It s not perfect, but it delivers glorious nostalgic production design and a few take-your-breath-away moments
Author of the article: Chris Knight
Publishing date: Dec 22, 2020 • December 22, 2020 • 4 minute read • Fight and flight: Gal Gadot and Chris Pine star in Wonder Woman 1984. Photo by Warner Bros.
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Superman has his Kryptonite. Thor and Wolverine have been known to hit the sauce and let themselves go. But if 2020 proved one thing, it’s that just about every superhero is vulnerable to COVID-19. Except one.
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Afrer preview screenings in select cinemas on December 23, Wonder Woman 1984 opens in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day.
Barbara Ann Minerva was born on the pages of a comic book, but is writ large in the tradition of tough-talking, no-nonsense cinematic bad girls such as Kitty Collins in
The Killers, Laura Hunt in Laura and Betty Anderson in Peyton Place. The nemesis of the iconic heroine Wonder Woman and known as the Cheetah, Barbara Ann Minerva is the result of 1940s-era comic-book-grade pop psychology: the indulged childhood and split personality in deadly combination. Don’t you know me? the feline-skinned dark reflection asked of her, staring back in a somewhat hokey-in-hindsight broken mirror origin moment. I am the real you, the Cheetah, the treacherous, relentless huntress.
Review: Wonder Woman 1984 is an overstuffed sequel
Review: Wonder Woman 1984 is an overstuffed sequel
Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot reunite for a superhero sequel that buries its best elements underneath an incoherent storyline By Norman Wilner
Diana (Gal Gadot) and Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) enjoy the fireworks in Wonder Woman 1984.
WONDER WOMAN 1984 (Patty Jenkins). 149 minutes. Available to rent on digital platforms December 25. Rating:
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I was really rooting for Wonder Woman 1984 – or WW84, as the disco/neon title treatment would have it. After watching Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot bring the comic-book character of Princess Diana to vivid, compassionate life in 2017’s Wonder Woman, which broke Warner’s DC movie franchise out of its grimdark torpor, I was eager to see what the duo might accomplish without a nervous studio second-guessing their choices at every turn.
Wonder Woman 1984 would be going straight to HBO Max: Look, if you would have told me a year ago that that s gonna be the case, I would flip out and be super angry. But the truth of the matter is we just didn t have other better options, Gadot told
Digital Spy. We felt like we were sitting on this movie for such a long time, we shot the movie in 2018, we started promoting the movie in 2019, we pushed the movie four times. We felt like the movie was so relevant to what s happening in the world right now that you come to a place at a certain time where you re like, OK, I just want people to watch the movie.
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