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So I finally got to see the Wonder Woman animated movie. I went to Wal-Mart twice to get it, and the first time nobody had any clue where it was, the second time the clerk brought me over to the bottom-right corner of a display booth, about an inch from the floor, and there was half a dozen copies hiding behind "Smallville" season 2-6.
But now I have seen it, and I saw a bit of the audio commentary, which had a few incredibly interesting facts. Did you know the reason why they had Diana throw the tiara so much is because Lauren Montgomery was a fan of it from Sailor Moon? But the reason Takeuchi included the tiara throw in Sailor Moon was because she was such a fan of it from Wonder Woman! Circles upon circles, people!
The animation and art style was frigging beautiful. Diana actually looked Greek, which is awesome, and her fight scenes were really great.
The Diana in that movie was ... slightly interesting. Artemis was really neat, though, and I'm saying this as a human being who also hates the whole "Strong women must want to castrate men!" thing. She really stole every scene from Diana, because I didn't really see as much into Diana as I did Artemis. Whereas Diana would have ten seconds of emotional insight, every scene with Artemis was one where I saw into her. The scene where she discovers Alexa's death? The one where she fights with Alexa? The one where she's looking over her things? All were awesome. It really came off more as a good movie that starred Wonder Woman then a good Wonder Woman movie.
When Diana and Steve fought, I thought she was clearly holding back, because remember later on in the hospital scene where she slaps him? Well, she didn't kill him there, so I kinda thought she always holds back around him.
I also loved Michael Jelenic's original hospital scene, it sounded so dramatically over the top and ridiculous and stupid, of course, but it would have been hilarious. LM edited it to make it a bit more logical, and described it as
Diana: You didn't stop Ares.
Trevor: Yeah, well YOU HATE MEN!
Jelenic seemed like he wasn't too fond of the Wonder Woman fans. He said that us fens specifically are very particular. "They want her to be strong, and they want her to be feminine, and she has to be compassionate, and she has to be even-tempered", he said. Well ... yeah. We also want Superman to be strong, and kind-hearted, and caring, and inspirational, what's so bad about expecting SUPER things from a SUPER hero?
It was still a pretty good movie, and worth the 17 bucks Canadian (roughly 20 cents American), but I really hope there's a sequel that's mostly about Barbara and Diana. The ending with Cheetah was clever, I like her robbing a museum and snapping necks and being all effortlessly hardcore, but mostly I loved the little girl Diana helped giving her the name "Wonder Woman".
But now I have seen it, and I saw a bit of the audio commentary, which had a few incredibly interesting facts. Did you know the reason why they had Diana throw the tiara so much is because Lauren Montgomery was a fan of it from Sailor Moon? But the reason Takeuchi included the tiara throw in Sailor Moon was because she was such a fan of it from Wonder Woman! Circles upon circles, people!
The animation and art style was frigging beautiful. Diana actually looked Greek, which is awesome, and her fight scenes were really great.
The Diana in that movie was ... slightly interesting. Artemis was really neat, though, and I'm saying this as a human being who also hates the whole "Strong women must want to castrate men!" thing. She really stole every scene from Diana, because I didn't really see as much into Diana as I did Artemis. Whereas Diana would have ten seconds of emotional insight, every scene with Artemis was one where I saw into her. The scene where she discovers Alexa's death? The one where she fights with Alexa? The one where she's looking over her things? All were awesome. It really came off more as a good movie that starred Wonder Woman then a good Wonder Woman movie.
When Diana and Steve fought, I thought she was clearly holding back, because remember later on in the hospital scene where she slaps him? Well, she didn't kill him there, so I kinda thought she always holds back around him.
I also loved Michael Jelenic's original hospital scene, it sounded so dramatically over the top and ridiculous and stupid, of course, but it would have been hilarious. LM edited it to make it a bit more logical, and described it as
Diana: You didn't stop Ares.
Trevor: Yeah, well YOU HATE MEN!
Jelenic seemed like he wasn't too fond of the Wonder Woman fans. He said that us fens specifically are very particular. "They want her to be strong, and they want her to be feminine, and she has to be compassionate, and she has to be even-tempered", he said. Well ... yeah. We also want Superman to be strong, and kind-hearted, and caring, and inspirational, what's so bad about expecting SUPER things from a SUPER hero?
It was still a pretty good movie, and worth the 17 bucks Canadian (roughly 20 cents American), but I really hope there's a sequel that's mostly about Barbara and Diana. The ending with Cheetah was clever, I like her robbing a museum and snapping necks and being all effortlessly hardcore, but mostly I loved the little girl Diana helped giving her the name "Wonder Woman".
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