Do they suck or rock? Did you hate it or love it? Were you bored silly?
It's open mind time. Go ahead and laugh at me, but I'm in a bind. What do you do when two sets of people you love, different in every way, tell you that you'll love/hate a movie when you see it, and you come out sort of understanding both perspectives.
On the one hand, I'll say it's ridiculously easy for a Serious Blogger who hates the MIC to tear this movie to shreds. OTOH, I'll say that I am jealous, as a woman who played with dolls as a girl, that no studio seems devoted to the project of "updating" a consumer product line/movie "script" with that toy for my newly financially empowered generation.

The point I made to both my male friends: this movie had "meaning" to you. Good or bad, hated or loved, you two just had a great trip down memory lane. And it will go on, to greater or lesser degrees of satisfaction- New iterations of Speed Racer and Iron Man are in the works. OTOH, it's two or more years since the "wonder woman" movie update idea was accepted by a studio, and still there isn't even a bad version for me to bitch about.

Why is it that men love recapturing their childhoods, where women don't? It is fascinating to me that the men who told me I'd love or hate this robot movie were utter different, utterly unlike, and yet both completely obsessed about seeing it as soon as it came out. To me, going was all about seeing what level of technology the video/graphic arts folks have at their disposal. The rest was as uncompelling as to be fishwrap, but that's me. How would my male (str8 and gay) friends react to a movie titled "Barbi: Malibu Days Redux?" I can't answer that. I'd like to, tho.