Men on the internet will leave no female-fronted blockbuster unturned. Until a few days ago, the fervor surrounding Wonder Woman , which opens this weekend after two decades of false starts and personnel changes, felt tame on the grown-males-whining front. As long as Wonder Woman isnt busting ghosts , shell be fine. Unless, of course, a theater announces no-boys-allowed screenings . Then its war.

It seems the folks responsible for Wonder Woman anticipated a macho tussle somewhere along the movies Amazon ian journey to the big screen. After all, the internet provides well-trod platforms for fanboys and I do mean boys who are hyper-reactive to any feminine updates to their childhood staples. Wonder Woman, as an entity, should have been bulletproof, considering the strong-willed heroine dates back to her 1941 DC Comics debut, which spawned multiple animated adaptations and the popular 1970s television series starring Lynda Carter. Oh, we of little faith. Patty Jenkins, the first woman to direct a major superhero movie , and screenwriter Allan Heinberg surely foresaw the same juvenile gender divide that haunts the Hollywood franchise machine. Never devolving into a didactic sermon about feminism, Wonder Woman chides its male mudslingers with humor and grace.