By no means is it as good as the first film, but for me, that was going to be a practically impossible task given the crazy high expectations the original gave me, which is honestly still probably the best and most perfect superhero movie I've ever watched. Not that many superhero sequels manage to really outshine the original, and especially difficult when it's following up a movie as great as Wonder Woman was.
Unlike many mediocre or almost soulless sequels that try to play things safe and avoid risk to keep the money coming, WW84 doesn't try to just redo all of the things & beats of the original movie, but slightly different. It is a very different type of film than Wonder Woman is. It doesn't try to be the same thing.
The era informs the themes of the movie just as it did in the first one, but of course in very different ways. With its wonderfully outlandish plot, spectacles, flamboyant villain, vibrant colours and general feel of the film invokes both the style of the 1980's, and the Wonder Woman & other DC comics (and movies) of the time.
This is a clear superhero movie, taking its biggest influences from the more classic Wonder Woman comics and perfectly capturing that feel, giving us an experienced & seasoned, but tortured superhero in Diana, where 'Wonder Woman was a war movie and coming of age story taking much of its influence from modern Wonder Woman comics, and capturing that feel just as successfully as its successor.
Wonder Woman: 1984 continues the DCEU's recent trend of great superhero movies that are truly unafraid to be, for lack of a better term, real comic book films. They don't try to sanitize what they are and act like they're anything that they're not. They don't try to be dark & "grounded" in reality in order to be taken seriously. They are colourful, they're fun, they're...big, in all the right ways. They perfectly capture the feeling of reading the comic books.
These movies are supposed to be fantastical, mythical, something that inspires you and sparks your imagination. There's nothing wrong with actually being that, being a heightened fantasy version of the world we know, rather than being confined by the idea of "realism" which has limited DC films in the past.
Pedro Pascal gives a spectacular performance as Max Lord, over the top in all the right ways, and with a surprising amount of layers and sympathy. He is the epitome of the mentality of the 1980's, as well as it's cinematic & comic book villains
Unlike many mediocre or almost soulless sequels that try to play things safe and avoid risk to keep the money coming, WW84 doesn't try to just redo all of the things & beats of the original movie, but slightly different. It is a very different type of film than Wonder Woman is. It doesn't try to be the same thing.
The era informs the themes of the movie just as it did in the first one, but of course in very different ways. With its wonderfully outlandish plot, spectacles, flamboyant villain, vibrant colours and general feel of the film invokes both the style of the 1980's, and the Wonder Woman & other DC comics (and movies) of the time.
This is a clear superhero movie, taking its biggest influences from the more classic Wonder Woman comics and perfectly capturing that feel, giving us an experienced & seasoned, but tortured superhero in Diana, where 'Wonder Woman was a war movie and coming of age story taking much of its influence from modern Wonder Woman comics, and capturing that feel just as successfully as its successor.
Wonder Woman: 1984 continues the DCEU's recent trend of great superhero movies that are truly unafraid to be, for lack of a better term, real comic book films. They don't try to sanitize what they are and act like they're anything that they're not. They don't try to be dark & "grounded" in reality in order to be taken seriously. They are colourful, they're fun, they're...big, in all the right ways. They perfectly capture the feeling of reading the comic books.
These movies are supposed to be fantastical, mythical, something that inspires you and sparks your imagination. There's nothing wrong with actually being that, being a heightened fantasy version of the world we know, rather than being confined by the idea of "realism" which has limited DC films in the past.
Pedro Pascal gives a spectacular performance as Max Lord, over the top in all the right ways, and with a surprising amount of layers and sympathy. He is the epitome of the mentality of the 1980's, as well as it's cinematic & comic book villains
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