The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg has no time for right-wing commentators pouring scorn and outrage upon the new Barbie movie.
A committed Barbie fan, Goldberg turned up on The View yesterday sporting Barbie-decorated platform soles on her shoes.
She also mocked criticism from those on the right about the movie.
“It’s a movie!” she exclaimed on the show. “It’s a movie about a doll!”
“I thought y’all would be happy,” she continued. “[Barbie] has no genitalia, so there’s no sex involved. Ken has no genitalia, so he can’t — it’s a doll movie! And the kids know it’s colorful and it’s Barbie.”
Goldberg went on to say that little kids do not view a movie in the same way, or through the same lens, as adults.
‘Barbie’ box office success
Barbie, starring Margot Robbie in the title role, opened last week and has been a big box-office success. It took around $162million at the US box office and twice that amount globally. Screenings have been packed out, with many of those attending choosing to wear pink.
It enjoys a 90% critics rating on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes and an 87% audience rating.
However, among those to blast the movie are several conservative commentators. They’ve turned their attention away from drag queens for a minute to blast the Warner Bros offering. The chorus of disapproval has been led by Ben Shapiro (who burned Barbie and Ken dolls in disgust) and Ted Cruz. The Texas Senator says the movie is brainwashing young people with Chinese propaganda. .
The Family Research Council, an evangelical Christian group, urged followers not to see the movie. It also called it “toxic propaganda.”
A tweet (or an ‘X’ as they’re now supposed to be called), from someone who collated one-star reviews of Barbie from unhappy male viewers has gone viral.
Director Greta Gerwig is asked about a sequel
Barbie was directed by the award-winning Greta Gerwig. Its success marks the biggest opening weekend ever from a female director. Gerwig says she’s been blown away by its popularity. She was also asked this week about some of the right-wing criticism.
“Certainly, there’s a lot of passion,” Gerwig diplomatically told The New York Times. “My hope for the movie is that it’s an invitation for everybody to be part of the party and let go of the things that aren’t necessarily serving us as either women or men.”
Gerwig was also asked if she saw the movie as the start of a franchise or a stand-alone movie.
“At this moment, it’s all I’ve got.”
“I feel like that at the end of every movie, like I’ll never have another idea and everything I’ve ever wanted to do, I did,” she explained. “I wouldn’t want to squash anybody else’s dream, but for me, at this moment, I’m at totally zero.”
With the Barbie phenomenon looking likely to secure another bumper box office this weekend, we imagine Warner Bros and toy-maker Mattel may have other ideas.
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cuteguy
That first loser on the Fox News clip was that chick from the Real World who has no journalistic background or education and her only qualification was that she banged Puck. She even tried out for the View 3 TIMES and was rejected. one time losing the spot to Elisabeth Hasselbeyotch. 3 times loser with no journalism education or experience, so obviously she and her bulging eyes go to Faux News
dbmcvey
I thought you were talking about Kennedy, who they tried to paint as some kind of genius when she first appeared in the ’90s, but this person has even less relevance.
Man About Town
Oh you mean Wretched. I remember the episode where Pedro revealed he was positive, and she faced the camera to say “Everyone’s being so PC about this, and no one is interested in talking about how this is going to affect the rest of us in the house.”
abfab
Hasselbeyotch! LOL That she was…..my god she was an annoying little twit republican…they all are.
Uh oh………..stand by for MeMe Megahn McCain to crawl out of her cave. Imagine what that tramp must look like as she broils in the AZ sands. And that hair!
Fname Optional Lname
wait …. the whole Barbie backlash is hilarious – they don’t know what they’re mad about anymore — but now I’m more interested in The Real World chick being on Faux News! I know I watched that season but I don’t remember anyone having sex with Puck! Eww and gross. I have to look it up now. RIP Pedro!
dbmcvey
Ben Shapiro is so pathetic.
abfab
That’s not even the word for it. But for now, it will have to do.
whereshouldistart
Ben who?
dbmcvey
@whereshouldistart
I wish I could return to the bliss of not knowing who he is.
Fname Optional Lname
Ben Shapiro wants men to be mad at a Barbie movie! How is America taking any of this seriously?
abfab
Thank you, Whoopi. Remember her first Broadway one woman show……she flipped her long, flaxen hair (a bath towel) playing Barbie? Of course you do!
PubisHairus
Still one of the best stand up performances I’ve ever seen. Whoopi in 1984/85 giving us everything and more.
ScottOnEarth
Ben Shapiro is a very, very strange person. Aside from his “I-just-inhaled-helium” voice, he is scared of anything and everything related to pretty women and the possibility of sexual activity. He has serious issues and operates strictly from a place of complete fear.
dbmcvey
Absolutely. He freaks out so often you feel like he grew up wanking off to the green M&M and now feels really guilty about it.
Mack
But he’s so “manly”. ROFLMAO.
Kangol2
Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk should meet up, mate up and then disappear from the public sphere. They’re both horrible misogynistic racist anti-LGBTQ freaks who are always hysterical about something or other. What grown man sets fire to children’s dolls? A sick one, that’s who!
abfab
Add Paris Dennard and make it a three-way.
winemaker
Who in their right mind watches the view, that waste of an hour’s time that’s gone forever and intelligence that’s nothing more thnn an ultra liberal bitch fest among a bunch of yentas who’ve nothing better to do than kvetch.? This show has been a waste of time and intelligence for years
PubisHairus
Yet it keeps getting renewed season after season while you spiral and drink yourself into a deeper misery.
abfab
Winemaker prefers the 700 Club, The Wendy Williams Show, Pox And Friends, The Partridge Family……
decrans
I stopped watching. After McCain left, the show is like watching paint dry. They basically agree with each other. It’s boring as f–k. I watch The Five for Judge Jeanine’s blowups with Jessica Tarlov. Quality television.