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No, really. Imagine you're Patty Jenkins. After Wonder Woman you're considered the saviour of the DCEU because you've made a movie which was able to delight critics and audience. You're offered $200 million, Hans Zimmer and no constraints to do whatever you want. What will happen next? Are you going to make a good sequel, with a good script and a good soundtrack? Are you going to honour the character and respect the fans? Are you going to make a pleasing work?
PLOT
"Diana must contend with a work colleague and businessman, whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing" or "The most generic and boring plot you can think of".
SCRIPT
That's atrocious. First, the setting doesn't make sense. She said that she left mankind before returning for Batman v Superman and now, she is saving lives in 1984. The character doesn't make sense and are not compelling. Diana Prince is just a shell who do things but doesn't learn a lot. Considering the fact that the first scene set up a certain theme, which is the one of honesty, the movie totally ignores it in favour of "be careful what you wish for", which is generic and overdone. The concept of The Monkey's Paw exist since 1902 and it has been done better by The Twilight Zone and others. The dream stone, which is the movie's McGuffin, doesn't make sense because its rules aren't consistent. The fact that the main villain wish to become it is so dumb. The fact that it works by touching and the villain, when is the dream stone, thinks that you can touch people with TV broadcasting is beyond retarded. The villain has weak motivations because it's just another guy who wants to be powerful. One could say that is doing it for his son, to look better with him, but doesn't make sense, because his son already loves him. The other villain is built on sand. Barbara Minerva is a cool character in the comics but here is reduced to a blur. At first he's the stereotype of the dorky, clever and naive girl. Everyone, besides Diana, mistreat her, with no reason. She wish to be like Diana and her arch goes on a crazy, non sensical change. I don't know why a kind person should become that wicked just because she's becoming more powerful day by day. Also, she gets more attractive by removing the glasses and changing clothes, a cliche so bad I wanted to stop the movie there. She's also used to make a bad social commentary about sexual harassment. The point is that all the men in the movie are creeps, dumb or crazy. I understand that the #MeToo movement is still there but there's no need to make your movie about politics. At least, if you want to do it, just try to make it subtle. Great, both villains sucks.
Wonder Woman, as I said before, doesn't follow a coherent path with a clear theme, but it isn't just about that. Her first action scene is extremely cheesy and the tone contrants with the rest of the movie. It isn't able to decide between being a drama and a comedy. Diana's wish is selfish and is executed in a disturbed, twisted way. A man is being possesed by the soul of Steve and he's unaware of that. Only Diana sees him as Steve. Everyone would freak out in a situation like that, both Steve and Diana should do it. Nope, the first thing wich they do is having sex. Diana has sex with a stranger who isn't condescending. Steve is the most useless character in the movie because he's used as a blatant comic relief and he has abilities out of nothing. Some his jokes are so bad you'll cringe so hard.
The protagonist powers are inconsistent. Most of them are made out of thin air. Without considering the fact that she loses her powers due to her wish, there're a lot of abilities which come out of nowhere. I'm going to enumerate them now: flying, making object invisible(bland fan service), riding ligthnings with a lasso, showing the truth with the lasso of truth which has different powers in the first movie. Also, these aren't showcased a lot because most of the movie is devoted to walking, talking and boring exposition.
The climax is one of the worst. She saves the world by saying that everyone has to renounce his wish because it's bad. Just like that. But, if someone desired something good, why should he or she would be willing to give it up for a stranger? Also, after that no one remember what happened, not even the man who was possesed by Steve's soul.
The ending is the cherry on top of this huge crap. It ends like every comedy set during christmas with a cameo of the original Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter.
The last flaw, which plunge the script in the mud, is the awful dialogues. I won't say more, because I've said enough about this abomination.
Script: 1/10
ACTING
Gal Gadot does a mediocre job as Wonder Woman and sometimes it's just bad. The other actors are ok. Pedro Pascal is the best one and he's having the time of his life, by exaggerating is performance, aware of the movie's level. I didn't like the acting in the first scene in the mall because it's not good and the robbers seem to not care about it. I've expected more.
