Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
Is the superhero genre flirting with irrelevancy? Shazam! Fury of the Gods is a perfectly acceptable kid-friendly comic book movie. And not much more than that.
If that sounds like a diss, I’m sorry. Director David F. Sandberg has done a good job, but what’s lacking this time around is the element of surprise.
The first Shazam! (2019) felt like a breath o…
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