With Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal. Directed by Patty Jenkins, and featuring the return of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, the highly… … Fellow curator Dr. Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) — who goes ridiculously unnoticed in her shy, awkward, and mousy ways — is assigned the task of identifying artifacts retrieved from a black market store front. WW84 is a notes session, not a completed thought. Sharp's collaborators on Wonder Woman-- writer Greg Rucka and artist Nicola Scott -- were both included in the Wonder … Simon Stagg Lucian Perez. Diana’s story really takes a back seat to the two-villain set of Pedro Pascal’s Maxwell Lord and Barbara Minerva, played impressively by Kristin Wiig before transforming into the CG monstrosity that is Cheetah for the whole of five minutes. Emir Said Bin Abydos Kristoffer Polaha. Handsome Man Natasha Rothwell. The director makes Wonder Woman 1984 as much … Directed by Patty Jenkins. I was really rooting for Wonder Woman 1984 – or WW84, as the disco/neon title treatment would have it. Sharp previously pointed out that the version of Barbara Ann Minerva/Cheetah he designed for Wonder Woman has been used across the DC Universe since 2016's Rebirth initiative, including a significant role in Justice League as a member of the Legion of Doom. Gal Gadot swings through a D.C. shopping mall in Wonder Woman 1984. 59 IMAGES. While it does not reach the inspiring heights of its predecessor, the film is a solid entry into the DCEU. Kristen Wiig, who plays the comedic sidekick, Barbara Minerva, does well in the first half of the movie, but will get on your nerves when she is asked … Sweet, brilliant, pretty Barbara. His motives make no sense to me. Barbara Minerva Pedro Pascal. I’m Sorry I Can’t Even Enjoy Barbara Minerva’s Obvious Girl Crush on Diana Prince in WW84 Because Barbara Deserves Better To All the Female-Led Comic Book Movies I Haven’t Loved Before WW84's plot revolves around a MacGuffin known as the Dreamstone, ... Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) wishes upon the stone to be more like Diana, unwittingly also … Diana is now a senior anthropologist at the Smithsonian in Washington DC where the FBI brings in a few artifacts to be identified, one of which is a very special Citrine Talisman created by the God of Lies that grants anyone who touches it one wish. The “Dreamstone” also plays a role in a subplot involving Diana’s co-worker Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), a lonely, clumsy nobody whose wish to be like the beautiful and confident Diana inadvertently gives her Wonder Woman-esque powers as well. Directed by Patty Jenkins, the DC Comics sequel picked up decades after the World War I-centric adventure of 2017's Wonder Woman. Making a game like that takes a team of multiple people working for several weeks with a company budget, but with MakeCode Arcade, you can make something similar on your own in about an hour! After watching Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot bring the … Contained within is the MacGuffin, a chintzy looking object, that first comes into the possession of Kristen Wiig's Barbara Minerva, a mousey colleague of … Maxwell Lord is the second most boring, unmotivated villain I have ever seen. WW84 starts on a promising note, taking a page from the Superman playbook: Wonder Woman sweeps into a shopping mall and dispatches a gang of crooks while saving imperiled children, even sharing a knowing wink with one of them. Carried on the strength of its brilliant cast, Wonder Woman 1984 soars highest during its dramatic and heartfelt moments. Babajide Oliver Cotton. It soon pulls her and her awkward new colleague Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig), into the supernatural machinations of shady self-promoting businessman Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) which — … WW84 is based in my favorite era full of crimped hair, neon clothes, parachute pants, and hairbands. The overall message is that you should be careful what you wish for. WW84 Credits Overlook Current Cheetah Designer Liam Sharp. She needs to collect 13 artifacts, retrieve her lasso to defeat Barbara Minerva, and retrieve her armor to destroy the Shard of Chaos! Antiope Connie Nielsen. The last we see of Barbara Ann Minerva, she's seemingly reverted to human form and survived her violent clash with Wonder Woman. That game was exciting! Diana must contend with a work colleague and businessman, whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing. "Wonder Woman 1984 (WW84)" has the air of a watershed movie moment about it. Kristen Wiig’s Barbara Minerva isn’t the only hot mess in Wonder Woman 1984. Wonder Woman 1984 release date set for December 16 in cinemas globally, and December 25 in the US on HBO Max and in theatres. Director Patty Jenkins says she has at least two more superhero stories to tell after 2017's Wonder Woman and the just-released Wonder Woman 1984. And it’s here that WW84 starts to feel like a story spiraling out of control. The modern incarnations of Cheetah, Barbara Ann Minerva and Sebastian Ballesteros, were both … “WW84” takes two classic Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) villains and makes both compelling while balancing their time and ability to battle her. Action scenes are greatly improved upon from the first film, and it doubles down on comic book aspects that make the film look flashy and fantastic while embracing the weirdness of the source material. Raquel Kelvin Yu. Liam Sharp, the artist who redesigned Barbara Ann Minerva/Cheetah for the DC Rebirth era, … Wonder Woman 1984 Review: Gal Gadot is in top form, backed up well by Kristen Wiig as the nerdy Barbara Minerva who acquires Wonder Woman-like strength but a two-and-a-half-hour film needs much more. With Warners and Disney and a pandemic chasing blockbusters out of theaters and onto smaller screens, and even the word "blockbuster" potentially banished from the language, you have to wonder if this woman isn't heralding the end of the $300 million… WW84 DC Fandome Trailer Gallery . Jake WW84 does better, but not by much. Warning: SPOILERS ahead for Wonder Woman 1984.. Wonder Woman 1984 left the fate of Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) on something of an ambiguous note — here's what ultimately befell her and how she was transformed back into a human. Carol (Co-Worker) Ravi Patel. Gadot and Pine’s chemistry is palpable, and the Wonder Woman sequel cleverly flips the script of the original film by allowing Diana to educate Steve about life in her world, just as he once did for her in his. Young Diana Amr Waked. Hippolyta Lilly Aspell. ... and her relationships with others (particularly Barbara Minerva). Alistair Gabriella Wilde. However, it's unclear whether Barbara Ann actually renounced her wish. Maxwell Lord Robin Wright. Photo by Clay Enos For the sequel to Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins finds a hook that she didn’t have for the previous film. The clunky sequel flails around for a couple of hours, occasionally teasing us with moments reminiscent of 2017’s entertaining, critically acclaimed Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman 1984 also has a new trailer. This isn’t to say there’s nothing to love about WW84.Wiig is convincingly awkward and earnest, if tragically underutilized, as Barbara Minerva. While she may have lost her secondary set of powers granted by Lord, she may still possess the strength and agility she gained from her original wish. I mean, consider how Wonder Woman knows Maxwell is bad instantly because Maxwell is more interested in Wonder Woman's new friend, the not-desirable-in-any-way Barbara.