Shazam!

Movie Ranked #299 | 2019 - Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A newly fostered young boy in search of his mother instead finds unexpected super powers and soon gains a powerful enemy.In Philadelphia, Billy Batson is an abandoned child who is proving a nuisance to Child Services and the authorities with his stubborn search for his lost mother. However, in his latest foster home, Billy makes a new friend, Freddy, and finds himself selected by the Wizard Shazam to be his new champion. Now endowed with the ability to instantly become an adult superhero by speaking the wizard's name, Billy gleefully explores his new powers with Freddy. However, Billy soon lea ... More from IMDb
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Best two reviews:
1) The Hollywood Reporter - Proves so determinedly ebullient you begin to think they're pumping laughing gas into the auditorium. The most kid-friendly DC movie so far, the film is thoroughly entertaining. (Rating: 90) Read Full Review >
2) Variety - A light, funny, grounded, engagingly unpretentious sleight-of-hand action comedy. (Rating: 90) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
20) Screen International - A mixed bag that doesn’t quite work — it’s too jokey, and too tonally erratic — and yet there’s real sweetness, as well as a genuine attempt to not just be another comic-book movie. (Rating: 50) Read Full Review >
21) Observer - By the end, Shazam! feels like a corporate product that’s so thirsty for approval from all quadrants that it never ends up figuring out what it is. (Rating: 25) Read Full Review >
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