Wonder Woman (2009)
Genre(s): Animation, Fantasy, Movies, Science Fiction, Video
Centuries ago in Ancient Greece, the Amazons, a proud and fierce race of warrior women, led by Queen Hippolyta, battled Ares, the God Of War, and his army. During the battle, Hippolyta beheaded her son, Thrax, whom she conceived with Ares, as she sees the child as a curse forced upon her by his father, and then defeated the God Of War himself. Zeus, king of the gods, prevented them from killing Ares. Instead Hera, queen of the gods, bound his powers with magic gauntlets so that he was no more powerful than a mortal and that only another god could release him. In compensation, the Amazons were granted the mystical island of Themyscira, where they could be eternally youthful and isolated from Man in the course of their duty of holding Ares prisoner for all eternity. Later as a personal boon, Queen Hippolyta was granted by the Gods a daughter of untold beauty, grace and strength: Princess Diana.
Years later, an American fighter pilot, Steve Trevor, is shot down in a dog fight that kills his squadron and would have included him but for the fact that someone deliberately disrupts the magic cloaking field hiding the island at that moment. As a result, Trevor crash-lands on the island and is soon meets Diana who attacks him. This leads Steve to fight Diana in hand-to-hand combat. Steve stops fighting for a moment. But the moment gave Diana the upper hand over Steve and she defeats him in in hand-to-hand combat and takes him to the Amazons. When Hippolyta decides he should be returned home, Diana volunteers for the task only to have her mother assign her to guard duty at Ares’ cell instead. At the scholarly Alexa’s suggestion and her offer to substitute for the princess at the dungeon, Diana defies her mother and wins the right to be the Amazons’ representative to the outside world. Meanwhile, Alexa is promptly murdered by her guard mate, Persephone, whom Ares had focused on charming for a century for this opportunity to escape and exact his revenge with her help.
Now with the additional task of capturing the fugitives, Diana brings Trevor to New York City where the officer volunteers to help the princess find her quarry. After an initial investigation uncovers a pattern of violence created by his presence that could lead them to Ares if given time to develop, the pair decide on a night out at a bar while they wait. After some heavy drinking in which Trevor underestimates Diana’s tolerance for alcohol, he drunkenly makes a pass at her which infuriates the Amazon into thinking that he was trying to seduce her. In the resulting argument outside, they are accosted first by street thugs trying to rob them and then the demigod, Deimos, who is out to kill Diana. While Deimos kills himself upon his defeat to prevent from being interrogated, they find an important clue on his body that leads them to a ancient temple guarded by the worshipers of Ares.
Once there, Diana attempts to subdue Ares, but he summons monsters that snatch and threaten to kill her, prompting Trevor to save her over her insistence of him stopping Ares. Meanwhile, Ares takes advantage of the heroes’ distraction to perform a human sacrifice to open a gate to the underworld where he successfully persuades Hades, the God of the Underworld, to remove the gauntlets.Hades is using his son Thrax as a slave. Later in a hospital that Trevor transported her to, Diana regains consciousness and is furious that Trevor forfeited his chance to stop the war god for her sake. Trevor argues against her abuse with his own criticism of the Amazons’ isolation and their generalizations about Men and his admission of his deep affection for her. Regardless, they agree to resume the godhunt.
Unfortunately, Ares has assembled an army of mortals and monsters and has marched on Washington, DC with a rally at the Lincoln Memorial to declare a war on all humanity. The U.S. military is about to attack them in response, but the troops are spotted by Ares’ forces and struck first. Trevor and Diana arrive to battle the villains, and are soon joined by the Amazons led by Hippolyta herself who has decided to intervene in force. Meanwhile, the U.S. President learns of the appearance of Themyscira and his advisers mistakenly conclude this is the cause of the magic invaders and advise it be destroyed. The President, who’s influenced by Ares’ power, agrees and orders a nuclear missile launch against the island, unaware the powerful psychic energy from this act of supreme aggression is exactly what Ares wants to become strong enough to conquer not just Humanity, but the Gods themselves.
Thus empowered, Ares resumes his battle with Diana who finds herself hard pressed, while Trevor takes Diana’s invisible jet to pursue and stop the missile. Unfortunately, the Amazons in Washington have more immediate problems when Ares summons their own deceased numbers to attack them and every enemy they kill adds to their own numbers. This undead army includes Alexa as well and she attacks her sister, Artemis, but while she does so, she repeats some cryptic phrase that her sister, realizing vaguely what she is doing, repeats. In doing so, Artemis casts a magic spell that frees the Amazon dead from Ares’ control and they turn on the war god, although he quickly neutralizes them. Nevertheless, Diana uses the distraction to regain the initiative, but even this is shortlived as Ares now has the power to call down lightning on her and does so. Meanwhile, Trevor shoots down the missile while Hippolyta confronts Persephone and kills her, but not before the traitor suggests the disquieting idea of how the Amazons have stagnated.
Finally, Diana defeats Ares by turning his magic against him and weakening him enough for her to behead him. With that, Ares’ army disperses while his magically influenced aggression dissipates as the Government realizes the Amazons saved the nation. Meanwhile as the heroes cheered, Hades agrees with the sentiment with the gain of now having the spirit of Ares as his minion along with his son,Thrax.
Back on Themyscira, Hippolyta realizes that Diana profoundly misses both the outside world and Steve Trevor. In response, she charges her daughter to become a diplomat for the Amazons in the world of Men. Diana gratefully accepts and she returns to the world of men where she enjoys the company of Trevor and assumed a secret identity as Diana Prince. However, their relationship comes with the understanding of her larger duties such as when she sees The Cheetah robbing a bank and she excuses herself to stop the supervillainess as Wonder Woman.
Starring(voice) – Keri Russell, Nathan Fillion.
Director – Lauren Montgomery.
Screenplay – Gail Simone and Michael Jelenic.
Official Site – http://warnervideo.com/wonderwomanmovie/
IMDB – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186373/
Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman_(film)




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