The movie is at its strongest in the first act. Look at these amazing pics of the amazons on set of #WonderWoman OMG /02csVQslHL The charisma of the cast outshines the clunkiness of Allan Heinberg’s script, which manages to feel overstuffed with big ideas, yet thinly plotted at the same time. Director Patty Jenkins’ eye for movement and bold dismissal of the male gaze fashions a visually and emotionally engaging movie. It’s a disservice to say Wonder Woman is only a serviceable movie in comparison to the rest of the DC Extended Universe. After a Thursday preview showing in Real 3D, Friday standard showing and a boozy Saturday matinee I gotta put on my big girl knickers and accept the Wonder Woman adaptation we’ve been waiting for is at best, okay. ![]() That burning desire for this to be THE moment for women-centered superhero films maybe why it pained me to admit that Wonder Woman was just “aight.” I’m not trying to Bell Hooks all up in your Lemonade, but nostalgia and reverence for the cultural importance of a character don’t erase obvious flaws in its movie adaptation. When you’ve been told your entire life that Wonder Woman wasn’t worth her own film despite achieving global cultural importance you want to love all 141 minutes she’s on the big screen. Her fans have been yearning for a Wonder Woman movie for 76 years. A fair review’s hard to form when expectations have been building since you were a toddler. It seems so simple, but it took more time to come to terms with my opinion of 2017’s Wonder Woman than I expected. A terrible Wonder Woman movie would be based on anything Frank Miller wrote with her. A good Wonder Woman film would, at the very least, portray her as an antithesis of toxic masculinity as her creator, psychologist William Moulton Marston, intended. The character of Wonder Woman been a symbol of feminism, pacifism, Queer womanhood and controversy.Ī GREAT Wonder Woman movie would convey all that she is while also being a well-crafted film. Throughout the ages, she’s been everything from a mortal martial arts master to a demi-goddess and for a short spell the Goddess of Truth. ![]() Not the first superheroine but she’s been the First Lady of comics since 1941. Few heroes have as many pages to draw from as Diana, Princess of Themyscira, Daughter of Hippolyta, aka Wonder Woman. My litmus test for a good superhero flick is its ability to express the essence of its hero and the world found in the pages of their comics. I’m an old hat at reviewing superhero movies. Holy Heck, How do you review a film like Wonder Woman?
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