Ep 9: Shazam Review

Topic: Shazam (2019)

We talked about Captain Marvel a few weeks back: how the name Captain Marvel existed originally as a DC owned character, then found it's way in to the hands of Marvel after DC sued Fawcett Comics over the character rights/originality.  The character came back to the DC fold once purchased, and become Shazam, since Marvel owned the License to the name a that point.  Well a super hero movie happened, and we went to watch it.  

 

 

Tutorial:

 

History

Shazam originally known as Captain Marvel.

More popular than Superman.

DC Sued Faucett Comics over rights for the character

Eventually bought by DC and re-christened as Shazam.

 

Billy Batson(10), orphan

Meets a wizard after escaping bullies on a subway.

Wizard gives him the powers of Shazam = Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury

 

Marvel Family

Captain Marvel Jr.

Mary Marvel

Marvel Triplets: Fat Marvel, Tall Marvel, Hillbilly Marvel

Doctor Sivana – similar to Lex Luger, stereo typical Super Science bad guy.

  

Review:

Rock Originally signed to play Black Atom, mortal foe to Shazam, very similar power.

 

Cast:

Asher Angel (Billy Batson)

Zachary Levi (Shazam)

                Like how distant Billy is, and how naïve Shazam is.

Djimon Hounsou (Shazam Wizard) (Guardian of the Galaxy)

                Wish I could have seen more of him.

Jack Dylan Grazer (Freddy Freeman) Blue

                Quite good at being annoying.

Faithe Herman (Darla Dudley) Purple

Grace Fulton (Mary Bromfield) Red

Ian Chen (Eugene Choi) Gray

Jovan Armanda (Pedro Peña) Green

 

Mark Strong (Dr. Thaddeus Sivana)

                Wish to see him in roles other than bad guy for once…

 

Notes:

Fawcett School – Fawcett comics

Mister Mind – Super intelligent Caterpillar

Very innocent feeling movie.

Like act 3 better than first two acts.

Way too Front loaded with origins.

Mark Strong plays a bad guy well. Little too much story for him though?