Wonder Woman: The Excellent Adventure Edit

I hate writing a review when I didn't really like the film or agree with the editor's intent. It is a competent edit, but I feel like it retains too much of what doesn't work while unfortunately adding a few more things to the mix that also don't work.

Making it so Steve Trevor doesn't inhabit the body of another man is an important and necessary change. However, Steve is now introduced in a way that is very abrupt and quite jarring.

I like that more 80's music was added, but I feel like a editor overdoes it and at times all the extra music starts to feel grating.

Wonder Woman 1984's main problem is that it doesn't know what it wants to be (could be because it was co-written by Patty Jenkins and Geoff Johns). On the one hand, it seems to want to be a light-hearted campy homage to the Christopher Reeve Superman films. On the other hand, it wants to be a very serious and preachy feminist critique. It's the latter, in my opinion, that doesn't work. But that seems to be what the editor is intent on retaining. The overall message of the film (about not having the things you want) is also condescending and unsatisfying. Once again, this is all retained.

If this film is to be redeemed at all, I think an edit should go in the opposite direction. Lean into the camp and silliness and make it a fun, lighthearted affair. Maxwell Lord is not sufficiently redeemed by the end of the theatrical cut, so he should be kept as the narcissistic con-man that he is. I really don't think he needs to be made into a sympathetic character, because he's pretty terrible all in all, and I don't think the audience is ready to forgive him by the end. I would cut the child entirely from the film, since his presence is tragic to the point of being comical as it tries desperately to tug at your heartstrings. He's just a poor neglected child that his father barely thinks about. He really brings the film down.

The theme of both Diana and Barbara nearly constantly being sexually harassed doesn't really add anything significant to the film. What is the point being made? When Barbara/Cheetah throws the guy into the truck, I think it should be played for laughs (cut away after she tosses him rather than watch her beat beat the crap out of him).

I could go on and on. Overall, this is a good edit that doesn't quite scratch my itch, but it may work well for some people's tastes. My main point here is that this is an irredeemably silly and stupid story, so the only option, IMO, that a faneditor really has is to embrace the stupidity and let this play out as more of a light-hearted comedy.

I thoroughly loved Wonder Woman: The Excellent Adventure! The new soundtrack brought real gravitas and emotion to the movie, while the reworked plot and scenes took out all the things I didn't like about the original movie and enhanced what I did like! Thank you very much for this, Mr. Wakeupkeo, and keep creating!

Excellent Edit. 10/10 Highly recommended. Also a big thanks for the subtitles.

Rarely have I been so disappointed with a movie as with "Wonder Woman '84', and I was hoping this fan-edit would eliminate as much as possible of the childish story. Regretfully that is simply not possible with the available material. There is however no question about it that this fan-edit is an improvement.

Shortening the movie (bye bye prologue) and adding '80's music are great ideas and executed almost flawlessly. However, popsongs with vocals are too distracting during action sequences in my opinion. Instrumental pop-songs would have been no problem, but with vocals it turns into some kind of videoclip. And if possible, I'd avoid fading out each song. If the song itself has a solid ending (no fade-out) than try to use it, and time the last beat with a cut. Or have the music dissolve into some kind of sound effect that goes with the scene.
Eliminating the strange scenes with Wonder Woman's returned love interest having a different face at first is also entirely justified. It's just that in this way, she accepts the impossible strangeness of his return too easily, like it's perfectly normal.

Yet all in all I enjoyed this fan-edit more than the original, and the inclusion of different music not only works invigorating, but is also an incredible technical achievement of the editor.

Dammmmmnnn! What a phenomenal recut. Just brilliant. I think the contrast of how bad it started, how much there was to work with, and how much it improved is the biggest jump my partner and I have seen so far compared to any other movie. Just so rewarding to watch, will be recommending it to my friends.

Favorite changes: I was literally squealing the whole movie about how great the 80s score sounded behind Steve. Loved the new closing scenes, loved cutting all of the island beginning. Loved how all the awkwardness of Barbara was blown away and the sexual/jealousy tension between her and WW really shined (something I literally didn't even realize was in the original). Couple things I think might have been made more confusing: how Steve had an apartment and why their plane was invisible. These are absolutely trivial relative to the original.

Overall the movie was a joy and I'm deeply grateful to the talent that went into creating it. This would be one of or the best movie in the DCU/MCU if it had been released like this.