Contains intense sequences of action, strong language and suggestive material. It’s also a stirring tale of the heroic potential that lies inside each of us, if only we’re put to the test. Shazam! operates as a thrilling fantasy and a comedy about the learning curve of growing up. In the process, he confronts a supervillain (Mark Strong) who has gained control of demons who represent the Seven Deadly Sins. The screenplay by Henry Gayden essentially condenses a few Rocky sequels into one package: As the determined boxer evolved from working-class chump to overconfident star over the course of three movies, Shazam develops from vulnerable teen to cocky social media star to selfless family man in a little more than two hours. Beck and writer Bill Parker created the character in 1939. Set primarily in Philadelphia, Shazam! echoes, and directly refers to, another underdog who inspired the city: Rocky Balboa. Captain Marvel, also known as Shazam ( / zm / ), is a superhero appearing in American comic books originally published by Fawcett Comics and currently published by DC Comics. That physical humor makes his eventual triumph that much more exciting, and Levi’s childlike glee conveys that with a modesty that makes him more relatable than your average flying crusader. sandberg, the film will star asher angel as billy batson, zachary levi as shazam, jack dylan grazer as freddy freeman, adam brody as superhero freddy, faithe herman as darla dudley, meagan good as superhero darla, ian chen as eugene choi, ross butler as superhero eugene, jovan armand as pedro peña, d.j. Shazam’s attempts at flight are as uncertain as a baby duckling’s, which leads to some effective slapstick comedy. Levi plays Shazam as far more puerile than Billy, as if a grown man’s body has revealed the scared kid hiding behind the street-wise swagger. The thing is, Shazam is a goofy, buff adult who feels terribly self-conscious in a boldly colored, tight-fitting costume he finds ridiculous. With the magic word and new name - “Shazam!” - the wizard passes his power onto Billy, who’s transformed into a buff adult (Zachary Levi). Billy knows he wouldn’t pass any purity test - but is he the hero the world needs? But after he stands up to bullies who target Freddy at school, Billy magically appears before a wizard (Djimon Hounsou) who’s looking for a champion to take on his power to fight evil. shrunken into Fred Savage of The Wonder Years.īilly resists the affections of his motley new family at first. (Although, as his social worker points out, his mom hasn’t seen fit to look for him.) Authorities give him one more chance, placing him with foster parents who have hosted a whole crew of diverse children, including his roommate, a boy named Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer), who walks with a brace and seems like Robert Downey Jr. Shazam! reverses that process, and shifts from the rapid-fire editing of a typical comic book movie to spend more time developing characters.Ĭharacters like Billy Batson (Asher Angel), a 14-year-old who’s run away from every foster home he’s been placed in so he can search for his real mother. Sandberg, whose 2017 movie Annabelle: Creation put the finely developed characters of The Conjuring universe into the service of a series of jump scares. That’s largely thanks to director David F. Based on a character that first appeared in 1940 - and was originally called Captain Marvel, but that’s another story - this has all the thrills of a 21st century blockbuster, but with the heart and patient pacing of an ’80s adventure. It also happens to be the struggle of the reluctant superhero in Shazam!, the latest offering from the DC Comics Universe. In other words, the lightning that he calls down is not treated like magic lightning when it hits Superman, but rather it is just actual lightning.“Why is my body changing?” That’s the unspoken cry of every teenager in every coming-of-age movie. Shazam's magic gives him physical abilities (plus things like flight), but it does not seem as though he normally gets "extra credit" for his powers being magically-derived. So magic affects him the same as it would affect anyone else, but not more so. The other take is that Superman has no specific problem with magic, he just does not have an invulnerability to it like he does most other things. He is an ancient wizard who gives a young boy named Billy Batson the power to transform into the superhero Captain Marvel. In other words, magic weakens him and thus, if he is facing someone with magical powers, he will be at a specific disadvantage. One is that Superman has a specific weakness to magic. Does Superman have a weakness to magic? There are two takes on Superman's magic vulnerability. It appears as though the question of who is more powerful between Shazam and Superman turns on a separate, but related, question. There have even been bits where they arm wrestle and it doesn't go anywhere.
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