"DCU Wonder Woman: Bloodlines"

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Welcome and a Happy New Year to all of you. I realized its been an eternity since my last post. Holiday work and celebrations will do that, but I am back and hoping to kickstart this new year with new post and for those on my Facebook page new shares of fun film facts, trailers and anything film related. In the meantime, let's start off with one of the films I've had the chance to view that will get Wonder Woman fans excited about the upcoming live action film due to come out later this year with the latest chapter to the DC Universe, "Wonder Woman: Bloodlines"

In this edition, we're taken back to Wonder Woman's aka Diana (Rosario Dawson) early days and how she lived on a hidden island of Amazon warriors called Themyscira where American piolet Steve Trevor (Jeffery Donovan) crash lands there leading Diana to leave her home and venture to the outside world to be its warrior for justice.

Flashing forward to years later, Diana has made friends in that of Steve and her host family Julia Kapeteilis (Nia Vardalos), an archeologist and her daughter Vanessa (Marie Averopoulos), but her time there may have also caused resentment when she learns that Vanessa who is now grown up is working with an organization called Villainy Inc. as a new henchman called Silver Swan to procure an artifact that can be the end of Themyscira. While Diana believes that the Vanessa she once knew is still within, but it will be a race against t.he clock to stop Villainy Inc. before either Theymscira and Vanessa are beyond hope of saving.

While seeing the origin of Wonder Woman becoming the hero she is has been played out several times including probably the best variation with Gal Gadot in the live-action, it gives a look at her life after leaving and learning to adjust to our world and the years following that is often not captured and the origin of a villain that will set the pace for future films. The animation itself was also spot on trying to capture both characters as well as costuming close to some of the original comic works that will please the truest of fans. Between its storytelling, its expressive art and the ties of classic Greek mythology its based in where a hero rises to take on the foes and monsters, it is a welcomed, and overdue edition to the DC Universe ranking a four and a half G.M.Stars.

⭐⭐⭐⭐½
Green Mountain Stars

 "DCU Wonder Woman: Bloodlines" is available for rent at Redbox and where movies are sold/streamed. 

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