Acting: 5/10
PHOTOGRAPHY
It's just acceptabe because nothing meaningful is done with it. There aren't interesting shots or stuff like that. It's plain and basic. It's strange because the movies set in the 80's tend to be more colourful and visually pleasing, like Guardians of the Galaxy.
Photography: 5/10
EDITING
As photography, there's nothing exceptional about it. Sometimes it's worse like the voice of Steve who says that he loves Diana but is a bad voice over. This what makes the movie an under average mess.
Editing: 5/10
SPECIAL EFFECTS
God. The green screen is so noticeable and the cgi is bad. Cheetah vfx are revolting, which remembered me another awful movie like Cats. The makeup is ok but I didn't find it interesting. Overall the special effects are pretty bad considering the budget of the movie.
Special Effects: 4/10
SOUNDTRACK
I can't believe that Hans Zimmer prefered to do this instead of Tenet, it's hard to think about it. Anyway, he does a good job for the first and second act, with something that's slightly under his usual level. The last act and the climax are a trainwreck because two tracks of other movies were used in scenes, one of Sunshine and the other of Batman v Superman. Saying that's weird and uneasy is an euphemism. Zimmer has disappointed me, for the fist time.
Soundtrack: 5/10
COSTUMES
I liked the winged costume of Diana and is usual outfit works as well. The other characters are clothed with costumes that match the period. The fact that these've been used to underline the change in Barbara's character is acceptable but it's a cliche. The some could be said for Steve, who is involved in an outfit tryout intended to make us laugh, which is terribly lame. This is the only decent section here.
Costumes: 6/10
CONCLUSION
Script: 1/10
Acting: 5/10
Photography: 5/10
Editing: 5/10
Special Effects: 4/10
Soundtrack: 5/10
Costumes: 6/10
AVERAGE: 4,42
This movie is a trash one and it isn't even a "so bad it's good" because it's tedious and dumb. Only the costumes are worth the watch, which says a lot about the quality of the motion picture. If you want to see it, don't. If you want to delete it from your memory, do it now. This is, maybe, the worst superhero movie ever produced. Time will tell if Holywood could do worst than that.
Director: Patty Jenkins
Screenplay: Patty Jenkins, Geoff Johns
Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen
Soundtrack: Hans Zimmer
Cinematography: Matthew Jensen
Running Time: 151 minutes
Budget: $200 million
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Warner Bros, 2020
Direção: Patty Jenkins
Nota: 6.5/10
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O longa acompanha Diana na busca de descobrir a origem e recuperar um artefato misterioso capaz de conceder qualquer desejo, antes que o mesmo caia em mãos erradas e gere consequências catastróficas.
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Um dos pontos mais positivos do filme ao meu ver foram a ambientação, a fotografia e o figurino. O longa possui cores bem vivas com destaque para tons como vermelho e dourado, trazendo para a tela a essência e a grande extravagância charmosa que marcou a década de 1980. Visualmente é com certeza um espetáculo!
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No entanto, o filme peca principalmente em seu roteiro, entregando uma trama meio "sessão da tarde", se afastando da atmosfera sombria do anterior. Uma premissa genérica, com furos que comprometem o desenvolvimento dos personagens.
Aqui temos uma Diana mais evoluída e inteligente que a do longa anterior. No quesito elenco, Gal Gadot e Pedro Pascal (apesar do personagem de vilão esteriotipado de desenho animado), possuem um bom desempenho do que lhes é proposto para seus personagens, mas é Kristen Wiig de fato o ponto forte! Ela nos traz uma personagem de início cômica e caricata, mas com uma evolução considerável e uma antagonista convincente. Porém, o roteiro pisou feio na minha visão ao alterar a origem macabra dos dons da vilã Barbara Minerva para novamente uma construção mais family friendly.
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Embora um desenrolar meio arrastado e alguns efeitos visuais questionáveis, o filme possui algumas boas cenas de ação, e um desfecho consegue passar sua mensagem de forma razoavelmente boa, mas sem a emoção e a carga dramática e trágica presentes no primeiro filme.
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No máximo é um filme bom, mas não atende às expectativas do hype que criou.
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