This marks the 24th appearance of the WW/Cap team...
Well, I saw Wonder Woman 1984,
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and like most, I was let down after the first movie was done so well. I've read reports that Patty Jenkins got rid of her co-writer from the first movie as well as replaced the effects and stunts crews, and it showed. The opening Amazon scene was fun and promising, but didn't really connect to the rest of the film at all. The mall fight was not well done, the effects and acting looked like something from an 80's kid's movie, not something just set in the 80's. Still, I should have savored it, since it was the last action scene or scene with WW in costume that there would be for another hour and 10 minutes! The movie definitely needed better editing, scenes went on too long and the sparse action was spaced too far apart. Cheetah was wasted, her character didn't need to be there for the plot and we have seen the same origin beats before for Riddler and Electro (not that they worked in those movies either). By the time (over 2 hours in) that she showed up in Cheetah form (we don't get to see the transformation) It feels like a movie obligation and the effects were dark, murky, and unimpressive. Diana's golden armor was built up to be amazing and then destroyed and discarded in moments, I guess that was all just to set up the mid credits cameo. There were parts I liked. All the acting was fine, I can't blame the performers for the script they were given. Yes, the learning to fly scene was lifted from Man of Steel, but I still enjoyed it. The invisible jet visuals were cool, although the scene as a whole was silly considering Steve could somehow fly a modern jet with his WWI skills and Diana made it invisible by rubbing her hands together like Mr. Miyagi from Karate Kid. Finally, why didn't Steve just reappear (Like the wall and other things) instead of hijacking some innocent dude's body and life? Neither Steve nor Diana seemed overly concerned with this violation, and indeed got intimate using the unwitting "handsome man's" (he didn't even get a name) body. Diana only undid the wish because she was losing her powers, not out of concern for her and Steve's victim. Highly unethical to say the least and I can't believe that plot point made it into the movie. As for the wishes, did everyone on Earth really make selfish wishes? Not one person wished for world peace or something? All that said, I still liked it better than Birds of Prey!
