Cathy Lee Crosby TV Movie-1974 Much like the original Kristy Swanson Buffy movie, Lucy Lawless' various roles in Hercules before she played Xena or Airwolf without Hawke and Dom this is pretty much a curiosity. It doesn't feel like real Wonder Woman, she lacks powers and all the accoutrement's we've come to expect from the character over the years. We have Steve Trevor but he's pretty forgettable and isn't given much to do. He's aware she's WW and aids her in her mission from afar. Ricardo Montalban is good as the villain (KHHHAAANNNNN!) and looks like he's getting ready for his role on fantasy island (wouldn't it be great if this was the role that got him the part?). Quite bloodthirsty, 2 characters are shot off screen and one man drowned. Cathy Lee Crosby is lovely but she doesn't really provide much cheesecake factor, her wardrobe really not helping at all. One interesting element is the existence of the evil amazon who challenges her, you'd have liked to have seen that in the later Lynda Carter series. Interestingly the character of Calvin asks to make love to WW, a sexual ref not featured in the later series. One of Steve's colleagues leers over her too in borderline Mad Men style office sexual harassment.We do see WW in costume ride a motorbike as Lynda Carter will later do. Really this is WW as a secret agent much like The Avengers (UK style, John Steed&co rather than Marvel) and The Girl from Uncle and not as a super heroine at all. It really doesn't work, it's WW written from a 70s feminist viewpoint and that just won't do, the genius of the character is that she is strong, intelligent and the match/better of any man whilst still retaining her ultra-feminine identity, she loves being a woman and doesn't try to act more masculine. It's interesting to compare this to Charlies Angels which had a similar premise but kept the glamour.
Really 2/10, you only watch this for completeness sake
Really 2/10, you only watch this for completeness sake