Kevin C. Wong

Movie - Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) [+]

Wonder Woman 1984 as the title suggests is set in 1984 which means that Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) has been living in Man's World for seven decades, still undercover helping people. She works at a major museum and makes friends with gemologist Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) but Diana is awfully lonely.

Enter Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal), evangelical businessman who desperately needs a certain relic to save his business. A relic that the museum has and once he has that relic he starts granting wishes. Barbara fulfills her wish of becoming as good as Diana and unknowingly also means becoming as good as Wonder Woman, turning Barbara into Cheetah. Meanwhile Diana gets her wish as Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) reappears in her life inhabiting the body of a man of the same age (only Diana can see it's Steve).

As the world turns into chaos due to Lord's wish granting ability Wonder Woman has to stop him but to do that she must give up her wish and Steve. Can she do it?...

There was something magical about the first film. This sequel is good but not quite as good. Still, the 1980's scenes are fairly nostalgic though more 80's than what I experienced. Overall an entertaining movie.