![]() Such promises are made but not kept here in a joyless mess without much music (Welcome to the Pleasuredome, anyone?), wit or style. Wonder Woman 1984 probably had 2020’s best poster, that jagged day-glo number, and the best trailer, cut to New Order’s Blue Monday. ![]() Everyone rushes to an Egypt casually painted with a racist brush for some punch-ups in the desert. Barbara also gets her wish to gain super-powers, while aspiring tycoon Max Lord (Pedro Pascal) does the same the power comes from one of the mysterious ancient stones that abound as plot-points with monotonous regularity in these films. Diana prefers to think of her dead lover Steve (Chris Pine) and gets her wish when he’s re-incarnated in the body of a passing stranger at a party. Diana Prince (Gadot) is working in the Smithsonian alongside a frowsy co-worker Barbara Ann Minerva (Kristen Wiig) who seems to have a gal-crush on her. Maybe this might have entertained on big screens on July 4 th 2020, but that train has well-and-truly flown and Jenkins’ misbegotten sequel now tastes like the thinnest of gruel.Ī plot summery is required. Parsimonious use of action scenes and green-screen effects so shoddy that look like they came from the 1970’s. A funny comedienne in Kristen Wiig completely missing the mark. A lot of kid-unfriendly waffle about oil. A lousy body-swap sex plotline that’s ethically disturbing. Chris Pine modelling terrible 80’s fashion. ![]() A pious lecture on why it’s best not to cheat. That wasn’t much of a spectacle, but Wonder Woman 1984 has even less essential viewing to offer. TBF, I was never enamoured by Wonder Woman in the way that everyone else seemed to be something of a slog, it builds to a non-event scrap between Gadot and David Thewlis, a scrawny British thespian who previously fought, and lost, a bout with an ironing board in Mike Leigh’s Naked. On the basis of Wonder Woman 1984, it’s hard to care. While director Patty Jenkins and star Gal Gadot are giddily reading from pre-pandemic scripts about more instalments and spin-offs, it’s uncertain whether this kind of blockbuster will be made at all in the future. At least Warner Brothers pulled half the billion worldwide box office expected with their release of Tenet Wonder Woman 1984 has pulled a miserable ten percent of the same projected box-office total. ‘Films roll out like potatoes’ as one commenter put it last week, movies just seem to be turning up in 2021, with no hoopla, no ads, no press access, and no vibe at all.
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