Wonder Woman 2017

Wonder Woman Review Home Video - 2017

Released June 2, 2017. Directed by Patty Jenkins - starring Gal Gadot and Chris Pine

The Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins' Wonder Woman is now out on home video, and the film suffers a bit from reduction of the CGI work to a smaller format. This is not unusual with hero films from DC and Marvel, their fare is designed for the megaplax screen and not tiny hand-held devices or even living rooms where no tickets are sold. But Jenkins' preponderance of shots with closeups of the faces of Gal Gadot and Chris Pine compensates for the tiny details lost on smaller screens.

Jenkins' story line doesn't try anything fancy or attempt any end-runs around plot structure (like Suicide Squad) but just plows ahead, step-by-step, clearly telling how the virtuous and noble Diana Prince goes from inhabitant of Themyscira island, gets drawn into "man's world" where it is World War One, and with Chris Pine (Steve Trevor) as guide, comes to defeat both German soldiers and a threat from the old world of ancient Greek gods.

Part of the film's fun is having the literal and flawless Diana (she is something of a Christ figure in the tale, innocent and pure and bred as a sacrifice) touring through human society and encountering the good (ice cream and babies) and the bad (mainly duplicity, war itself doesn't seem to bother her that much). We see that duplicity can cut both ways though (on her home island a core teaching given to her turns out to be not entirely accurate, and places her into extreme danger), she also discovers the too often craven behavior of humanity also has a heroic side.

Chris Pine and Galdot work together in a warm, funny way, and though the romance is more or less predictable, the ability of the duo to give it a slight screwball comedy edge is an added dimension. Director Jenkins has Pine and Gadot deftly modulate back and forth from the lightness into the drama, and on the whole the movie is probably DC's best packaged superhero film since Chris Nolan retired out of making Dark Knight movies.

The stunt work from the whole cast of Wonder Woman is first rate, though if you don't care for slo-mo there is tediousness. But the Amazon battle against German troops starts the film off with a compact epic sense of war, and this continues with later battlefield scenes with trench fighting and eventually, the big battle against the supervillain.

David Thewlis (Sir Patric) is very good, as is Elena Anaya as Dr. Maru, and one wishes the script had given them both more time (and more depth for Anaya's role).

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Original Page Dec 2016 | Updated June 22, 2017

Wonder Woman 2017

Wonder Woman Review Home Video - 2017

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