Thunder Shazam, this time it's really silly

Originally, everyone was looking forward to the box office last weekend. After all, the release of two Hollywood hit films can always bring some box office vitality to this weak mainland market.

Among them, the DC superhero blockbuster "Thunder Shazam!" released simultaneously with North America! Wrath of the Gods", and finally let us experience the charm of DC superheroes in the theater again. DC fans, you should be very happy.

According to convention, such a movie, how should it make some waves in the theater, easily brush hundreds of millions, billions of box office, and become the focus of everyone's discussion on Weibo and the circle of friends. The result? And it didn't.

After the release of this film, the mainland box office on the first day was less than 10 million, the box office in the first weekend was less than 30 million, and the total box office, according to forecasts, was only more than 50 million, and even the goal of exceeding 100 million could only be completed half.

As a Hollywood blockbuster released simultaneously with overseas, such box office results really scared me. It can be predicted that the overall market state is average recently, and the box office of this film may not be too ideal. However, we were still a little surprised by such an unsatisfactory situation.

At the same time, the rating of this film is also very general, with more than 10,000 Douban scorers, only 6.2 points.

Including Maoyan and Taoqiao tickets, there are also only 8.8 points.

You know, in those two platforms, less than 9 points are basically bad films. Therefore, this Hollywood blockbuster, which was originally pinned on high hopes, hit the street at the box office and word of mouth.

I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it. Therefore, the current mainland market is indeed somewhat unpredictable.

Of course, in fact, mainland audiences seem to have a low evaluation of the Shazam movie version, including the last "Thunder Shazam! Douban also has only 6.2 points.

It's just that this time, even North America's evaluation of Shazam 2 is very bad.

The first "Thunder Shazam" movie version still has a freshness rating of 90% on Rotten Tomatoes media in North America, with a score of 7.3. And this one, only 52% of the media rating freshness, 5.7 points.

IMDb also scored just 6.7.

Both China and the United States evaluate this, or it also shows that this film may really not work.

Among DC's superheroes, Shazam has always belonged to a relatively unique existence, because, although he transformed, he was as strong as Superman. But in essence, he was still an underage child. It is equivalent to the adult body, the child's brain, and the contrast brought about by it is also the main highlight of this film.

Therefore, in the first part, I have always found laughter from this sense of contrast.

Therefore, the first one is actually a youth film mode, plus a crazy complaining teenager heart Shazam. To use an inappropriate metaphor, it's like Marvel's new version of Spider-Man + Deadpool's mouth cannon.

Anyway, at least the film is lively enough, and there are many terriers. In particular, those previous DC movies were overly serious and depressing. So, the first "Thunder Shazam! is quite eye-catching, providing more possibilities for DC movies.

Obviously, after the success of the previous film, Shazam 2 also continued to choose the route of youth films. However, as the protagonists get older, the dilemmas they face begin to change.

Although, the protagonist is still the same as the previous one, very stupid. But the problems he faces are more complicated. Because he is about to become an adult, he will encounter more troubles in the identity transition from adolescence to adulthood, including identity in this unusual family and family relationship handling, and will also have new ideas. It can be seen that the film has considered giving this character a richer character.

At the same time, because Shazam is a story of a group of young people turned into superheroes, the film also deliberately introduces a lot of teamwork, how to coordinate with each other and other topics.

It's a pity that this part didn't expand too much, and soon, it was washed away by the nonsense between the characters.

yes, the main problem with this film is, it's too.

Of course, you can say that there are many other superhero movies that are also messy, like Deadpool. But what, you can become a terrier, all kinds of mouth cannons and spitting, this is no problem, after all, this is just the condiment in the film.

However, the problem with "Shazam 2" is that even the plot is very messy. The plot of this movie has a feeling of thinking of where to make it up.

You said that this trio of villains are all daughters of God who have lived for thousands of years. It stands to reason that both wisdom and life experience are far beyond our imagination.

