Wonder Woman 1984 Movie Review

Wonder Woman 1984 Movie Review

Wonder Woman 1984.. So wonder! Woman 1984 is the sequel to the Patty Jenkins, directed Wonder Woman film from 2017..Once again, you have Patty Jenkins as the director in the driver's seat. You have Gal Gadot as wonder woman, chris pine and steve trevor. We have a new villain played by Pedro Pascal. We also have Kristen Wiig with the buildup of Cheetah. Bad things are coming to the earth in 1984 and events that will happen and transpire in which does anybody in the DCEU  remember these events. That is the question I find it interesting. We have Gal Gadot's, Wonder Woman. I mean this, isn't just her second movie. Being Wonder Woman either she's been Wonder Woman in one of the four movies right? Four. Fifth, if you include The Justice League Snyder Cut. I mean she's better in Wonder Woman 1984 than she was in the original Wonder Woman, she's, so good at Wonder Woman at this point she makes me feel bad for doubting her ever in Wonder Woman. In the original Wonder Woman there were a couple of emotional scenes. I was like, " It didn't really stick the landing with me as much as I imagined the movie wanted to". In Wonder. Woman 1984, There are a couple of emotional scenes and absolutely sticks the landing more also Steve Trevor and the Wonder Woman Steve Trevor Dynamic. Once again, Chris Pine is back as Steve Trevor and I was a little afraid. I thought it was going to be some of the same story lines   from the previous Wonder Woman movie.

 Wonder Woman was from Themyscira  and she comes to our world, she's, a fish out of water, Steve Trevor is  her guide. So it's fun to see her navigate our world, or at least our world as it was During World War I. But this fish had a water scenario they had. It worked because it's just a fun way to poke at the absurdities of us of humans. In Wonder, Woman 1984 now wonder woman's been in our world for decades. She's been here for a while. She knows how it operates, and now Steve Trevor is the fish out of water because he hasn't been around since World War I. I was afraid he was just going to feel old, but they do enough in this movie to keep it feeling new, because it's not really the same kind of eyes. Looking at the world, Wonder Woman wasn't from our world at all. She knew nothing of our human idiosyncrasies. It's A completely new experience for her, so it is different having someone who knows nothing about the world and someone who knew about the world decades ago - just isn't familiar with it now, but they saw where it was. It's kind of like that episode of Star Trek The Next Generation called "Relics" where Scotty  opens up the Dilithium Crystal Chamber. He's like don't you know that your dilithium crystals are going to fracture and Jordy's like we recomposite the crystals while they're still inside you know, so he knows about dilution crystals. He just doesn't understand how the technology has changed and evolved, whereas if you take someone from 1872 show them diluting crystals they're going to be like, “I know nothing about that”. 

So they had a new spin on that take they did from the first Wonder Woman, and it entertained me also Pedro Pascal, I thought Pedro Pascal was actually really good. I thought He was a really good comic book movie villain because he was different than what I thought he was going to be. I don't know what i expected from the guy. I don't know what I expected from the character, but his character interested me and the logistics surrounding the character, and why he's a threat? I found it really compelling because it's kind of unconventional, you know you don't just have okay, the super villain, who's, super powered and the superhero who's super powered and they fight. Because that's what superheroes and super villains do you have your toe-to-toe fight kind of like Lex Luthor and Superman, though Lex Luthor is much more intellectual than Pedro Pascal's character.  In this movie Pedro Pascal is much more emotional. It's much more interesting, much more fascinating! Much more complex has much more to tell about just people in general, humanity as a whole in a world where Wonder Woman can't just go, beat up Pedro Pascal's character, because she'll literally turn his head into silly putty if she tries to punch him in the face. I guess they felt they need a big physical fight at the end of this movie and that's where cheetah comes in, but it does feel like Cheetah was thrown into this movie just for that. 

Cheetah is played by Kristen Wiig and there are like three phases of Cheetah in this movie. You have Barbara who's super awkward. You know she's not confident, so you need someone with that comedic timing to deflect with jokes - and you know I thought she worked - I thought Kristen Wiig worked for that. Then she gets a lot more confidence in this movie. Again, Kristen Wiig works. For that she is Cheetah. I don't know I don't know because he didn't really get a good look at her. I didn't get a good look at Cheetah because the fight takes place at night and they did that because they're clearly doing that trick that hollywood's been doing for years, if not decades, to hide bad CGI. But in the end it was just this fight that happens at the end, for the sake of it happening and that's the reason she's in the movie. I really didn't feel the payoff with that, not at all so after that Cheetah monologue, I suppose we're swinging into things that didn't really land. For me. At the beginning of the movie, I thought it came across as a bit cheesy like the movie as a whole. I'm not talking the flashback scene of her when she's a little girl and she's in the mascara that I didn't need, because it didn't really link to anything. I think she repeats A phrase from there, so you can just have the phrase you don't need. Build-Up for a phrase I feel like it's because Rob and Ryan all the Amazonians. They were they're under contract to be in the movies or they were like all right. We got to fulfill that. Let's have him in the movie all right, a flashback at the beginning that really doesn't tie into anything, but no i'm talking about the mall throwdown. There was something about that mall throw down it. I felt like I was watching a comic book movie from 1984

 

You know that that kind of cheese has now come back to comic book moviesI guess - and maybe that was the intent. I just don't think it did anyone any favors. I don't think it did. The movie favors you could tell people were on strings. The fight looked a bit unnatural, I don't know just starting me off on the wrong foot for this movie. I was like okay. Well, I guess comic book movies have gone back to this. Some of the other effects also didn't seem too polished. I mean granted the last Wonder Woman movie kind of fell into that also, I don't know if they're going for continuity, but there's a scene where she's running after these trucks, whereas, like the cadence of your feet and your speed, it looks like you're floating and not in that. Oh she's, Wonder Woman. So she can do that kind of way, but more like well the CGI. It's it's really noticeable kind of way and the movie's a bit too long. It feels a bit too long, because there are a lot of elements in this movie that they're all churning together and the movie is what two and a half hours, or something like that. It didn't really need to be. It could have just been Maxwell Lord and for me that would have been enough, but now you had to build up cheetah for one fight to happen at the end of this movie and that's the sole reason that said the third act of Wonder Woman 1984 is a better third act than the original Wonder Woman movie, if you take Cheetah out of it like by and large the third act of this movie really did work for me.  Granted by the third act of this movie I was like, I've seen this in another movie. This is the third act of another jim carrey movie. They were like, but if we put Wonder Woman in there, why not? I don't know. I just couldn't help but think of it. I would be baffled if you don't hear that in nine out of ten reviews it actually has a good lesson, a good plea for humanity. It came across as a bit cheesy when it's hammering at home sure bit sappy, but what can i say? I'm a cheesy sappy human. So I guess it worked for me, but the first two acts of the previous wonder woman movie, I thought, were far superior than the first two acts of Wonder Woman 1984

 

That said, Ireally dig Gal Gadot and Chris Pines chemistry together. I really like the Wonder Woman Steve Trevor dynamic that kept it going for me. Also Pedro Pascal as Maxwell Lord. Those three characters keep this movie afloat. There's a great movie somewhere in here but It doesn't always shine through. I thought it was a good time. Have you already seen it? Did you enjoy it? Whatever you think comment below, let me know.

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