Shazam! Fury Of The Gods Review - A Rare Combo of Fun, Action, Explosion & Superheroes

David F. Sandberg is back with the second installment of the Shazam franchise, Shazam! Fury Of The Gods. Superhero movies are never comic, but Shazam came as a new change. Of course, the Deadpool franchise is there to make you laugh, but it's an adult entertainer is a pure family-friendly comedy, and even children can enjoy it just as much as adults. For DC, it's a game changer, as the DC universe was so dark and intense. School. Kids and teenagers skipped DCEU films for the same reason, but now there is Shazam for them. Shazam! Fury Of The Gods is even better than its predecessor when it comes to humor, fun, and entertainment. The characters are set, so it became easy to go along with them and enjoy this joyful and explosive ride.In the first scene, you see the daughters of Atlas (the God of weapons), Kalypso (Lucy Liu), and Hespera (Helen Mirren), enter the human world and get a hold of the weapon. Billy Batson (Zachary Levi) and his foster siblings, who transform into superheroes by saying Shazam! are enjoying their stardom and helping people. But they don't know that Atlas' daughters are coming to finish them by taking away their powers. One of Billy's siblings, Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer), falls in love with Anne, aka Anthea (Rachel Zegler), without knowing that she is the third daughter of Atlas. The Shazam gang is forced to get back into action and fight the Daughters of Atlas. They must stop them from using a weapon that could destroy the world, but will it be that easy since they're fighting their own species?Shazam! Fury Of The Gods has a decent script, which doesn't need any sort of brainstorming to understand. The screenplay is funny, sometimes too funny to believe. In the first 15 minutes, you'll see anything weird happening around you. But that's just the beginning, a sort of acceleration to give you a slight hint of the madness that awaits you. From the 20th minute on, it picks up and never loses you for the next 110 minutes (including two end credit scenes). The humor is simply chaotic. It makes you forgive the flaws and kiddish things you see, and soon you start enjoying the film like a kid. That bargaining letter scene created havoc in the auditorium, and there were a few more hysterical scenes like it after that. The cameos are overwhelming and immediately put you into celebration mode. I don't remember the last time I had so many laughs inside the theater while watching a superhero flick. Even Deadpool and the new cosmic version of Thor haven't been able to do so. Loved DC's guts to make fun of Marvel characters in this film. I mean, as we know, it's an unspoken rivalry, so it definitely takes a lot of courage to use MCU superheroes' names to create gags in a DC film. Shazam! Fury Of The Gods has a lot of them.It's not a performance-oriented film, so let's not go too deep into the well. Zachary Levi is better than Shazam! (2019). If that makes you happy, then it's time to be happy. Jack Dylan Grazer has got a good amount of screen time—more than expected—and he does fine, while his adult version, Adam Brody, is equally good. The beautiful Rachel Zegler surprises you with a twist, but she has more to deliver later, which won't be disclosed here. Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu's performances are decent, but what's encouraging is that they are loved despite being fresh entries. Djimon Hounsou has MCU's Samuel Jackson vibes, but he is damn too comic. His expressions during Freddy and Anthea's love birding scene left the audience in splits. I mean, he didn't utter a word but spoke for every person present in the cinema hall. Yes, the romance was so outdated that you needed someone to give those frustrating expressions there. Ross Butler, Meagan Good, Grace Fulton, DJ Controna, and others pass the time well.Shazam! Fury Of The Gods is not a heavy VFX film, but there are some scenes that needed good VFX work. The dragon scenes are eye-pleasing. The scenes of Anthea doing Doctor Strange-type magic are spectacular too. The background score works fine on some occasions, and the cinematography is satisfactory. It's a 130-minute film, but it's very engaging, and the credit goes to the editor. David F. Sandberg knew his features, his strengths, and his weaknesses, and he worked according to them. Shazam 2 isn't a critic-proof film, but it's a crowd pleasing entertainer. It makes even critics become audiences for a while and do all the laughing and clapping on several occasions. Overall, it's another crowd-friendly superhero flick for DC in their changing phase. A food coupon gives you a combo of popcorn, samosa, and coke, but a ticket of Shazam will give you fun, action, explosion and superheroes! Grab it.