Having Steve back, by the way, means the audience gets to see all his reactions to all the “amazing” advancements over the last six decades, including parachute pants.Ī highlight of the movie, although really an unnecessary sequence, is the wonderful 11-mionute prologue in which young Diana competes against adult Amazons in a multi-part race. The third and most endearing is between Diana and Steve, and the growing understanding that she will eventually have to renounce her wish, as Steve’s presence has meant she is losing some of her strength. That relationship seems merely to serve to humanize Lord. There is the strained, but loving relationship between Lord and his young son, whom he only occasionally has custody of. One is the friendship between Barbara and Diana, who basically has stayed by herself since Steve’s death back in 1917. There are three central relationships here. Diana’s surprise is much sweeter, as her dead boyfriend is back in another man’s body, only she and the audience see him played by Pine. Barbara gets more than she wished for because being like Diana means she also has Wonder Woman’s strength, and her interactions and even protection of Lord lead to her transformation into Cheetah and a swinging-through-the-air showdown with Diana.
Barbara’s is that she could be more like Diana, whose composure and popularity she admires, while Diana wishes for her long-lost, deceased love, pilot Steve. While they handle the stone, Barbara and Diana both inadvertently make wishes that come true. Barbara is given the stone to study, but Lord charms her into letting him have it and his plans towards ultimate power commence. Klutzy Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig of “Bridesmaids”) is new at the Smithsonian, where Diana has been hiding out, with occasional Wonder Woman rescues on the side (think early Superman). The jewelry store in the mail ran a behind-the-scenes black market in antiquities, one of which was the citrine, which is then turned over to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. However, once Lord has his hands on the citrine or dream stone, he is able to make all his dreams come true, and then the dreams of others, with him taking some of their wealth in return for granting their wish. via an everywhere infomercial, but it really is a Ponzi scheme, as all the oil well sites he has bought have come up empty.
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Lord starts as a TV pitchman for his Black Gold Corp. The mall scene in which Wonder Woman does a lot of lasso work to thwart some jewelry store robbers is a lot of fun, but it also is one of several instances of the film’s excess. That greed and avarice is portrayed in a fun way in the recreation of a three-story mall – with all 65 stores totally decked out – and more centrally in the character of Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal of Disney’s “The Mandalorian”), who steals an ancient dream stone and then makes his one wish that he become the dream stone to others. Directed once again by co-writer Patty Jenkins (2017’s “Wonder Woman”) and once more starring the luminous Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/ Wonder Woman, the film is set in the middle of Ronald Regan-era heightened consumerism, but yields the cautionary thought that life is good as it is and not all of one’s wishes need to be fulfilled.
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There are things to like in “WW84,” especially the prologue and the return of Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, but the movie is seriously overstuffed and could have done without the Cheetah subplot entirely. Wonder Woman 1984 (Warner Bros., 4K + Blu-ray or Blu-ray + DVD, PG-13, 151 min.).
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