2009 · action · adventure · animation
Wonder Woman
Directed by Lauren Montgomery1h 14m2009
On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daughter of untold beauty, grace and strength: Princess Diana. When an Army fighter pilot, Steve Trevor, crash-lands on the island, the rebellious and headstrong Diana defies Amazonian law by accompanying Trevor back to civilization.
Our read: Wonder Woman (2009) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive action · adventure · animation entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured action / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- redemptive
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