Bill Maher Blasts ‘Barbie,’ Calls Movie A “Zombie Lie”
deadline.comBill Maher took to Twitter (or X) on Monday to tell his followers that he had seen Barbie and promised a “review” to follow.
On Tuesday, Maher delivered…sort of. His post reads less like a review than one of his biting closing soliloquies on Real Time.
In any case, Maher’s gist is that Barbie, with a main character who fights the patriarchy, is actually a few years out of date because the power structure of the world we live in is “not really any longer deserving of the word ‘patriarchy.'” For proof, he offers the fact that the Mattel board is actually made up of 5 women and 7 men, not all men, as the film posits. “Truth is, I’m not the one who’s out of step – I’m living in the year we’re living in,” writes Maher. “Barbie is fun, I enjoyed it – but it IS a #ZombieLie.
And people who don’t go along with zombie lies did not take some red pill – just staying true to CURRENT reality. Let’s live in the year we’re living in!” Read Maher’s full “review” below.
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