Pink flooded the movie theaters this summer with people coming to watch the new Barbie film. The movie came out to theaters on July 21.
Previews and teasers were released all through the summer giving the fans a taste of what the movie plot could be for making a childrens toy into a film. The director was Greta Gerwig and her goal of the film was to “give girls that feeling of, ‘Barbie does it, too’- that’s both funny and emotional,” Gerwig told Today.com. Gerwig goes on to say, “There are so many things like that throughout the movie. It was always about looking for the levity and the heart.”
Junior Olive Callon went to see Barbie and thought the movie “was going to be controversial,” because “it talked about women empowerment and [she] feels like people have a lot of arguments to say about that.” After Callon watched it, she thought it was “a lot different than [she] expected.”
Gerwig had a subtle but deep meaning, and Callon said it took her a couple days to figure “out what the actual deep meaning of the movie was.” The junior said the film reinforced the idea that “you have to support yourself with the right people.”
Senior Katrina Wrinkler isn’t the biggest fan of the movie ever since she watched it because “it wasn’t what [she] expected, and since [she] didn’t expect that it took the fun away from the movie in a way.” Wrinkle said she was expecting a “fun summer movie,” going into the theaters.
Wrinkler wishes that “they kept Barbie and Ken together.” Wrinkler expresses she “do[es] not see anything bad about them being together.”
Senior Kasey List went and saw the Barbie movie and loved everything about Ken. List said that “Ken’s comedy,” was the part of the movie that made him like it. Ken’s “personality” was the part of the movie that stuck out to List the most. List’s opinion on the movie was “it’s perfect the way it is.”
