Directed by:
David F. SandbergCinematography:
Gyula PadosComposer:
Christophe BeckCast:
Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer, Adam Brody, Rachel Zegler, Lucy Liu, Djimon Hounsou, Helen Mirren, Ross Butler, Ian Chen, Meagan Good (more)VOD (5)
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Billy Batson - aka Shazam! - and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter egos, but a vengeful trio of ancient gods has arrived on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Now, Billy and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives and the fate of their world. (Roadshow Entertainment)
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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...
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#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.
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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.
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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.
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A classic case of a movie where the studio thinks it’s a good idea to shell out over $100 million for a second installment, but nobody really cares. And, naturally, it’s a well-deserved flop that will give Warner's accountants a severe headache. Granted, the second Shazam is much better and, above all, funnier than the utterly lame first movie. It has more one-liners, jokes, innuendos, and Rachel Zegler’s cute looks, but in the end, it's still an ugly B-movie that takes the superhero genre back to the prehistoric era. Some of the visual effects are truly awful and I can’t figure out where all that money went. Unfortunately, they’re not nearly as awful as Lucy Liu's acting "performance", which was literally screaming for a Golden Raspberry Award nomination. All the scenes with Lucy Liu and Helen Mirren are so cringe-worthy that it's a real accomplishment to make it to the end of the movie without skipping their scenes.
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