Shazam! Is the newest entry in the DC Comics movie franchise and concerns Billy Batson (Asher Angel) a child looking for his mother and has run from various foster homes and ends up in one in Philadelphia but one day he finds himself in a cave talking to an old wizard who gives him the power of Shazam! Which he can activate by saying that word but his new superhero persona will become tested when Dr Sivana (Mark Strong) seeks that power to rule the world.
Shazam! Was not a movie that did very much for me I’m afraid and that mainly comes down to the use of comedy in the film, a lot of the time it felt like the movie strived too hard to be comedic and humorous and funny and others might find the kind of humour the film has which is very much the teen coming of age/early attempts at superheroics might work for others but for me I just got tired of it after a while.
And also Mark Strong as Dr Sivana was okay as a villain but again after a while I didn’t really get behind his motivation and thinking about these 2 points I come to what will probably be my main issue with the film and that is its length.
The film runs for over 2 hours and like Thor Ragnarok in 2017 it overstays its welcome by a good 20-25 minutes or so and the kind of films Ragnarok and Shazam! Want to be influenced by such as Ghostbusters or Big or Top Gun and Lethal Weapon in the case of the recently released Captain Marvel they weren’t movies that ran over 2 hours at most they were 105-115 minutes and if Shazam! Had been at that length I probably would’ve liked it a lot more.
And so that was Shazam! And in all honesty I just don’t find myself getting back on the DC train unless they pull off a home run and neither this or Aquaman have been that for me and both the villain and the humour overstayed their welcome for me, 2 out of 5.
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