Marvel Girl 1984 is enjoyable, however doesn’t fairly seize magic of its predecessor

Rely me among the many many hundreds of thousands who seemingly logged onto HBO Max on Christmas Day to observe Marvel Girl 1984, Director Patty Jenkins’ hotly anticipated, oft-delayed stand-alone follow-up to her 2017 world blockbuster, Marvel Girl. I am a serious fan of the latter, which gave us our super-powered Amazonian’s origin story, and had excessive hopes for the follow-up.

These hopes weren’t fully dashed, however they weren’t actually fulfilled both. Whereas Marvel Girl 1984 nonetheless has a little bit of the outdated magic, and its leads all flip in terrific performances, the movie is hampered by a steadily nonsensical plot, extraneous showy motion sequences, and it is method too heavy-handed with the moralizing. But it surely nonetheless delivers various slick, 1980s-infused enjoyable in case you flip your mind off and simply go together with it—and you may undoubtedly need to stick round for a post-credits scene.

(Some spoilers beneath, with a couple of main spoilers beneath the second gallery. We’ll offer you a heads up after we get there.)

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