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Liked the movie a lot, didn't love it. Fantastic production design and costumes (this has to be the Oscar frontrunner for those categories, right?), a mostly great cast, and comedy that has a relatively high hit-to-miss ratio (Gosling's third-act musical number is a highlight). The script as a whole leaves something to be desired, with pretty large plot holes and somewhat muddled worldbuilding, and the feminist satire can be overly didactic (particularly in a couple key monologues Ferrera and Greenblatt get as the human leads), while also clearly being reined in by the limits of what Mattel would allow in a movie based on one of its most iconic toys. Still, it’s genuinely impressive to see Gerwig and Baumbach get a bona fide creative vision through one of these big IP-based movies, with tons of “how did they get away with this?” moments (that final line!). fwiw I think someone who worked on this movie must have been at my screening in NYC; a group of people cheered really loudly when part of the crew (makeup?) came up in the credits. That's sweet.
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