Tuesday
03Mar2009
DVD Review - 'Wonder Woman'
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 5:12PM | Wonder Woman
Featuring the voices of Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion, Alfred
Molina, and Rosario Dawson  Own it on DVD March 3, 2009 Check out the official website: WonderWomanMovie.com |
I have been bucking for a Wonder Woman movie for years, and the new animated feature
from DC Comics and Warner Premiere gets it about half-right. The product line itself is a great idea; we've
already seen a tie-in for The Dark Knight, and we'll get both a Justice League animated flick and a Green
Lantern 'toon in short order.So if nothing else, these movies can be proving grounds for the big budget live-
action movies in DC's future, maybe sooner than later.
But just because this isn't a summer tentpole movie doesn't mean that this is just something to string us along
until the day that there finally is a Wonder Woman movie in theaters. Writer Michael
Jelenick and director Lauren Montgomery have been working on
comic book adaptations for years, and the cast is superb: Keri Russell, Nathan
Fillion, Rosario Dawson, Alfred
Molina, Marg Helgenberger, Oliver
Platt, and Virgina Madsen all voice primary characters, and
frankly, that's a better collection than most $150 million animated movies can claim.
So that's one of the things about this production that really stands out. The animation is only so-so. At least, I
thought it could have been a lot better. There's nothing wrong with the overall design, but some individual
characters seemed less thought out than some others.
The dialogue is, as you might expect, not the film's strong suit. In an effort to get a PG-13 rating, one of the
elements that's kicked into high gear is suggestive dialogue. For instance, this might be the first time in DC
Comics history that Wonder Woman (Russell) is complimented on her rack, or rather, that an American fighter pilot
(Fillion) who happens upon the secret Amazon island compliments her mother (Madsen) on Wonder Woman's
breasts.
Much of the dialogue is too cutesy for its own good, although it works when Oliver Platt says it for some reason.
Watch the Wonder Woman trailer
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