Anyone else having trouble getting through it?

I did. It was a terrible story with shallow characters and way too much crappy CGI in the action scenes. I do think that Pedro Pascal did a great job in his role and he actually had the most interesting character. It's a shame that Cheetah was no real threat and her motives were awful. Apparently also, for her to be attractive, all she needed to do was wear tighter clothes and lose the glasses, great message. There are some funny bits with Steve which are probably the best parts of the film.

Diana is also the worst anthropologist/archaeologist of all time. Apparently the Sumarians, Carthage, Kush, and the Roman Empire all vanished suddenly and without explanation. I couldn't help but facepalm when she said that. I mean I know this is a fantasy world, but has anyone ever read a book?

I didn't really get the overwhelming "wokeness" that everyone seems to be complaining about. There were good and bad men and I think everyone is overly sensitive about the subject. Overall, this was a huge disappointment and I would rank the original WW near the top of any superhero film list and WW84 near the bottom.

Hubby and I had to pause several times to say "Wtf??" but we managed to finish the movie. I kept thinking I was watching one of those horrible made for the Sci-Fi Channel movies. It's that bad.

It gets worse.

WW84 = 4/10

I was exhausted 80 minutes in. Waaay too bloated.

After the "American Ninja Warrior" opening followed by the mall opening (that felt like it was made by someone 200 years from now who never experienced the 80s) we had a power flicker that stopped the movie. We considered watching the rest but moved on to a far better movie.

Joggers didn't wear leg warmers and aerobics classes were not being conducted in the middle of malls. Stranger Things did a far better job of portraying the mall experience. We are 80s kids and were shocked at how poorly this film handled every second of the opening mall sequence.

Re: the mall scene: I know, right? Since when is Wonder Woman Spiderman???? The CGI was worse than cheesy and FFS, if it takes her that long to bring down a few thugs... I mean how many times did she have to re-re-re-re-subdue the baddies? SMDH.

In terms or story and editing, it was without a doubt one of the worst movies I've ever seen. WAAAY too much time spent on things that really didn't matter and no time at all on providing back story to any character except WW. The director was just throwing stale stereotypes at us and hoping (I guess) that we "get it" rather than actually, you know, providing motivation for the characters. And for a 2020 film, the effects were *terrible*. And as others have said just impossible leaps belief suspension like Steve Trevor can fly a modern jet.... Thank god I had other things to do while watching it so it wasn't a COMPLETE waste of a couple of hours and even more thankful I didn't see this turd in a theater.

From what I've read everywhere, a lot of people break the movie viewing of WW84 into two parts. The movie is not only way too long, but uninteresting for long stretches of time. I stopped watching around the Egypt scenes (ironic an action scene meant to "wake us up" actually bored me and caused me to stop the movie). I resumed it a couple days later and was hit with more Pedro Pascal SCREAMING WORDS for the remainder of the film.

Not me I'm a guy that got to see plenty of Gal Gadot in it. Hopefully WW3 is 2.5 hours long. The theater gives refills of popcorn and tea so I'm fine with the movie and even got to get refills.