Wonder Woman 1984
December 16, 2020 in theaters
Set in the excess of 1984, Diana Prince faces two converging threats: Maxwell Lord, an opportunistic businessman granted wish-granting power, and Barbara Minerva, a friend whose transformation into Cheetah tests their bond. The DCEU sequel shifts Wonder Woman from World War I to the Cold War era.
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"This world was a beautiful place just as it was."
-- Diana Prince
DID YOU KNOW?
The film's villain Maxwell Lord was originally conceived as a Trump-like media mogul during early script development.
THE VERDICT
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Wonder Woman 1984 is a film with a genuinely interesting premise — a story built around the consequences of wish fulfillment — that struggles to deliver on it at the narrative level. The period setting is warmly realized, Gal Gadot and Kristen Wiig find an unexpectedly convincing dynamic in their first-act scenes together, and the film's thematic interest in what people sacrifice when they get what they want is more ambitious than most sequels attempt. But the second half loses structural clarity, and the Cheetah arc does not reach the emotional payoff the setup earned. A disappointing follow-up to a film that had built considerable goodwill, with enough worthwhile elements to make the failure genuinely frustrating.
PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE
Where this fits in the larger story
Wonder Woman 1984 sits within the modern DC connected-film era, where heroes, antiheroes, and government forces begin reshaping the public world. It connects individual character arcs with the larger consequences of metahumans becoming visible across the planet. Its placement helps viewers follow the DCEU-era continuity while recognizing how each title adds a different corner to DC's screen mythology.
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