The most magazine movie of the year, Barbie, will be in theaters this weekend. So what do the first people who watch the movie think? We take a closer look at the first comments and reactions to Oppenheimer’s biggest rival, which is called the movie of the century.
Barbie is not just a toy brand. A popular culture legend that has lived for generations and is well known to every culture and society on earth. of this legend Best adaptation ever made for the big screen. it’s finally coming out.
It’s coming in, but the same weekend Christopher Nolan’s new movie Oppenheimer will be in the show. Both films will fill the theaters with their fans, and despite the ticket prices, which are now 150 TL in our country, we will see the theaters so full for the first time in a long time.
This week, those who watch Oppenheimer at the cinema and those who watch Barbie will leave the theater in the following way:
Critics, who mostly gave positive reviews for Oppenheimer, are already making statements such as “the movie of the century”. How did Barbie receive feedback from critics and first-time viewers against Oppenheimer, which is called the movie of the century?
Barbie’s critic score on Rotten Tomatoes is 89%, and her Metascore score is 81:
Oppenheimer has a score of 92 on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 90 on Metacritic. The story of the making of the atomic bomb, as expected, seems to have outstripped a toy brand’s screen adaptation in its initial critic ratings.
According to Kaan Can Ozalp of Merlin’s Cauldron, Barbie is “a simple and not good movie”
Time said that Barbie is similar to Pinocchio or Alice in Wonderland and is a bit of a cliché, but not a very sweet but deep enough movie:
Time Cinema Critic Stephanie Zacharek emphasized that Barbie is a feminist film; she says that she conveys this in a way we are used to seeing a lot. She says that what happened after Barbie left the world she lived in is conveyed as we have seen in many movies before, so it is not too deep.
Vaniety Fair: “Barbie, the better a Barbie movie can be”
Richard Lawson from Vanietiy Fair, one of the world’s largest popular culture publications, says that there are many things that will make people emotional in the Barbie movie, but the rises and falls in the movie are not well-adjusted.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, although Barbie is a critical movie, it does not go beyond serving a product at its core:
Hollywood Reporter writer Lobia Gyarke, one of the signature publications of the cinema world, praises Barbie’s director Greta Gerwig for not breaking her line. However, she says that despite the criticisms made with the transition between the real-artificial worlds, Barbie serves a brand that has a place in popular culture, only responding to the critical expectations of today’s audiences.
CNN reports that the feminist messages in the film are in place, but still focus on the positive aspects of the criticisms:
According to CNN writer Brian Lowry, Barbie promises an enjoyable experience, apart from all the marketing campaigns and social media agendas that make people tired of seeing Barbie, and the political and social messages given in the movie.
Rolling Stone: It’s a lengthy advertisement for a legendary corporate brand that pulls a “s****r” into patriarchy:
Focusing on the anti-patriarchal nature of the film, which extends to sexism and even violence in today’s society, Rolling Stone writer David Fear praises this aspect of the production, while actually burying the production for being an explicit “Barbie advertisement”.