There's a line where a movie loses any aspirations towards art or significance and becomes only a product. We all know this just to well - recent decade has basically led cinema to the murky pastures of cheap entertainment, yet another area big biz benefits from. There's literally no limits to what has been awkwardly transfered onto the tv screen. And the Barbie flick is just that - another step away from what movies used to and ought to be.

What we've got here is just nothing. A big nothing badly wrapped with a celophane of story that makes no sense, carries no worth and is so poorly filmed. Even seeking "fun" in this one is like grasping for a breath in an abbatoir. All these comments about feminism or meaningfulness overlook the basic issue - this is just un-watchable by even the lowest standards.

I'm sort of used to industry mocking me as a viewer every step of the way. But Barbie is just one step beyond that. It doesn't even deserve being reviewed by standard film criteria because it meets none.