this review because I feared I'd over extend my appreciation and look to deep into what I consider one of the best film intros I have seen in almost a decade.