After watching the
Wonder Woman preview fifteen times, I finally got a chance to go and see the real film. It's amazing...or it has many moments of being amazing. For example, I got choked up during all of the battle scenes--and now I see that I was not alone in having this reaction. I mean, the
battle scenes, for goodness sake! Those are usually my least favorite part of a movie. I actually found the love scenes in
Wonder Woman tiresome and unnecessary, which is totally backwards for me. As much as I enjoyed this movie, it didn't completely live up to all of my expectations. In fact, my son and I critiqued the movie for the whole drive home--while cheerfully agreeing that we both loved it. I kind-of knew something like this would happen, though, because when I'm obsessively eager to see a certain movie, my expectations get unrealistic and there's an inevitable (often temporary) let-down. The same thing happened with
Cinderella and
Beauty and the Beast--except of course with those movies I enjoyed the fight scenes least and cried during all of the romantic scenes.
As a long-time fan of the Wonder Woman character, I've been thrilled to see all of the new dolls and action figures that have debuted during the past year or so. There were a few Wonder Woman dolls released with the 2016
Batman v Superman movie (in which Wonder Woman has a cameo), and those offerings have probably tripled with the opening of the new film.
In this comparison review, I will look at a mix of dolls from
Wonder Woman and
Batman v Superman. Strangely, all of these dolls are made by Mattel:
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| Black Label Batman v Superman Wonder Woman, Multiverse Wonder Woman, Battle Ready Wonder Woman. |
