(PG – 13) (2hrs 21 mins) I went into this movie not expecting much
because after all, it's DC. If you read my last post, you'd know that
I find almost all DC comics to take themselves too seriously. Many of
the parodies of DC heroes,
Lego Batman, How It Should Have Ended You
Tube parodies, etc, are hilarious because it's so easy to poke fun
at DC heroes' overly dramatic and pompous lines. This movie, though,
knocked it out of the park. The director, Patty Jenkins, did a
fabulous job. The star, Gal Gadot, playing Diana / Wonder Woman, was
amazing! I had never seen her before. How she managed to look so
young, fresh and innocent, I'll never know. She had me buying that
she was a young immigrant from an Amazonian Island and had never seen
modern civilization before she went with Steve Trevor, played by
Chris Pine, to England to stop the war. Chris Pine who played Captain
James Kirk in the
Star Trek reboot makes a far better Steve Trevor
than he did Captain Kirk, but I'm bias having loved William Shatner's
Captatin Kirk way more than Lyle Wagggoner's Steve Trevor. While I'm
on the TV series
The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1975-9), having
loved Lynda Carter's Diana, I was dubious whether her
