Set in the 80s, Wonder Woman 1984 includes all the shoulder pads, perms, synth-heavy pop songs and Cold War paranoia which the WW era implies.
But what's remarkable is how close it is to being a 1980s blockbuster itself. A funny, sweet-natured, brightly-coloured standalone adventure, it is so reminiscent of the likes of Raiders of The Lost Ark and Ghostbusters in its jokes, it’s plotting, its locations and its general atmosphere that it fills you with the same warm feelings that they did – one of those feelings being wonder.
Directed by Patty Jenkins, who made the first film in 2017, but it has a more playful and hopeful tone. You don't have to have seen Jenkins' previous film to understand it, either, nor do you have to have seen the.
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