Shazam! (DC Comics - Zachary Levi)

you may've never read the original comics and we should respect them , even so they are fiction , people have no right to change them and make movies movies similar to the comics make good movies like 40s shazam movies and other dc movies before 2010 and not take piss on them

dc never created shazam , they only brought them from Fawcett Comics, means they have no right to change the copyright

Dude I'm all for being comic accurate at times but have you read any of the original iterations of these comics from the 30/40s, some of them are borderline unreadable.

Also do you not see the irony of attacking a film that has some 'originality' and for 'changing copyright (?)' for not clinging to the comics when the reason DC own the character to begin with was because Fawcett were seen as infringing on the copyright of Superman and not changing enough.

If they had tried making something more original to begin with we wouldn't even have him in the DC universe most likely.
For a character that's been around nearly 80 years, is it such a crime that there's been some changes since before WW2 :rolleyes:

Smertrius wrote: »

shazam killing off humans and not take responailty for his superpowers is oppostite of shazam portray in comics and they shouldn't have change him

Why shouldn't they change him?

Because you were a fan?

Because the original character was so popular?

Why?

So, the reviews are honestly coming in pretty good for this movie.

I've a real soft spot for Zachary Levi after the first few seasons of Chuck (shut up, it was a great show) and I also really like this reviewer and tend to agree with her.

No real spoilers in the here, but there are some so be warned.

This is the first film in a long time I'm genuinely excited to see.

Drumpot wrote: »

Wasnt overly impressed. My wife enjoyed it which means it will prob clean up!

Same old superhero origin story with lots of jokes?

I really enjoyed it, probably my favourite DCEU film by a good bit.

It reminded me a bit of the Raimi Spider-Man. That level of cheese. I do agree that it takes a while to get going, it really kicks up a notch when he becomes Shazam though. I also thought the villain was better than lots of superhero films if maybe a bit pantomime but in a film like this I feel that is excusable. Asher Angel and Levi were both great, the film had a real heart and sense of humour. It was just nice to have a film that took the mick out of superhero tropes without being cynical about it. The side characters worked quite well too which is rare in these movies.

I do feel though that the last act was a bit long and I think it was a tad predictable. I did a trailer breakdown for this and essentially managed to guess the whole movie from it and there wasn't even much to go off.

Liked it a lot though, not sure if it will hold up to subsequent viewings.

Will talk in more detail on my podcast, found below. Don't want to even spoiler tag this far out from the release

Saw this at an Omniplex preview last week, really enjoyed it.
It's a lot of fun, very heroic without being cynical, few laughs, very cheesy reminded me of Raimi's Spider-Man in that regard.
Did a proper review no spoilers below



I can never get youtube embeds to work

Goodshape wrote: »

It's just the video id in between the youtube tags, not the full URL.

Legend, thank you!

Just out of it.

It's good. I was expecting this one to be a hit with general audiences and now I'd be shocked if it isn't.

Simple, fun, straightforward. I think they fairly nailed what 15 year old with powers would act like. It's very enjoyable.

I equally loved all the references to the DC universe and was saddened by it because

8/10