... can't wait for my DC friend to tell me the reviewers don't understand regular people and that's why the movie has bad reviews . The opening scene was too long. Since I enjoyed the first film so much, writing this review is not a happy task for me. It’s one of the more “iconic” Wonder Woman scenes from the comics, and it’s a pile of 90s/early 2000’s grimdark junk. However, these small stumbles are almost all but forgiven just for how this DC Comics sequel succeeds overwhelmingly in that most superheroic of endeavours: To inspire and bring joy. Here’s Why That’s Important. There’s not much action and mostly they spend time kvetching about their problems and failing at heroing and it’s amazing. One other note: as has been pointed out elsewhere, Gal Gadot achieved some notoriety (and not in a good way) for vocally supporting a missile strike some years ago that killed 4 young Arab boys on a beach. (Hopefully the nature of his price was in line with the triviality of his wish?). How many reboots of Spiderman/Superman/Batman/The Hulk does the world need? What happened? —The Mary Sue has a strict comment policy that forbids, but is not limited to, personal insults toward anyone, hate speech, and trolling.—, Have a tip we should know? Trying to save everyone or not hurt anyone. Marvel to DC, Star Wars to Star Trek, Netflix to Hulu, Call of Duty to Metal Gear Solid and everything in between, our hosts geek out over the latest news and releases in the world of pop culture. Captain America was the better of the two films, but I think you’re right that studio interference was responsible for many of the flaws in the first WW movie. • 2 months ago Can we talk about how bad all the web-slinging, I mean lasso flinging looked? I hope I like the next one. WW84 features an end credits scene that ties up the Asteria loose end. He’s not really responsible for anything bad that happened if technically nothing actually happened, right? Posted on January 4, 2021 Why are so many of them being dangled off mall balconies or playing in the streets when she’s around? I think there’s an analogy here to junk food. Somehow though, I still had fun watching. Give me a break. Many superhero movies suffer from having to give a villain an origin story. It didn’t convince me. It was like whenever the filmmakers needed an extra beat — let’s have her save children! I’ll have to examine my own reasons for liking it. They made up a president? !” moments in this movie that I ended up feeling completely insulted. 4. 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She sure hasn’t made it her life’s work to find Someone, Anyone, Who Can Make Me Feel That Way Again. However i believe that wasn’t actually necessary. The fact that I can say so much about the meaning and message of WW84 is a testament to how much the film has on its mind. And the non-consensual not-Steve Trevor storyline… Look, I really liked the romance that was built up in the first movie. I still don't know what made me watch BoP but I did and it reminds me a lot of WW84. Give it a try. How did you have Fake!Reagan on and NOT make a satirical point about senility/jellybeans/propaganda? I know that sounds weird, but: how many times did she have to swoop in with her lasso and grab children who were in danger? The point of a limit/constraint is to create tension, move the plot along, or allow you to explore a concept. Am I the only one who noticed that Cheetah did not revoke her wish to “be like Diana?” She lost the “apex predator” aspect that Max endowed her with in the last act, but she was still the overclocked badass selfish bitch at the end, it looked like. She did her thing, did it well, and when the problems started, she dealt with them. I think she was a bit too nice to this piece of unrecyclable refuse. We see a cloaked figure who seems to be Diana walking through the street … We enjoy it while we’re eating it, then afterwards we live with the “meh” taste in our mouths, the insulin spike, the guilt or (when you get to Father Scalzi’s age) the impact on waistline and cholesterol. This travesty is three giant leaps back. Third act of the movie was good. In the movie, the gold armor is revealed to be Asteria’s, a legendary Amazon warrior. But where is the justice regarding Max Lord? Okay? Another year of Whatever and you may not need college anymore. I like my comic movies fun-ridiculous, not annoying-ridiculous. Maybe this only made sense to people who grew up in the 80s, but Maxwell Lord seemed like a great personification of corporate greed and malfeasance of the 80s. The wish-stone power is literally given by a god, and it does all sorts of impossible things like thrust up a huge wall in the middle of the desert.