![]() ![]() ![]() Both of them get what they wish for but much like the Monkey’s Paw, it comes at a heavy price.īut the one most desirous of the rock is Pedro Pascal’s slimy, loser businessman, Max Lord. Diana, who has still not moved on from the death of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), wishes him to come back and Barbara wishes to be ‘strong, sexy and cool’ like her new friend. But even in a premise that has already established Diana as a goddess among men, the magical rock still manages to look too stupid not to roll your eyes at. Together, they chance upon an ancient rock that promises to make anyone’s wishes come true. The lessons and the ideals crop up again in her life, more than 60 years after she enters the human world.Īt work (the cover-up kind), Diana makes friends with the clumsy and awkward Dr Barbara Minerva, played by Kirsten Wiig. Lying will get you nothing and the truth shall always emerge as victorious. A young Diana, in a shorter, more Amazonian version of the Ironman Triathlon, learns that there is no honour in taking the short path to what you desire. With a needlessly long, flashback opening sequence set in Diana’s homeland Themyscira, director Patty Jenkins establishes the moral lesson she will give us this time. The music, specially the opening Themyscira theme, is more likely to transport you to the Shire and leave you there. Try as hard as I might, I cannot recall hearing a single beat of synth in Hans Zimmer’s gargartuan music, as we were so vehemently promised in the trailer, a year ago. Other than on the fashion, there is very little influence that the 1980s have had on WW84. Diana Prince has assumed her position at the Smithsonian and has been spending her weekends saving joggers in pink tights from getting run over and local malls from getting robbed. WW84, a follow up to 2017’s Wonder Woman, which I still dub the best DCEU film to exist, leaves World War I and German trenches to land in Washington DC of 1984. Wonder Woman, among the few actually interesting DC icons, had the good luck to find someone as perfect as Gal Gadot to wear the cuffs, yet even she could just barely save a largely soulless, wonderless film. But somehow, neither is explored to their full potential. Judging from the title, there are two things that should have been the focus of Wonder Woman 1984: the Amazonian goddess and the ‘80’s nostalgia that the film most likely wanted to cash on. Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Pedro Pascal, Kirsten Wiig and others Wonder Woman 1984 movie review:The sequel lacks the soul of the wondrous first film.
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