Zachary Levi as Shazam
Here are review links for this film submitted by our members:
- Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Shazam!, the newest entry in the DC Extended Universe, took the criticism that the films were too serious and somber by going the opposite route and being almost a straight-up comedy. Therein lies the problem.
- Emmanuel Báez @ Cinéfiloz [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Shazam! moves along with great energy.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: An earnestly joyful experience that keeps things simple and focused on character. The cast is charming and the humor is sharp.
- Jim Dixon @ jim-dixon.com
- Excerpt: Comparisons to Big are unavoidable, and SHAZAM! even acknowledges this with a sly wink and its own walk-on keyboard scene. Levi makes this work with a performance that’s knowingly guileless – no mean feat.
- [New] | M. Enois Duarte @ High-DefDigest.com
- Excerpt: From horror filmmaker David F. Sandberg, Shazam! is an absolute hoot for the whole family with the promise of better things to come for the cinematic shared universe. The
- Vadim Grigoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Ultimately Shazam! emphasizes the happiness in comic books. It’s the heart that shines through.
- Courtney Howard @ FreshFiction.tv
- Excerpt: Shazam! marks a sea change for the DCEU. Superb, sweet and smart, this is a BIG feel-good superhero movie you’ll want to see over and over again.
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt: Nothing matters in this literal adolescent-male power fantasy, a cheesy mishmash of nonsense and low stakes. Anyone who needs at least a bit of meat in their superhero tales will be disappointed.
- Jeremy Kibler @ The Artful Critic
- Excerpt: Consistently fun to watch and not without a heart, “Shazam!” is the kind of superior, eager-to-please superhero entertainment that puts a good amount of pep in the viewer’s step.
- Christian Long @ Glide Magazine
- Excerpt: In the current spandex-stretched pop culture landscape, the Zachary Levi vehicle doesn’t seem to stand out in an over-saturated market.
- Dan Lybarger @ Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Excerpt: With Shazam!, the folks at DC have finally figured out the one major secret to Marvel’s success: While all of their movies have costumed protagonists, they aren’t strictly bound to the genre.
- Vince Mancini @ Uproxx
- Excerpt: One of the most enjoyable comic book movies ever made.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Shazam! can’t decide whether it wants to be a superhero movie or a parody of one.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Excerpt: Shazam!’ is so saccharine and hollow, the emotion so manufactured and false, and the goofiness wears so thin so fast, it becomes insufferable and leaves a lingering bad taste.
- Jared Mobarak @ The Film Stage
- Excerpt: Levi will be the one you remember because of his childlike enthusiasm, but Angel grounds those antics to earth so they don’t hijack message for laughter.
- Jana Monji @ Age Of The Geek
- Excerpt: Take your kids, take your friends and have fantastic fun laughing at this foible-filled superhero origins story.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: While Shazam! has its share of action and heavy moments, the film ultimately works best as an irreverent comedy.
- Frank Ochieng @ SF Crowsnest
- Excerpt: [An] engagingly cheeky and robust popcorn pleaser. In any event, ‘Shazam!’ is a heroic hoot for the ages.
- Eddie Pasa @ Gunaxin
- Tusshar Sasi @ Filmy Sasi
- Excerpt: Shazam’ is a refreshing addition to the list of original superheroes because nowhere else would you find a man of such power strut around malls announcing, “Your phone’s charged, your phone’s charged!”
- Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
- Excerpt: Zachary Levi’s schtick of superpowered shenanigans becomes the epitome of both the adjective and the noun variations of that choice word “zany.”
- Amir Siregar @ Amir at the Movies [Indonesian]
- Excerpt: With its standout performances (woohoo, Zachary Levi!) and hilarious comedy, ‘Shazam!’ is a refreshingly delightful and vibrant superhero movie in the DC Extended Universe.
