Screenplay:
Mairghread ScottComposer:
Frederik WiedmannCast:
Marie Avgeropoulos, Rosario Dawson, Nia Vardalos, Mozhan Marnò, Jeffrey Donovan, Constance Zimmer, Michael Dorn, Adrienne C. Moore, Courtenay Taylor (more)Plots(1)
When Amazon princess Diana of Themyscira chooses to save fighter pilot Steve Trevor, it's a choice that will change her world and ours. Fulfilling the role of both ambassador as well as protector, Diana earns the name Wonder Woman from the gracious people of Earth. But her heart is as strong as her will as she is determined to help a troubled and embittered young girl whom has fallen in with a deadly organization known only as Villainy, Inc! Get ready for an exciting adventure packed with brutal battles, myth and wonder! (Warner Bros. UK)
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We’ve been waiting for a decade for another solo cartoon with Wonder Woman. Thus far, a lot of other material has come out - team-ups, other characters, old stuff, new stuff... And when it's finally Diana's turn, we have to think about the original again? That’s really challenging. The cover promises something new, Silver Swan, that would be good and truly enough as a main theme. Yet in Bloodlines, we also have Cheetah, Giganta, Cyber, Poison, Medusa, Veronica Cale, as well as Etta Candy and Steve Trevor. There are so many characters, and Mairghread Scott's youthful script is ambitious, but it's more like source material for a series. The psychology of the characters is new, and the distribution of forces is different than we would expect. Humor and love are championed by Steve, Candy is black, a lesbian, and has multi-skills for a change, but she lacks wit. Diana comes across as a confused teenager, and her relationship with her mother played out according to CW rules and not DC rules. Some of the changes are good. Themyscira is full of modern technology, but I didn't notice many other such shifts. It's not clear how long of a time period the film depicts. Some parts reference Perez, almost nothing is Marston-like, and maybe Rucka was key. In places, whole scenes seem to be missing from the linear plot. So why the high rating? The movies in this DC franchise have always been much more of an advertisement for the comics than anything else, and if the casual viewer is excited by even one of the elements depicted, it's a win-win. As a whole, Bloodlines doesn't bear much criticism; for the seasoned reader, it's more of an addition to the collection, a tolerable element of the whole wonderful world that comics and other media around Wonder Woman can be and often are. It took a very long time before we saw any films at all. The live-action is excellent, the classic live-action series is beautiful nostalgia, so currently, it would take one proper animated series more than anything else. For adults.
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