After the sugar rush of the first impressions has subsided, I am left mostly with a memory of excessive preaching. A couple of touching moments make me not regret seeing it, but it is not going to be on my recommendations lists.

Lots of fun gags, but they were all over the place and it left main story and main characters arcs bare without enough details to flesh them out.

So a couple of monologues that were supposed to be a powerful highlight of the movie, ended up landing a bit flat.

Tokenism seemed superficial, and as such once again more of a distraction from the main story.

Beautiful moments of Barbie learning to cry that reminded me of the understated magic Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach were able to create in their other works, but it was clearly not the style that matched well with the short attention span of this move.