Well, folks, I just got back from theaters seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer.
I'm about to review both of them, I'm gonna tell you which one
of these is the best blockbuster of 2023, and which one is maybe the worst.
>> Speaker 1: I bet he loved our movie, right, Ken?
>> Speaker 1: For those of you who can't wait that long,
I'm gonna give my review of the Barbie movie in the most Oppenheimer fashion.
[SOUND] >> What the willing?
>> Speaker 2: God, do I wish he got arrested for public fire,
which is probably not even an exact term.
But, yes, that is Ben Shapiro, a 39-year-old man burning Barbie dolls.
In order to prove how much he loathed the Barbie movie, he went and
bought Barbie dolls.
It first started when Ben went and saw the Barbie movie.
My producers dragged me, my producers dragged me to see Barbie, and
it was one of the most woke movies I have ever seen.
My full review of this flaming garbage heap of a film will be out on my YouTube
channel tomorrow at 10:00 AM Eastern.
To which the Internet responded with this.
It was just pointed out to me that Ben Shapiro went to go
hate watch the Barbie movie dressed exactly like Ken lmao.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, my A is, [LAUGH] meant to go dress
as Ken while you're pretending to hate the movie.
Interesting choice, okay.
>> Speaker 1: Yeah, his producers also rejected him dressing as Barbie for
the movie.
Then Shapiro released a very concise 43-minutes rant about the film.
Take a look.
>> With my generalized assessment of the movie.
This movie is not just a piece of, this movie is a flaming piece of dog piled
atop an entire dumpster on fire, piled atop a landfill filled with dog.
It is one of the worst movies I've ever seen on every possible level it is
a horrific movie.
The only thing that can be said for this film is production design.
Production design is really nice, costumes are really nice.
Also, it's really hard to screw that up,
it's really hard to screw that up because you literally have this to model after.
All you have to do is this, but big, every joke that happens in this film happens
basically within the first 45 seconds of the film.
So, for example, Barbie turns on the water, and there's no water.
Ooh, because, you know, like in Barbie house, there's no actual water.
Do you get it? And then she drinks, but
there's no actual liquid in the actual cup.
My God, because she's a Barbie doll.
I get it, okay, that's all the jokes.
There are no more jokes for the rest of the film.
The movie's a show, okay, so conceptually, the movie is, I wanna ask this.
Who is the intended audience for this film?
Who's the intended audience for this film?
So I'll tell you who the intended audience for this film is, and I can tell two ways.
One, the previews on the film, and two, the people in the audience.
So the intended audience for this film is moms and their 8-year-old daughters.
>> Speaker 2: Ben Shapiro is one of the strangest people who paints on his
eyebrows with sharpies.
>> Speaker 2: [LAUGH] >> And that's saying a lot.
>> [LAUGH] >> I also love now how he also purchased
the Barbie Dream House, which was displayed on his set over his shoulder.
[LAUGH] Pretty incredible.
>> Speaker 3: He has spent a ton of money on Barbie for a guy who doesn't like it.
>> I, in fact, just brought them from my own home.
>> [LAUGH] Okay which he probably did.
Okay, look, guys, A, this is obviously a PR gimmick and well played, Ben.
Everybody's talking about it, you knew that once he lit him on fire,
people would talk about it.
But guys, it's a cheap trick, right?
So, like, for example, I could do the same thing right now.
The twist I would put on it is I would take some doll and
pretend that it's Ben Shapiro and then would light it on fire.
And then what would happen?
Everybody would be outraged and everybody would talk about it, and
everybody would saying, Young Turks', Cenk, etc.
It's a cheap trick, and so I wouldn't do that cuz it's a bad sign.
It's not a good thing to do, it's blinding a person on fire in this case,
it's a Barbie.
So it's a little different, his is more benign than the example that I gave.
But still, I mean, what kind of a weirdo takes kids dolls and burns them and
it's like, [LAUGH] right?
And tell me you're losing the culture wars without telling me you're
losing the culture wars.
So, that's probably the joke.
What's the intended audience?
I don't know, apparently everyone,
cuz right now it's the number one movie of the entire year.
>> Speaker 2: And breaking all kinds of historical box office records as well.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, and so what he doesn't like is like,
there's a trans Barbie in there.
It said, of course, one of the Matt Gase's wife thought that Ken was low T,
whatever that means, okay?
>> Speaker 2: The actress, Harry Neff is in the movie-
>> Yeah, and so-
>> The transgender actress.
>> Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know why they put that in the movie?
To sell more tickets because they think that America likes that.
So the actors and writers, etc, of movies oftentimes are liberals,
okay, that's true.
