Wonder Woman: The Animated Movie (2009)

Yesterday was the release date of the animated film version of Wonder Woman starring Keri Russell (Waitress) as Wonder Woman and Nathan Fillion (Waitress, Firefly, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog) as Steve Trevor. My husband and I watched it last night and it was everything we wanted it to be. The dialogue was delightful and witty, the action was about as good as animated action can be—they sure do make Hippolyta and Steve Trevor look smooth, to the point that I think Diana is even a little outshined by them—and the origin story is engaging. The film deals heavily with gender roles and abuse, of course, and it’s not the deepest discourse on gender out there, but it’s certainly one of the funnest. As a bonus, Wonder Woman managed not to get bound to anything phallic-shaped at any point in the movie. This is probably a first for her.

My husband and I chose a few clips from the movie to upload to YouTube, hopefully these don’t break any copyright laws and will be allowed to stay. Great movie. Go buy it, or at least NetFlix it.

Comments

Wonder Woman: The Animated Movie (2009) — 5 Comments

Laura on March 5, 2009 at 4:42 PM said:

I still haven’t seen this! How does it compare with the Wonder Woman presented in Justice League? I always loved her, as she went from utterly snooty princess man-hater naive fool (which would be logical given the isolated environment she grew up in) to a well-rounded and admirable woman with a strong sense of honor that could still compromise with necessity and with situational compromise. I laughed so much when beginning Wonder Woman was dissing on how bad and awful men were, and Hawk Girl just says with a smirk, “Don’t knock it till you tried it, Princess.” How did they get that past the censors?!

I’m mostly worried they’ll erode that character, but from your description it sounds like they did a pretty good job!
Bridget Jack Meyers on March 8, 2009 at 10:22 PM said:

Laura, I think the best way I can put it is that the movie tries to start her out the same way she started out on the Justice League, mistrusting and hateful of men, and by the end of the movie she has come around to seeing her arrogance and ignorance on the subject like she did on JL. Fair is fair though, she also complains about the world’s women and how they don’t try to compete with men and how they pretend to be weak to attract male attention. It’s really not a one-sided male-bashing fest.

I won’t spoil how, but the movie even makes the point that Hippolyta brought some of her misfortune on herself by shutting off the Amazons from men since she only treated her women like warriors and never realized that eventually, they’d get over their pain and start wanting the affections of men in their isolation.

Yeah, I think they did a good job, really loved the voice cast. Especially Virginia Madsen as Hippolyta. Damn, that woman has a sexy voice.

Yes, the “Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it” line from Hawk Girl was awesome. I think she needs her own movie.
Jim on March 25, 2009 at 11:24 AM said:

Thanks for posting those scenes.
Bridget Jack Meyers on March 25, 2009 at 1:56 PM said:

Np Jim, was happy to post them.
Stephen M (Ethesis) on April 9, 2009 at 6:05 PM said:

Thanks for the links, I’ll have to netflix this.

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