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A warm, funny, and anarchic superhero movie about the power of family, "Shazam!" is total magic from start to finish.

While Shazam! is goofier (and darker) than it may look, you'll wish its superhero came with a little more spark.

Zachary Levi stars as the teen-turned-superhero in this winning, family-friendly caper.

The DCEU welcomes Zachary Levi's big kid. Read the Empire review.

As a kid in a superman's body, Zachary Levi is pure pop charisma in a comic-book saga that walks a deft line between satire and sincerity.

Its genial sloppiness might remind you of when the fates of studios didn’t rest on one or two B movies with men in goofy suits generating billions.

Shazam! movie reviews & Metacritic score: We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's (Asher Angel) ...

Zachary Levi plays a superhero who is actually a 14-year-old boy magically transformed by uttering the titular incantation.

A nicely matched Asher Angel and Zachary Levi together play a superhero who has been taken out of mothballs with humor and fine performances.

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Superhero comedy is charming, with some scary/violent parts. Read Common Sense Media's Shazam! review, age rating, and parents guide.

We all have a superhero inside us, it just takes a bit of magic to bring it out. In Billy Batson's (Asher Angel) case, by shouting out one word--SHAZAM!--this streetwise 14-year-old foster kid can turn into the adult Super Hero Shazam (Zachary Levi), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart--inside a ripped, godlike body--Shazam revels in this adult version of himself by doing what any teen would do with superpowers: have fun with them! Can he fly? Does he have X-ray vision? Can he shoot lightning out of his hands? Can he skip his social studies test? Shazam sets out to test the limits of his abilities with the joyful recklessness of a child. But he'll need to master these powers quickly in order to fight the deadly forces of evil controlled by Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (Strong).