SHAZAM!!!

As kids at some point all of us wanted to be that kind of superhero that appears when you do a sudden turn or say something magical and possess all the powers, well we finally got a dream come true movie based on the character SHAZAM!. Shazam was released on March 15, 2019 but it was not that great of a hit as it should’ve been because people didn’t know about SHAZAM that much.

In the start of the movie it is shown that Sivana is in a car ride with his father and older brother arguing about his belief of supernatural and how he had a dream about some secluded sanctuary and suddenly he is transported to the a mysterious place called “Rock of Eternity” where he is met with an Ancient Wizard named Shazam, last of his Council of Wizards. He is looking for a person who can become his successor but he has to be “Pure at Heart”.  To test Sivnna Shazam asks him to touch the Eye of Evil. Sivana is tempted by the power of it and proceeds to touch, it but suddenly he is transported back to reality.

In present, a kid name Billy Batson is shown whose parents died when he was little. He is a rebel, fighting social workers, fleeing police and pulling tricks on everyone. He is adopted by a couple named Rosa and Victor, who did not have kids of their own so they opened their house to orphan kids. They already had adopted 5 kids namely Mary, Freddy, Eugene, Pedro and Darla. Billy shares a space with the sarcastic Freddy, who is a DC super fan, and even has some Superman and Batman stuff. But then notwithstanding the affection around him, Billy's greatest objective is to break out and locate his mother who surrendered him a long time ago. Billy fights the bullies of foster brother, Freddy, the he runs and get onto a subway but suddenly everyone gets of the train and the sub starts going fast and Billy appears in the same mysterious place, Rock of Eternity, and meets the same Ancient Wizard. He tests Billy and realizes that Billy is his successor so he transfers his powers by making Billy say his name out loud Shazam! Now Billy is a teenage boy in the body of a grown man. Billy can turn into Shazam by saying the word (SHAZAM) and then he can turn back into his 14 years old self by saying the same word again

On the same time Sivana had been working all these years to access the Rock of Eternity and he manages to build a gateway. He goes there and releases the evil by taking the Eye of Sin. Sivana finds Billy and asks Billy to give him the power of Shazam but he refuses. In the end Billy realizes that he cannot fight Sivana on his own and for the whole movie his foster siblings had been by his side so he transfers them the power of Shazam as well and making a Shazamily.

Shazam was a very hilarious given how much DC struggles with humor in their movies. It is rated 7.1 on IMDB but I think it deserves more because it not an adult being superhero movie, it is actually a child’s fantasy come true. The movie gives a great message that your real family is the one that loves you and stands by your side no matter what. Its light-hearted fun movie and has positive messages. Shazam is one of those movies I would definitely watch again just for a good laugh. The part where Sivana unleashes his demons appeared to be disturbing for a lot of people because the shapes pf demons were scary which is true it got a bit dark at that point but I don’t think it should over shadow rest of the movie. All in all I would rate it at 8/10 but you can comment about your opinions on the movie.

BILLY!!? Nooo,

oh okay SHAZAM!!!