The Reel Rejects - SHAZAM: FURY OF THE GODS (2023) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:49 Also, thanks to the fine folks over at Praper for editing down these highlights. It is a task, and we appreciate all their hard work. Thank you so much. And if you are listening on Apple or Spotify, please give us a five star rating we would really appreciate it so we do have a couple questions but we want to just share how we are feeling first and uh we'll kind of do a review before we get into the questions how are you feeling terra i feel it right i think that the ending of this movie was was fun i think

Starting point is 00:02:20 the beginning it was like exposition heavy i feel like i like the first one more but this second one was still still had a lot of the fun aspects and comments and that I really enjoy. I love Freddie's character a lot. So that really kept me in it having Freddie there and that dynamic with Annie just sort of seeing like what's going to happen there. I really enjoyed that. I thought that was a lot of fun to watch. But yeah, I mean, I'm not sure how this was received by audiences or critics. But I would say that there, Helen Mirren is obviously you stand out. Like the fact that they got her

Starting point is 00:03:00 freaking amazing. All the actors in this, honestly, great job. I just think maybe there could have been some tightening up of the script to not have as much exposition and we get to the action.

Starting point is 00:03:11 I don't think it needed to be two hours. Maybe if we squeezed it to 90 minutes. Then maybe this could have been like a knockout. Who knows? I did really like the effects. They had some cool practical effects as well, which I always appreciate.

Starting point is 00:03:26 And that's where I'm at. So you said the film had a little too much exposition and dragged a little, right? Tara, what did I write right there? Exposition and dragged. I'm just saying, you know, we might have the same brain. I actually really enjoyed the film despite that. It's just, I can still really like a film and just see some things that. Still give it notes.

Starting point is 00:03:49 Yeah. I can still give it some notes for sure. So I like Tara as well. I definitely like the first movie better. and also like Tara Freddie is my favorite character in this film it was also one of my favorites

Starting point is 00:04:02 in the first film as well I definitely missed having Billy Moore in this film he was not in the film as much and I actually like the emotional I think he emotionally grounds the film to be quite honest Billy especially the whole

Starting point is 00:04:16 remember what he had to deal with in the first movie emotional and physical abandonment from his mother in this found family and he finally got the found family but he still kind of feels abandoned from them that he's trying to, he gave them literally superpowers

Starting point is 00:04:31 and they're still not spending as much time with them, especially Freddie. He's kind of doing his own thing now and the rest of the family is kind of there, but they're kind of doing their own thing. And then he also feels like he's about to age out so he could lose this family that he's finally gotten and wants to be a part of.

Starting point is 00:04:50 So, like, I think like the emotional core of the story is actually great. I also think this film has a lot of great jokes. Like, I actually, I think we were both laughing a lot. But I think a lot of these jokes, too, as good as they were, I think they undercut a lot of the emotional moments as well. I think even if you have great jokes, you have to know when to insert them is a very important thing.

Starting point is 00:05:13 It's not easy to do. Like, I'm just a person on the internet sharing my opinion, so I don't always know when is the right spot to put it and not put it. I just think in certain pivotal emotional moments, sometimes is not always the best time to insert that joke. Let the moment breathe so we as the audience and let the characters feel that emotion with them, is all I'm saying.

Starting point is 00:05:34 And when you, you know, sometimes I don't mind doing that, but when you do it constantly, it's like it kind of just, I don't mind breaking levity with a joke for sure, especially in like scary situations or every once in a while an emotional moment, but when you do it constantly, it's like, I really want to feel this right now. And granted, that was very funny.

Starting point is 00:05:53 it's like, this is the best part of the movies, the emotional bits. Like, I want, let me have this. So I would say that's just more of a critique. But again, like the actual family itself, dynamic, fantastic. I love the foster parents. They were great. I actually thought the three actresses who played the sisters, you could really feel the history dynamic,

Starting point is 00:06:13 the camaraderie between them, even when they were disagreeing with each other, was great. I love Lucy Lou is always a win for me. I love the campy, menace that she brought to the role it was really a lot of fun and it was almost a little cartoonish too but it was I think it fit the tone for this film

Starting point is 00:06:32 also Helen Mirren I love the gravitas that she brought to this film and she's a power class actress like that one monologue she had where she was explaining and Nora I know we were the power of the gods yeah the power of the god but I know we were

Starting point is 00:06:48 Tara and I were a little critical of all the exposition in the film where but that was That particular, when you have an actress of that power level and she's the way she was explaining it there, I was like, okay, this is good. This kind of exposition, I do not mind. Because, like, she was telling a story and I was, like, I was in the story. Yeah, I was totally enthralled in that story, 100%. So that was good stuff.

