Shazam!
You like your nephew! Let’s call him Dewie. He’s nine years old, absolutely adorable, and as boring as a bar of Ivory soap. Dewie is genial, mostly polite, and doesn’t really have any rough edges—except for the occasional comedic burp, which comes off as planned adorableness. And that’s pretty much the vibe of Shazam!, which, like Aquaman, is practically begging to be known as “the fun one” in DC’s line of grumpy, mostly unenjoyable superhero flicks. And the result? Okay… it’s cute. And if you’re nine years old, you’ll think it’s pretty good.
by Wm. Steven Humphrey