The film isn’t terrible, but it’s busy, formulaic and rather joyless. The “Shazam” saga has been given an expensive haircut, but it’s lost a lot of its flavor in the process.
”? Four years ago, in the first “Shazam!,” Levi played a kid in a superhero’s body, and the movie was smart and witty enough to come off as a caped version of “Big.” Levi’s look was a major part of it. Shazam, with that cheesy lightning bolt and gold belt and white Italian-restaurant tablecloth of a cape, didn’t resemble other recent comic-book-film heroes; he was more like something out of the ’40s.
In “Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” Levi is back, a little older inside , but that comic disconnect between the bulked-up dude in his red suit with his limitless powers and the teenager who’s in over his head is still on display. Levi, once again, carries the movie, though with a shade less of that infectious buoyancy.
That’s true of the movie as well. “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. Plenty of comic-book sequels do that, of course, but the first “Shazam!” was a special case. It had a breezy screw-loose charm that felt not so much superhuman as good old human.
Part of that is it’s a tough encore to bring off. Origin stories can be stage setters, with the more exciting action yet to come , but sometimes the origin story is the main course. “Shazam!” was about Billy trying to wrap his teenage head around the fact that he was a superhero, gifted with unimaginable powers from Djimon Hounsou’s Wizard.
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