The DCEU has been giving us several of the worst movies of all time. Yes Wonder Woman was half-competent, but so boring and the constant jumping from scene to scene annoys me to this day. Man of Steel could have been a really good movie, but the first and last 15 min ruined it. Aquaman was so dumb I was laughing at almost every scene. Still... those three movies is the best DCEU have to offer - which is so sad...

I want my favorite character of all time, The Question, to have his own movie, but with this level of incompetence I do not want them to make that movie.

Zhazam is on par with those three mentioned above, so it is not a good movie, it is actually kind of terrible, but it is not badly made as certain other installment that should remain name(BvS)less.

I do have a few positives. The friendship between Billy and Freddy is pretty good, child actors in a DCEU movie that actually can act? Wow. Who would have ever thought? And this is also the biggest strength of this movie, the kids relationship work and since the movie is fairly competent and have some laughs it can be a movie to take your children to, maybe, but not too young children... This is a kids movie made for kids (mostly), and as such it is almost okay. The acting in general is solid, and in opposite to all other DCEU movies (except MoS) this do not have an ugly color palette that make you try to adjust the light and brightness of your eyes and squint to see what is going on. And finally this is also, at times, pretty funny - there are some jokes that work, and a few jokes actually make you laugh.

Unfortunately this movie is not just a kids movie made for kids, I also very often get the feeling it is made by kids. What I mean is that there are too many juvenile attempts at humor that do not work, and there are too many scenes that must have been written by 7 year olds. However, weirdly enough, I am going to contradict myself since there are other scenes and events in this movie which are kind of scary and pretty adult, which feels wrong, is it a kids movie or not? I do not know, and neither does this movie.

The CGi... oh my lord... If I could take over as dictator of the DCEU for a day my first order of business would be to fire the entire special effects and CGi department. How can they, over and over, in movie after movie, produce such horrible computer graphics and absolute atrocious special effects? I can easily name 10 TV shows with better CGi than the entire DCEU, and this movie is yet another abysmal failure. Well, at least Zackary did not need a mustache removed... so there is that... The action and the superhero stuff in this movie is also pretty bad. There are a couple of cool-ish scenes (you saw those in the trailers) and one of those "scary" scenes was actually really good, why did they not make the entire movie that good? The music is horrible. And since when is there no blood anywhere in big horrific scenes? This movie tries so hard to make the audience laugh that it almost create the opposite effect. Yes there are a few times when I genuinely laughed, but not very often and it is so obvious how and when they are setting up those "funny" moments that a yawn is more likely the outcome than a laugh. Speaking of predictable; I usually refer to Black Panther to be the most predictable superhero movie of all time, but this... oh man, this is so predictable that not only will you know the entire movie, you will also know exactly what will happen scene by scene. The Villain have very little motivation, and is evil for the sake being evil, and he is evil in a very comedic Adam West´s Batman kind of a way.

I could go on for a long time about the bad in this movie, but I feel like it would be giving it more attention than it deserves. I give Zhazam a 3/10 just because I like the kids and it is not as awful as most of the other installments. If you are 10yo and your parents do not mind you seeing a few "scary" scenes, this might be for you, otherwise I would not recommend this to anyone.