If you are not high browed and not easily entertained then this may not be the movie for you but for people who are heading to the theatre to laugh and be entertained then watch `Shazam’ screening at Colombo City Center with Dobly Atmos a breakthrough new sound experience which is amazing.
A wizard (Djimon Hounsou) gives 15-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel) the ability to transform into an adult superhero (Zachary Levi) by using the magic word ‘Shazam’. Billy Batson the hero in the movie had an absent father and was separated from his mother at an early age, but even as he grows he clings to the hope of a reunion. Billy is a constant runaway from his foster homes in search of his mother who deserted him. He is ready to do the same with his new guardians Victor and Rosa Vasquez (Cooper Andrews and Marta Milans) and their foster kids, Mary (Grace Fulton), Eugene (Ian Chen), and Darla (Faithe Herman). What keeps Billy in place is the rapport he builds with his roommate Freddy who is another foster child, played by Jack Dylan Grazer, a kid on crutches with a smart mouth. The duo are both obsessed with comic book heroes but Billy is the one who gets hand picked by the wizard to be both his successor and a super hero.
Billy becomes the chosen one who has a pure heart to inherit the powers from the histrionic Wizard Shazam to protect the world from an invasion of the Seven Deadly Sins. In contrast, the villain, Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong), was belittled by his father (John Glover) and also was rejected by the Wizard. He has spent his life determined to find the portal back to the Wizard’s mystical realm, not to serve Shazam but to be a vessel for those deadly sins and become their super villain.
Zachary Levi kills it as Shazam as he acts just like a teenager who is absolutely ecstatic that he now can leap tall buildings in a single jump and uses his super power to buy beer. Billy’s whole foster family has a really believable and heart-warming dynamic. At the end Billy finds the love of a family he was looking for. All the child actors in the movie do a decent enough job when they are on their own but when they are together they really shine.
The bad guy in the movie is not the typical one you see in other movies who create chaos. Strong does what he can as the bad guy, but, through no fault of his own, he is pretty weak. Whereas in other superhero movies, a bad villain can ruin the whole thing, in “Shazam!” that’s not the case because the focus is not on the old fight between good and evil, it’s on the characters — how they grow and how they become closer to one another. This movie is a wholesome family-friendly fun and can be enjoyed more so than most superhero movies.
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