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Spoilers will be in a cut and comments. I know lots of people won't have seen this. I paid a stupid amount of money to get HBO Max and see it. I resent that, but Wonder Woman is my first fandom and I imprinted heavily on it. I was beyond excited that she'd come back on the big screen and while the first movie was far from perfect it was pretty good and had a lot of promise. This one misses the mark in almost every way. The cast are doing their best, but the script is just not good. It's incoherent on almost every level, heavy-handed, and requires very generous interpretation of what Jenkins is trying to do. (2/5 *wince* but I seriously would pay money to watch Gal Godot read a phone book so there you go.)
I credit Jenkins for trying to tread a new path. Right now our superhero movies are deeply divided between the wisecracking lightheartedness of the MCU, and the Deep Serious OMG DAAAARK of the Batman/Superman/Snyderverse. Wonder Woman is neither of these and I think Jenkins is trying to give us a flawed hero. Diana is a hero we can all admire, who inspires the best in us, but at the same time has her own deficiencies and struggles. Both the Marvel and DC television series have done a much better job of exploring heroes with flaws and nuance than the movies.
Beyond that, though, I lay the blame for this movie's failure on Jenkins. She's trying to be writer and director and producer and maybe that's too much for one human. I'd like to see a third movie with a new writer to love this character the way I think she should be loved. (*)
So rather than a celebration of a beloved character, we get a movie that is trying to be a morality play and is so heavy-handed it entirely loses track of sense. A lot of it is unnecessary and there's at least one creepy bit I need to tuck into the spoilers...
( On with the spoiler stuff )
(*) WB has said there will be a WW3 but Jenkins isn't signed because she's doing the Rogue Squadron Star Wars film. I'm afraid this film is going to be considered a bomb and Jenkins won't be brought back.
I credit Jenkins for trying to tread a new path. Right now our superhero movies are deeply divided between the wisecracking lightheartedness of the MCU, and the Deep Serious OMG DAAAARK of the Batman/Superman/Snyderverse. Wonder Woman is neither of these and I think Jenkins is trying to give us a flawed hero. Diana is a hero we can all admire, who inspires the best in us, but at the same time has her own deficiencies and struggles. Both the Marvel and DC television series have done a much better job of exploring heroes with flaws and nuance than the movies.
Beyond that, though, I lay the blame for this movie's failure on Jenkins. She's trying to be writer and director and producer and maybe that's too much for one human. I'd like to see a third movie with a new writer to love this character the way I think she should be loved. (*)
So rather than a celebration of a beloved character, we get a movie that is trying to be a morality play and is so heavy-handed it entirely loses track of sense. A lot of it is unnecessary and there's at least one creepy bit I need to tuck into the spoilers...
( On with the spoiler stuff )
(*) WB has said there will be a WW3 but Jenkins isn't signed because she's doing the Rogue Squadron Star Wars film. I'm afraid this film is going to be considered a bomb and Jenkins won't be brought back.
