Or, if you were a kid in the 70's and you want a little nostalgia. This is worth a watch if you're looking at Wonder Woman throughout the ages, which I'm doing. Though, as it stands it's not too bad and is okay for kids though with what's available today it looks and feels really dated, so they might baulk at watching it. It might even have made a decent television series though I'm glad it didn't as it probably would have meant we would have missed Lynda Carter in the role that is so iconic to her. I think that if this had a better writer and director then the end product could have been so much better than this. The Joker wouldn't have been the same if he was called Melvin Phillips. This is based on a comic after all and in the 70's they were filled with evil doers with weird pseudonyms. Calvin is a psychotic and cold blooded killer so it would have been nice for him to be given a more fearsome name or nick-name. I, for one, do not find either Abner Smith or George Calvin particularly frightening or awe inspiring. The other thing wrong with the script is the villains' names. Even with this unintentional humour, Black does add some intentional humour to the story by incorporating a burro to bring the top secret plans to Abner Smith. What I found really great and funny was the fact that Everybody else appeared to know Diana Prince was Wonder Woman this says a lot for her company - the only spies who didn't know her secret. We see Diana Prince working as a Secretary for Steve Trevor, though secretly she's the one they send in to get the job done. This could all be down to McEveety's direction, who doesn't give us anything particularly new here, Though Black sticks to the origin pretty well, things start to get messy once we're off Themyscara. In fact, I think that can be said of most, though, Andrew Prime does have a bit more power behind his performance. Even though I do like Montalban a lot, he is very underused here. As for the other actors, there wasn't anything too spectacular about them. It would have been nice to have the fight scenes choreographed a little better and speeded up a tad, a few special effects wouldn't have gone amiss to show her strength, as was the case with the later series. She's also a pretty decent actor and fit this version of the character well. which reduced the need to bring in a stuntman in a wig. I like Warner's and McEveety's decision to use Crosby since she was a major athlete at the time she could easily cope with the action scenes. Also, gone is the iconic and eye-popping costume to be replaced with a modified track suit. Whatever the case may be she does an amiable job as Diana Prince and I would've watched a series with her as Wonder Woman, it's a shame the script wasn't too brilliant, it was your average fair for '74. This may have been because Cathy Lee Cosby might not have wanted to die her hair for the part or don a wig. So this was a different take on the Wonder Woman mythos, opting to go with a blonde version of the Amazonian Goddess.
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