When an American pilot falls out of the sky onto an island inhabited by female warriors, an Amazonian princess gets pulled into World War I, convinced she can stop it. It helps that she has badass fighting skills. Oh, and superpowers. Here's what critics are saying about DC Comics' long-awaited Wonder Woman, which has a 93% positive rating at Rottten Tomatoes:
- Thanks to "a mostly cheerful light touch" from director Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman restores the "escapist fun" that's been missing from DC Comics movies since Christopher Reeve was Superman, Colin Covert writes at the Minneapolis Star Tribune. It has "campy charm." At the same time, it "blazes an amusing proto-feminist path," he writes. On the downside, it "lacks a compelling supervillain" and is somewhat bewildering.