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<\/a><\/div>\nI got to see another anticipated film really early due to a promotion from Fandango, and that film was Shazam!<\/span><\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-Xupl9oYJtis\/XJcETn4PYRI\/AAAAAAAAFTM\/iK0II4Jmq9YHf0AXlp-QG2imvQIKZa0DwCLcBGAs\/s640\/PS4Wallpapers.com_5a7178c57b158_JL2.jpg\")
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Okay, I\u2019m going to be honest here, I was not a DC fan during my grade school years, I was and still am more of a Marvel person, but that didn\u2019t mean that I did not watch a couple of shows or movies that are based on DC comics (Justice League, Static Shock, parts of Batman: The Animated Series)s, I\u2019ve just started to become a DC fan in the past few years because of The Dark Knight Trilogy and SOME of the DCEU films like Wonder Woman and Aquaman. <\/span>When the DCEU started, we had Man of Steel, which I still sort of like even though others don\u2019t, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which had a decent Batman played by Ben Affleck but was very flawed, Suicide Squad, liked at first but started to hate on later, Wonder Woman, which finally showed a glimmer of hope for this franchise, and Justice League, a major disappointment in my book. I don\u2019t know what happened after that, but in my opinion, DC has started to finally make some really decent Superhero films, and it continues with their latest DCEU film, Shazam! <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-L8-qkOeiXXQ\/XJcEsWE0bSI\/AAAAAAAAFTU\/iHgtWKfrSjgnveef75u5oLBUCDq8kb4EACLcBGAs\/s640\/MV5BMjIyNTkwODY1OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMTUyMTA5NjM%2540._V1_.jpg\")
<\/a>\u201cShazam!\u201d tells the story of Billy Batson (Asher Angel<\/b>), a teenager who has been without his parents for most of his childhood and has been gone through several Foster homes. <\/span>Billy gets moved into another foster home and meets several members of the family and eventually meets Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer<\/b>), a disabled teen who loves superheroes like Superman and Batman and has a vast knowledge of superhero elements. <\/span>One day after school, Freddy gets bullied by two jerks and Billy fights them off only to be chased later on. <\/span>After getting away on a Subway, Billy is suddenly transported to a mystical realm and meets an all-powerful wizard named Shazam (Djimon Hounsou<\/b>). <\/span>The Wizard recruits Billy to become a champion and gain all of his mystical powers by simply calling his name. Billy calls out \u201cShazam\u201d and is transformed into an Adult red-costumed superhero (Zachary Levi<\/b>) with the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlus, The power of Zeus, The courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury. <\/span>Billy finds Freddy and they both try to discover how to use his new powers, mostly using it for frivolous purposes like buying alcohol, doing tricks for money, and sometimes Superhero work. <\/span>Billy later encounters the evil Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong<\/b>), an inventor who wants Shazam\u2019s powers as it is the desire of demons known as the Seven Deadly Sins and has to defeat all of them in order to protect his foster family as well as the city of Philadelphia before it is too late.<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>\u201cShazam!\u201d tells the story of Billy Batson (Asher Angel<\/b>), a teenager who has been without his parents for most of his childhood and has been gone through several Foster homes. <\/span>Billy gets moved into another foster home and meets several members of the family and eventually meets Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer<\/b>), a disabled teen who loves superheroes like Superman and Batman and has a vast knowledge of superhero elements. <\/span>One day after school, Freddy gets bullied by two jerks and Billy fights them off only to be chased later on. <\/span>After getting away on a Subway, Billy is suddenly transported to a mystical realm and meets an all-powerful wizard named Shazam (Djimon Hounsou<\/b>). <\/span>The Wizard recruits Billy to become a champion and gain all of his mystical powers by simply calling his name. Billy calls out \u201cShazam\u201d and is transformed into an Adult red-costumed superhero (Zachary Levi<\/b>) with the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlus, The power of Zeus, The courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury. <\/span>Billy finds Freddy and they both try to discover how to use his new powers, mostly using it for frivolous purposes like buying alcohol, doing tricks for money, and sometimes Superhero work. <\/span>Billy later encounters the evil Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong<\/b>), an inventor who wants Shazam\u2019s powers as it is the desire of demons known as the Seven Deadly Sins and has to defeat all of them in order to protect his foster family as well as the city of Philadelphia before it is too late.<\/span><\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-aix_cTvxZ84\/XJcFbiwLvYI\/AAAAAAAAFTc\/eq0Mh9W0V_4wlB7n1hYEXUhPu3Lq1gdxACLcBGAs\/s640\/maxresdefault.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/div>\nRight off the bat, the whole kid becoming an adult concept sounds like the plot to Big, and in many ways, yes, it is like Big, but what \u201cShazam!\u201d does right is be a fun and entertaining film that pays tribute both to Big and old superhero films like Superman I and II. What the film also does right is have a heart, Billy Batson has been trying to find his mother as he was lost in a carnival and has been trying to find her ever since, even to the point to where he rejects almost every Foster home that wanted to love him. Billy has to learn to love his new family as they are, they don\u2019t have to be biological, just people who care about him. Both Asher Angel\/Zachary Levi do a fantastic job as Billy Batson\/Shazam, after seeing this film, I can\u2019t think of anyone else that could\u2019ve pulled off the dual role like these two did. Jack Dylan Grazer is very good as Freddy Freeman, he along with Asher Angel make a great duo of friends who work with each other to figure out this whole superhero deal. I also love the actors who play the rest of Billy\u2019s foster brothers and sisters, the way they react to Shazam and the rest of the film was cute and light-hearted. The film was also really funny and makes fun of DC tropes in a good way. So really, this film is a really fun superhero film with heart and horror director David F. Sandberg did a good job with directing this film for what it is. I honestly liked the villain in this movie, Mark Strong does a great job in any type villain role, so it very much reminded me of his role as Lord Blackwood in Sherlock Holmes but unlike Blackwood, Dr. Sivana has a decent motive for being a villain. Look, it\u2019s not like MCU levels of villainy, but Strong gets the job done as Dr. Sivana.<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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