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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9072858" data-attributes="member: 6988941">I just saw it. I'm also not the target demo, which I think makes the difference of whether this is a good movie that gets a bit too ham-fisted at times or a great movie. In any case it is a work of transformatively creative crass commercialism on par with the Lego movie, which is a hell of a thing to pull off on any level.Doing satire approved by and paid for by the target is always weird. In this case they created a version of Mattel so surreal that I guess Mattel couldn't make enough sense out of it to give notes. I will be much better inclined towards the proposed Mattel Cinematic Universe (MCU?) if they work this version of the company into all the movies.The movie plays so fast and loose with reality that it is unclear how its version of the real world works, and yet, as a school teacher, the place where my suspension of disbelief was broken was where a couple of random and oblivious adults could just wander into an American public middle school in a major urban area in the 2020s and not be questioned.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 9072858, member: 6988941"] I just saw it. I'm also not the target demo, which I think makes the difference of whether this is a good movie that gets a bit too ham-fisted at times or a great movie. In any case it is a work of transformatively creative crass commercialism on par with the Lego movie, which is a hell of a thing to pull off on any level. Doing satire approved by and paid for by the target is always weird. In this case they created a version of Mattel so surreal that I guess Mattel couldn't make enough sense out of it to give notes. I will be much better inclined towards the proposed Mattel Cinematic Universe (MCU?) if they work this version of the company into all the movies. The movie plays so fast and loose with reality that it is unclear how its version of the real world works, and yet, as a school teacher, the place where my suspension of disbelief was broken was where a couple of random and oblivious adults could just wander into an American public middle school in a major urban area in the 2020s and not be questioned. [/QUOTE]

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