If we ever doubted besvärligheterna for young boys to grow up, one need only trust to the movie.
here in the Swedish David F Sandberg’s first Hollywoodbrakare ”Shazam!”, where fosterhemsplacerade Billy Batson (Asher Angel) with the help of his kryckförsedda bispringare Freddy Freeman (Jack Dylan Grazer) is modeled in a pubertal life with and without super powers.
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Down in the mixer are mixed – not without a certain good-natured affection – the fight against the school bullies, and a growing interest in adult entertainment with the battle against the seven dödssyndernas monster with greed and avunden as the worst of them all. Knowledge of a comprehensive moral mythology, and its footprint in recent popular culture is necessary in order that the mixture should be really useful.
Photo: Steve Wilkie
its time to escape from the previous foster home in search of his missing mother, until he ends up with a happier and more understanding family, and become part of a mottled crowd of foster children, each with its own distinctive characteristics.
But it starts with a car crash. Rarely saw the man the background of the evil genius is introduced so robust as this. It also applies to billy’s difficulties to eventually shoulder the superhjältens role, including the temptations of the to reflect in the public’s admiration for his super powers instead of using them for something good. (The film is based the comic book series from DC Comics about a boy who turns into an adult superhero when he utters the word ”shazam”).
just As clearly portrayed the main character’s more mundane worries, like being able to pee trapped in rödglänsande superhero jumpsuit with the white robe and everything.
Freddy, as billy’s own Sancho Panza know, however, is often a vengeance, and match billy’s naivety with clearheaded advice in each critical moment.
Photo: Steve Wilkie
something so when the balance between the humour of superhjältedrömmarnas childish and seriousness in the battles against the seven dödssyndernas monster with bared and drooling gap throws himself over billy’s newfound sibling.
But when it pulls up in the action-packed slutstrid at an amusement park between the siblings and the deep obehaglige and vengeful doctor Sivana (once again, Mark Strong in the villain role), the balance is lost in the tedious dataspelsliknande after effect.
even the land may, subject to the actiontraditionen escape while the childhood attractions collapses. After it is billy’s final realization that he is not capable himself and unite with his new family in grace as more than gottköpsaktig.
See more: Three other superhero films from the Marvelkonkurrenten the DC Comics world: ”Superman” (1978), ”Batman” (1989) and ”Spider-man” (2002).