Shazam!
Okay, I’m going to try to keep an open mind about this. Like many boys who grew up watching “Saturday Morning Cartoons” on ABC, NBC, and CBS, there are certain characters that you have life-long affinity for.
On CBS, there used to be a live action, 30 minute show, called “Shazam.” It told of the adventures of a teenager, Billy Batson, who with the utterance of a single word…
Shoot, here’s the opening
Anyway, this show played the character straight. And made me a HUGE Shazam/Captain Marvel fan. So, when it was announced by the DC Universe powers-that-be that a “Shazam” movie was being made…I was stoked!
And then, I saw this trailer from this past weekend’s, San Diego Comic Con (main cast L to R: Zachary Levi, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer pictured above).
And I’m bummed.
It looks like they are playing the character in a campy fashion for laughs. Who knows, maybe this is the way it should be played. Maybe I’ll like it. After all, I fell in love with Batman watching the campiest TV show ever.
I’ll have to wait until next Spring to find out.
