SHAZAM! Movie Reactions and SPOILER thread!

[Midvillian1322]

Think his name is Andrew Cooper but the foster dad I love. Even though I stopped watching he was great as Jerry from TWD. Hope this guys career takes off.

[choptop]

I think this was better than captain marvel and aquaman.

[Wildling]

you mean Mr Mind the worm?

I was wondering, how did he escape from the Rock of Eternity?

Same reason the Sins were able to go for Sivana. Old Shazam was alone and coming to his end and couldn't keep an eye on everything anymore.

[David Walton]

So based off the strength of the movie, started reading Geoff Johns' current SHAZAM run, and it's incredible. If you're a fan of the film you'll love it.

[Buried Alien]

If they're going to do a sequel, they'd better get going PRONTO. Just saw an interview with Asher Angel and Jack Dylan Grazier that was videotaped very recently, and just a year to a year and a half after filming SHAZAM!, they're already looking and sounding more like young men than the boys they were in the movie. Within a year, both will likely have aged out of playing Billy Batson and Freddy Freeman.

This is one of the most confounding dilemmas of making an extended SHAZAM! franchise with multiple sequels. How do you keep the kids...kids? Recasting doesn't seem like a viable option.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[stargazer01]

If they're going to do a sequel, they'd better get going PRONTO. Just saw an interview with Asher Angel and Jack Dylan Grazier that was videotaped very recently, and just a year to a year and a half after filming SHAZAM!, they're already looking and sounding more like young men than the boys they were in the movie. Within a year, both will likely have aged out of playing Billy Batson and Freddy Freeman.

This is one of the most confounding dilemmas of making an extended SHAZAM! franchise with multiple sequels. How do you keep the kids...kids? Recasting doesn't seem like a viable option.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

Maybe they should have cast younger for some of the kids. like 2 or 3 years younger. Or do the sequel back to back like LotR. But as long as they are still very young, what's the big problem if they aren't young kids? Mary is older and she was able to transform. Maybe the key was to get them at the right age for at least the first movie, no? Or the powers of Shazam only work a certain age?

[Buried Alien]

Maybe they should have cast younger for some of the kids. like 2 or 3 years younger. Or do the sequel back to back like LotR. But as long as they are still very young, what's the big problem if they aren't young kids? Mary is older and she was able to transform. Maybe the key was to get them at the right age for at least the first movie, no? Or the powers of Shazam only work a certain age?

Mary was introduced into the movie as a young adult, so ironically, that makes her actress (Grace Fulton) most viable to continue in the role for several more films. For the younger children and adolescents, it's trickier. The whole conceit of the SHAZAM! franchise, and particularly Billy Batson's story, is that he's a young kid who becomes an adult superhero. If WB/DC want to do what was done on the 1970s Saturday morning TV series and portray Billy as a young adult, that's OK, but they won't be able to maintain the original conceit for long with the current actors.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Comic-Reader Lad]

Asher is now 16 and Jack is 15. Interestingly enough, they're about exactly a year apart in age. Both will have birthdays in early September.

Anyway, it's a given that they will age and change really soon. I think this was considered when they were cast and allowing them to age noticeably is a good thing. It will make each Shazam movie a bit different as the kids face new problems that come with their new ages.

In particular, Billy will face a lot of temptations as he turns 18 with the powers of Shazam at his disposal (assuming there is a Shazam 3). A good scriptwriter can mine this for good character drama.

I'm of the opinion that this is a good thing so we don't get the same movie regurgitated over and over. Also, older teens that might have stayed away from Shazam because they thought it was a kids' movie might want to check out the sequels with an older Billy.

[Gaastra]

Now playing podcast confirms parents on twitter are upset at shazam for scaring their kids (I think we all know the scene) and they had to leave the showing. Said the ads made it look like a kids film and took their young kids to it.

We took the nephews and a niece and they are young and they had no trouble with that scene at all. Then again they have seen gremlins, goonies and return to oz. I think most kids will be fine (aquaman had the trench scene and kids were fine) but looks like some parents are angry over it.

[Nate Grey]

Now playing podcast confirms parents on twitter are upset at shazam for scaring their kids (I think we all know the scene)

The Sivana boardroom scene?

[Gaastra]

The Sivana boardroom scene?

That's the scene. Again had no trouble with our nephews and niece and non of kids at our showing had to leave.

[Nate Grey]

That's the scene. Again had no trouble with our nephews and niece and non of kids at our showing had to leave.

The Sins themselves were scary looking but that's it. For a supposed massacre it was awfully bloodless (not a single drop). Ironically you'd think they'd have more of a problem with Sivana suddenly chucking his brother out a window.

[tkitna]

The Sivana boardroom scene?

Best scene of the movie. When he threw the dude out of the window.

[Jim Kelly]

It's PG-13. If a parent is taking their less than 13 year old kid to the movie, it's on them if the kid gets scared. They were warned.

Some reviewers compare this to the 1980s movies--remember TEMPLE OF DOOM--in fact those movies were way more frightening and that's why they came up with the PG-13 rating, introduced in 1984 to address the complaints that those PG movies were too violent and scary.

[Nate Grey]

Best scene of the movie. When he threw the dude out of the window.

Awesome AND funny, the suddenness of it.