{"id":49585,"date":"2023-07-21T14:44:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=49585"},"modified":"2023-07-21T14:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:44:43","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%a5-barbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2023\/07\/21\/%f0%9f%8e%a5-barbie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x1f3a5; Barbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1204,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/letterboxd.com\\\/djwudi\\\/film\\\/barbie&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/djwudi\/film\/barbie\/\">Barbie (2023): &#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;&#x2b50;&#xfe0f;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d told me a year ago that I&#8217;d be excited enough about a Barbie movie to see it on opening day, or that I&#8217;d come out of it this impressed, I&#8217;d have likely laughed and waited to wake up so I could tell you about the weird dream I&#8217;d just had.<\/p>\n<p>However, the marketing has been spot-on, the articles have been intriguing, and the reviews have been excellent (well, most of them \u2014 but if every review is positive except those from right-leaning organizations or people, I consider that a good sign), so off we went.<\/p>\n<p>And it absolutely lived up to and surpassed my expectations. It&#8217;s an impressive veneer of completely over-the-top ridiculousness laid over a remarkably aware, intelligent, and subversive core. Even after having read several articles with the general theme of &#8220;how did this even get made?&#8217;, you still walk out of it wondering how they managed to do it. It&#8217;s a bubblegum pink, glittery explosion of everything that makes todays political right explode, it&#8217;s wonderfully aware of that, and it pokes at them with great glee.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to say too much more, because really, the less you know about the overall plot or the specific gags, the more fun it will be. If you&#8217;re at all curious, it&#8217;s well worth seeing. And if you think you aren&#8217;t curious because it&#8217;s <em>Barbie<\/em>, well, get over yourself and give it a go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An impressive veneer of completely over-the-top ridiculousness laid over a remarkably aware, intelligent, and subversive core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[5749],"class_list":["post-49585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-barbie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}