It was 1974. I was 7. It was a time of Kolchak and Steve Austin. So when they advertised on TV that Wonder Woman was coming to live action, I just had to be there. After all, the only comic book superheroes I'd seen in live action up to that point were Batman and Robin (the George Reeves "Superman" reruns had never showed in my area). I guess in a way that a 7-year-old boy COULD be, I was ga-ga over Cathy Lee Crosby briefly, even if I got bored and didn't watch half of this movie (I came back at the end just in time to see her in-costume). Even at that age it was immediately evident that this had little to do with the comic character, but hey, maybe I could hope for them to put other superheroes on TV. In retrospect, I wish they hadn't, because the treatments they gave Captain America, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, and the Hulk weren't much of an improvement on this.
I decided to give this another look today, and... yeah. This had some of the most terrible dialogue I've ever watched, even by old comic book standards. The story writing as a whole is full of gaffes that other reviewers have talked about, so I won't bother here. The fight sequences had to have straight-up embarrassed the Women's Libbers of the time; I mean, c'mon, this was the era of Bruce Lee and they couldn't do at least a little better than THIS? As near as I can tell, this was designed to keep the men out there focused on the actresses as long as possible in a desperate hope for ratings.
Not the worst film I've ever seen, but still a hard pass.
I decided to give this another look today, and... yeah. This had some of the most terrible dialogue I've ever watched, even by old comic book standards. The story writing as a whole is full of gaffes that other reviewers have talked about, so I won't bother here. The fight sequences had to have straight-up embarrassed the Women's Libbers of the time; I mean, c'mon, this was the era of Bruce Lee and they couldn't do at least a little better than THIS? As near as I can tell, this was designed to keep the men out there focused on the actresses as long as possible in a desperate hope for ratings.
Not the worst film I've ever seen, but still a hard pass.