Watch and download Shazam 4K. Inside each of us lives a superhero - you need only a little magic to release it outside. In the case of Billy Batson (Asher Angel), a 14-year-old adopted child, it is enough to shout out the word “Shazam!” (Kindly provided to the guy by an ancient wizard) and turn with his help into an adult superhero (Zachary Levy). But, despite the god-like body, this strongman is still a child who enjoys an adult version of himself and uses his newfound superpowers for unbridled fun. Can he fly? Does he have x-ray vision? Is he capable of letting lightning out of his hands? Can he skip the social science test? Shazam will have to test the limits of his abilities by doing this with the inherent joyful recklessness of a child. But Billy has very little time to fully master magical skills, because he urgently needs to overcome the deadly evil forces controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Mark Strong). Shazam 4K is a cool movie to watch for everyone.
Shazam 4K ReviewBoy Billy Batson once lost his mother at the fair a long time ago and has since been wandering around foster families, of which, however, he escapes over and over again. He still cherishes the hope of finding his mother, but, having studied the entire phone book by her name, he still remains unsuccessful. And even in the most loving and large family, in addition, entirely consisting of the same adopted children, he feels at ease. As if he already had few problems, once the subway train takes Billy to some very strange station - to a distant creepy cave, where the last wizard sits on the throne and gloomily declares that the boy must become his successor. Because only he is worthy to become the new Shazam 4K. Well, or because the dying wizard no longer has time to look for another. So Billy becomes the new Shazam UHD, the second superhero of Philadelphia after Rocky - about which, of course, the film will certainly be remembered.
In times when even ironically beating cliches is already cliche in itself, it is difficult to remove ridiculous superheroics and not get bogged down in the unsteady sands of postmodernity. Destruction of canons has ceased to be an original occupation: now it’s not enough to point a finger at the genre conventions and say “ha, look, this is a stamp” - now even “Deadpool” is trying to find some kind of drama through thick satire glasses. “Shazam Ultra HD” in this regard may not be a strong, but definitely qualitative improvement. The author’s hand is no longer felt in him, this cynical view from above, striving to pervert any scene and tickle the viewer to death with all kinds of intertexts.
The entire conditional “banter” here does not come from the author’s view, but from the characters themselves, characters, and doldbaysko-school lyrics. In the same way that the heroes feel the superhero capabilities of the Billy boy, the film itself, with a deafening youthful arrogance, sweeps along the old paths. He, like a little rebel schoolboy (in the best sense), is looking for inaccuracies or an occasion for yet another causticity in the academic formula. And why the villains do not shoot in the face? Why do they make pathos-like speeches from afar? And where do superheroes get such cool names from? After all, it turns out that it’s so hard to come up with them (somewhere around here is a lost joke about Captain Marvel, we will write it off for copyright). And anyway, why should I save someone if I can break ATMs and take paid selfies with people?
But his rebellion is completely non-reactionary - “Shazam”, despite all the retreats and taunts, remains faithful to the discourse that has proven its worth in hundreds of solo albums before him. He works on the same strict structure and with the same classic themes of friendship, family, and other wonderful things, he just does it somehow more witty, bolder, sincere, or something. The subtle problem of foster parents in Shazama never becomes a reason for manipulation (although there are many possibilities), and appeal to teenage aesthetics is not like typical producer flirting in front of the target audience, a kind of how do you do fellow kids.
So does Zachary Levy, an adult forty-year-old man, who doesn’t look at all infantile or stupid, playing a kind-hearted teenager — which, I must say, is a task if you’re not some Tom Hanks (they also remember about the “Big One”) . Thanks to his incendiary eccentric in a duet with fifteen-year-old Jack Dylan Grazer (Eddie’s boy from “It”), local gags generally work: they are often on such a line between cute and frankly idiotic that any actor’s lack of attention could at once deprive the entire film of charisma . But with something, and with the charisma of “Shazam UHD” everything is in order: even the typically-faded for soloists villain in the person of Mark Strong, who is simultaneously infernal and ironic, has successful attacks.
The film generally works very accurately for teenagers: and at the level of jokes - the hero here, having received an adult body, does not at first save the world, but tries to buy beer - and, for example, in the way he handles his rating. For the film with PG-13 in Shazama 4K, there are already a lot of vile monsters, skulls, sliding skin and other horrors of any responsible parent. In this, he is very reminiscent of Amblin’s old teenage adventure games like Gremlins or Dunce, which director David F. Sandberg obviously looked back on - unlike his thematic rival, Spider-Man: Away from Home, which John Hughes movie turned out to be closer. In modern superheroics, only James Gann tried to do something similar in the second Guardians of the Galaxy, but much less concentrated and with a little more emphasis on the visual. “Shazam 4K” doesn’t refer to anything particularly outward and doesn’t try to be like anyone at all: neither his DC associates, much less Marvel’s competitors - all of his “retro soul” is exclusively in his creative approach and decisions.