The Reel Rejects - Just Watched Shazam Fury Of The Gods! COY'S Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: March 16, 2023

RIGHT OUT OF THE THEATER REACTION! Shazam! Fury Of The Gods Movie Review from Coy Jandreau - one of the final DCEU movie before the James Gunn DCU kicks off. The Movie stars Zachary Levi, Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu, of course Justice League Connections, Shazamily, No Black Adam, Rachel Zegler, & A Wonder Woman Cameo Revealed By Warner Bros Trailers. The movie does have Two Post Credits Scenes but since this is a Non-Spoiler Review we will not be doing a breakdown or ending explained. #shazam #shazamfuryofthegods #dcu #DCEU #ZacharyLevi #JamesGunn #Superman #Batman #WonderWoman #TheFlash #JusticeLeague - Become A Super Sexy Reject For Full-Length T.V. & Movie Reactions! https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects - Support The Channel By Checking Out Our Bomb A** Merch: http://shopzeroedition.com/collections/reel-rejects-merch - POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Big, bold, and loud, it is the Fury of the Gods. Gods are enormous. See it, Thusely. Thank you so much to IMAX and you watching this video. Please do leave a like below. Leave a comment. Let me know what you think of this review. What you thought of the movie?

Let me know anything. I'm a read them. Let me know in the comments, what's going on. also citizens of reject nation we the rejects are doing our first panel on sunday the 26th at 11 a.m. at wonder con i am so excited to see you there we're going to talk to the state of dc the state of marvel the state of the industry and i want some fan interactivity so we'll see you there all right let's get into this movie now going into this the movie has a 68% rotten tomatoes as of press as of the time i'm filming this it also had a trailer i liked and a trailer i was okay on and the first movie is my favorite

of the DC EU. So the stakes were high, impossibly high. It's my favorite and it's a sequel and then word of mouth wasn't that great. So I went in a little concerned. I had such a good time in this movie. I honestly think that going into it, worried helped my experience because I smiled the entire time. There is a sense of childlike glee and wonder that is the Shazam universe that is so good that I now want a rolling reboot of the DC universe as opposed to a hard reset of the universe. I've been very clear in that I think it's cleaner to just get rid of the old universe if you want a new Superman than Henry Cavill. If you want to tell these new stories of these new characters in the roles that they'll need to play in the DCU versus the DCEU. I like this so much. I want

a rolling reboot that it seems to be what James Gunn is described as doing. And that's that's what I want. Like I had such an incredible time in this movie. The first one warms my heart in a way I can't even describe. I have such a soft spot for foster family, for blood family. versus adopted family for choosing your own family. There's a reason I love the Fast and Furious films. They're about family. Yes, that is also referenced in this film. And yes, this film stars three fast and furious folk.

Now, I am passionately obsessed with the idea of maintaining a childlike sense of wonder. I am passionately obsessed with what it means to be childlike without being childish. And once again, they nailed that. Once again, they managed to make me feel a childlike sense of wonder without the movie being childish all the time. There are certainly childish jokes. There are moments that are just ridiculous, and I still somehow felt them. And that brings me to some of my favorite standout performances, which would be Jack Dylan Grazer, man. Jack Dylan Grazer's got his own stronghold on a very specific type of comedy.

That kid is everywhere for a reason. That kid should be everywhere. And he's so good in this. And he's so much in this. And you love him. And he's the ultimate underdog. And you're so endeared to him. He's just such a powerful performer.

He brings you in to such a level. Like, you want to know him. And that's, that's so special. He's such a star, for lack of a better term. And then Zach Levi. Man, Zach Levi, I was so worried after the first film that the one-noteness of the character could happen. And it didn't.

The character could be one-note. With a lesser actor, this could be a very cheesy in a bad way. Instead, the cheese works more than not. And Zach Levi is an adorable giant kid. And it works. This is big, but as a superhero, and it absolutely works, and it doesn't get stale. It doesn't get old. The humor lands for me nine times out of ten.

There are, sure, are jokes that don't work, but there's so many moments that do. It outweighs them all. And as I said, there were moments that emotionally didn't pay off, and I'll talk about my negatives near the end. But there are moments that I wanted to be critical, and I wanted to more judgmental just as someone watching a movie. And then the glee outshone the cynicism. I was like, I should be critiquing.

I didn't want to. There are some edits that I didn't love that they took away some emotional moments, but I was still so giddy that they never went away, which also brings me into another stand-up performance. Diamant Hansu, I love that actor. I'm such a giant fan of that actor. I really wanted more of him in the first. We get more of him in this, and I am so happy with the way he's portrayed, with the glee of having him on screen. I don't want to give too much away, but there's some wonderful Diamant Honsu moments. Rachel Zegler, I've only seen him West Side Story.

She is such a delight. The thing she's able to do in this is really special, and this is a non-senseue. spoiler review, so I don't want to give anything away, but she's able to make unbelievable circumstances, not only believable, but you care about every decision she could make, and you buy the decisions she make even when they seem impossible. She makes the impossible possible, which is what acting is, but she does it with such grace, such dignity, such poise, and you want to love her at all times, and it's such an incredible feat what she's able to do. And in that same vein, Helen Mirren as a villain is so wonderful

because she brings a gravitas to anything she does. But here the gravitas helps serve the entire narrative of the film because it's doing things that I don't think worked in Thor Dark World or other Sword and Sandal superhero films because of the gravitas to Helen Mirren, you buy a lot more. The entire third act goes into some truly absurd things and some characters I don't want to give away that are archetypal characters from myth.

