Let's face it--the animation division of Time Warner has pretty much been the dominant division in this field for close to 70 years. From the Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and other shorts of the 1940-1960 era, Warner Brothers have been able to create story, character and humor with great consistency. But when Time Warner acquired DC Comics, it gave the animation division a whole new area to go into. To that end, Time Warner--between the 1989 Batman movie and 1992's Batman Returns--launched "Batman: The Animated Series" for Fox Kids in 1992...and the collaboration between DC Comics/Warner Animation took off, giving us 13 years of great animation and storytelling. This is a credit to two people--the great Bruce Timm, whose vision brought the storytelling to B:TAS and its successors (Batman Beyond, Superman: The Animated Series, and the Justice League/Justice League Unlimited) and allowed the drawn characters to be "fleshed out"--having personalities and conflicts, being human. The other person who should receive loads of credit...is the longtime voice casting director for Warner/DC, Andrea Romano. She has not been afraid of the name of the vocal actor outweighing the drawn character; if anything, the vocal performances have enhanced the art--obviously Kevin Conroy's Batman, Mark Hamill's Joker; Clancy Brown's Lex Luthor, or Carl Lumbly's J'onn J'onzz from the JL/JLU.It seems logical that Warners/DC would step from the television work to the feature-length films they've been doing the last few years, and it seems linear to think that they would concentrate on origin stories, which is the premise of Wonder Woman. Continuing with the philosophy that Timm originated with B:TAS, the story does have an adult tone that some parents might not think their children ready for. It is a VERY good story, both in terms of art and voice work. Once again, Romano has put together a very good vocal cast--Keri Russell and Nathan Fillion have worked on-screen together ("Waitress"). I thought Russell might have been a bit light for Diana, but since it's a "first-time" story it was probably wiser to have a younger voice...Fillion seems to bring a lot of "Firefly" and "Castle" to Steve Trevor; making him less the classic "Dude in Distress" from the early days of Marston's art to a little bit of a partner with the Princess. Alfred Molina's work as Ares is insidious and greasy, in line with many of his live-action turns as villains. Virginia Madsen makes a great Hyppolyta, Rosario Dawson gives great anger to Artemis, and Oliver Platt steals the scenes where he voices Hades.But as GOOD as this movie is, it points up a long-term problem that Time Warner has had regarding the character. The last five years, Warners/DC Comics/Legendary Pictures has been working on a live-action Wonder Woman project which has gone through names conncecting to it and pulling out, speculation on many a website as to who gets to put on the breastplate and the crown...just a lot of starts and stops when it comes to getting the production started, much less on film. The biggest problem--and she gets mentioned only slightly in the special features in the two-disk set--is Lynda Carter hasn't been reborn. If the casting directors can't find a 23-year old brunette who's at least 5'10", athletic, and is (ahem) rather well built (Trevor/Fillion's observation about Diana's "upper-body" is great...and makes the movie PG-13 by itself), then it's better to draw Wonder Woman simply because no live person is going to look better than the artist's version of her.Because of the story, the art, and the brilliant voice work; this version of "Wonder Woman" is highly suggested. It's adult, but charming; nostalgic but incredibly hip.