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Barbie movie: Marketing was great, but film was a letdown

The packaging of the "Barbie" movie was more enticing than the lackluster content it contained. Despite a year-long marketing campaign and numerous promotional activities, the film turned out to be a disappointment.

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"Barbie" is a tiresome, chaotic, self-absorbed, and excessively dramatic disappointment. The arthouse director and co-writer Greta Gerwig (known for "Lady Bird" and "Little Women") and co-writer Noah Baumbach ("Marriage Story") have produced a smug tale that lacks a single sympathetic character. Instead, it overflows with moral platitudes and intellectual jokes that come across as pretentious.