"Wonder Woman 1984" – Gal Just Wants to Have Fun

Pop Culture Double Date

It's been three years since Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot (with an assist from Chris Pine) injected new life into the DC Extended Universe with "Wonder Woman". Now they're back with a neon- and pastel-coloured ode to the excesses of the 1980s, a decade of big shoulder pads, big hair and big dreams by restless conmen wanting to pass off their Ponzi schemes as oil empires. But with a distribution plan that's had to accommodate the realities of COVID-19 and an increasingly disapproving crowd of online critics, have Jenkins, Gadot & Co repeated the success of previous entry? We ponder this and more, in the latest episode of Pop Culture Double Date.