10 Great Subplots In Bad Recent Movies
6. Steve Trevor Is A Fish-Out-Of-Water - Wonder Woman 1984
Arriving on a wave of excitement as it did last Christmas, Wonder Woman 1984 turned out to be one of the most disappointingly sloppy blockbusters in recent memory.
An overstuffed mess of a superhero movie, it squandered its solid cast and better ideas amid a thoroughly silly, tonally off-kilter execution, complete with a brutally overlong 151-minute runtime.
But there is one genuinely fun part of the movie, and that's the film's subversion of its predecessor's fish out of water storyline, by flipping the script to have a resurrected Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) now be the one trying to acclimate to a new time period.
Though this subplot is undeniably tainted by the morally dubious means through which Trevor is brought back to life - Diana (Gal Gadot) hijacking some random guy's body, effectively - it's still hilarious watching Steve experiment with ridiculous '80s fashion and be so rapt with wide-eyed amazement at the "future."
The idea was great and the film had some cute moments, but why not just have Steve be randomly magicked back to life out of thin air, rather than complicate the fun with the thorny consent issues raised by him inhabiting the body of another living person?