Im not ashamed to admit that Im old enough to remember watching the corny Saturday morningShazam!TV show.
It was the ultimate wish-fulfillment fantasy, packaged in a disposable wrapper.
These days, even the bottom of the barrel can be strip-mined for gold, it seems.
Credit: Steve Wilkie/© DC Comics
Which brings us to DCs new and mostly improved Shazam 2.0.
All of that mandatory genre junk weighs Levis lighter-than-air scenes down like a steel anchor.
Shazam!is basically two movies in one.
And they both have the other in a headlock, wrestling for the soul of the story.
I loved one, yawned through the other.
ItiscalledShazam!, after all.
Why not let the guy and his glowing lightning bolt shine?B
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