Review of Wonder Woman (2017) by Euu — 03 Jun 2017

You can pretty much tell that the critics are full of crap since most of the praise for this movie is about how the main chatacter and the director are women. Remove those things and you are left with a generic, utterly forgetable movie.

I can understand DC failing with BvS or Suicide Squad, but they have no excuse failing with this one since they already made a good Wonder Woman animated movie, with better story, characters and structure. Also, they have a character based in Greek mythology, probably the richest mythology in the world, with gods, monsters and all kinds of mythical creatures and yet they decided that the best enemies for their Warrior Princess in bikini to fight are soldiers in the First World War. I don't really get the setting, other than the fact that they had to hammer in their feminist message of how opressed women were in the period that they got to stay home instead of dying in some muddy trench. They could have easilly had Diana go all Kratos and kill the entire Mount Olympus, instead we see her killing some poor bastards in the trenches and the movie doesn't even play this for satire like the first Captain America did.

The characters are also subpar. Gal Gadot is the only one that raises above average. She isn't the best at emoting, but she has enough charm and femininity as not to make this character just another man with boobs. Chris Pine is pretty bad though, he has zero charisma and chemistry with the main actress and this makes their relationship feel forced. The other characters are forgetable, from the diversity squad of good guys to the disposble villain. I actually thought they will be clever at the end and reveal that there is no God of War influencing the events and there are just people fighting other people, but the movie is too dumb for that and of course the villain is revealed so they can have a dumb battle at the end.

I do appreciate however that, even though DC went more towards the Marvel formula, they at least had the decency not to add jokes and quips every 30 seconds that ruin all the tension. There is more humour than in the Snyder films, but it's done with taste and they don't feel the need to insert dick and poop jokes just so that it can pander to teenagers and manchildren. And that at least makes it better than Guardians of the Galaxy, if DC fanboys want any comfort.