The executives of movie companies are not at all liberal,
they're some of the most conservative people in the whole country, right?
So here's what they're not going to allow in a movie if they thought
it was going to hurt ticket sales at trans Barbie, a low T, Ken, etc.
Apparently they think, this is going to do really well.
And guess what?
The movie executives were correct, okay, so but
Ben Shapiro comes in and goes, I don't like it.
Why isn't America more hateful?
Why is it Barbie more hateful?
[LAUGH] I'm going to burn Barbie, then they'll see.
>> And clearly throw it over my shoulder and not get it fully in the trash can,
then cut to it being in the trash can cuz I can't even do a second take of this.
He probably did 30 takes, still couldn't make it in there.
Who's low T now, okay?
>> Speaker 3: And you're not gonna win the culture wars by burning kids Barbies,
because what you're saying to all those people who love Barbie is,
I'm not on your side.
I'm the weirdo agro right winger who either gets offended or
pretends to get offended at every little thing, right?
And the things that you love, I hate, and I think you should hate them with me.
>> Speaker 2: And, you know,
he was praying that he'd be finally the one to start one of the burning and
shooting their own stuff trends like the Bud lights, like, the Nikes.
And he's the only one burning them, Barbies cuz people like Barbie,
Barbie's cool.
He also claimed the film was, quote,
explicitly designed to divide men from women, describing it as, quote,
an angry feminist claptrap that alienates men from women.
The Internet blew up over Shapiro's insane fixation on the dolls.
And being so upset over this movie, Ben Shapiro paid almost $100 to,
quote, own the libs with this Barbie video lol.
Barbie Leopard Rainbow doll, $23, Barbie doll, $25, Ken doll, $25, Truck, $20.
Ben Shapiro holding what looks like a Barbie and
some sort of a dildo on the other hand, priceless.
>> [LAUGH] >> Feel free to Photoshop that.
>> [LAUGH] >> Shapiro did respond to everything on
his show today.
Check this.
>> Speaker 1: I do this review, I put out this tweet,
and everybody loses their mind, I mean, loses their mind.
There are articles about my review of this movie in sources as diverse as Newsweek,
NBC News, The Daily Beast.
Everyone's covering the fact that I did not like this movie and
that I made a video in which I perotically Oppenheimer the Barbie materials.
I take, like, a match, and I light the Barbie stuff on fire.
And this apparently is terrible [SOUND] o, no, it can't be the reaction to me
burning a Barbie car with, like, a Barbie and Kennedy is like,
the reaction of the Islamic world when someone burns a Quran in Sweden.
It's totally crazy, I don't even like, wow, guys, wow.
>> Speaker 3: [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH] So
I got a bunch of things to say about that.
First of all, he's like, my PR trick worked, they wrote about me,
they wrote about me, I'm so happy.
>> Speaker 2: I'm gonna pretend to be stunned by that.
>> Speaker 3: I'm so upset, I can't believe it happened.
You guys all covered me.
[LAUGH] And remember, the reason I had lit it on fire is I have an intellectual
reason because I also saw Oppenheimer, and there was fire in Oppenheimer.
So I took the fire from Oppenheimer and then I put it on the bar,
not to get attention, not to get attention, but
because it made a lot of sense with Oppenheimer.
And that's why I was thinking of using a nuke, but
then I decided maybe a little overkill.
>> Speaker 2: Perhaps a more accurate rationale would have been that he lit them
on fire like a Barbie Q, and a lot of his programming just empowers QAnon.
>> Speaker 3: Ooh, interesting, don't give me any ideas.
All right, last thing is the tweet that Ben read you as
we deduced in the middle of the segment is underselling it.
That Barbie dream house is pretty expensive,
I know my daughter has one, okay?
[LAUGH] So, I mean,
he bought a lot of Barbie material to try to destroy it because, golly gee,
so upset at Barbie and not trying to get clicks or views or anything like that.
And then the last thing he said is, it's like the Muslim world being so
upset if you burn a picture of Muhammad.
Yeah, well, you would be universally hated because you're purposely trying to
offend their prophet, right?
So your analogy is you're universally hated [LAUGH] over here for
burning things that we all like, including our kids.
And if I showed my daughter that video of Ben burning the Barbies,
she would hate him for the rest of his life, okay, [LAUGH] right?
Congrats.
>> Speaker 2: At least, at least in his defense,
he's not going to be putting that Barbie Dream House to waste.
He is a tiny little man who will not be living in it.
>> Speaker 3: You know what the thing about Ben Gleib?
Always looking on the upside.
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, try to find the positive spin.
That's what I knew here.
>> [LAUGH]