Just saw this incredible crapfest which is more montage than movie: The high points are the bad guy is played by an actor, Pablo Pascal, who can go from cheesy to sleazy to creepy and then incredibly sad.
The plot revolves around a wish-fulfillment crystal with a premise that could have been interesting if treated with respect, but nothing plotlike is respectable in this assembly of action and digital sequences which show no respect for inertia or gravity, like the earliest of the Batman movies where he could web swing with infinite speed and no sense of mass, here we have a golden lasso and it seems to be infinitely long and grab airliners except when it is too short coming off of a telephone pole and runs out.
Kristen Wiig is the other most talented person here, a comedian who can act, but her character has no solid basis, starting at comically inept and suddenly, due to the wish-fulfillment crystal, given some? all? of the powers of our heroine who she knows as Diana Prince, not Wonder Woman, but when she makes one wish she gets the whole package somehow. And then her awful lines. At one point she says "I want to be an apex predator!" And the movie apparently calls her CHEETAH. If you know anything about apex predators, cheetahs are NOT.
The best description of the movie in general is it starts over the top and goes on from there. If you are happy with that, go for it.
Gal Gadot has to do more acting in this sequel, and she fulfills the description "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." Chris Pine gets to be her re-animated lover from the first movie, who died then but is returned due to crystal wish action. Nevertheless the makeup job done on him makes him look like a creep. The chemistry between them is nonexistent, partly the writing and partly the acting.
There is some attention paid to show cars and some references from the 80s, but other than some confusing clothing references it simplifies life for the director and cinematographer to not have characters able to send communications via cellphones or internet. And what about all the great 80s music and top songs that could have been incorporated to give this some flavor. The orchestrated music was unimpressive, just the usual fast notes and crescendoes that go along with all the other repeatable 'action' movies. Otherwise, why this is set in the 80s seems to be as random as pretty much every other character and plotpoint in this, yes, I'm gonna say it again- CRAPFEST.
Kristen Wiig is the other most talented person here, a comedian who can act, but her character has no solid basis, starting at comically inept and suddenly, due to the wish-fulfillment crystal, given some? all? of the powers of our heroine who she knows as Diana Prince, not Wonder Woman, but when she makes one wish she gets the whole package somehow. And then her awful lines. At one point she says "I want to be an apex predator!" And the movie apparently calls her CHEETAH. If you know anything about apex predators, cheetahs are NOT.
The best description of the movie in general is it starts over the top and goes on from there. If you are happy with that, go for it.
Gal Gadot has to do more acting in this sequel, and she fulfills the description "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." Chris Pine gets to be her re-animated lover from the first movie, who died then but is returned due to crystal wish action. Nevertheless the makeup job done on him makes him look like a creep. The chemistry between them is nonexistent, partly the writing and partly the acting.
There is some attention paid to show cars and some references from the 80s, but other than some confusing clothing references it simplifies life for the director and cinematographer to not have characters able to send communications via cellphones or internet. And what about all the great 80s music and top songs that could have been incorporated to give this some flavor. The orchestrated music was unimpressive, just the usual fast notes and crescendoes that go along with all the other repeatable 'action' movies. Otherwise, why this is set in the 80s seems to be as random as pretty much every other character and plotpoint in this, yes, I'm gonna say it again- CRAPFEST.