Female Film Critics 24/375
Although it’s clearly crafted as a colorful and jokey countermeasure to dark and brooding DC movies like “Batman v Superman” – it’s set in a world where these superheroes are accepted as real and actively operating – “Shazam” also boasts some of the darkest material I’ve seen in a PG-13-rated comic-book movie.
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Now that the multiplexes are inundated with superhero movies, some are bound to be mediocre – and this cinematic adaptation of the DC comic is not great or even good. Utilizing the iconic archetype of a childhood dream – a.k.a. saying a magic word and suddenly transforming into a superhero – Billy becomes a costumed, caped, muscle-bound man.
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