It was just so hard to see Hollywood A-listers trying too hard to act like pre-teen. I felt like I was watching a moral education class video with many corny jokes in elementary school. This should have been made by and for Disney Channel with real teen actors at low budget. That would have been more satisfying result just like Life-Size by Tyra Banks and Lindsay Lohan.

Also, tho the actors got nominated for Oscar, but acting in this movie is no Oscar worthy at all... Ryan Gosling's acting was so flat... almost to the point of sadness and America Ferrera's acting is not much different from Ugly Betty.

Whole 2 hours seemed like an endless pain of watching adults acting so weird. If you watch Poor Thing, almost the message is similar as Barbie with an adult acting as a child, but it worked completely well and done tastefully.

I am not sure why the world was taken by this Barbie storm...