In their move to clear their slate, DC still put out it's previous made movie that is a sequel to a widely popular movie, so let's go!
Billy/Shazam is expressing doubt about how well he is keeping is found family together, and then we see that they are barely keeping together at all. Fortunately, there's an external threat to turn to gather them together, only the movie has decided that only two characters, Billy and Freddie, are actually worthy of a full plot line, and the rest of the family are mainly there for padding and exposition.
Like, there's a lot of exposition. And padding. I'm sure a lot of scene transitions could be trimmed down and maybe my bladder wouldn't be so full at the end...
But the big threats are supposedly gods, which are basically beings with lots of power, and I'm not really sure what makes them gods in any sense of no-one worships them and they just have lots of power? These characters are invented by the movie, ie not from the comics, so there's a lot of backstory they have to put in to make them have sense, but then they just slap the "god" label on and expect that to cover a lot.
Anyway, there's a big fight sequence and the characters that are supposed to be important to the message aren't there for the final climatic thematic moment, and we get a rather irrelevant character thrown in because they were available in the plot to be there.
Does this sound like I dislike this movie? A bit, but mostly this is just a big meh. DC doesn't seem to have put a lot of effort into advertising this, and indeed I've already seen that this release has caught people by surprise that it is happening now.
It very easily sits in the camp of "this is another movie".
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