Four months after the superhero sequel film’s underwhelming box office performance, Zachary Levi has lashed out at the ‘perplexingly’ poor Shazam 2 reviews.
Zachary, 42, played Shazam, the DC superhero who is the alter ego of Billy Batson, a teenager who gets the ability to transform into Shazam.
The first film, released in the spring of 2019, was one of the year’s biggest triumphs for the DC Extended Universe, and it received accolades for its wacky, honest comedy.
However, the sequel, Fury of the Gods, was delayed twice by the epidemic and had a far less enthusiastic reception.
Audiences and critics alike were sceptical, and the picture underperformed both on Rotten Tomatoes and at the global box office.
Zachary has now attacked critics who awarded ‘perplexingly low scores,’ which probably contributed to the film’s lacklustre box office result.
‘I don’t know what the future holds for it all [Shazam] because, unfortunately, the second movie was not as well received,’ he told the Film Up podcast.
He continued: ‘The audience score is still quite good, but the critics’ score was very oddly and perplexingly low, and people were insanely unkind.’
‘I’m not saying Shazam! Fury of the Gods is some perfect, Orson Welles-like masterpiece, but it’s a good darn movie,’ he added, defending Shazam.
Zachary rushed to Twitter after the film’s release to attack the film’s marketing tactics, claiming that families were unaware of the film.
‘This is a perfect family movie, and yet a lot of families aren’t aware of that. Which is just a shame,’ he said on the social media site, which is currently named X.
Zachary was also critical of social media, claiming that since the epidemic, online hatred has expanded even further, harming the movie industry.
‘I think even just the world, from the first movie to the second movie, the world has shifted so much – hate, online hate and haters, and trolls,’ he added.
‘There are people who genuinely, unfortunately, want to destroy certain projects because they don’t like them, or they don’t like me.’
Shazam wasn’t the first DC picture to underperform at the box office this year, with Ezra Miller’s The Flash also falling short of predictions.
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