Enjoyable but disappointing.

Rating: 6/10 (6 June 2017)

SPOILER ALERT!
Saw Wonder Woman at the weekend... I will have to say that I was somewhat disappointed.
Don't get me wrong, I loved the action, and Gal Gadot did a surprisingly excellent job (I say surprisingly only because I, naively thought that Wonder Woman should be played by someone bigger / more obviously strong). The choreography of all of the action scenes was really good. The whole first portion of the movie showing Wonder Woman's back story on the Amazonian island was excellent.
HOWEVER...
1. I think the title of the movie should be changed to "CHRIS PINE!!! (featuring Wonder Woman)". Chris Pine's character was largely unnecessary to the story-line and despite supposedly being a secondary character, he had as much screen time and more lines than Gal Gadot. Perhaps they thought that they really needed a well known star in the movie as they cast an unknown for Wonder Woman...?
2. Okay... We get it... She is a woman... It's 1918... Women weren't treated equally back then and certainly weren't involved in war councils and fighting... But did they REALLY need to keep on and on pointing out "Oh my... What is a woman doing here?!"
3. In pretty much ever scene where Wonder Woman was with "normal people", there was someone mentioning how beautiful she is and the guys making unnecessary sexual remarks about her. Do we really need that validation of her beauty CONSTANTLY in the movie? In Superman or Batman or Spiderman movies there isn't a group of women every time the superhero is on screen saying how handsome he is... Wonder Woman is meant to be a bad ass warrior with super human strength and abilities. THAT is what is amazing about her... Not the fact that she is beautiful.
4. It felt like in EVERY fight scene, there was a slow mo clip to a part in the fight where Chris Pine "saves" Wonder Woman.
5. Really? A love story? It was totally unnecessary and just further enhanced Chris Pine's role while (in my mind) weakening Wonder Woman.
6. The Amazonian island was hidden for centuries and undiscoverable. It seems though that all it took was Chris Pine to show up and suddenly everyone can get through the magic barrier and get to the island... GO CHRIS PINE!
7. Apparently Chris Pine's character is meant to be British... But he makes no effort to have a British accent...??
8. The movie is getting all of these accolades for being so "female led" with a female director and a strong female lead... (It makes me sad that, in 2017, this should be something that makes a movie stand out SO MUCH that it needs to be highlighted in every article about the movie) However, apart from the Amazon's at the very start, there were only 3 main female parts for the majority of the movie - Wonder Woman, the second villain (who makes gas, but is otherwise useless in any confrontation) and Chris Pine's quirky secretary who they jokingly suggest that she is his slave...
9. Wonder Woman never once questions "Where are all your women?"... She is from a world where there are only women, and women are strong and independent and warriors! Once off the island, there are, seemingly, only 2 other women (as described above). Surely because of her upbringing, Wonder Woman would at least question why there are no female soldiers in the war...?
10. A Native American Chief? In the middle of WWI... All by himself in enemy territory... Why was he there? What was the point of his character?
11. A weird Scottish marksman who is apparently the best sniper ever, but it turns out he can't shoot... Why was he there? What was the point of his character?
12. The other guy... I am guessing he was meant to be an Arab? Why was he there? What was the point of his character?
13. And perhaps the most poignant point... Chris Pine's character is the one who actually saves the day!! He is the one who ultimately stops the war by destroying the gas. Sure, Wonder Woman kills Ares... But that is an act which seemingly has no impact to the world of man because we still go on to have more wars after WWI... The main plot of this movie was to stop WWI, and it is actually Chris Pine who does that.