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Gin rambles on about: SHAZAM!!! (Spoilers, obviously)
I haven't made a thread in forever and reviews seem to be out of fashion, so naturally it's time to be late and review SHAZAM!!! No, I will not stop using caps when typing the movie title. It's how it's written everywhere else. Shut Up. Also, I don't think I need spoiler tags since I said spoilers in the thread title. Feel SHAZAM!!! is the best DCU movie. That wasn't exactly hard to do, let's be honest. The characters are... well, Zachary Levi as Shazam can be pretty cringe when he's trying to act like a 15 year old sometimes, though he's pretty great as a main character all in all, especially in some of the more serious scenes. The child acting also isn't terrible, which is also a surprise. The Villain is not Black Adam, so I know no-one will know who he is. His name is Doctor Sivana and he is a kid who was supposed to be Shazam, but the wizard said he couldn't be Shazam and then he caused a car crash that crippled his father having a tantrum because he couldn't be Shazam. He's possessed by the Seven Deadly Sins, 7 gross demons who are supposed to be the personification of the sins but Wrath isn't a multiple headed dragon man made of Pride and the Chariot of God, so already their identity is pretty suspect. His super powers are having a single blue crystal in his right eye and being way too serious for this movie. There is a scene in the movie where the villain kills his dad, brother and a board at their company that is pretty much that one scene from Spiderman 2 where Doc Ock wakes up and his tentacles murder everyone except longer, so that's fun. It's so out of place. It feels like it should be in a horror film. But here it is. In a mostly light-hearted comedy super hero movie. Also, the Shazam Family (See Mary Marvel and everyone else who no-one cares about) are in the movie as well. So that was suprising. They fight the sins. Except Envy, who hides in Doctor Sivana, which you'd expect to be to be Sloth because he's lazy, but whatever. All in all, the movie is pretty great. It's better then the Marvel Captain Marvel in my opinion, which I enjoyed but it wasn't stellar. I compare it to that because Shazam was called Captain Marvel before he wasn't. I'd give SHAZAM!!! a good 8.5/10. The DC Cinematic Universe is actually getting some half decent movies finally. Wonder Woman, Aquaman and now SHAZAM!!!. Hope for their sake they keep up the trend. I hear Green Lantern is coming soon. That can't be worse that the one we have, so that's a free win pretty much. Then again, Marvel fucked up their first attempt at a Wolverine movie even though that was supposed to be a free win, so... Shazam?
What? I'm busy watching R-rated movie
i agree with most of this, except SHAZAM! only has one exclamation mark