Lionel Nation - My Review of Barbie: The Smartest Dumbest Brilliant Stupid and Meaningless Movie You Should See
Aired: 2023-08-07
Duration: 14:59


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[00:01:32]  I know you've been waiting for me to give you my appraisal, my review of the Barbie movie.
[00:01:37]  Well, today's your lucky day.
[00:01:39]  This is it.
[00:01:41]  And what I want to do is a couple of things.
[00:01:44]  First, Before you see this, and I want you to see this, and I think little girls will love it because they won't understand what it means.
[00:01:55]  I'm not sure most adults know what it means.
[00:01:57]  I'm not even sure the people who made the movie understand what it means.
[00:02:00]  I don't even think if it's worthy or susceptible of meaning anything.
[00:02:04]  It is the smartest, stupidest, best, dumb, worst movie ever.
[00:02:10]  And it's fascinating, but not for the reasons that you think.
[00:02:15]  And people have overthought this to death.
[00:02:19]  People are looking at this.
[00:02:21]  It's like the story where people sometimes listen too much to rock lyrics years ago.
[00:02:29]  I think it was Eight Miles High.
[00:02:31]  I think it was Eight Miles High.
[00:02:33]  Somebody thought it was about drug use or something.
[00:02:35]  It was about a plane.
[00:02:37]  It was about a guy in a plane.
[00:02:38]  Eight miles had nothing to do with this.
[00:02:41]  Or, better yet, people...
[00:02:43]  Who don't understand.
[00:02:44]  Who think they're listening to something that's beautiful.
[00:02:47]  Like every breath you take.
[00:02:49]  You know that story?
[00:02:50]  It's about stalking.
[00:02:51]  I read somebody told me one time that this was one of the most favorite songs at receptions.
[00:03:02]  Oh my god.
[00:03:03]  What are you talking about?
[00:03:05]  Anyway.
[00:03:06]  It goes to show you.
[00:03:07]  Overkill, underkill, depending upon how you look at it.
[00:03:11]  Listen carefully.
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[00:03:44]  Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, Okay, today my wife and I went and we saw Barbie.
[00:03:54]  And a couple of things I'm going to tell you.
[00:03:55]  First, I want to do everything I can to bring the movie industry back.
[00:03:59]  I want people...
[00:04:01]  To go to theaters.
[00:04:03]  There's something about going to a theater.
[00:04:05]  I don't want to sound like one of these old people who say, you know, I like the smell of a book.
[00:04:11]  I'm not saying that.
[00:04:13]  But there is something to be said for listening to or listening to a movie also, but also seeing a movie and being there in the actual theater itself.
[00:04:24]  It's just like now.
[00:04:26]  And a lot of the youngsters.
[00:04:29]  Have missed this.
[00:04:30]  But there's something that's incredibly great about listening to music on a great sound system.
[00:04:36]  Used to call them hi-fis years ago.
[00:04:38]  They were great.
[00:04:40]  They were incredible.
[00:04:42]  But because we're listening to AirPods, you miss that.
[00:04:46]  So I'm not saying this just because I'm just waxing needlessly nostalgic.
[00:04:53]  I'm telling you there's something to be said for that.
[00:04:55]  And there's something to be said for going to a film.
[00:04:58]  And Margot Robbie is a great actress.
[00:05:01]  She's really good.
[00:05:02]  She's good.
[00:05:04]  Kate McKinnon?
[00:05:05]  Boring.
[00:05:06]  She's the same.
[00:05:08]  She's terrific at imitating, but you realize there's no depth.
[00:05:11]  She's not an actress.
[00:05:12]  There's no nothing.
[00:05:16]  Kristen Wiig?
[00:05:18]  Another one, too.
[00:05:20]  Very good mimic.
[00:05:21]  Lousy actress.
[00:05:24]  Will Ferrell?
[00:05:25]  He's Will Ferrell.
[00:05:26]  No matter what you do, you get Will Ferrell no matter what.
[00:05:30]  The actress, America Vespucci, or whatever, she's very good, who plays the mother.
[00:05:35]  Very good.
[00:05:36]  That's it.
[00:05:37]  We're not talking Academy Award.
[00:05:38]  At least, I don't know what the Academy Award even means today.
[00:05:42]  But here is the story, and this is why it's good.
[00:05:45]  You ready for this?
[00:05:46]  Listen.
[00:05:47]  It still celebrates girls!
[00:05:50]  If you're listening to me right now...
[00:05:53]  And you are roughly in my generation or a little younger.
[00:05:57]  Barbies meant something to you.
