'Shazam!' Is a Hilarious Superhero Film and Is One of the DCEU's Best

And he caressed her body slowly, taking in a deep breath as he stared longingly at her—oh, shit. Sorry. Wrong article.

Umm.... so, anyways, I watched a new movie recently and I'm gonna review it now. Let's just get to the review.

Here We Go!

Shazam! is a superhero comedy film written by Henry Gayden (Earth to Echo) and directed by David F. Sandberg (Lights Out). This is the seventh film in the DC Extended Universe.

It stars Asher Angel as Billy Batson, a teenage foster kid who comes across a wizard who transforms him into an adult superhero named Shazam (portrayed by Zachary Levi), and he must now discover his powers while being able to change back and forth between his two identities by saying "Shazam!"

Now, I'm not the biggest fan of the DCEU. I like Marvel much more, and there's been a lot of memes lately about Carol Danvers and Billy Batson and how one of them is the REAL Captain Marvel, or something stupid like that.

And I watched Captain Marvel. Good movie. Nothing particularly special. Then, a month later, I watched Shazam!. And I can say that I liked this movie more than Captain Marvel.

One of the biggest issues I had with the first few DCEU entries were that they were a little too dark and grimy. They took themselves really seriously, and had very few scenes that could actually be considered fun entertainment. This movie was a great change of pace.

This film was absolutely hilarious. I was laughing my ass off during so many scenes. The comedy hit every single right note in this film, and the entire theater was laughing as well.

One of the best things about this movie is Zachary Levi's performance. He brought so much comedy to this role and he really embodied the childlike spirit of Billy Batson. He was charismatic and entertaining on screen, and I really enjoyed watching his performance.

The whole movie was just really entertaining. It's not a movie that takes itself too seriously, which I appreciated, and it was particularly fun watching Billy and his foster brother, Freddy, just find out about all of his new superpowers and reacting to it the way kids would.

One of the strongest elements of this movie was the family aspect. Billy is an orphan who's trying to find his mother and he gets himself into a lot of trouble, getting repeatedly moved to different foster homes.

He doesn't like the idea of having a foster family, and it was really nice to see how the foster family accepts Billy and how Billy reacts to living with them over the course of the film.

The action sequences in this movie are pretty average. There's nothing particularly special, nor is there a lot of hand-to-hand combat, but the action works for the film, and it's not really the point of the movie. This movie simply aims to be a fun, lighthearted superhero film.

But, I do have a few small issues with it. I think my biggest problem with this movie may be the villain.

I don't want to give away everything, but he's essentially this big evil guy with a few powers and an army of monsters, and I think he's just really bland and generic for a superhero film. He's not one of DC's better villains. He works as a bad guy, and Mark Strong gives a...well, strong performance, but not much else.

Something I didn't quite get about the villain is how throughout the film, he tries to get Shazam's powers, but the thing is, he already has most, if not all of Shazam's powers. In fact, this bad guy kicks Shazam's ass in this movie, so I don't know what he would gain from getting Shazam's powers.

Besides this, there are just a few individual scenes that I have issues with. For example, there's a scene where Shazam catches a bus by its cracked windshield, and the windshield somehow doesn't completely break.

So I don't really know how realistic that was supposed to be, but the rules of what can and can't happen in a superhero film can be a bit blurry.

There's also a scene where—okay... Remember that scene in The Matrix where Trinity points a gun at the Agent and says, "Dodge this," before firing. There's a scene where something like that happens, but this time, the agent dodges it.

And while I love action one-liners, sometimes, you just have to kill the bad guy already. Aside from that, there's also a really minor subplot that I felt could have been given some resolution at the end.

Aside from all that, I love this movie. It's a relentlessly fun superhero movie that kids can watch and enjoy. This movie is awesome and hilarious, and I had a great time with it.

I'm going to give 'Shazam!' a 9/10.

Oh, and it's a Christmas movie too, by the way.

You know, I used to think the DCEU was a tragedy, but now I realize it's a comedy.