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We saw Wonder Woman<\/em> over the weekend, which may be the summer\u2019s biggest box office hit.<\/p>\n

I thought it was a good movie, a far better than usual comic book flick. \u00a0Growing up, I was a D.C. fan, as opposed to Marvel. \u00a0One difference is that D.C. heroes are much more awe-inspiring than Marvel\u2019s angst-ridden heroes who can\u2019t even feel good about having superpowers. \u00a0Also, D.C. heroes don\u2019t make wise-cracks all the time. \u00a0They are serious, earnest, and sometimes inspiring. \u00a0True, D.C. started emulating Marvel, which I think was a big mistake.<\/p>\n

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Now that movie special effects can do whatever the comic book artist\u2019s pen and brush can do, we now have D. C. Studios competing with the more successful Marvel Studios. \u00a0But this Wonder Woman movie feels like a D.C. comic book, and it makes D.C. Studios a contender again.<\/p>\n

The movie was not nearly as feminist as I was expecting, though many women\u00a0are exultant about having a female superheroine. \u00a0Nor is it political, though some Arab nations are banning the film because its star, the impressive Gal Gadot, is Israeli.<\/p>\n

There was some intriguing\u00a0theology: \u00a0Greek gods, killed by the god of war Ares; a sword called\u00a0a \u201cgod-killer\u201d; a strong theme of sin that Wonder Woman has to discover; the notion that no one \u201cdeserves\u201d to be saved.<\/p>\n

But no homosexuality, no moral relativism, no snark, no irony. \u00a0There is a love story, some fine World War I imagery, and some genuinely touching moments.<\/p>\n

Some viewers and critics have been projecting their\u00a0ideologies and issues onto the film, but I think it\u2019s pretty innocent of those deeper meanings and is mainly first-rate entertainment.<\/p>\n

Have you seen it? \u00a0What did you think? \u00a0I may have missed something because of my escapist mood.<\/p>\n

After the jump, a review by Megan Basham from the Christian news publication\u00a0World Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

From Megan Basham,\u00a0Amazon vs. evil | WORLD News Group<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n

Somewhere in the bang and crash of what begins as a typical if enjoyable superhero movie, Wonder Woman<\/em> takes a surprising theological turn. . . .<\/p>\n

From the outset Wonder Woman<\/em> feels refreshing for its relatively unexplored setting of World War I.\u00a0Kicking restlessly against the goads of her idyllic, Hellenistic life on an island hidden from time by Zeus, the Amazonian princess\u2019s path takes a turn when Steve Trevor (Chris Pine), an American flyboy, crashes off her beach.\u00a0Diana rescues him, her warrior-women cohorts dispatch the Germans on his tail with a dazzling display of martial artistry, and soon she\u2019s sneaking away from her overprotective mother to fulfill her destiny and help Steve end the War to End All Wars.<\/p>\n

Once she gets to London, Wonder Woman\u2019s forthrightness plays hilariously against Edwardian mores and modesty.\u00a0Pine and Gadot trade plenty of double entendres, but the jokes mostly stem from Diana\u2019s innocence and Steve\u2019s chivalry.\u00a0When she invites him literally to sleep beside her, he explains that a man should never assume\u00a0a woman will be willing to \u201csleep\u201d with him outside the bonds of marriage.\u00a0It\u2019s a cute moment, made cuter by the fact that this kind of wry humor, crackling with chemistry and wit, only works in a historical context now that Western society no longer holds any sexual boundaries in common.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Keep reading. . .]\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Photograph of Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman from Bagogames, Flickr, Creative Commons License<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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