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In fairness, maybe I'm the wrong demographic (Male/50's) for this movie.. but I did watch it with my wife. I can only describe it as wretched! It was seriously like watching people make up their lines and the storyline on-the-fly. It was so terrible, it was nauseating.

I didn't have high hopes for it simply because it didn't look interesting to me, so it was certainly not a matter of being let-down. It was like "Grease" meets "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (but both Grease & RHPS are fun movies.. and I really liked them!) This had the campiness of Grease.. and the cheesiness of Rocky Horror. But the parts of those movies we liked or found endearing was complete absent in Barbie.

Visually.. I'd say it was certainly interesting. The premise of the movie also had some ability to be entertaining. But this thing was a massive waste of time in my book.

Though Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are actors I like in many movies, it's so beyond campy that I couldn't even find it funny (though a few, VERY few, areas had some laughs). Maybe part of the reason I found the movie "wretched" is because it was as if the director actually instructed the actors "be as funny and over-the-top as you can". It was like watching the 1980's bad cast of Saturday Night Live TRYING to be funny. Simply painful to watch. This is a rare movie I'll never want to watch again. Ever.