The story of Shazam! Revolves around an adopted boy who lost his parents when he was young, and he is currently living a lost life between proving himself and finding his family, about which he knows nothing, but strange and surprisingly, he meets a magician who gives him exceptional powers that enable him to transform into a superhero as soon as he utters the magic word Shazam, extraordinary powers, he does not know what to do with them!
The movie Chazam belongs to the expanded DC cinematic world, the latter who suffers from the lack of cinematic pillars to push it forward to actually obtain the title of a cinematic world parallel to the Marvel cinematic world after the failure of many previous films, so this film comes and revives hopes again and proves that it is still There really is hope in this cinematic world.
This Shazam movie belongs to the few successful works in this world, along with Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Man of Steel, and all the rest of the other films are on the second meager scale! We can say that this movie is the best so far among the three aforementioned, as we will learn below what makes it really the best.
There is no doubt that everyone who saw the film knows exactly the tone that the latter is playing, the tone of comedy, unlike the rest of the other films that played the other chord, the chord of darkness and excessive seriousness, but this does not mean that the comic tone is what gives the magic mixture to success and that the dark tone Failure is destined, on the contrary, as each one can be successful if it is handled well, but those in charge of the DC world have not yet been able to figure out how to succeed in darkness in films such as Dawn of Justice or Justice League, but they have finally succeeded in comedy. That characterizes this movie.
But then again, there is Suicide Squad that was mostly a comedy but a flop! Which makes us conclude that the one behind the directing seat and the ink of writing the script is the one who has the ability to create success or admit failure, and this is provided that he has freedom in creativity.
It seems clear that the director of the movie "David Sandberg" has already got that, so he was able to present us with a superhero movie that is fun and funny more than anything else, and here lies the strength of this movie as it plays on the comic comedy in a wonderful and fun way, and be sure that when you see the movie you will laugh until And if you were one of the darkest and most pessimistic people, and therefore the artistic success of this film is primarily due to the director, Sandberg, and those who were behind the formulation of an interesting scenario that is compact in its plot.
Then we come to the second most important reason for the film’s success, the performance of the actors in general, and what the film’s hero, actor "Zachary Levy", presented in the role of Chazam in particular. If the direction and script were great, then the character of Shazam was the most wonderful, then the most beautiful and enjoyable moments of the film are when Shazam is present with his comedic and contradictory performance, where in his mind he is only a young boy or teenager in his early teens and therefore his behavior is still somewhat childish, but in his form he is a man With supernatural strength, and thus the contrast between the small mind and the big body, he created a comedy of an unparalleled heroic character.
When I was watching the movie I came to mind the example of another movie that kind of likens it in this satirical comedy, Deadpool; You find the main character with supernatural powers trying to eliminate evil, but without seriousness in dealing with the matter, but in a reckless comedy that the viewer enjoys with and finally fulfills its desired goal, and although the comedy of Deadpool was somewhat extreme in that it used obscene words and expressions, but the movie Chazam He could do the same, but he was able to keep his words and conversations clean.
There are two secondary characters who were also adorable, the first is the character of the boy Freddy, the friend of the superhero, who also performed a comedic performance in a very interesting way, and then there is the evil character of the performance of the star Mark Strong, who was also very successful in presenting him to the enemy of the hero, and here it can be said that he did not It was not exceptional and it wasn't bad, but rather what should have been presented on the same level as the rest of the film.
As for the visual effects, they were also good and faultless about them, and the thing that worried me most before watching the movie was how these effects would appear at the moment when the main character transformed from the boy to the superhero Shazam, especially since that moment is visible before our eyes, meaning that if There was any laziness on the part of the effects team that would spoil that moment of transformation, but they chose to rely on smoke to hide what had to be hidden so that the transformation would happen smoothly and effectively.
Finally, we come to the negative side of the film, and as the saying goes: in pure white you will undoubtedly find a black spot, because nothing is perfect! Frankly, this is not a proverb or wisdom said by a wise man ... This I only said and I am not wise at all, but the important idea arrived, which is that this film contains a bad side about it, what is it?
It is not a huge thing that needs to be lengthy, what is in the matter is that the end of the film was somewhat ridiculous, I am talking about the end in which Shazam is no longer alone fighting the villain, but other characters joined him with supernatural powers also to help him finish the matter, as we said Shazam no He's still a boy despite having many dazzling superpowers like no other. At the end, I felt that the film had taken a slightly frivolous turn and made it lose from the enjoyable splendor that we had experienced with it from the start.
Now let's finish by talking about that scene that appeared at the end after this ridiculous ending, another character that we all know does not belong to the film but belongs to the same cinematic world, I will not mention her name here, but it only came to make sure that this movie actually belongs to the expanding DC world, and without Doubt Shazam will meet with the rest of the superheroes if the DC world continues in some way despite the many problems he is currently facing, such as the possibility that actor "Henry Cavill" abandon the role of Superman and actor "Ben Affleck" for the role of Batman ...
The last thing, which is if you ask me about the ranking of the best DC movies at the moment, I rank them in the following figure in descending order: Chazam is the best so far, followed by Aquaman, followed by Wonder Woman, followed by Man of Steel, then we're done!