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The catwoman thing is 100% not a joke, it is my favourite superhero movie of all time for a number of reasons, but mainly:
- a romantic relationship is not presented as the ‘win-status’ at the end of the film. The fact that Patience doesn’t end up with the guy at the end isn’t played as a failure or a failing on her part, or at all.
- romantic relationships which require you to change who you are are explicitly made out to be bad
- the wise mentor character is female (seriously that never happens, even in movies with female leads)
- the movie is about how the beauty industry exploits vulnerable women, but it’s never about how wanting to look nice is wrong or bad. No female character gets masculine coded to tell us she’s the good guy. And there’s nothing wrong with masculine coded female leads, but it’s nice to see something going in the other direction for a change.)
- main character flirts with everyone without exception, but doesn’t use her sexuality as a weapon. Her sexiness is entirely incidental to the plot, and I know at the time that wasn’t such a good thing, but in a post Black Widow age it makes a refreshing change.
- the villains special power is facecream that makes you invulnerable and that’s just funny to me
- main character responds to getting powers by robbing a diamond company and eating her own body weight in sushi and that’s just very relatable
- the diamond tipped claws are cheesy but they’re also cool. And the fact that she can move like a cat in terms of getting into and out of places you were absolutely certain were cat-proof is a fun power to give her
- despite getting one of the silliest costumes in superhero movie history, the film is too female-focussed for it to ever feel creepy (at least to me, i recognise this is entirely subjective).
- female main character has positive female friendships that never get compromised, or derailed in favour of jealousy. They’re just friends.
- black female lead, in a movie that isn’t a comedy marketed exclusively to other black women. A movie intended to have mainstream appeal - a superhero movie even - with a black female lead. That’s a rare thing.
- with the exception of the editing (which is not good bordering on terrible in places) it’s a well made film, that knows exactly how cheesy to be (which is extremely) at all times. Seriously though, the camera work and direction is all good. It’s even lit well (remember when you used to be able to see what was happening at night in films?)
- everything in this superhero movie is laser targeted to seem really awesome to pre-teen/young teen girls, and i think that was probably an accident, but it’s still awesome. The only other superhero thing aimed at girls I can think of is DC Superhero Girls, which is a cheaply made toy commercial, which is stupid when there’s so many cool female superheroes who don’t get enough limelight
Ultimately is a very stupid, very goofy film. But to say that that’s bad assumes that they were trying to make a serious grownup post-nolan superhero movie. They weren’t. They were trying to make something stupid and goofy and they succeeded with flying colours. (Plus this film and Batman & Robin are the only superhero films willing to admit just how silly the whole idea of superhero movies are, and I think that’s very big of them.)
