Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Shazam! Wrath of the Gods is a thoroughly conventional comic book movie that won't impress anyone, but it won't offend them either. At least this time we have bad guys with human faces and not some computer-generated creature without a hint of facial expressions or a touch of charisma. In terms of the recently failed DC universe, it's one of the better (read "at least average") films, but I'm missing the main target audience by at least 15 years or so. (17/03/2023)

The first Shazam! was a pretty nice and unpretentious flick, but Fury of the Gods, unfortunately, flirts with moments of awkwardness for a noticeable part of its running time, offering a predictable and overly instructive story about the importance of family (and no, it's not another Fast and Furious). It also has reprehensibly overlong running time and, at times, rather poor CGI. Fury of the Gods wants to be fun and brisk, but it fails badly. In this case, I'm not so sorry that I didn't catch the film in the cinema and watched it in the end thanks to Netflix. (05/06/2024)

A boring and cringe version of Avengers from Wish for elementary school kids. And what's worse than unconvincing, bland wannabe superhero action? 130 minutes of unconvincing, bland wannabe superhero action! Because Shazam! Fury of the Gods has everything it shouldn't have, and nothing it should. The humour has completely disappeared compared to the first one and there is not not a single wisecrack, the main gang is extremely uninteresting and the trio of villains is perhaps the most ridiculous in the history of the genre. Sorry, but three "evil sisters", one a 15 year-old Indian, one a 50 year-old Asian and the third a 150 year-old granny, I can't that seriously. Add to that the superb awkwardness of the script, the inability to think logically from all sides and a total shitfest resembling a B-movie parody and the result is in. An extreme flop on all counts and I'm actually not surprised anymore. Slowly but surely this genre is going down the shitter... (14/04/2023)

#12 DCEU. Fury of the Gods is the third film in the Shazam! and Black Adam cycle. As such, it is worth paying attention to only because of Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot (the future duo from the planned Snow White). But Wonder Woman's involvement in this late stage of the DCEU is so unfortunate and unfunny that not even the sight of villains Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu pleased me. What a shame. (29/07/2023)

This time, Shazam and his family are up against a trio of ancient female villains with godlike powers and an angry dragon. More action and more visual effects doesn’t mean more quality. Unfortunately, Shazam! Fury of the Gods looks like a discount-bin comic book flick. The visual effects are downright bad, and the action and humour are both lame. The result is a bland superhero flick that never really gets going in a way that can truly engage. And then it's over, leaving nothing in your mind. (16/03/2023)