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Wonder Woman
A super-hero uses her powers to thwart an international spy ring.
Release : | 1974 |
Rating : | 4.6 |
Studio : | Warner Bros. Television, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Set Decoration, |
Cast : | Cathy Lee Crosby Kaz Garas Andrew Prine Ricardo Montalban Charlene Holt |
Genre : | Adventure Fantasy Action TV Movie |
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Surprisingly incoherent and boring
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
This is first of all a made for TV movie and therefore it follows the idea of creative license. This movie is not meant to represent the past Wonder Woman but rather and updated version of the super-heroine. In the 70's Wonder Woman was reduced to being a normal human being, no divine inspiration there. IT's really unsettling to see that men still have problems with powerful women, however that was the concept of the 70's super-spy Wonder Woman. There were certain elements that remained, the invisible plane (cleverly it was never show like the TV series), the Amazonian hertiage was still there, and the golden belt and lasso. Wonder Woman has always been thought to be an above average woman and in this movie she is certainly that. Howver she does not the super powers that make her a hero. At the end of the day you have to summarize this movie as version of Wonder Woman, that deserves respect as much as the original concept of the character. Remember Wonder Woman stands for truth, sensitivity and compassion, regardless of her powers.
I saw this movie when I was a kid and was very disappointed that Cathy Lee Crosby looked nothing like Diana Prince, not even the costume! But I did like her portrayal of the Amazon Princess. She was strong, warm and really endearing. And I really liked the rivalry storyline between Diana and her "corrupted" sister who was lured by the things she could get for herself now that she was away from Paradise Island. That was very interesting because it wasn't resolved, her sister denounced how she was raised and Diana kept firm to her own beliefs. They agreed to disagree and there was still a mutual sisterly respect in the end. A little bit of depth in an otherwise shallow attempt at a pilot with a charming lead actress.
Here's an alpha female time capsule oddity which demonstrates how far femme-centric shows like ALIAS, BUFFY and XENA have come in the intervening thirty years. I was nine when this aired in '74 and recall being aware even then that this was pretty thin, though it had considerable appeal in the strangely droll relationship between charismatic quasi-badguy Ricardo Montalban and mannequinesque Cathy Lee Crosby. Montalban breathes suaveness and chivalry into what should have been a really clichéd and lame villain. As much as Cathy Lee founders in her debut, she has surprising chemistry with Ricardo and their scenes together crackle. If you watch it, be prepared for some unintentional laughter and not much action but whenever Ricardo shows up, things improve.The last ten minutes are very good fun, though, and given this was the fledgling attempt to get a strong female action adventure star on the air in the 70s, it earns some points for helping pave the way for The Bionic Woman and Lynda Carter's Wonder Woman which soon followed. Less a well-written, directed or thought out product than a fascinating glimpse into the early-mid seventies groovy escapist approach and certainly worth a look for fans of the genre. Still, don't expect much chop-socky or action; Cathy Lee is unconvincing in her few physical engagements (and her skin tight jumpsuit is so unrevealing it is about as sexy as a diet cola (the swingin' seventies censors rein things in unfortunately.) Somehow I still find it amusing, to a degree. 5/10
When I first saw this film, I was like many others and wanted to see Wonder Woman in her traditional garb and as a brunette. What we got was Cathy Lee Crosby, in her pre-That's Incredible! days. She wasn't the super heroine I had heard about, what she was was a "Girl From Uncle" rip-off. Also of note, this was made during the period when D.C. Comics, the publisher of the "Wonder Woman" comic book had taken away her powers and made her into a non-super powered woman with the explanation that all the amazons had left Paradise Island for another dimension to replenish their immortality, leaving Diana behind. Within a year, the Amazons returned to Earth and Diana had regained her powers.