Wonder Woman
Get DCEU out from under!!
Yes! it’s about time. As far as I’m concern the tribunal over at DC is Batman Superman and Wonder Woman. So why did it take sooo long for this movie to finally get made when the other two have been rebooted three times over?
It’s the best movie in the DC Extended Universe too, but that’s not saying much, cause it’s really not that hard to beat Man of Steel, Batman v Superman or Suicide Squad.
It reminds me so much of Captain America: The first Avenger, even though they change Princess Diana’s point of origin from World War II to World War I, but same premise, The Great War forces the Amazons who have not been a part of Man’s world for centuries to get evolved and that came in the form of Princess Diana.
The best part of the film is the relationship between Gal Gadot and Christ Pine who plays Steve Trevor, the most important man in Wonder Woman’s life since the beginning. Diana coming to Man’s world with this bright eyed innocence of right and wrong, and Trevor’s awkwardness of trying to explain how man’s world works made for some fun scenes as well as some good drama. Done so right, it really makes up the heart of the movie.
The action scenes were pretty good. Sometimes a little too much CGI when trying to visual explain what Wonder Woman’s power structure is, but I really like what they were doing when she worked that magic lasso (Other than getting the truth from men). It was really cool.
The villains were good. Better than a lot of villains in these comic book movies, not better than Micheal Shannon as General Zod, but I really liked Dr. Poison and what they did with Aries.
I will say that there were points, like during the final battle that maybe it got too corny with the dialog about the hero’s journey and the villain’s evil speech.
But overall Wonder Woman is showing a step in the right direction for DC’s film franchise, far more true to the character out of the comic than I’ve seen them do in this extended universe, and Gal Gadot almost became my favorite Wonder Woman (I’m sorry you can’t beat Linda Carter in those satin tights but she only wins by a hair).
Check it out.
