DC Got It Right!

Rating: 8/10 (2 June 2017)

I saw "Wonder Woman", starring Gal Gadot-Keeping Up With the Joneses, the Fast & the Furious movies; Chris Pine-The New Star Trek movies, Into the Woods; Robin Wright-Moneyball, Forrest Gump; Danny Huston-Big Eyes, Clash of the Titans_2010 and David Thewlis-Red 2, the Harry Potter movies.
This is the first female starring superhero film that is directed by a woman, Patty Jenkins, who directed Monster-and before you get your panties all knotted up, I said directed by a woman, because there have been female superhero movies before. Gal plays Princess Diana of Themyscira, home of the Amazons. If you remember her debut in the not as good Batman vs. Superman, this movie starts in the present time as she gets the photograph from Bruce Wayne of her that was taken during WW1. The majority of the movie is a flashback telling the story behind the picture, plus her origin, too, of course. Robin plays Gal's Amazon aunt that helps train Gal in the finer points of being a warrior. These training sessions and other battle scenes are unbelievably athletic and graceful and there is a lot of humor throughout the movie, too. Chris plays Steve Trevor, a British spy that crash lands right off the coast of Themyscira during a top secret mission. Gal saves him from drowning and discovers the horrors of war in the outside world. She travels back with Chris and when she comes face to face with a certain Nazi officer, Danny, she believes Danny is actually the God of War, Ares, in disguise. David plays a British commander that helps Chris on his and Gal's mission to end the war and restore peace. DC has not had the track record of good movies like Marvel has but I think they got it right on this one. FYI: I heard a rumor-before seeing the movie-that Linda Carter would make a cameo appearance, but she did not show up. It's rated "PG-13" for action, violence and sexual content-partial nudity and before you get too excited, it was of Chris, not Gal-and has a running time of 2 hours & 21 minutes. I really enjoyed this movie and would buy it on Blu-Ray.