[00:06:01]  We can go into the history of Barbie and how, or whether Barbary, Barbary.
[00:06:06]  Barbary is a law of bar exam preparation course.
[00:06:10]  Barbie may actually...
[00:06:16]  Reinforce stereotypes that are actually deleterious to young girls.
[00:06:20]  You know, weird shapes.
[00:06:21]  Okay, you want to play that?
[00:06:23]  You want to play that?
[00:06:25]  We had G.I. Joes.
[00:06:27]  I don't even know why.
[00:06:29]  We did in the footlocker, the big G.I. Joe.
[00:06:32]  Not the little one, the big one.
[00:06:35]  What does it mean?
[00:06:36]  I don't know.
[00:06:37]  Did it celebrate war?
[00:06:38]  I guess.
[00:06:40]  It's a doll.
[00:06:42]  Lighten up.
[00:06:44]  But little girls liked it because they liked it.
[00:06:47]  Did it reinforce stereotypes?
[00:06:49]  Well, if you look around today, not enough.
[00:06:52]  Because if there's anybody who adheres to these stereotypes, that adherence never makes it actually to their body.
[00:07:01]  We are awash in obesity and destruction of dermal real estate with hideous tattoos.
[00:07:09]  There wasn't a tattoo in the movie!
[00:07:13]  At least I don't think.
[00:07:16]  That's a personal thing to me.
[00:07:17]  I think tattoos are the most stupid thing.
[00:07:20]  They're hideous.
[00:07:21]  And they're unnecessary.
[00:07:23]  And it just goes to show you how people are mindless dolts?
[00:07:34]  Fools?
[00:07:35]  What do you want to call these people?
[00:07:36]  Who go out and discard themselves so they're cool?
[00:07:39]  But that's for another topic.
[00:07:41]  It's a celebration of girls.
[00:07:44]  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:07:44]  They talk about patriarchy.
[00:07:46]  Do you think half of the crowd in that movie theater is going to understand what patriarchy means?
[00:07:49]  And by the way, there's a lot to be said for that.
[00:07:52]  You know, when listening to it, it sounds almost like something Mary should have been explaining to Lou Grant.
[00:07:57]  You know what I mean?
[00:07:58]  To Mr. Grant.
[00:07:59]  It was 70s-ish.
[00:08:02]  It really was.
[00:08:03]  It was a good message.
[00:08:06]  About women can do this.
[00:08:07]  Women can be president.
[00:08:08]  Women can be...
[00:08:09]  Well, maybe not president yet.
[00:08:12]  Well, with all that Russian collusion, Hillary, but it was a good message.
[00:08:18]  I'm sorry.
[00:08:19]  It was about a mother and a daughter that come together.
[00:08:22]  The kid's a complete turd, you know, the usual, that snotty.
[00:08:27]  But there's good.
[00:08:30]  And there's a message.
[00:08:31]  It's kind of sci-fi-ish, ripping the fabric into portal and going back to a different dimension.
[00:08:38]  I like that stuff.
[00:08:40]  It's 2001.
[00:08:41]  It's Kubrick.
[00:08:42]  It really is.
[00:08:43]  If you think about it, I mean, it's innocent, the subject matter.
[00:08:45]  But it teaches kids about time and distortion and reality.
[00:08:49]  And Barbie becomes...
[00:08:52]  She's in the world.
[00:08:56]  Little things.
[00:08:57]  You know how Barbie never drinks.
[00:08:58]  She just has empty cups and all of a sudden she feels the water.
[00:09:02]  And it's a really great story about how this kid who had her...
[00:09:08]  Who had the Barbie doll is going through some problems and the angst, the contretout, I like that, the pathos, the agonistes that this child is going through actually converts and violates the blood-brain barrier of this other dimension of Barbie land.
[00:09:34]  It's pretty, I mean, it's deeper than you think.
[00:09:37]  I don't think a kid's going to get this.
[00:09:39]  But the best part is it's a celebration of little girls and girls being girls.
[00:09:43]  And grown-ups.
[00:09:46]  Who want to wear pink and go out for a girls' night out?
[00:09:50]  What's wrong with that?
[00:09:52]  We have men walking along with their schwads hanging out in locker rooms of women's...
[00:10:00]  This women in...
[00:10:03]  My God.
[00:10:06]  These are women.
[00:10:08]  Actual women.
[00:10:10]  And there was, I believe, a trans actor, I think.
[00:10:15]  You don't really know.
[00:10:17]  And the reason why is because sometimes they don't say, da-da-da-da, trans actor.
[00:10:21]  You say, you know, that voice.
