A story about Barbie on a quest to stop the heat death of the universe.
March 3, 2024 9:32 AM Subscribe
Maybe you remember YouTuber Ted Nivision from a previous post. Here we find him slowly dissolving his sanity in a new adventure: I Watched Every Barbie Movie Ever Made [1h50m], which culminates with the 2023 Barbie film. It doesn't go well.
Ah, he's only doing the modern Barbie cartoons then. As a child of the 80s, I can report that he missed out on all the "Barbie and the Rockers" adventures, including the one where they take a page from Back to the Future and fly into space for a global concert, only to rock so hard they go back in time to the 1950s and need to get a friendly scientist to build them a music-powered time tunnel to travel back to 1989.
Please understand I am not making this up.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 11:11 AM on March 3 [13 favorites]
Please understand I am not making this up.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 11:11 AM on March 3 [13 favorites]
Barbie & Sisters Puppy Chase is stressing me out!!!!!
posted by supermedusa at 12:58 PM on March 3 [1 favorite]
posted by supermedusa at 12:58 PM on March 3 [1 favorite]
MetaFilter: Please understand I am not making this up
posted by chavenet at 1:41 PM on March 3 [10 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 1:41 PM on March 3 [10 favorites]
My first Barbie movie experience was Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), a 45 minute biographical drama featuring Barbie dolls as actors. It is banned or outlawed, because of the music copyrights, and maybe the doll rights too, but it served its purpose of launching his career.
posted by Brian B. at 2:04 PM on March 3 [6 favorites]
posted by Brian B. at 2:04 PM on March 3 [6 favorites]
Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Available on Internet Archive.
posted by hippybear at 2:10 PM on March 3 [8 favorites]
Available on Internet Archive.
posted by hippybear at 2:10 PM on March 3 [8 favorites]
The last ten minutes is blowing my MIND. I am now accepting his truth as my reality.
Having loved the Barbie PC games in the 90s but felt a little too old for the movies by the time they came out, I am frankly shocked at how well he managed to keep me absolutely invested for nearly two hours.
posted by lesser weasel at 3:36 AM on March 4
Having loved the Barbie PC games in the 90s but felt a little too old for the movies by the time they came out, I am frankly shocked at how well he managed to keep me absolutely invested for nearly two hours.
posted by lesser weasel at 3:36 AM on March 4
That was something...even at 2X it was...a lot.
However, I think his theory holds water, as the Netflix Barbie show "Life in the Dream house", which IMO is the best Barbie series and in it, Ken builds a bunch of Barbie clones directly representing her many jobs. They are rough clones, as in all they can say is "Hi, I'm Barbie, what's up?" but they are clones none the less. They also represent Barbie as 'half a toy' for lack of a better explanation, with plastic and large size products (sort of carried forward to the live-action movie) and as such things like Mermaids and talking animals are completely plausible.
I've seen about 20 of these movies, he's a better man than me because most are kind of tough to watch. Kids stuff not made by Disney is often really half-baked.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:10 PM on March 4
However, I think his theory holds water, as the Netflix Barbie show "Life in the Dream house", which IMO is the best Barbie series and in it, Ken builds a bunch of Barbie clones directly representing her many jobs. They are rough clones, as in all they can say is "Hi, I'm Barbie, what's up?" but they are clones none the less. They also represent Barbie as 'half a toy' for lack of a better explanation, with plastic and large size products (sort of carried forward to the live-action movie) and as such things like Mermaids and talking animals are completely plausible.
I've seen about 20 of these movies, he's a better man than me because most are kind of tough to watch. Kids stuff not made by Disney is often really half-baked.
posted by The_Vegetables at 12:10 PM on March 4
This ruled. Dude is a hero.
posted by Suedeltica at 4:22 PM on March 4
posted by Suedeltica at 4:22 PM on March 4
I loved it, too. I’m actually surprised at how coherent his final assessment of the BCU was. Very much worth half of my attention while stitching together crochet squares.
posted by itesser at 7:21 PM on March 5
posted by itesser at 7:21 PM on March 5
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