His DCU could never decide whether it wanted to emulate Marvel or do the total opposite, so you’d get films embodying the very best ( The Suicide Squad) and the very worst ( Suicide Squad) of recent comic book fare. Their universe will presumably dispense with the dishevelled approach to tone and continuity that characterised the tenure of their predecessor Walter Hamada. The film marks one of the last breaths of an old regime at the studio, which is now under the control of Peter Safran and Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. Shazam!’s sequel, Fury of the Gods, has now been sent out, defenceless, into DC’s cinematic no man’s land. A group of superheroes, all with cartoony character traits and a sprinkling of funny lines, wind up battling an intergalactic invasive menace, culminating in the usual spectacular but unserious CGI urban apocalypse, with people saying things like: 'This ends tonight!'" The Independent – 2/5 – Clarisse Loughrey This is true of this sequel too, only it's hard not to notice that it could simply be fitting into another boilerplate model (there's a cheeky gag about The Avengers).
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"The first Shazam movie from 2019 was praised for its lighter, brighter worldview, its Gen-Z brio and for being generally unencumbered by the portentous and spurious gloom of earlier DC films. The Shazam! saga has been given an expensive haircut, but it's lost a lot of its flavor in the process." The Guardian – 3/5 – Peter Bradshaw The film isn't terrible, but it's busy, formulaic and rather joyless.
It somehow sidestepped the digitally tooled blockbuster cynicism, but Fury of the Gods falls right into it. It had a breezy screw-loose charm that felt not so much superhuman as good old human. Plenty of comic-book sequels do that, of course, but the first Shazam! was a special case.
"Fury of the Gods is one of those superhero sequels that goes through the paces, presenting us with a story that’s meticulously convoluted and weightless, only to ratchet up the CGI, as if that were the film's way of testifying to its Major Popcorn Movieness. While the film provides the elaborate action set pieces, colorful villains and save-the-world plot mechanics expected of the comic book movie genre, some of the magic is missing." Variety – Owen Gleiberman But like some children who aren't so cute anymore after they've grown up a little, this follow-up lacks much of the appeal of its predecessor. Now, Billy is back, along with his foster siblings, who have similar superhuman alter-egos, in the sequel Shazam! Fury of the Gods. "2019's Shazam! delivered a charming origin story of the DC Comics character Billy Batson, a teenage boy who meets a wizard who bestows on him the ability to become a grown-up superhero upon uttering the magic word.
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