Review of Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) by Healingtoolbox — 23 Mar 2023
More enjoyable for me than the reviews led me to believe. Another movie with at least eight director-level collaborators: a 2nd unit director plus seven VFX directors one for each house working pre, post and during production.
When so many people who love telling stories well collaborate, the result is almost always impressive on multiple levels. As regularly happens in pro reviews of most super hero movies, the Great Expectations pattern takes over.
The final movie is criticized for what it is not; and, for what it could have been. This is the fast way to become a jaded and cynical movie reviewer. I recommend finding the moments which do work for you, try to ignore the rest on first viewing.
As the negative pro reviews observe, Shazam 2 is very much a movie with a 2010 mindset, perseverating on familiar tropes which ran out of oomph a decade or more ago. I did not find Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu "bland.
" I did find the stereotyped limitations of their roles and dialog very 1990s. The most literate, considered pro reviews on S2 Ive seems so far are from Owen Gleiberman in Variety and Jacob Oller at Paste.
This review of Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) was written by Healingtoolbox on 23 Mar 2023.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods has generally received mixed reviews.
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