Film Review : " Wonder Woman 1984"

 

I will preface this by saying I think as far as DC movies goes the first Wonder Woman is one of the better DC Films . I did not care for the end of that movie as it felt like the Producer call up and told them to dump the rest of their budget into CGI rather than writing a better fight scene , but that is the kind of problem we can only wish this movie had. This time around it seems like when they heard the movie might not get a theatrical release during post production , they told them to not spend any more money on it. But production is not the only problem. The movie is flawed on almost every level some of them are just a lacking of any caring or editing. 

One example is during the man out of time / fish out of water take on Steve Trevor being introduced to 1984, we see him perplexed by an escalator. How dumb are these people? Escalators came about into 1859. He would not be confused by them. Did know one think to at least Google this shit, does writing get any lazier than that?  The Super Friends cartoons from the 70s has plot that made more sense than the bad guys getting powers from wishing on rocks. Wishy washy would be a compliment at this point in regard to how things are resolved by the end.  Are we saying the big heroic message is be careful what you wish for ? Or do not dream big ? 

Gal Gadot is the only part of this movie works , but even in the depiction of Wonder Woman here, her looks along can not carry it. We have Wonder Woman using a invisibility power to make her invisible plane. She is just like "Oh yeah my dad did this once". The villains' are terrible. I think I might have preferred just a leopard print leotard to what Cheetah ends up looking like as the make is beyond awful. Even in capturing the 80s they could have at least used 80s music , but they did not even want to pay for that. The action is sparse . There is really Only 4 fights in the movie. I think the 66 perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes was paid for by the studio as I read several review that are not what I would consider positive that were scored that way. Before you say that is just a conspiracy theory , if Record Label with a lot less money than Warner Brothers have paid me to write positive album reviews you best believe that is happening.

Gal Gadot in one scene where's a white dress her legs look great in and Kristen Wiig, knocked it out of the park in a leotard at the gym, but aside from the costumes , there are not a great deal of other effective elements in this movie. I have heard a lot of people who want to like this movies, and are so invested in wanting to support girl power. I am all for female super heroes, but that does not mean I accept inferior quality in order to watch them and neither should you.