Barbie Movie Review: Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling’s Fantasy Comedy Helmed by Greta Gerwig Garners Mixed Response From Critics
Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig, is scheduled to be released theatrically on July 21. The Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling starrer premiered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on July 9.
Movie buffs have been eagerly waiting to watch Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken in Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy Barbie. Well, this highly-anticipated film has garnered mixed reactions from critics. Some have hailed the lead stars’ performances, a few others found the writing ‘lazy’. Some of them have even labelled Barbie as a ‘roller-coaster ride’. Let’s take a look at the reviews shared by critics on the upcoming movie Barbie. Barbie: Ryan Gosling and Simu Liu's Ken Have a Beach-Off in This New Clip From Margot Robbie's Film (Watch Video).
New York Post – The writing, across the board, is lazy. Gerwig and Baumbach’s script doesn’t need to be plausible. It’s about Barbies, for God’s sake. But every time it takes a bonkers narrative leap, somebody cracks a joke about what’s happened as if the viewer is a culture-less rube to ever question the film’s logic.
IGN India – Barbie is a hyper-femme roller-coaster ride full of twists and turns as emotional as they are entertaining. Greta Gerwig’s triumphant take on the statuesque icon is a poignant picture of the rocky transition from girlhood to womanhood. It’s a powerful celebration of femininity, one that recognizes its contradictions, its joys, its frustrations, its limitations, and its freedoms.
Variety – If Robbie’s Barbie sets an impossibly high bar for young women, then Gosling’s Ken reps an equally formidable male model, with his chiseled abs and cheekbones.
The Hollywood Reporter – The protagonist of this wily and fun comedy is Stereotypical Barbie (Margot Robbie), the blonde-haired, blue-eyed manifestation of Ruth Handler’s imagination. Her Ken counterpart is played with impressive heart and humour by Ryan Gosling (with Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir and John Cena among the film’s other assorted Kens).
The Guardian – It is maybe down to Gerwig’s confidence and generosity as a feminist film-maker that she gives all the best lines to Ryan Gosling, who is allowed to steal the whole film playing Barbie’s non-genitaled boyfriend, Ken.
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