★★★★ Luckily there are still people who consider superheroes for what they are, luminous epic fantasies, not infrequently with satire included. That was the first Shazam!, which took the beginning of I Wish I Was Big (a teenager who becomes a “grown-up” superhero in this case) and talked about what it means to have a family, without avoiding all kinds of fantastic and comedic moments ( and some very sad). In this case we return to the matrix and there are some vengeful goddesses (how well Helen Mirren knows how to have fun) who threaten the world, and so on. The interesting thing is that what we see on the screen respects a lot of the humor, the tenderness and the ostensibly “fairy tale” element of the original comic. Dragons and unicorns, magical powers and, as in every fairy tale, some orphans who manage to create their own family, their own society. The visuals are as spectacular as they should be, but it’s the dialogue and tone used by Zachari Levy (a great comedian) to be a “teenager in an adult body” that gives this childish film its special flavor. in the noblest and most perfect sense of a term that is often used too badly
