A jewellery heist (which WW foils) uncovers a hoard of antiquities which are sent to the museum and Diana and Barbera Minerva (Kristen Wiig) set to cataloguing them. In particular there is one fake-looking gemstone, fitted with a Latin inscription claiming that it grants wishes. Both the women jokingly make wishes on the stone in unguarded moments.
No good will come of this.
Meanwhile Max Lord (Pedro Pascal) is looking for the stone hoping it can fix his floundering TV personality driven direct sales business empire.
This has good ideas in the "monkey's paw"/life shortcuts are bad vein but is messy.
Steve Trevor reappears as a back from the dead body-swap with a random stranger. An odd choice as the stone can do seemingly endless magic so why not just bring him back?
Minerva wishes to be like Diana and slowly becomes superhuman but loses herself in the process. Kristen Wiig does this well.
Once Max Lord gets hold of it, chaos ensues and Pedro Pascal revels in it.
The 1980s pastiche bits are fun but mostly contained in the mall heist and some fish out of water scenes with Chris Pine.
It's all a bit 'floaty' with the action scenes having a cartoon feel that mostly works. There's a completely superfluous big action sequence in Egypt for 'reasons' that could have just not been there. They tickbox some stuff randomly like the Invisible Plane, various obvious 'bad wishes' and the inevitable Diane/Minerva girl-boss fight.
Generally though it has its heart in the right place and on a second watch I think I enjoyed it more than first time. I very much like that the actual conclusion isn't really a battle even if it's a kind of 'love conquers all' one.
7/10, doesn't stand up to scrutiny but the DCEU has committed far worse to screen.
I may be wrong but it feels like the Netflix release was not the same cut I saw on release. Or it might just be my memory going.