Queer fans jumped on this small crumb of representation by immediately welcoming Pedro into the alphabet family, which just goes to show how starved we’ve been in superhero fare up till now.Īhead of the sequel, Shazam writer Henry Gayden - yes, really - did admit that more could be done though, suggesting that Pedro’s queerness would be handled more openly moving forward (via Dorkaholics): We are of course talking about the gay stuff. There was one aspect that did improve on the first film.

Most of the kids were either shocked or horny or both, but Pedro Peña, played then by Jovan Armand, seemed unfazed, saying, “Not my thing.” The moment in question took place when Billy Batson “accidentally” teleported everyone into a strip club. When we first met Shazam’s fellow foster kids four years ago, one scene in particular strongly hinted that one of them might be gay.

Muddled plotting and strange Zachary Levi rants aside, there was however one aspect of this sequel that did improve on the first film, albeit not as well as it could have. Every second Adam Brody and Ross Butler weren’t distracting me with their abs on screen was another moment I’ll never get back. You don’t need the wisdom of Solomon to know it wasn’t going to be the best film ever made, but even so, the new Shazam still falls flat for fans of the first movie. What could have been a delightfully camp masterpiece – with Lucy Liu riding an actual dragon! - has just turned out to be a bit naff, really. While the daughters are arguing - Kalypso wants to destroy the human realm out of revenge, Hespera does not - Freddie steals the apple but knocks over its plinth, spoiling his stealth.Shazam! Fury of the Gods is more disappointing than enraging, and not just because of how it’s fared so far at the box office. She breaks out of her jail cell and finds the library, as well as the 'golden apple' and then burns the library before departing through one of the doors back to her world where her sisters are.įreddie and the Wizard are all set to escape, thanks to some help from Anthea, who is falling for Freddie and doesn't want to see him killed, but they see Hespera returning and figure out her plan. They 'lure' the daughters into a 'trap' where they fight and ultimately kidnap Hespera, only Hespera wants to get caught. Inside the bubble, Shazam and co try to work out how to retrieve Freddie and defeat the daughters of Atlas with the help of a magical quill named Steve in the big library hidden behind one of the many doors that Eugene (Ross Butler) has been mapping out in their lair. Shazam and co turn up but too late, the women seal part of Philadelphia in a bubble, much like their realm was, and kidnap Freddie.

Turns out she's the third daughter of Atlas, Anthea, and her sisters arrive and zap Freddie of his powers. Meanwhile, the daughters of Atlas have kidnapped Mr OG Shazam, aka The Wizard (Djimon Hounsou) and forced him to repair the staff, allowing them to steal back their powers from the Shazam kids, find the 'golden seed', and replant the tree of knowledge that would allow them to reopen their divine realm.īack in teen land, Freddie meets new girl at school Anne (Rachel Zegler) who tricks him into revealing himself as Captain Everypower (Adam Brody). Not to mention the siblings have been dubbed the Philly Fiascos for how much goes wrong while they're saving the day. In a museum in Greece, two of the three 'daughters of Atlas' Kalypso (Lucy Liu) and Hespera (Helen Mirren) show up to steal the magic staff (that you may recall Shazam himself broke in two in the first film) that robbed them of their powers.īack in Philadelphia, Shazam is in therapy - he's worried about ageing out of the foster system and being kicked out of his home, and worried about keeping his sibling superhero group together, particularly as Freddie (Jack Dylan Grazer) wants to spread his wings, so to speak.

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