1/10
I got up to one particular point in the movie and then had to erase it off my hard drive asap.
30 April 2023
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Such a pity this movie was ever produced. Taking the last Shazam piece of garbage as a starting point I wondered could it get any worse?. Some say it was better, hence I sat down to watch it, from what I did see, could bear to! It was far worse.

Putting up with it right until the guy with the bad leg and his very bendable crutch was seen perched high up on the schools roofs ledge. 25 to 30 mins in to this movie.

Seems like students can do what they want at that school, having access to such a roof, AS IF!!!!. It would never be allowed, unless it was some sort of after school astronomy telescope viewing malarkey event, and then under strict supervision.

Students can be bullied in the hallways at that school with even teachers looking on and nothing gets done. In the age of mobile phone obsession any vulnerable student getting PUNCHED in their stomach in a crowded school hallway even by two clean cut thugs would be RECORDED. Stuck on YouTube or TikTok in a short time.

Other students who would dearly like to see those thugs be expelled would have their mobile phones at the ready to witness & record such a repeatedly cowardly attack. There would be some students as well who would go see the Principle and tell them directly. NOT displayed in those scenes being indifferent to the situation. Showing that they do not care and neither should you, that the message? Warner Bros & DC?.

WHY did the victim not do it themselves?. It sets a VERY VERY BAD example to young impressionable viewers that what they should do is not say anything about being verbally & physically molested by fellow students. And if you see it, say nothing.

No excuses for it, the sitting on the edge of a high up ledge (which they would not likely both have done even if they had roof access), that was the final straw of Warner Bro$ & DC IRRESPONSIBILITY. Virtually the same bullying antics in the last Shazam travesty.

The sheer immaturity of most of those assembled characters, the constant repetitive IMMATURITY about every 10 seconds especially by the seventeen year old Billy Batson. Played by a noticeable 20 year old actor. Though more so in his Man Baby form of Zac Levi. An obnoxious performance by Levi as it was by many of the others. Almost as if they were being as obnoxious as they could, something for their target audience to recognise was it?.

Just what was the target audience?. Eight year old's?, this is what we got, actors acting like eight year old's. I bet even eight year old's considered them to be pathetic.

A worldwide box office flop, without doubt, taking just $133,004,280. Maybe a few more weeks left to drain every last drop of box office money it can, but what a flop Shazam 2 is. Even the last 2019 garbage incarnation took around $367 million in worldwide box office.

Just GIVE UP on it Warner Bros. Do us all a favour punting out a product, clearly that is not wanted. Don't you ever get it?.

This movie is far too obnoxious to watch, sending wrong messages to the impressionable who taking heed of examples in this rubbish script (as mentioned, likely even more later), they could well end up unnecessarily suffering. But that seems ok to Warner Bro$ and DC, in their rush to waste $$$ millions on this flop.

Yes, one star is all it is actually worth, if that. Best then to avoid Shazam 2. Still, at least there will not be a Shazam 3 after this latest one. A relief.

Come on DC, we know Stan always used to say that, "DC is for mommy's boys", these days Man Baby Mommy's Boys in some cases would be more appropriate. There are other more obscure DC titles to choice from, Shade the Changing Man with a Ditko style of filmography.

Or even do Kirby's, "The Forever People". Almost any of Kirby's DC work would make a decent artistic fantasy genre movie. Mister Miracle, Kamandi, OMAC, any of them. For sure taking in more than $131 million Worldwide. Who does DC think was behind a great deal of Marvels success that is making $Billions at the movies?. And you lot were graced for a while with some of the Kings work as well. USE IT.

One star ratings are very much justified then. What a flop.
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