Movie of the Week: Wonder Woman

[jacey]

Gal Gadot is Wonder Woman. She wears the part naturally and fulfils the promise of her appearance in Batman v Superman. This is the origin story. Diana of Themyscira, princess of the Amazons, reared on a paradise island inhabited by a society of warrior women is unaware of the rest of the world until the First World War, in the shape of Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) come crashing (literally) on to the island. It's 1918. Diana is determined that she should leave the island to end the conflict. Believing Ares is responsible for the war, Diana arms herself with the "Godkiller" sword, the Lasso of Hestia, and armor before leaving Themyscira with Trevor to find and destroy Ares (whom she believes to be masquerading as German General Ludendorff).

Full marks also to Lucy Davis who plays Steve Trevor's secretary, Etta Candy, a woman in a man's world, competent and capable

I've never seen Christ Pine in anything I didn't like and his supporting role in this move hits the mark perfectly. There's good chemistry between the two leads, but Trevor never steals Gadot's thunder.

This is a movie of firsts (first superhero featurting a female lead, first Marvel superhero movie directed by a woman (Patty Jenkins). Diana is a badass without surrending her femininity. Sure the movie isn't perfect, but I enjoyed it immensely and look forward to the next.

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[lil_shepherd]

Well, no. It isn't by any means the first superhero movie with a female lead: there are, among others, "Supergirl", "Electra", "Catwoman", "Barb Wire", and "Tank Girl." The problem is that they aren't very good - in fact, most of them are downright bad. But no, "Wonderwoman" is by no means the first: it happens to be the best. Which is a good enough claim to fame, even though it has its problems, particularly the rip off of "Captain America: the First Avenger" in the third act.

[lil_shepherd]

Furthermore, it isn't a Marvel movie: it's a DC movie, and it isn't their first superhero movie with a female lead, which would be 'Supergirl', and 'Catwoman' is also (very, very loosely) based on one of their characters. The first movie with a female lead based on a Marvel character would be 'Elecktra'. The first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (and produced by Marvel Studios) will be "Captain Marvel".