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One of the charms of 2019sShazam!was its peculiar offhand quality.
Fury of the Godsto break the spell.
Of course, Shazam doesnt call himself Shazam yet.
Part of the challenge here is conceptual.
Itwishesit could live up to Bonnie Tylers raspy, exhilarating wailing.
Some of the creatures, to be fair, are scary and imaginative.
But even that thread sours when, to coax out unicorns with some stand-in for ambrosia, a.k.a.
the food of the gods, our heroes rely on … Skittles.
Then they ride the unicorns and yell, Taste the rainbow!
I am not making this up.
Either way, I hope the Wrigley Company got its moneys worth, because I sure didnt.
That said, great action scenes probably couldnt have saved this enterprise either.
Maybe that anxiety is what drives his insistence that he and his fellow heroes always stick together.
Thats a promising narrative avenue, but its one the film mostly abandons, because it basically abandons Billy.
Fury of the Godsisnt unwatchable.
Its competent, uninspired swill, undone largely by the fact that its following up a superior first movie.
