Wonder Woman Animated Movie Part 1
Wonder Woman is a 2009 American animated superhero film focusing on the superheroine of the same name. The plot of the film is loosely based on George Pérez's reboot of the character, specifically the Gods and Mortals arc that started the character's second volume in 1987.
The film is directed by Laur Montgomery, who directed the second act of Superman: Doomsday and did storyboard work for Justice League: The New Frontier, writt by Gail Simone and Michael Jelic. As with all previous releases in this line of films, it is produced by acclaimed DC Comics animation veteran Bruce Timm.
On August 11, 2015, Warner Home Video re-released the film on a combo pack, which includes a DVD and Blu-ray copy, a digital copy, and with the graphic novel it was based on.
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In ancit times, the Amazons, a fierce race of warrior wom, battle Ares, the god of war, and his army. During the battle, the Amazons' que Hippolyta beheads Ares' soldier Thrax, whom the god forcibly conceived with her. She is about to kill Ares, wh Zeus stops her. Instead, Ares is bound with magic bracers which deprive him of his ability to draw power from the violce and death he can instigate. In compsation for their years of servitude to Ares, the Amazons are granted the island of Themyscira, where they remain eternally youthful and isolated from Man, while holding Ares prisoner. Hippolyta is also granted a daughter, Diana, whom she shapes from Themyscirian sand and gives life with her own blood.
Over a millnium later, Diana is unsatisfied with her life on Themyscira and longs to explore the outside world. American fighter pilot Steve Trevor is shot down in a dogfight and crash-lands his plane on the island. He th meets Diana, starting a fight. Once defeated, he is tak to the Amazons. After interrogating him with a magical gold lasso, Hippolyta decides he is not an emy. As such, their tradition dictates that an emissary be tasked to sure his safe return to Man's world. Diana volunteers, but her mother argues that she has not ough experice in dealing with the dangers outside Themyscira. Diana is instead assigned to guard Ares' cell; her bookish but kind-hearted frid Alexa offers to cover for her. Defying her mother, Diana disguises herself with a helmet and participates in contests of strgth, ultimately winning the right to escort Trevor home.
Meanwhile, the Amazon Persephone, seduced by Ares, kills Alexa and releases him. Diana brings Trevor in his repaired and now invisible jet to New York City, where he volunteers to help her capture Ares. Together they uncover a pattern of violce created by Ares' presce. The pair goes out to a bar and, after some heavy drinking, Trevor makes a pass at Diana. While arguing outside, they are attacked by the demigod Deimos. Diana subdues Deimos, who kills himself to avoid interrogation. His death leads Diana and Steve to a concealed gateway to the underworld guarded by members of the cult of Ares.
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There, Diana attempts to take Ares down. He summons harpies that attack Diana, prompting Trevor to save her. Performing a sacrificial ritual, Ares ops a gate to the Underworld, where he persuades his uncle Hades to remove the bracers. Hades agrees, but does not tell his nephew that the ultimate cost of removing them would be his own death in combat. Later, Diana wakes up in a hospital, furious that Trevor saved her instead of stopping Ares. Trevor defds his actions, revealing how much he cares about her in the process.
Ares and his army attack Washington, D.C.; Trevor and Diana start battling him and are soon joined by the Amazons. Ares summons long-dead Amazons from the Underworld to fight their sisters. However, Alexa, now an undead warrior, reveals to her sister Artemis a chant which nullifies Ares' control. The undead turn on Ares, but are destroyed by his powers. Hippolyta kills Persephone in combat. With her dying breath, Persephone declares that by shutting the Amazons away from Man's world, Hippolyta has died them the happiness that comes with love and a family.
Meanwhile, Ares' influce reaches the Presidt of the United States, who orders a nuclear missile against Themyscira, assuming the island is attacking Washington. This act of aggression increases Ares' power. With the invisible jet, Trevor shoots down the missile just before it hits the island. After taking a brutal beating at Ares' hands, Diana finally beheads him. She later accepts Trevor, and the two share a kiss. Ares is condemned to the underworld to attd Hades as a slave.
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On Themyscira, in memory of Alexa, Artemis takes up reading. Realizing that Diana misses both Man's world and Trevor, Hippolyta gives her the task of being a channel for communication betwe m and wom. Diana returns to New York, joying the company of Trevor and becoming the newly christed Wonder Woman.
The film was originally advertised as having a storyline involving the Greek god Ares escaping Paradise Island in order to capture and control a mystic item called the Hand of Rage. He would th use the Hand of Rage to bring about World War III. This storyline was later dropped.
The film's casting director Andrea Romano explained that Keri Russell's casting as Wonder Woman was partly inspired by Romano seeing Russell's performance in the film Waitress.
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According to producer Bruce Timm, during post-production, many action sces had to be edited after the first cut of the film received an R rating from the MPAA.
Upon the DVD release of the film, DC Comics arranged for several promotional packaging concepts to be released through differt vdors. Working together with Mattel, they created a miniature action figure of the animated Wonder Woman that was packaged together with the 2-disc DVD sets sold through Best Buy's stores. Images of the animated Wonder Woman were made into sheets of temporary tattoos and packaged with the single disc DVD of the film that were sold exclusively through Kmart's stores. FYE and Suncoast retail stores sold pre-orders of the DVD with a promotional film poster containing a printed autograph of the film's director Laur Montgomery. The two-disc special edition DVDs sold at Target stores included bonus Wonder Woman ctric episodes from the Justice League animated series and its sequel Justice League Unlimited, two shows produced by Bruce Timm. Borders Book Stores offered an exclusive Making of Wonder Woman booklet featuring storyboards and character designs. Finally, a lticular cover was created for the DVD cover depicting Wonder Woman shifting her position, sold exclusively through Wal-Mart stores.
From its previews at WonderCon and New York Comic Con to its DVD release Wonder Woman received mostly positive reviews. According to the review aggregator website Rott Tomatoes, 83% of critics have giv the film a positive review based on 12 reviews, with an average rating of 7.1/10.
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Harry Knowles gave a positive review of Wonder Woman on his website Ain't It Cool News. Knowles thusiastically lauded director Montgomery and the surprising brutality of the action sces.
Jordan Hoffman of UGO.com gave a positive review, commting on the film's great dialogue and the mature use of post-feminist themes in relation to perceived chauvinism.
Reviewing the film for Comic Book Resources, Josh Wigler gave a positive review, but criticized the unexplained inclusion of Diana's invisible plane.
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An explanation was left out as Timm and Montgomery felt it was too convoluted and merely pseudo-scitific. The World's Finest cited a few inconsistcies but said overall it was easily the best DC Universe Animated Original Movie title to date.
The level of violce in the film – in one sequce, Steve Trevor is shown killing human adversaries while Wonder Woman uses extreme force, and several beheadings in battle also occur – garnered some criticism. Chris Mautner, reviewing the film for Comic Book Resources, remarked, Is it just me or does it seem more than a bit...unnecessary?.
According to The-Numbers.com, Wonder Woman ranked No. 5 in DVD sales from its release of March 3 to 8, 2009. From the total units of 106, 342, it made $2, 040, 703 in sales.
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An adaptation of the film, titled simply Wonder Woman, was published in January 2009 by Pocket Star Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster (ISBN 978-1-4165-9873-2). Writt by S.D. Perry and Britta Dnison, the book follows the film's plot faithfully, but it omits some of the incidtal violce (Steve Trevor killing guards, for example) featured in the film.
Bruce Timm expressed interest in making a sequel of this film, like a sequel to Gre Lantern: First Flight, but ultimately the project was cancelled due to the slower sales of the film.
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