Hello! So this isn't so much a movie review, it's more of a ramble about what I thought about the film but I hope you like it anyway.
It's been over 50 years but finally, we have a female superhero movie ... and it's good!! I'm so so glad they didn't mess it up. It's not perfect as a film I'll say that much but the importance of Wonder Woman essentially overrules any pedantic thoughts I had.
Gal Gadot is the perfect Wonder Woman; she's good at the humour, she's good at the drama, she's good at the fighting and while I don't want to reduce her to her physical attributes but my god she might be the most stunning woman I've ever seen. It was so good to have a female hero at the forefront of a movie without her playing second fiddle to a dude. As she grew up solely around women she had no reason to ever think her gender would be a hindrance to her. When you finally see her in the costume, my internal monologue was essentially just AAAAAAAH.
Chris Pine as Steve also deserves a little shoutout. I adore Chris Pine anyway but he was played Steve extremely well, never taking away the spotlight from Wonder Woman herself. I wish they'd gone a little bit more into some of the other male characters backgrounds like Charlie and the Chief as they were basically just kind of there and they did seem like interesting characters, but who knows they may make a return!
I will admit the film itself is maybe a little slow at times and some things are left unexplained (Marvel are not very good at treating their female characters well but their films are better executed than DC sorry not sorry) but I think the fact a big studio is finally taking steps towards using their brilliant female characters is a wonderful thing.... so if we could just have a Black Widow movie soon that would be great thank u marvel.
Sorry it's short - I've got exams and I've been procrastinating enough as it is!
Laura
