Shazam!

I didn’t have high expectations for this. Not because LOLDCEUSUX, but because it just looked … fine. Probably swinging the pendulum of DC’s relentless grimdark nonsense to overly comical bordering on slapstick, often not knowing when to quit, interfering with the story’s natural progression so it could show off how not-grimdark it is, this causing severe tonal inconsistencies. I assumed it would still be enjoyable, never bad, but never more than a romp. I had a feeling the villain would be a standard origin story villain, probably the mirror image of the hero, poorly developed and largely existing as a foil for the hero’s evolution. My guess was “you won’t be bored, and you won’t regret watching it, but it won’t be anything you feel compelled to watch again”. And, uh, yeah, I was pretty much right.