Starting point is 00:07:13 I just think, like, some of the other exposition stories, when you're going to have that much exposition, I know it probably costs more in the budget. I would have liked a little visual aid to go along with it. and that's just a me, again, totally a me thing. Yeah, that's pretty much all I have. And then also, too, I think when it comes to Rachel Ziegler, Anne's character, I thought she brought a lot of warmth and empathy to the role. Freddie brought a lot of charm and wit. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:38 And I love their chemistry. I thought it really just blended together. And also, too, like, they're both kind of very similar from each other, too. Like, they've got powers, right, in a sense. Like, she's a god. He's also got godlike powers. and he's fighting off bullies when he's got his normal powers and then she's also fighting off her own demons

Starting point is 00:07:58 and she's the light and the moral complex of her sisters and I thought like the way how they related to each other in that sense was rather fascinating I actually quite enjoyed their relationship a great deal and I like that the film gave you know time to breathe in their relationship and when they did come together like I fully bought it although I was kind of on board right away just chemistry wise

Starting point is 00:08:19 but the fact like once we I understood like their motivations and just relationship-wise I was really on board in the end with even though she's probably about 5,980 something years older than him but I'm still I'm on board with it

Starting point is 00:08:35 with granted how the rest of the tone in the film works and I was so happy we got Wonder Woman back that was fun that was awesome yeah that was really cool as well that reveal was dope yeah it was

Starting point is 00:08:45 because it was kind of like you know the Superman thing with the mid credits in the last one in his dream and then how we got it at the end. I'm glad we actually got the actor, actress in this case, so that was cool. But aside from that, that's pretty much all the things I have.

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Starting point is 00:10:28 of real rejects. Thank you. All right, from Maurice Gray Jr., Maurice, thank you so much for being a royal reject and for asking a question. We appreciate it. I like the chemistry

Starting point is 00:10:40 between Anthea and Freddie, but did you ever figure out her powers? I've seen this three times, and I still don't know what she does. I know what her powers are. She makes you trip on acid. That's what her powers are. Okay, Marys?

Starting point is 00:10:55 She's able to create portals and go shift into different. It reminds you a lot of Dr. Strange. Yeah, Dr. Strang's inception. Yeah. I don't, yeah, I guess that's her powers, right? I think she can, like, move like your, like, maybe it's actual things moving, but it's only in their mind, right? Right. Which could be a portal.

Starting point is 00:11:20 I don't know. Okay. I don't know, man. I mean, because it's not like when she's moving all of the things around, that they're crashing into people who are in those buildings or would have been in that path, right? So it only has to be somewhat visually, even though she is put in that place. Like when we saw her move away from the dragon, she landed at the place where she, behind a door or whatever. But then the light still followed and hit her.

Starting point is 00:11:47 But when she's moving those things, we don't see. see them like crashing right or moving into other people so you know i really i couldn't tell you i'm just going to try to not make sense of it her power is to make freddie fall in love with her that too yeah all right thank you murrays appreciate it we got one more question here let's see we are looking we will pop there it is all right uh j rush day what up j What your like reaction That end with cameo there Oh he probably means what what was your reaction

Starting point is 00:12:26 With Wonder Woman I'll let you want to you go for you love Wonder Woman so much What was your reaction to Wonder Woman? Oh it was awesome I got goosebumps because at first You know when they do the reveal in the restaurant You're like cool I get it They couldn't get Gal so it's a stand in And then when they reveal Gal Godot

Starting point is 00:12:42 I was like what the actual F? No way I think I said what like three times really loud And her little speech to him was great um always love seeing her and um love the end where she's like just stick to be in a superhero kid or whatever so obviously i i i loved it glad they got her yeah i love that line too that he's like i'm gonna be 18 in five months yeah also too like um by the way i loved her came me i'm glad that they got gal to do it as that was awesome because we've we've seen a couple movies now with her, her own solo films

Starting point is 00:13:20 as well as the Snyder cut and the Justice League. So I was so happy. I mean, we are invested in just her as a character and just performance wise as well. So it was nice to see the continuity of the universe for sure. But

Starting point is 00:13:35 just also, too, the fact that Billy has such a crush on her. So it was nice to see for him like getting and also too, who's the person that brought him back? The god herself, right? The god killer. Yeah. Wonder woman so i think that was so great but also too i'm maybe i'm just reading too much in between the lines here but her line too not only like you know stick to saving the world kid but she's in love with

Starting point is 00:13:58 bruce wine i don't care when i don't know dude it's batman you know just saying you can't who isn't it's sort of like who isn't in love with wonder woman and who isn't in love with batman like just saying everybody loves both of them okay since we finished us a little bit early and we got like two to three minutes here yeah i'll do five trivias and i'll give you some rotten tomatoes so or you give me the rotten tomatoes what do you think this film got critics wise just do one at a time and i'll tell you if you were right or how close you were rather yeah all right critics critics i'm going to go 65 okay let's stop right there it was a 49 okay audience i will go 71 85 okay and then the

Starting point is 00:14:48 This is what the critics said. More unfocused and less satisfying than its predecessor. Shazam, Fury of the God, still retains almost enough of the source material's silly charm to save the day. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I get that. While you're doing trivia, I'm going to look up one thing. So go ahead and read. Michael Gray, a previous live action, Billy Batson from Shazam.

