Meh reviews for ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’

Above : “Helen Mirren and Lucy Lio star in “Shazam! Fury of the Gods.” (Photo/Warner Bros.)

OK, so the reviews of “Shazam! Fury of the Gods” are finally pouring in. And at least by the standards of Rotten Tomatoes, the news is clearly mixed.

Rafer Guzman of Newsday wrote that the film “fairly panders to the under-13 set. But (Zachary) Levi still works his chatterbox charm, and the movie maintains an appealingly easy-breezy tone (aside from the occasional impaling).”

And Kate Erbland of IndieWire wrote that though it “doesn’t entirely recapture the giddy fun of the first film, its humor, sweetness, and delightfully human heroes remaining bright spots in a genre too often obsessed with the dark and the gritty.”

Meanwhile, Frank Scheck of the Hollywood Reporter wrote that, “While the film provides the elaborate action set pieces, colorful villains and save-the-world plot mechanics expected of the comic book movie genre, some of the magic is missing.”

And Nick Schager of the Daily Beast wrote, “Messy and mirthless, it resounds as the death knell for this interconnected cinematic enterprise’s current iteration.”

Ouch. As always, though, it is you who has the final word – with your virtual pocketbook.