TJ Greco

Here are the parts I enjoyed; the acting overall is very well done, the message about what we want vs what we are was powerful, and some of the visuals were rather well done. Here is the rest of what I thought; - overly heavy handed on the idea that men can be terrible (literally every man other than Steve is a pig) - it's been 67 years since Steve died and Diana is still so upset about it that SEEING PLANES MAKES HER MELANCHOLY - Diana seemed to need Steve in order to become any semblance of her true self or power, he needs to urge her to do the right the thing and give her up, multiple occassions she needs to rely on him for his help etc - movie lacks subtly in anything it tries to say or do - the cgi once again is absolutely miserable, the final battle scene takes place in the dark, and I don't understand how she bests the villain in the underwater scene it doesn't make any sort of sense - How did they not explore at all the HUGE moral issue of Steve taking over someone else's body? - finally the logistics of wish granting powers require so much more thought and nuance than this movie ever gives it. Overall a very disappointing follow up to a promising first installment. The movie feels like it simultaneously drags and doesn't spend enough time on any one thing. Finally, there is absolutely zero diversity in this movie with the exception of two female leads, they even make every effort to make pedro pascal look white, the entire movie I could not decide if his character was supposed to be white or it was a statement on how he would have had to try to look like that to get ahead, if it's the latter it is the only occasion of subtly in the movie and I therefore cannot be certain.