Shazam! Fury of the Gods

The original film left nothing of substance for this superhero sequel.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods loses the thing that made it special.

Neither Mirren nor unicorns are enough to make this worth seeing.

Everyone who got a kick out of the low stakes, self-contained storytelling and goofily juvenile antics on display in 2019’s Shazam! will likely be equally satisfied with its sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods.

Billy’s inane babbling gets a little wearing, but the action sequences, featuring dragon-based mayhem, cyclopes and an army of formidable hell unicorns hopped up on candy, are pacy and fun.

An undercooked casserole of cliched narrative elements, underdeveloped characters, juvenile humor, and a deus ex machina cameo.

A boring, tiring, humorless sequel, which generally exhausts its magic box among the repetitive sequences that pile up clichés. [Full review in Spanish]

And although it is true that Shazam! The Fury of the Gods is not as well-rounded as its predecessor, it maintains the elements that made the first a good film. [Full review in Spanish]

You've got your poorly lit CGI climax, lines out of the "Sir, this is a Wendy's" playbook, enough product placement to qualify for a Super Bowl ad, and another appearance by "Sabotage," which is evidently the only Beastie Boys song allowed in movies.

Fury of The Gods leans into what worked for the first film and takes advantage of minimal exposition, though it suffers from rushed plot.