How to watch "Shazam"
Do you remember the power of your
imagination? Being a kid able to create an entire universe inside of a box?
Idolizing Superman and Batman while pretending to be Spiderman?
It does not matter what your answer
is, because in a world filled with comic book and superhero movie entertainment
as great as we have today there HAS to be a differentiating factor between
another DC movie and a GREAT DC movie. Especially when you take into account
horrible mishaps like Suicide Squad, or amazing, successful accomplishments
like Wonder Woman.
What a wonderful, funny,
entertaining and heartwarming movie Shazam is! Please go watch this movie with
your family, significant others, friends and anyone who needs and/or likes to
have a smile on their face throughout and after watching a movie. Please think
about your childhood before going in to watch it. Think about the happiness of
playing yourself tired on a bike, with a toy, or just a cape with which you
imagined you could actually fly and be super strong and super fast.
Shazam comes into DC to destroy the
idea of a dark or sad universe. Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer,
Grace Fulton and the rest of the family cast are amazing at making you love and
sympathize with a foster home whether you know what that is like or not. Mark
Strong has the villain status completely under control, he proves to be a
villain that wakes up the true nature of Billy Batson as a superhero that is
way younger than the rest of the universe around him.
The exploration of what it means to
be cast into being a superhero when you want the powers and not the responsibilities
is very effecting when portrayed through the role of a kid who has lost his
family. And is therefore angry at any family that wants to accept him with
love, just because he has been hurt by the very love that everyone calls “strong”
– motherly love.
A house is not a home until YOU
decide to call it that.
Laugh, smile, think like a kid and
decide like a responsible superhero. This movie is one of my favorite in terms
of all time DC movies because it asks of its audience to do something that is
not very common in every movie:
think about how lucky you are that you have a
place you can call home.
