Shazam! Fúria dos Deuses

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)

#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)

I liked the first film better, either because it was the first, or because it didn’t pretend to be anything it wasn’t. The Wrath of the Gods may still be basically the same boyish twaddle with its charming heroes and their equally disarming alter egos, but it could have avoided trying to be something more, because it doesn't really fit, and the good and well-delivered jokes and the flood of mythological creatures somewhat grind. Still, I'm sad that there probably won't be a third installment, and I attribute Shazam's failure more to the audience's oversaturation than to its alleged shortcomings. (22/03/2023)

The point of the first episode “my family will help me when I'm up to my ears in shit”, in the second episode becomes “if my family needs help, I'll try to help them myself and die”. Shazam is a recreation with a big drawback and that is the unlikeable Levi as the main hero and the even less likeable main sidekick. Otherwise, it's a pretty harmless flick about three sisters who want their due and one goes crazy and wants to destroy the world with a wooden dragon. There are lot of absurd things, including a pointless cameo; it’s good to fall asleep. I finished watching it on a third screening. (28/04/2023)

The cursed sequel, which was doomed to fail from the moment it was filmed. Personally, I prefer comics that take a more serious direction and don't break every situation with prehistoric jokes. I had already made up my mind about this in the first part, which ended up being a good comedy. On the other hand, the sequel of Shazam is an unfunny digital mess (I know, complaints like this are common in almost every other blockbuster, but this time it didn't entertain me either) and a cringefest with Helen Mirren and especially Lucy Liu (who frankly should give up acting), which just hurts. If at least they had connected it with Black Adam, but Dwayne Johnson's ego wouldn't allow it, so now neither of them will have anything, and soon Zachary Levi will be out of the picture. I'm not sad about this movie, David F. Sandberg has already stated that he will return to horror; however, considering the potential that the DC Extended Universe had shown. PS: Rachel Zegler is even more beautiful here than I have ever seen her elsewhere. Hopefully, this debacle won't damage her career too much. (18/04/2023)