A flashback to Themyscira. [credit: YouTube/Warner Bros. ]
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 Whereas Marvel Girl 1984 nonetheless has a little bit of the outdated magic, and its leads all flip in terrific performances, the movie is hampered by a steadily nonsensical plot, extraneous showy motion sequences, and it is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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