Shazam! | April 5, 2019 | 21st Most Profitable Film of 2019

[Michael Seng Wah]

Critics Consensus: An effortlessly entertaining blend of humor and heart, Shazam! is a superhero movie that never forgets the genre's real power: joyous wish fulfillments.

Edited March 23, 2019 by Michael Seng Wah

[jking123]

I still don't see this doing big money business but hope im wrong and this achieves captain marvel level success or close to it.

[cax16]

Just now, Michael Seng Wah said:

Critics Consensus: An effortlessly entertaining blend of humor and heart, Shazam! is a superhero movie that never forgets the genre's real power: joyous wish fulfillment

This is a great description of the movie tbh. 

[TestPattern]

At this rate, Walter Hamada may just become president of WB.

[harrisonisdead]

I love re-finding out how weirdly bad Rotten Tomatoes is at updating its score every time a blockbuster's review embargo is dropped. 

12 minutes ago, FlashMaster659 said:

How many reviews?

 

Looks like there are a little over 30 reviews being counted, one of which is rotten, that I can see just by manually counting on the /reviews page.

[cax16]

1 minute ago, jking123 said:

I still don't see this doing big money business but hope im wrong and this achieves captain marvel level success or close to it.

I don’t see this doing anywhere near captain marvel but it doesn’t need to.

 

I’m hoping for 400-500mil. 

[LouisianaArkansasGeorgia]

2 minutes ago, Galactic Specter said:

Are horror directors the key to DC's success on film? 

 

Is Jordan Peele going to join the DCEU next?! 

I hope so!!!

I want him to direct this:

 

[Michael Seng Wah]

3 minutes ago, harrisonisdead said:

I love re-finding out how weirdly bad Rotten Tomatoes is at updating its score every time a blockbuster's review embargo is dropped. 

 

Looks like there are a little over 30 reviews being counted, one of which is rotten, that I can see just by manually counting on the /reviews page.

It’s still empty. But I managed to read the consensus by clicking DCEU franchise with list of other films. Guess it’s around 40 reviews.

[Darth Lehnsherr]

6 minutes ago, Galactic Specter said:

Are horror directors the key to DC's success on film? 

Is Jordan Peele going to join the DCEU next?! 

I hear the guy who directed Dawn of the Dead is free

[chuck0]

8 minutes ago, Galactic Specter said:

Are horror directors the key to DC's success on film? 

Is Jordan Peele going to join the DCEU next?! 

The collider youtoube review makes a few good points about that.

This is really getting some proper rave reviews.

[ban1o]

Glad Faith is getting good notices as Darla. 

[nevermore]

32 reviews 7.8/10

[Michael Seng Wah]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 96% based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 7.68/10.^[86]On Metacritic, the film has a weighted averagescore of 78 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[87]

[AdamKendall]

Evan Dossey is the guy who in the Nolan Batman days would have been in for a world of abuse. 

 

Thankfully that craziness has at least somewhat passed.

[RealLyre]

 

[nevermore]

Will probably end up around Wonder Woman/Thor Ragnarok level on RT.

[LouisianaArkansasGeorgia]

2 minutes ago, nevermore said:

Will probably end up around Wonder Woman/Thor Ragnarok level on RT.

Hopefully, Birds of Prey will continue this trend of favorably reviewed DCEU films. So excited for this! 

[TMP]

Are they gonna just CGI de-age the kids for the sequels?

[Ohana]

Just now, TMP said:

Are they gonna just CGI de-age the kids for the sequels?

 

That's a really good question, I wonder how they'll deal with them growing up
Even for the sequel they'll be already too mature...
huge part of Shazam's magic is them being kids, if they'll go on showing them as grown ups I have a feeling it won't work.

[Darth Lehnsherr]

4 minutes ago, TMP said:

Are they gonna just CGI de-age the kids for the sequels?

A sequel will be out by late 2021 hopefully.