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Why was this even made?

posted 2 years ago by fani (446)
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Watched Shazam 2 and it is frankly...terrible. There's 0 character development. The kids are supposed to be older but they act even more immaturely and stupidly. It is jarring and off putting. There's too many heroes and heroines now and none are worth following. One of the shazams, Mary, is beautiful with a nice... um.. well.. but she is the only one who sort of acts her age and is a bit better written.
The others are a parody tbh.
They should have only had 1 Shazam. This is a justice league in itself with so many heroes and heroines.
The villains in Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu were laughable tbh. They phoned it in for the money. Maybe did all scenes in 2 takes max.
The plot, direction, dialogs, acting are all sub par. Quite not as bad as Eternals but it was childish and frankly bad.
Antman was not good but it was much better than this.

I'd rate this a 5/10.

[–] DoctorThirteen (14658) 2 years ago

I haven't seen FOTG yet, but Mary does indeed look...impressive!

[–] fc31 (5870) 2 years ago

I think it is more about the movie being so lame, she was the only thing in the movie remotely appealing, so she stands out.

[–] Burk48917 (11442) 2 years ago

The black girl is hot too.

[–] Bubbathegut (18147) 2 years ago

Not sure how she flies with that huge rack.

[–] Wuchak (8837) a year ago

I'd see it just for Mary.

[–] DoctorThirteen (14658) a year ago

Oh definitely.

[–] bozo_500 (13278) 2 years ago

Idk, its not like the 1st film was a huge hit (350m pretty low for a superhero film now), Maybe the strong RT score 90% duped the studio into thinking a sequel would be like The Dark Knight?

[–] DoctorThirteen (14658) 2 years ago

I'm now trying to imagine Christopher Nolan's Shazam!

[–] IronStorm (103) 2 years ago

Yeah it was made because of the first movie's success.

[–] ehewitt (45) a year ago

@bozo_500
"350m pretty low for a superhero film now".

We're talking about a B/C tier superhero, not Superman, Batman or Spiderman, with marketing making it specifically clear it was a comedy aimed at a family audience.
350m is a lot considering the lower awareness of the character by the general public.
If you were expecting it to make much more, just because "it was a superhero film", then you're living in fantasy land.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18175) 2 years ago

I can't imagine this is where they even wanted the character to go. Why not build up from that post-credits scene with Mr. Mind talking to Dr. Sivana in prison?

[–] DoctorThirteen (14658) a year ago

Don't understand why they didn't do that.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18175) a year ago

That's the epitaph for the DCEU.

[–] TylerAArse (2915) 2 years ago

It was pretty bad.

[–] HarlemEagle42 (18175) 2 years ago

Frankly terrible...ranks it 5/10. =/

[–] PaladinNJ (21630) 2 years ago

I only just recently saw it. I think it was better than the first one.

[–] IronStorm (103) 2 years ago

At least we got to see Grace Currey.

[–] DoctorThirteen (14658) a year ago

👍

[–] Dogiswhite (1414) a year ago

I definitely agree with the too many heroes and the lack of character development. Also I really didn't see the need for 3 villains. Maybe make the Helen Mirren character more powerful. Lucy Liu was completely unnecessary. Maybe use the other girl to help the kids with her mom or grandma or whatever relationship she could be with Helen.