Friday night I went to the Wonder Woman Animated Movie preview.  It was a free showing of the entire movie.  The movie starts with an epic battle between the Amazons led by Hippolyta against the hordes of Ares.  The fight is epic along with the musical score done by, Christopher Drake in the beginning.  Also Hippolyta seems to use all of the classic Wonder Woman tools at her disposal in the first 5-10 minutes.

We are also introduced to a few of the supporting characters.  Let me say that I'm a big fan of Artemis from the comics and really enjoyed the stuff with Mike Deadato and William Messner-Loebs in the 90s (yes I know shocking) when she was Wonder Woman.  Artemis was done perfectly in this movie.  She was strong and could kick almost everyone's ass, save Diana's of course.  She was also voice by Rosario Dawson who I think has a the right voice for the character, since she does a lot of strong female roles.

After we're introduced we get jumped to Themyscira island centuries later.  Over the island is a fight between some jets with one being piloted by Col. Steve Trevor, voiced by Nathan Fillion (who I have a huge man-crush for).  They did a good job of modernizing the original Golden Age version of this character.  He fit really well and Fillion, as usual, did a great job at delivering his punch lines.  By far one of my favorites was, "I haven't had this dream since I was thirteen." I almost felt as if they took the original Steve Trevor and mixed him with Nemesis from the newer Wonder Woman stuff, although it can be argued that he's a rehash of Trevor from the Golden Age... it's a vicious circle.

I don't want to get too much more into the story as I really think people should see this.  When talking with Ron from iFanboy, I went so far to say that this was the best DC Animated film I've seen.  I enjoyed all of the others, but it was clear to me that they stepped things up for this one.  Although it made sense in the fact that you know not too many people were geeked to see this movie so Timm's productions company needed to make it really good.  I mean the last couple sold themselves really, where as this one needs to get good press to do well.

I almost forgot Keri Russel's voice work in this was really good.  Since Diana is much younger they went with a younger voice.  She did incredibly well at sounding young and strong at the same time.  I thoroughly enjoyed her banter with Fillion's character Trevor.

I'm sure the original story being worked on by Gail Simone for this had something to do with how great this was.  It really was a good reimagining of the Wonder Woman origin.  It also managed to combine action with romantic comedy fairly well, something that I have always found hard for a movie to do.

I actually hope that they do a sequel to this, since sadly it's some of the best stuff I've seen with Wonder Woman's name on it in a long time.

Anyways Wonder Woman comes out March 3, I highly suggest you buy it.

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