Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?

The Batman series creator must have been overworked to have created this schlock! I suspect that he was either misogynist or he really did not want to make this series and wanted to show the studio gate-keepers a lousy pilot, on purpose. The Diana Prince actress and her overbearing earth mother's acting was cheesy enough to rate a lifetime achievement award on the Razzies. The prancing in front of the mirror was awful really awful. Cheesy music, Cheesy set & Cheesy SFX,,what fun!!! DP's Wonder Woman costume as ill-fitting and looks like a cheap wonder woman costume. The actress playing a good looking Wonder Woman, in the mirror reflection (apparently how DP sees herself) was a complete bimbo...the awkward flying out the window was a gasser..don't get me wrong, I dug these affectations. A 5 year old youtube fanboy could create a better pilot..ya gotta see it, man!..Wow, it's awful! As a lover of bad movies (The Room, Troll 2, Grindhouse, Frankenpimp)I gave this short flick a 10...then again..maybe I should get my head examined.

WARNING: this short feature, made to test the waters for another camp comic book show in the wake of Batman's success in the 1960s (with the same narrator) is played broadly for laughs.

So rid your head any visions of Linda Carter or choirs singing "Wonder Woman!" This Wonder Woman, millions of years old, lives in an ordinary suburban house with her mother, Hyppolita (Maudie Prickett doing the demanding mother shtick and who is the best thing in this short feature).

A few things would have to be ironed out had this made it to a series: knowing her amazing beauty Wonder Woman is incredibly self-admiring (one very funny thing I trust was intentional is when she's admiring herself in the mirror her reflection turns the wrong way and uses the wrong hand).

Potential as a series: it might have been good in a "Batman" sort of way. Remember, this isn't any sort of finalized version of a potential series. It's a short feature to entice network executives (not known for their humor or their ability to grasp subtlety) to get a hint of possibilities. Nothing here is set in stone. It's a lot of hints thrown at random against the proverbial wall to see what sticks and wasn't made for public consumption. Once a series was contracted it would have been different (though, I hope, as funny or more so).

Taken for what it is, it's hilarious. I wish it had been longer.

The plot is about Wonder Woman rescuing Steve from an airplane in stormy weather, but don't mind that: they don't get that far. Don't look for any flying effects.

I read tons of comic books as a kid but I never read superhero comics, so I never developed any particular hero worship for these ridiculous figures with superhuman powers. Poking gentle fun at them doesn't bother me. I liked "Batman" (the series) when I was a kid though I knew no more about Batman than the series presented. Later, I liked the show "Wonder Wonan" because I was a post-adolescent high school boy when it aired. 'Nuff said. So I'm open to nonsense like this. I advise anyone watching this to be the same or you'll get in a snit. If you're overprotective of Wonder Woman you'll be foaming at the mouth.

Four minute short that is in fact the first time Wonder Woman appeared on film.

This is a little confusing. Due to the comical acting and the sound of the 1966 Batman narrator, when I watched this I thought it was trying to follow in the footsteps of the campy Adam West Batman series? Instead of being a campy superhero series it was going for the all out sit-com format seen in I Dream Of Jeannie and Bewitched.

Now I get it - but I don't like it.

I personally wish they tried for the less obvious Batman-style of comedy as, when this was made in 1967, there were a few silly fantasy sitcoms doing the rounds, and this probably seemed rather routine.

Others seem to find 1967 Wonder Woman rather amusing but not me. At the time of this review this short can only be found on Youtube, and if it has been taken down, you have not missed much. Basically, it looks like it was thrown together on a Sunday afternoon and the only things of interest are the Batman narrator and the sound of some known 20th Century Fox music cues. Forget it.

So bad it's good. Just saw it for the first time. Made me laugh and wonder what were they thinking?

This 'pilot' for a series that never eventuated is only four minutes long, but every minute of it is a blast... as long as you're already a Wonder Woman fan. The series would never had survived simply because the idea works best as a spoof, and most people at the time wouldn't have had much to do with Wonder Woman. Now that there has been at least one 'straight' television series about her, the spoof works a lot better. It's also a lot of fun for those of us know WW from the comics, but the less you know about the character the less it is likely to tickle your funny bone.