Starting point is 00:15:11 This is from 1974, appears as a bystandard in the final battle. Gray not only has on a red and yellow shirt. costume from the show, but he calls Shazam his original title of Captain Marvel. That's cool. Billy Batson, having a crush on Wonder Woman, comes from the power of Shazam comic. That comic also has the wizard

Starting point is 00:15:30 communicate to Billy through a dream where his face was on Wonder Woman's body. Though the daughters of Atlas were drawn from Greek mythology, they have no precedent in D.C. comics lore. This is the sixth D.C. film with holy original villains. After Superman and the mole men, in 1951, Superman 3

Starting point is 00:15:48 in 1983, Supergirl in 84, steel in 97, and Catwoman in 2004. All great films may I add. Okay. Let's do one more, I guess. Darla adopts a pet kitten, which she calls Tani.

Starting point is 00:16:05 In the comics, Shazam had a talking tiger friend named Taki Tani. All right. Here, I'll do one spoiler since, here we go. Hespera speaks Greek. for her magic at the Acropolis Museum in the beginning. She gives the word, I'm not even going to try.

Starting point is 00:16:24 Thrim Mazita, I don't know. Greek for Shatter. To break open the glass case at the end, she gives the command Mazavivo, Greek for Collect to shrink the barrier to contain Shazam, Calypso, and Layden. Cool. Oh, and David F. Sandberg, the director, appears as the victim of Calypso. Oh, you're right. He also provides the voice of Mr. Mind in the post-credit scene.

Starting point is 00:16:44 Very cool. I thought I recognized him. Okay. So what I had remembered about Zachary Levi is that, and what I just looked up, was that he had tweeted something and I was like, and it blew up. So I asked chat GPT and it is right. Because I was like, wasn't he canceled? Remind me. In late 2022, Levi responded affirmatively to a tweet implying that Pfizer was a danger to the world, which many interpreted as a critique of the COVID-19 vaccine. He later clarified that he was referring to a 2009 Pfizer. scandal, not the vaccine itself, around the same time a podcast clip surfaced where Levi praised Jordan Peterson, a figure criticized for his views on transgendered people. The industry reaction is James Gunn kind of shrugged it off and was like, listen, I can't like cancel like him from being Shazam just based on his outview, like a celebrity's personal view. In 2024, Levi downplayed the idea that he had been canceled.

Starting point is 00:17:46 saying that his his uh his roles are full steam ahead but in may of 2025 may levi acknowledged that while none of his existing roles were removed industry professionals have chosen not to work with him due to his publicly shared conservative views and vaccine skepticism so he was not canceled from the role of shazam as a gun is saying you know it doesn't matter the actors you know point of view on certain things he's still going to play Shazam but that is that did very very much hurt his career as an actor overall just as a professional there's going to be a lot of people probably stepping away from him because he the the main thing that i do remember was that um about that tweet is that it was like he was yelling about people going to see his movie and not seeing a different movie that's mainly what i remember, and then also him speaking about Jordan Peterson and sort of aligning that like transgendered people don't matter. And I don't like that. I didn't know any of that. So happy to share that info because I, you guys know I remember nothing, but I remember what a big

Starting point is 00:19:07 explosion that was on X or Twitter, even though this was a few years ago. And it's funny to say now that happened in 2022 his acknowledge of that and now three years later he is very publicly voicing that there are industry professionals who choose not to work with him at all yeah i remember that zachary levi's name was like all in the the press or not i just didn't i just saw his name and i didn't like actually dig deep and look what what the context was yeah well there you go i gave you the context gave me the news that's why that's definitely wild Thank you, Tara. That was definitely wild, but yeah. Anyways, let us know, guys. What did you think of Shazam Fury of the Gods? Is it an enjoyable, entertaining sequel? Do you think it's better than the first film? We still have another DC-EU film to do. I know that is on our list, so I think we can say it, right? We are going to be doing The Flash, so be on the lookout for that. And if you stuck with us this long, we appreciate it. And we will see you guys. Later, take care and don't forget to say Shazam.

The Reel Rejects - SHAZAM: FURY OF THE GODS (2023) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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