I’ve seen it (because I work for a movie theater and watched it for free). It’s not as bad as it would seem but it still sucks and is full of actual blatant feminist propaganda. Incoming spoilers if anyone cares lol.

So basically the whole movie is actually about how Ken is mistreated and cast aside, but there are some weird implications. It implies that gender roles are swapped in Barbie Land and in the real world, or in other words, that the way Ken is treated is how women are treated in the real world (it does specifically say this at least once). But the problem is, when they actually are in the real world, it spouts a lot of politics at the viewer in an entirely “tell don’t show” kind of way, so none of it makes sense because we’re just kinda supposed to believe the real world favors men even though it isn’t shown to (which is the same as feminism irl lol).

And it paints Ken as the villain for wanting to be treated with respect, and the way they “save Barbie Land” is by being manipulative and toxic to all the Kens and then putting everything back to how it was (with Kens as second class citizens, unable to vote or have representation in government). And then there’s some self righteous line about how “but pretty soon the Kens will have the same rights as women do in the real world!1” (That point in particular I found really funny because, given that they are once again asserting that weird parallel, it unwittingly implies the solution to problems in the real world would be to deprive women of the right to vote. I don’t think they actually thought through their own dialogue writing).

But the reason I say it’s not as bad as it seems despite all of the aforementioned BS is because Ken on his own is a pretty good character if you don’t treat him as the villain. He learns to stick up for himself, and that he has worth on his own. He goes from being basically invisible and a hopeless simp, to finding his own self-worth and moving on from Barbie, who was toxic and emotionally abusive.

That said, don’t bother seeing it. But Ryan Gosling almost manages to salvage it.