WONDER WOMAN
An exciting superhero adventure with strong moral elements—for adults.
Should You Watch It?
WONDER WOMAN is an exciting, very well-made comic book adventure. It offers a thoughtful story, strong direction, excellent visual effects, and a powerful performance by Gal Gadot. Its moral center is also clear: Diana wants to protect vulnerable people, confront evil, and learn sacrificial love.
That strength comes with serious content concerns. The film features Greek gods and demi-gods, intense war violence, strong action, profanity, sexual material, nudity, alcohol use, and off-color humor. Its worldview mixes pagan mythology with Christological allegory and moral themes, rather than presenting a biblical understanding of God.
The practical answer is simple: discerning adults may find this worthwhile, but it is not appropriate for children or young teens.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESDiana, princess of the Amazons, has always wanted to fight evil and protect those who cannot protect themselves. When a World War I pilot crashes near her isolated island, Diana learns about the war and a deadly poison-gas plan involving a mad scientist.
She leaves home with Steve Trevor and enters a world of political leaders, soldiers, and brutal conflict. Diana believes a powerful evil force is behind the war—and that she must stop it.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is a top-quality entertainment choice within the source review’s concerns. WONDER WOMAN is exciting and very well made, with good directing and a thoughtful plot line. The visual effects are extremely well done.
Gal Gadot does a good job playing Diana, and Chris Pine also gives a good performance as Steve Trevor. The origin story goes on a bit long, but the review says this eventually is not a major issue.
The Worldview
WONDER WOMAN has a strong pagan worldview built around Greek mythology, including Zeus and Ares. Diana is told she was born of a god and can kill another god with a magical weapon. The film presents Ares as a devil-like figure who deceives and manipulates people toward destruction.
At the same time, the movie contains strong moral and Christological elements. It promotes sacrificial love, compassion, patriotic duty, doing what is right despite circumstances, and good overcoming evil. Diana believes her purpose is to bring peace and love while protecting people in need. The film also says that people contain both peace and war, light and darkness, and must choose to believe in the light.
The movie includes some light politically correct elements and a feminist subtext, though the source says it falls short of being truly radical. Its pagan framework remains a significant concern, even as its moral themes point toward truths Scripture affirms. “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Explicit but mixed pagan worldview with pagan elements and references to Greek gods, including Zeus and Ares, and protagonist is told she’s born of a god and thus can kill another god using a magical weapon, but combined with strong Christological, moral, patriotic elements extolling sacrifice, the idea that belief or faith can direct your path, good overcoming evil, compassion, patriotic duty, the goodness of trying to end a brutal war, doing the right thing no matter the circumstances, some Christological allegories, a group of men kneel down and pray, mentions of prayer, protagonist learns how to love through sacrifice, and a church is in several scenes, and a negative comment about marriage, plus some light politically correct moments and a feminist subtext but it falls short of being really radical, and there’s two or three light but vague and infrequent lesbian implications and possible allusions surrounding the island of women from which the protagonist originates; five obscenities and one light profanity; strong action violence with very little blood includes man falls out of plane, multiple fight scenes with sword fighting and guns, two powerful characters battle one another and cause huge destruction, Wonder Woman storms the German lines and leads an attack in a lengthy battle scene to save people in a village, woman has a marred face, many explosions, many soldiers are killed or fall during World War I battle scenes, and people are thrown about during war scenes; some light sexual content includes comments that intimacy should be within marriage, but movie also implies characters do sleep with each other, and a man lives a bachelor life and says a negative comment about marriage, but then learns to love, man and woman go to a room at night and start to kiss but there’s no bedroom scene before and after, female protagonist says a woman might need a man for procreation but not for “pleasure”, but her statement is left vague; woman accidently enters and sees a man taking a bath, audience see his behind as he steps out of the bath and covers himself, and there are a couple light double entendres of his nakedness (the man and the woman pretend to talk about the watch his father gave him; the woman has never seen a watch), protagonist and female soldiers wear Greek military skirts (as you see in the WONDER WOMAN comics); some alcohol use, and a character is drunk at a bar; no smoking or drug use, but villain takes a potion that makes him more powerful; and, lying and deceit done by villain so it’s rebuked, some sexist attitudes by government officials in parliament toward a woman being in their presence while they discuss important issues, heroine disobeys her mother about going to stop a war but eventually convinces mother she should go, and heroine lives to fight to protect others.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Diana believes she must protect people who cannot protect themselves. What does Scripture say about defending the vulnerable, and how can your family practice that?
Proverbs 31:8–9 · Micah 6:8The film presents sacrificial love as a way to overcome darkness. How is that idea fulfilled and clarified by Jesus?
John 15:13 · 1 John 4:9–10Diana believes people must choose between light and darkness. What does Scripture teach about walking in the light?
John 3:19–21 · Ephesians 5:8–11The story includes Greek gods and a god-like hero. How does the Bible distinguish the living God from the idols and powers people worship?
Acts 17:22–31 · 1 Corinthians 8:4–6The Final Word
WONDER WOMAN is exciting, thoughtful, and very well made. Its sacrificial-love themes and Christological allegory give it moral weight, but pagan mythology and strong content make it unsuitable for children and young teens. For discerning adults, the answer is WORTH THE TRIP — ADULTS ONLY. For other family options, see.