And their design is so stunning and so wonderful. And that's actually one of the things that I think is slightly better than the first film for me is there are character designs that I like more than the sins from the first film that serve the narrative better, that feel more tied in, and it gives them a comic sense of scope. This feels like a comic book in so many ways, and the Shazam comics are insane. There's talking tigers, there's crocodiles, there's insane moments, but this movie is able to give you that scope with these character designs while also being this world of Shazam that feels so unique to itself, that also feels like it could happen. It's balancing deftly,

many tones. It feels like a comic. It feels almost plausible. It feels Greek myth. It feels like so many things. And all of it is glee and joy. Even when the movie's dark, the sense of childlike wonder is there because of these actors. Asher Angel, man. One of my only negatives is I wanted more Asher. And again, the emotionally resonant moments in the first movie. I do prefer the first film. I do think the first film is more of like an A-A-minus. It's my favorite DC-EU film. This one's about a B-plus for me. That's not that far off. They're close. But there are some heartfelt moments in the first film that this one didn't quite have. But I do like that the first film was like a of age story and this film is like a college story like the next step in a story a good evolution of a story but whereas the first film felt very 80s and amblin this one feels like the walkabout this one feels like page master this feels like the early 90s this feels like the late 80s going into early 90s where these adventure movies were so unique and bold and weird and it just goes there and it keeps going there I do think the first one is more for me but I do think the second one does a lot of new things really well and again this is something that I enjoyed so much I want to live in this universe more. I want to dive deeper into this world. I want more of all of these

things. I do think Lucy Lou, I've loved forever. I would have liked to have seen a little bit more of a backstory with some of her choices. I do think that I enjoyed the hell at a Lucy Lou, but I wanted a little bit more context for some of her decisions. I do think that would have helped me be more invested in that side of things, but I was more invested than I expected. I went in with very love expectations and I was rooting, actually rooting for a lot of things. The opening sequence, there's an action sequence that's on a bridge and basically that whole sequence is kind of a proof concept of how to do a team up well, how to tell a family story with dialogue and how to tell a superhero story as a team with action. And it's balancing family and action just as the movie

does the rest of the time. I love the Shazamly. I have such a soft spot for what it means to be a family, as I said at the top, but the Shazamaly feels like one. Like, those actors feel like they're connected. Those foster parents feel like their adoration for these kids absolutely translates. And then the set piece I'm talking about is able to also skip you ahead from where we left them off. They've just got their powers. This jumps you ahead to their working as a team.

This gives you Fantastic Four X-Men, you know, dynamic of compatibility, of partnership, of how they would have learned how to use each other's powers with each other. And then that ties into the greater plot and exposition. It also ties into what it means to be a family. It does the family heart and team brain thing so beautifully well over and over again. And that opening sequence, it really just shows my love for this world. The negatives are some elements of editing do undermine emotionality. There are sequences where I'm like, ooh, they could have used a different take.

Or, ooh, you cut away as soon as it was feeling like a moment. Or ooh, you couldn't let that breathe. That bothered me. There's a lot of jokes and nine out of ten land. But when they don't land, there's a bit of an oof to it. That is a comedy thing. Like, I can't really begrudge the film that because while that is an issue, this feels more lived in than most DC or Marvel films when it gets to the action. Like, a lot of action, there's always like the same civilian or like the same people they cut to to be like, this is actually happening.

This movie's got so many moments of like civilians in peril that feel like people you could run into and they're not the same person. You keep running into at the coffee shop. In fact, David F. Sandberg has a cameo with the third act of one of these civilians. It was funny to see the director cameo like that. I missed those. But like the movie makes you feel lived in. So when the comedy doesn't work, it almost feels like the character would find that funny. So even if it doesn't work for you, it worked for them. I don't know. I just, I feel like these characters are so well fleshed out. But another negative would be that I don't, I don't think they use the young version of them enough.

I do feel like there was an element of, we need Zach Levi a lot. So we can't let him be Asher. And that bothered me, because Asher's a great actor and I really like his Billy Batson. But the kids overall felt like they didn't get as much time to balance as they did in the first film. So I would have liked to see more of the kids. Would have liked some different edits would have liked some different moments but the score really makes the emotional resonance work the comedy really worked for me I was gleeful the entire time I disagree with the rotten tomato score and I know a lot of people like coy likes everything he hasn't lately and he really liked liking something again so if this is the coy likes everything review I'm happy

it's back I missed that coy and coy was childlike and gleeful throughout so thank you shazam if you love the first one check out shazam I hate that it's getting underserved by the marketing I hate that it's getting tossed around because of the new universe coming in, and I hate that people are like, I'm not going to see it because it doesn't connect. There are moments that I think you'll miss out on in cinema for this movie not being advertised the right way. And there's also things that have been revealed in marketing that are used so much more cleverly than you think. And there's an incredible comedic set piece that is a bait and switch tying to the first film that is pure genius, that is such a self-aware moment from the director that I really enjoyed.

The scene at dinner, I could keep going on. I'm going to do a spoiler review, hopefully, with Greg, this weekend. But for now, this is going to be my spoiler-free. Happy, happy Shazam fan. Be plus-ish. Loved it.