Well, I have to admit that all the hype around this movie eventually made me sit down to watch it together with my wife and son. And my son quickly lost interest in the movie and left, and I have to admit that my interest in the movie was waning and dissipating about the halfway marker.

Yeah, this movie is seriously over-hyped and it is amped up to be all that and then some, when, in fact, it wasn't all that and a bag of potato chips. I found the storyline in the movie to be rather bland and pointless, and thus found very little entertainment in the movie. And that made sitting through 114 minutes of it quite the ordeal. Yet, I managed to endure, because I wanted to see if there was anything to the hype. So writers Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach didn't exactly impress me with this movie.

There wasn't!

Sure, the movie had a good cast ensemble, and there were some fair performances. But it was just difficult to abhor from the lack of an interesting storyline and script to enjoy the acting performances.

Visually then director Greta Gerwig certainly managed to make it look and feel like it took place in Barbieland, with all the vibrant colors, toy-like appearances of things. So that definitely helped to make things a bit more bearable to sit through.

"Barbie" is not a childrens movie, which you would otherwise assume from a movie based on Mattel's popular doll line.

Right, well I can check "Barbie" off of the watched-movie list now, and I can honestly say that I am never returning to watch it a second time. And if this movie spawns a sequel, I doubt it very much that I will actually sit down to watching it.

My rating of "Barbie" from director Greta Gerwig's 2023 movie "Barbie" lands on a four out of ten stars.