Review of Wonder Woman (2017) by Themetacritiqer — 02 Jun 2017

Interesting how things change. Here I am giving a pretty big deal movie, Wonder Woman, that I was counting on being really good or amazing, a 6. She's a women. It's in your face, but I found the real star of the season bearing the XX chromosome to be Katherine Awesome Waterston of Alien.

This doesn't mean I found Diane to be weak or too stoic. Her reactions to our early modern world were pretty cute and funny. Chris Pine is perfectly cast(turns out "casted is not right) and doesn't feel like a re-tread of Kirk.

Those two make for a great definition of actor chemistry(Even if super cute Carey Mulligan doesn't believe in that) Take the infectious comedy of the first half and the tower-smashing action scene and this is a really good satisfying movie.

But the final battle doesn't come close to the unbelievably amazing Doomsday fight of Batman and Superman. Ares's old British persona doesn't work for me as an adversary. And when he carves out the openings of his helmet in a disconcertingly generic fantasy armor, it's done out of reverence(I was going to say "preference")to his old Zeus battling days rather than out of necessity.

Plus floating in the air with telekinetic powers doesn't add up to rough and emotional combat. This, along with it's flurries to a triumphant and pg-13 seen-it-a-million-times tone,comedy dragging the tension down, and stupidly elbow-leaning(that's what I did when I was let down; you know, leaning your elbow on the cup holder, fist to cheek? I was gonna say cringe-inducing but that's regulated to any broadcasted, video game focused event i.

E.game awards) Greek mythological back-story do a effective job of dragging the movie down. This all seems very Marvel inspired and I'd be curious as to how the re-shuffling of Warner bro's DC executives might've added to this, but it is likely those parts were already in place before the awful reception of Bat&Sup.

While I do feel positive about a good deal of this movie, it's shortcomings leave me with a bad taste in my mouth(unlike that vanilla ice cream) and drag down down my regards for the DC movie universe.

But hopefully not enough to stop me from enjoying my 3rd re-watch of the standout title.Lets hope Wonder Woman's different way of doing things doesn't continue with Justice League. But maybe I should've seen this coming.

After all, this wasn't directed by Zack Snyder, managing only the role as producer and story writer(apparently their's a difference between being a writer and doing the story). This makes me feel a little bit better about the state of Justice League.

Indeed, with the truck and the out of character happy message;(I got a giggle out of seeing a super heroine use something as familiar as gmail)I miss Batman. Now for Pirates of The(seeing it to hear the music)Caribbean.