D4V1D2411 Review of Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

Unfortunately not as funny nor emotional as the first (but still entertaining)

[7/10 · 26 March 2023]

I was really excited to see this movie, the first movie was one of the most fun and unique movies from DC and this one looked like it was going to be the same, I started to worry a little bit with the bad marketing it was having but I didnt care, as long as it was as good and as emotional as the first one, everything was going to be fine. But it wasn't as good as the original. It lacks the original charm it had and I think thats in part to the fact that the kids dont appear as much as in the first one or as much as their adult hero versions of them. The kids and their personalities were the base of the original and most importantly, the relationship between Billy and his lost mother, we have something similar here, with billy trying to be more controlative with his nw family, but it doesnt hit as hard as it should. Billy and Shazam are a little bit annoying at some points. The jokes he says arent as funny and dont always land, the ones that land are a blast, but more often than not, they just stay as a little laugh. The other members of the family basically have nothing to do other than to lose their powers despite having a lot more of potential. And freddy, is actually very annoying in this movie, while in the first one he was kinda the comedic relief and the one who always said the final funny line, they take that same concept here to a 1000% and kinda ruin it, making him say a joke on every conversation he has and it gets old really quickly, the villains are also very inferior to the last one. Dr Sivana really felt like a bad guy and a real threat. The new villains are okay, but just that, they have an interesting back story but it doesnt get a lot of focus and their interactions always feel like the same and despite being a much bigger threat to the city and the Shazam Family, you dont feel as invested as you were on the last movie. The special effects are good, the actins is also good, the phase is good, everything is good; but when the last movie was great, it feels like a massive drawback. With all this said, I want to say that I still enjoyed the film and I had a great time watching it and it deserves a lot more of attention because it is genuinly good considering the state of the superhero moveis these days, but it isnt enough, it needed to be much more and while Im not really dissapointed, I wished we got something more.