Shazam! Fury Of The Gods - Movie Review

Plot

So Shazam! Fury of the gods is a sequel to the generally liked and loved by me Shazam. Billy Batson and his siblings The Rock and the powers of Shazam otherwise known as the powers of gods they're out there saving people but not so gracefully doing so a lot of collateral damage but now these goddesses known as the daughters of Kronos they've shown up they don't like humans too much so all right they're gonna cause problems new movie!

Jack Dylan Grazer

Now what I liked about this movie I got to give a special shout-out to Jack Dylan Grazer. I felt he was the emotional center of the entire film he's always been a talented kid this movie is a testament to that I felt he really brought it but it is also a testament to the fact that the emotional center of a movie like this is when they're not superheroes they're just normal kids and that also feeds into what I appreciate about Asher Angel playing Billy Batson in this film because in the previous film, the contrast between Billy Batson/Asher Angel and how Zachary Levi acted it was too vast they didn't feel like the same person that Gap that contrasts it's still there but you can tell Asher Angel is trying his best to act like Zachary Levi more in this film than he did in the previous film it's like they listened to the fan feedback they proceed accordingly I appreciate that.

Weird thing is Billy Batson is largely absent in this film he's in it but not as much as you'd think not as much as the previous film most of the time when you see the character he's Shazam he's Zachary Levi he's the adult superhero version there are even scenes where he and his Shazam fam they're all hanging out in their Shazam cave and they're they're in their superhero Shazam well I guess it's not outfits they're in their adult superhero forms but they're just planning and hanging out no reason to be and I felt that did cost the movie Something the emotional center point of the characters is best seen when their kids you know when they're in their youthful form and they're dealing with their problems when they're in their Shazam form for most of the movie it loses a bit of that contrast it feels less like their kids who get to become superheroes and more like their god-like superheroes who sometimes become kids and that was actually the positive part of the review because the rest of the movie was generic superhero stuff.

Villain

You don't really have cool or relatable villains in this movie granted you could make the villains people don't really know or care about you can make them cool in the movie but they just didn't generally love Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu, they came across as generic 2004 comic book movie villains dropped in 2023. From there the rest of the movie is bringing back characters they killed off in the previous movie that they want to bring back for this movie also it's a flowing ebb of having the powers they don't because they have to Nerf the Shazam fam otherwise the baddies to be taken out pretty quickly that's what I mean when I say sequelitis not like this movie was planned from the first one if it was don't tell me it was let me blissfully believe that the mess of a sequel came about because of the success of the first movie and it wasn't planned I used the word generic because it's the only word to describe my general feeling that this movie left me with generic villain summon a whole horde of generic CGI monsters for the last act and I didn't care about the CGI monsters didn't care about the villains that summoned them and there are some emotional moments in this movie even near the end I did appreciate they were there I was just bored by the time I saw them.

What is liked

Now I do appreciate the fact this movie doesn't rely on the general DC Universe which is now non-existent but it doesn't rely on the universe to pitch and sell the movie it operates how I feel a comic book movie should operate within your own contained story know that as part of a larger universe as a whole have a couple of Easter eggs in there that reminds the odd audience that is part of that but they don't have to watch every TV show movie it doesn't feel like homework I did appreciate Shazam for that granted there is that overall feeling when a couple of tie-ins are referenced and are shown! you're like what's the point?

Luckily these moments don't plague the film too badly but you can't help but notice you can't help but think about it you can't help but when you see these moments think to yourself what is the point?

Conclusion

Look in the end, Shazam Fury of the Gods as someone who loved the first shazam movie I was really disappointed with this sequel as a movie that deals largely with magic it was surprisingly devoid of it it almost feels like they didn't know what made the first shazam movie special and click with audiences who liked it so they were just grasping at straws for the sequel you know what's funny is I don't even hate this movie it sounds like I do but I don't it's I kind of nothing I'm not gonna remember not in T minus one day yep already forgot all right so Shazam Fury of the gods have you seen it what did you think about it whatever you thought comment below and let me know.