[00:10:24]  See, that's the hard part of being a trans actor, because you don't know.
[00:10:30]  You don't know.
[00:10:32]  Have you noticed how every...
[00:10:34]  TV show has a biracial family.
[00:10:38]  Everybody.
[00:10:39]  Cable TV company, you know, potato chips, this, everything.
[00:10:44]  There's always a biracial.
[00:10:45]  Never a white family, a white, no, God, no.
[00:10:48]  It's always biracial, which is fine, fine.
[00:10:51]  And then sometimes you'll say, hey, let's have more trans, transgender actors and actresses, if you can even say this.
[00:10:58]  Well, how do you know?
[00:11:01]  Sometimes you can't tell them to say, you know, I think...
[00:11:04]  No, he's not.
[00:11:05]  Oh, he's not?
[00:11:06]  Oh, sorry.
[00:11:08]  What if you're pegged for being transgender and you're not?
[00:11:12]  Is that appropriation?
[00:11:14]  Trust me, they'll find a way.
[00:11:16]  Look, if people can find a way to object to sound of freedom, they can do anything.
[00:11:25]  Okay?
[00:11:28]  But what is interesting to note, Is how many people love to overly complicate Barbie.
[00:11:38]  They love to complicate it.
[00:11:41]  What do you think about this?
[00:11:43]  What do you think?
[00:11:45]  I've been through this my whole life.
[00:11:48]  In my generation.
[00:11:49]  Listen to those lyrics.
[00:11:51]  I remember one time, was it 7th grade?
[00:11:54]  Blood Rock.
[00:11:55]  D-O-A.
[00:11:55]  About dying?
[00:11:58]  Blood Rock?
[00:12:01]  My parents are very, as you would say, cool about it.
[00:12:04]  Is this song about people dying?
[00:12:06]  Yeah.
[00:12:07]  Oh, okay.
[00:12:10]  Didn't make a big deal.
[00:12:11]  If you play the song backwards, you can hear Source of the Devil.
[00:12:17]  I didn't hear that.
[00:12:18]  They were doing that then.
[00:12:21]  They've been talking about interpreting music since the beginning of time, but kids are looking at it.
[00:12:25]  They say, this is great.
[00:12:27]  Interesting story.
[00:12:29]  You know the actor Michael, is it Madsen or Madsen?
[00:12:33]  He played, he was Mr. Pink or whoever that was in Reservoir Dogs.
[00:12:37]  Remember the torture scene?
[00:12:39]  Spoiler alert!
[00:12:40]  Remember that with the cop?
[00:12:41]  Okay.
[00:12:44]  He was also the dad in Free Willy.
[00:12:47]  So when he would be at various venues or occasions, kids would say, my daddy, look!
[00:12:53]  This is years ago, look!
[00:12:54]  And the father would say, oh my god!
[00:12:57]  The father would see the homicidal killer from Reservoir Dogs, but the kids saw the father in Free Willy, from what I hear.
[00:13:09]  This goes to show you intellectual overkill.
[00:13:11]  It goes to show you how a lot of people go out of their way to make things more complicated than they really are.
[00:13:16]  But the bottom line is simply this.
[00:13:18]  It's a celebration of girls!
[00:13:20]  I don't care about the patriarchy.
[00:13:22]  Girls acted like girls and dolls and no tattoos and they're just girls and gender and binary, damn it!
[00:13:33]  Binary!
[00:13:35]  Girls!
[00:13:36]  Girls!
[00:13:36]  The boys were a little, well, it's a different story, a little stupid, but you know what?
[00:13:41]  No problem.
[00:13:42]  Hey, truth is a defense.
[00:13:45]  It's still, what is it, a billion dollars a month?
[00:13:49]  I doubt.
[00:13:50]  I doubt that.
[00:13:51]  Just like Oppenheimer.
[00:13:55]  People never heard of Oppenheimer until now.
[00:13:57]  But I digress.
[00:13:59]  So you know what?
[00:13:59]  Go see it.
[00:14:01]  Go see it.
[00:14:02]  And if you've got a little girl, take her.
[00:14:05]  Well, not too young.
[00:14:06]  I mean, some of this stuff.
[00:14:07]  Because she's not going to get it.
[00:14:09]  She'll just see pink and colors and dogs and people waving.
[00:14:13]  Hi, Barbie.
[00:14:14]  Hi.
[00:14:14]  Little cars.
[00:14:15]  That's all they'll see.
[00:14:16]  And that's all it is.
[00:14:18]  Because that's all Barbie was.
[00:14:20]  Because when you take away all this interpretation and breaking it down, it's just a doll.

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