Andy Brimhall

Okay that movie is the very definition of bad writing being carried by mediocre acting in many areas. I don’t think reviews are honest anymore— this just wasn’t a great movie. Some of the lighting on the non cgi scenes is breathtaking like the Washington monument walk Diana and Steve share. Gal does fine with Wonder Woman despite being a bit preachy. I don’t like it when Superman gets that way in his movie and I don’t like it here. Show don’t tell could be the maxim that should have taken the place of all the preachiness. I think Pine and Wiig are okay with Wiig excelling in some areas like the quirky nobody likes me beginning girl. I loved the message of the first movie because it was a deliberate attack and criticism of both the far lefts and the misogynist-far-right’s view of feminism. Diana was a strong and uniquely powerful woman who didn’t hate men and found that she actually needed a man to complete the ultimate urgings of her heart (love and belonging). Steve was the epitome of strong and positive masculinity knowing when and where he was inferior to Diana and working to fill in her weaknesses. They were an inspiring team in that movie. Diana was the hero, but couldn’t save the world without her man flying & sacrificing himself. This movie takes that honorable man trope and destroys it. Steve (Chris Pine) is a hollow shell of the bravery of his former self and most of the time is extremely campy and cartoony. Every other man in the movie besides Steve was a terrible & sexist man. If the director had set the tone of innate male sexism with the first movie I wouldn’t even care to mention it now with the second film. But it’s because she set the tone that way that it feels out of place here in 84. Additionally, I sat there the entire time thinking Steve might be a horrible person as well in overtaking the consciousness of a slightly overweight and uglier man in order to return to Diana. But the movie didn’t explore that moral conundrum at all which was odd and which left me feeling confused. The worst part of the movie was the villain or villains hands down. I’m tired of stupid-bad CGI nighttime battles like the one we saw with Cheetah at the end. The audience has no way of understanding what else was given to Barbara when she asked Maxwell in the helicopter to be number one. What did that add to her fighting abilities that we didn’t see in the White House scenes? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a villain as lazily portrayed as Maxwell Lord was in this film. He didn’t even do Trump right if that’s what they were going for. His motivations were mind-numbing and convoluted and stupid and he’s defeated by a social-justice warrior style megaphone rant by Diana or in this case lasso of truth doing... the needed expositional thing the lasso always does. It would have been cooler for people to not have renounced their wishes because that would have been the TRUTH about the human condition. Humans are entirely flawed and we all have both screwed up & good wishes that we are determined to get no matter what the cost. What about all those people who wished to overcome depression or see their father dying of cancer get well? What would make those people renounce their wish? But none of that is explored at all and all that nuance dies in the same way the villain flies back to see his son and start over: namely, it dies in the lamest possible way. I believe you will have one overarching wish of your own after seeing this movie: that you had saved the money and time and not seen it.