As a result, look at what they did from start to finish. But the IQ of any somewhat normal person will not be entangled with this group of stupid boys whose combat power and intelligence are far inferior to their own for so long.

Moreover, in the end, it is necessary to deal with the problem in the simplest and most direct way, which is also very speechless. What's more nonsense is that at the beginning, these villains were crazy, and a few people were too strong to be able to do it, and the protagonist and several children were not enough for them to pinch.

You simply can't imagine how the protagonists will defeat the villains and achieve victory. The result is good, directly let the villain split from the inside and beat himself. Then, the problem is basically solved.

This is probably the most messy and casual script I can think of.

Really, casually solved the problem.

Still like that, you can make the character pretend to be crazy and sell stupid and do stupid things, which is no problem, funny. However, you make the plot stupid, which is outrageous.

Therefore, the plot naturally became the main slot of this "Shazam 2", and after watching it, most of the audience who were dissatisfied with this film felt that the plot of this film was too casual and a little silly.

Who can depend on this?

The young child played more, and finally played himself in. Or, the main creator tasted the sweetness in the last Shazam playing low-child, and this one is a little unbearable.

But understand that the first part is when the protagonist suddenly changes from a child to a powerful Shazam, which is a particularly classic narrative mode, that is, children who dream of becoming heroes.

At that time, the characters had a juvenile feel, so the audience would have more resonance, and would feel that the fooling around after becoming Shazam was reasonable and interesting.

And in this part, there is no way to continue to play this kind of meme, because the novelty is consumed in the first part. Therefore, it is only possible to continue to let the protagonist play the low and young card.

Even though this young man is already growing up like crazy and about to become an adult. But in the film, he still has to repeatedly play some of his uncultured, stupid terriers, and he is still using people as children of how old to design the plot.

This is really difficult to understand (after all, the actors are 20 years old).

Or, because the creators themselves have long been adults, but have not found a more suitable way to show the state of adolescents, they can only be juvenile as low as possible.

I was particularly curious about how old they thought these young people in the film were! Is it a teenager, or just a few years old?

The most outrageous thing is that as teenagers, their performance is actually very normal, and their speech and behavior are basically in line with their personality.

On the contrary, after transforming into an adult Shazam, he collectively reduced his intelligence.

That is to say, before the transformation, teenagers are also very mature, including various growing pains.

And after transforming into Shazam, he is only a few years old, and he has become a simple and stupid tease.

As long as you recall the plot a little, you will find that before the transformation, it was actually quite normal. After the transformation, all the characters are instantly stupid, and they can't even solve some basic problems.

Does this mean that after gaining strength, IQ is squeezed out?

Since the film has not solved this weird change well, you will have a particularly obvious feeling when watching this movie, that is, there is no way to connect the boy who plays the young Billy Batterson with Zachary Levy, who transforms into Shazam.

Even though everyone knows that they are the same person.

However, it is really different everywhere, not at all like the same person, completely unrelated.

You can't understand that a teenager who is so melancholy and preoccupied with a lot of hearts immediately becomes a funny fool after transformation, which is without warning.

This treatment makes the film lose its original foundation.

As a result, the audience knows that you just want to amuse, for the sake of funny, and do not consider the rationality of any character behind this.

Therefore, a film in which the characters can't stand and the plot is foolish, it is normal to be spit on and not pay attention.

In particular, after the laughter is also lacking and the action scenes are all supported by CGI, this film really has nothing to watch.

Of course, complaining so much, in fact, it is more hatred that iron is not steel, which makes people feel that it is quite regrettable.

I feel that DC movies have done it now, but they are still muddy, east and west, and there is still no overall plan.

Anyway, make one to count one, if it doesn't work, it will never be overturned. Up to now, there are N versions of a bunch of DC superheroes, and they are still independent of each other in different styles.

Everyone really plays their own game, but it really can't work, so they bite the bullet and have a cross-interaction.

It's also quite.