Animation Comparison: Bloodlines vs 2009 (SPOILERS)
Just finished watching 2019's BLOODLINES animated movie.
I like it. But I don't get it.
It seems like it has enough of the ingredients for real greatness. It definitely uses more of Wonder Woman's mythos than the 2009 animated movie did. We get Julia Kapatelis, Silver Swan, Doctor Poison and Doctor Cyber, Giganta, and Veronica Cale. Etta Candy is wildly different from her paler 2009 incarnation (thank goodness).
And Steve Trevor is much better here than his 2009 impression (but still quite not as good as Chris Pine).
Rosario Dawson is great as Diana, and the animation is largely good.
So why doesn't the story grab me?
I guess, outside of Silver Swan, the rest of Villainy Inc got almost no development at all. These folx ain't the Batmam rogues where we've seen them countless times before and can skip in-depth intros.
The Cheetah is a hench. Again. Ugh. There is NEVER emphasis on her brains, just claws and speed. Hated that, especially here.
Medusa as the big bad was a head-scratcher. I honestly thought the "prototype" was going to be Genocide (I still think she can be made into a quality foe in the right hands). And this version of Medusa was slaughtering Amazons and Wonder Rogues alike.
The final fight just had that MOS feel of going on too long.
And Cale just came off as a Diet Lex Luthor.
I guess this felt like, well we know we're rebooting the DC animated movie universe after the JLD movie after this, so have at it.
The 2009 movie felt way more cohesive and the like the start of something. This was scattered and felt like the end.
Don't know if I'll rewatch.
What did y'all think of this movie? And compared to the 2009 one?