[Nadal Fan]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Shazam was amazing. Loads of fun. Zachary Levi was superb. The kid who played his friend stole the show tho. He was hilarious and is gonna be a star imo.

It was honestly so good my biggest worry is that DC will find a way to mix this movie with the normal DC universe and ruin the #### out of it.

Spoiler!

They did a great job establishing the mythology without over explaining it. I actually want to read Captain Marvel comics now because I only really know the character from Kingdom Come.

Strong was good but the villain was a tad weak. Not even disappointed tho because it’s hard to have a well rounded villain in the first movie. Not enough time to establish the villain and do an origin story. They were right to make the villain superficial.

Someone on reddit pointed out that Billy had to overcome each of the 7 deadly sins in the movie, in his life and fighting the monsters. I definitely didn’t notice that cool little nugget.

I almost lost it when the Asian Marvel said hadouken during the fair battle. Couple other neat little Easter eggs I can’t remember right now that I liked. Were all the Captain Marvel name teases done just to poke fun at Marvel’s CM movie or can DC not say it due to some sort of legal issues? They did a great job teasing it.

Loved the portrayal of Billy learning to be CM. One of the few times any movie made me feel like they had some real fun with someone learning they have powers, especially a kid. It felt like how I would’ve reacted if I got those powers at 14.

DC had to legally change the name of Captain Marvel to Shazam due to legal issues with Marvel, which makes it hard because now Billy can't even say his name without changing into Shazam.

Listening to the response of this film makes my heart warm and fuzzy, I loved it but wondered if it was just because of my DC bias. Listening to most people it really is good.

Also you should really pick up Shazam by Geoff John's if you want to read some of his comics., It's only 4 issues in and the movie is very similar to it in tone and characterisation. Black Adam even looks like the Rock. The movie and any sequels take inspiration from this comic run.