Shazam! (DC Comics - Zachary Levi)

Baggly

Hope you enjoy it dublinman1990.

ancapailldorcha

Pter wrote: »

I think Billy is the only one who could keep up with supes. I think the others have at least some overall stacking of strength, endurance etc but seemed to specialise in one of Billy's powers each. Don't think they are all world beaters.

So darla was extremely quick and probably stronger than most people, but not as strong as Billy, for example.

I didn't really notice.

Fun little movie though. Hope they keep the Captain Marvel family thing scaled down though.

ThePott

Still waiting on Smertius' review

IncognitoMan

ThePott wrote: »

Still waiting on Smertius' review

Not comic. 0/10.

dublinman1990

Spoiler review coming!

I just got back from seeing it. I really enjoyed finally seeing Shazam today. It was a lot of fun. Some of the jokes & gags in it were really funny.

I almost lol'd at Freddie saying that Shazam's first name was "Thundercrack" to one of the people outside the convenience store. I will never forget that moment. I also thought the scene nearer to the end when Shazam & Dr. Sirvana were up in the air & Shazam couldn't hear what Dr. Sirvana was saying when he was so far away from him in the sky over the Philadelphia skyline and then Shazam saying "Ah! Screw it" was clever.

The scene when it get's to the end when all of Billy Batson's friends from the foster home, including Freddie, all turn into Shazam's sidekicks at the fun fair was the best scene ever in the whole movie. Seeing all of them all decked out in their costumes looked absolutely fantastic & unexpected because I hadn't been looking much information about this movie except when looking at some of the online trailers. All of them having their own gags were put to good use near the end too.

It was a bit of a pity not to include more scenes about Billy Batson's mother not seeing or hearing that her son was a superhero. If there is a sequel coming later on down the line. I would like to see more of Billy Batson's mother & also his father included for the first time in future. I thought that Billy seeing her real mother after running away at a fun fair when he was only a young 3 year old child would have spurred on emotion in it. I thought it felt a little bit flat when I watched that scene for the first time. People here may or may not agree in saying this but it had good intentions by those making the movie to be including it.

The final main scene in the cafeteria both Shazam appears along side Freddie with Superman coming in after him was good. It's a pity that I couldn't see who it was wearing the suit as I couldn't see the head at the end. I'm definitely right in saying in that it is not Cavill wearing the Superman suit this time. It was definitely someone else wearing it.

The credit scenes were good. I thought that the mid-credit scene with Dr. Sirvana with the caterpillar talking to him in the prison cell was the best one out of the two. The other one at the end with Shazam & Freddie slagging Aquaman from their bedroom was good & got a few laughs from me.

I have never been more glad to say that seeing Shazam on the big screen was a great achievement in itself.

More DC characters like this are getting bigger recognition from more of it fans, either young or old, when they see a movie like this one from theaters around the world. I could have never more happier to see it today in person. It felt great. I also heard recently from Batman-News.com that Shazam's Blu-ray release will get a ton of deleted scenes, amounting to between 20 & 24 minutes, being included when you look at the extras.

That would be terrific for us to see them when you watch it on our setups at home. But why oh why did we not get to see them when they aired in the cinema. Did WB wanted to perserve the running time to be a strict mandate for running this movie? I didn't know that more deleted scenes will be included in the Blu-ray release. WB might include some scenes that may change the look of the movie or add in more jokes to make it more funny.

You know it's a funny old world when fans out there talk about the movies from this universe made by WB. It creates so many polarizing opinions with how the movies were made with some of the releases being really good to being some absolute "stinkers". But for one thing; they are creating a lot more potential in how they are perfectly produced for their audience. They have made big hits with Wonder Woman & Aquaman creating a lot of buzz among fans about how great they were at the box office. They are trying to create something good for us to look at from an individual perspective of being a comic book fan. I'm so glad to be a part of it.

A definite 4 out for 5 from me from seeing this today. Again great fun, great laughs. Would like to see the deleted scenes when the Blu-ray officially comes out.

Shazam family had me fan squeeling, loved the oh so tacky cartoon as a kid

Autecher

I saw this yesterday. I'm not a comic book fan so don't know the history but I really liked it. It was very funny at times, I much prefer that to the Marvel movies which have become more serious and less funny as they have went on (the ones I have seen anyway). Can someone please explain to me why

Sivana wanted Shazam's powers when he appeared to already have them and was better than him with them?

Autecher

Autecher wrote: »

I saw this yesterday. I'm not a comic book fan so don't know the history but I really liked it. It was very funny at times, I much prefer that to the Marvel movies which have become more serious and less funny as they have went on (the ones I have seen anyway). Can someone please explain to me why

Sivana wanted Shazam's powers when he appeared to already have them and was better than him with them?

The sins told him, from the off, that Shazam would become more powerful than him, if given time to develop powers and to go after him (and he can make other super powered individuals)

Autecher

Deleted User wrote: »

The sins told him, from the off, that Shazam would become more powerful than him, if given time to develop powers and to go after him (and he can make other super powered individuals)

Yes of course, how did I miss that?!

Thanks

expectationlost

bizarre movie, not subtle and the thing with his

mom

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was that not assault with deadly weapon (a car) and gbh in the first few minutes

Slydice

Deleted scene!

Has Spoilers!

kdevitt

Enjoyed this - David Sandberg addressing some nit picky issues with the movie.

CastorTroy

Multiple times I thought Billy looked like Maisie Williams

branie2

I thought it was very good when I saw it

cdgalwegian

Humorous rather than funny. Seemed for early teens, considering the humour and type of violence. Turned it off after 1/2 hour (I mean, ahem, walked out of cinema.) Don't agree with RT review at all. DC trying hard to be antidote to MCU, but fails here I think, again.

Sleepy

Have to say we actually rather enjoyed it. Low expectations may have helped but really nice "Saturday afternoon on the couch with the kids" fodder.

silverharp

im guessing it wont be great in terms of sequels, it as a fun one off movie.

Slydice

Sequel -> April 2022
https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1114438-shazam-2

SHAZAM!

JP Liz V1

Helen Mirren and Rachel Zegler join

Agent Coulson

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Helen Mirren & Lucy Liu join the cast.

pixelburp

Good additions, Liu isn't in enough but her turn in Elementary was fantastic. I do speculate if the moment has passed for this sequel, the first film feels about a bazillion years ago now and the one DC flick people have generally forgotten.

I also wonder, having been so dogmatic about the film in the lead up, what Smertrius made of the thing. Or if they even watched it. They was quite the contributor here.

silverharp

it was a nice film, but I dont have an appetite for a sequel

JP Liz V1

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Shazam! Fury of the Gods

Helen Mirren & Lucy Liu join the cast.

Lucy Liu has joined as the villain Kalypso, the sister of Helen Mirren's villainous character Hespera.