
Barbie, the most popular doll ever created is a fashion icon and a target for feminists. This telling documentary features new footage, access to Barbie's biggest reinvention, and examines over 60 years of women through the lens of an 11.5 inch plastic doll.... (Full plot summary below)
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Barbie, the most popular doll ever created is a fashion icon and a target for feminists. This telling documentary features new footage, access to Barbie's biggest reinvention, and examines over 60 years of women through the lens of an 11.5 inch plastic doll.
Leave your thoughts about Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie.
| Reason OnlineGlenn GarvinTiny Shoulders is really a history of Barbie and her feminist tormentors. And it turns out those tiny shoulders conceal some real muscle. |
| The Daily DotMichelle JaworskiIt's a reflection of the time during which Barbie expanded and transformed into something life-changing... but it drives home that Barbie is still a force to be reckoned with. |
| The AtlanticSophie GilbertBut the most fascinating aspect of the movie is how it uses Barbie as a metaphor for a culture that's still infinitely more preoccupied with what a woman looks like than what she says. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian CostelloComprehensive docu about iconic, controversial doll. |
| Women's Voices for ChangeAlexandra MacAaronHas a piece of plastic even been so politically charged? No, argues filmmaker Andrea Blaugrund Nevins in this interesting and entertaining documentary. |
| Bust MagazineErika W. SmithBut Tiny Shoulders keeps criticism of Barbie at a minimum-so much so that I was expecting a "sponsored by Mattel" line in the credits. |
| User Reviewpretty bLet's cut right to the chase, the reason why there Barbie dolls suck is because they're overthinking it. It's really obnoxious to see a bunch of women with no makeup complain about Barbie it's so ridiculous! Yet, they're working for Barbie and you know what the biggest problem is? The new dolls that were launched we're not Barbie. There's never heard the phrase leave good enough alone. It's because of all of these changes as to why Barbie keeps declining. You made her breasts flat and Tiny matter smaller and smaller and now nobody wants to play with her. Barbie started out as a men's doll, and men would hang it up in their car but it wasn't Barbie with a different brand and they just copied off of that doll. The former CEOs really knew what they were doing and this generation should really take the time to sit down and look at what they did for more realistic perspective. Barbie is in a feminist Barbie is in a white supremacist as they mentioned in the film, Barbie is simply a very pretty doll. And that's all after that is the imagination that comes |