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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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Every Ken (played by Ryan Gosling, Scott Evans, Simu Liu, and more) is predictably portrayed as a fool. According to the narrator, Barbie Land citizens believe that "thanks to Barbie, all problems of feminism and equal rights have been solved" in the real world. In this alternate reality, each Barbie has a plastic toy counterpart on Earth. For example, Kate McKinnon's Barbie, one of the few bright spots, has chopped hair and colored lines on her face because a little girl played roughly with her and tossed her into a box.