Honest Trailers Commentary | Shazam 

"I am gonna floss this fact in to your gums of truth" Dan Murrell - 2019

The wizard was picking kids in the beginning because he wants someone ""Pure of Heart" and adults are cynical and world-weary. Later he realizes he's running out of time so his standards drop.

Spencer: "What's the nerd version of the Bat-Signal?" Me: "Um... the Bat-Signal?"

"I didn't choose the children, my staff chose the children! I fell out my chair when he said that!! LOL 🤣!

Way to go, America. Out of all the DC franchise entries that could've underperformed, you had to make it one of the good ones.

"PG-13 is the warning" amen! Stop taking 6 year olds to PG-13 movies then acting shocked and entitled that the movie wasn't for the child

That Chappelle Show deep cut killed me. "Shazam!"

I completely forgot that Mark was in green lantern. That movie was removed from the timeline.

"To be fair to the wizard..." ~Lon Harris, 2019

From stuff I have read, Henry Cavill was supposed to be in Shazam to do a much longer scene in the lunch room, but there were supposedly scheduling conflicts. It was right around the time he had the whole dust up over his contract and signed on to do The Witcher. I think it turned out fine the way it is. I just want to see Cavill back as Supes in a film with Shazam. Cavill letting loose would be great.

You guys should get the director of Shazam to talk about it. I'm sure he would considering his internet background and whatnot

I’m disappointed you guys didn’t point out the scene when Dr. Sivana is fighting Shazam in the air and monologues at him from like 100 yards away and Shazam is going WHAT. It was right there it something you guys would’ve wrote.

Philadelphia police was busy with Bruce Willis being drowned in a puddle 😂😂😂

Mister Mind is awesome, and I hope they do include Superman at some point because my favorite bit of the modern continuity was Superman finding out that Shazam was actually a kid and getting just PISSED looking and saying, "Who did this to you?" Like, really. Pure of heart, sure, but this is still a crushing responsibility to put on a kid all things considered.

"The Staff Chose The Boy." LMAO... "The Staff Chose The Boy?" *In Chris Hansen voice*

The moment you mentioned "80s kids movies that toughen you up" I immediately flashed back to Never Ending Story and the horse. Quicksand is the greatest evil in the universe

"To be fair to the wizard" might be my new favorite line of all time.

Oh man, there was a guy in our theater who used the rolling credits to explain to everyone exiting what the caterpillar is & why he's actually really cool and everyone was just staring at him confused. Like "alright, thanks? comic-boy guy"

while this is neither here nor there; Congrats for your Emmy nomination 🎊🎠🎇🎈! also; I hope you all will have a great time at ComicCon!

I half expected to see the “Martha” moment, as well; but, in hindsight, it would not have made sense to include it. It was merely a reference to Bats and Supes moms. Neither of them had any real “issues” with their respective Marthas. Whereas, Aquaman, Silk Spectre, and Billy have mother issues because their moms either left them or they have a tense relationship.

When I saw SHAZAM in the theater, I was the one guy who was clapping (I may have even shouted) when Mr. Mind showed up at the end, and I can assure you I was not lying.

The Dave Chapplle joke is one of the best from Honest Trailers in years!! My goodness I can't stop laughing!!

"I trust them at this point. I'm back on!" Me too.

DC needs to keep going full weird. Bring on the Angry Caterpillar.

In the original comic in the 40's, the reason he picked a kid was because of Black Adam. Black Adam had been chosen as an adult, and he turned out to be such an awful mistake, the wizard decided to choose a child for the next champion.

I wonder if they picked the wizard based on that they would need a young version for Black Adam.

Did anyone else notice the school was called Fawcett Central? That was a nice little homage.

You should have gone with Big 2: Electric Boogaloo

I didn’t realize how hardcore 80s kids movies were

Why does Dan's impression of angry internet sound like Harrison Ford?

I knew someone who didn't like shazam because it was to kiddy. I was so confused by that after I saw it. What was to kiddy, the plot about the orphan who finds out his mom doesn't want him or the demons eating heads off.

Do an Honest Trailer for either Hard Target, the Hulk 70s TV show, Superman III, The Terminator (1984), or Daredevil (Netflix).

Between this, Us, and Toy Story 4, 2019 has a lot of movies set at carnivals.

So, you want to see a magical, fluffy, flying white dragon? Okay, but we're killing the horse... slowly. Oh man, those 80's kid flix left some scars.

You know in the early 2000s He-Man reboot, Prince Adam was a lanky teen, but as He-Man, be becomes a brawny, muscled bound, deep voiced warrior. Which made WAY more sense that the original version.

I know why they chose Superman for the lunch scene, but when the Cavill issues made it difficult, they should've just grabbed Ezra Miller or Gal Gadot. Or maybe not Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman in a high school would've made the janitor quit after having to clean the boy's restroom that day.

"To be fair to the wizard...." You tell 'em, Defense Attorney Lon! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Apparently they originally cast the old black man Ron Cephus Jones from the first season of This Is Us as the Old Wizard. He had to bow out because of scheduling so you guys are actually kind of correct! Djimon Honsou is the go to hire for minor costumed superhero film characters. Lol

The caterpillar: 'Dr. Sivana, you have lost your muchness." Now where's his hooka? 😁

My head canon about He-Man is that everyone knows he's Prince Adam, but they just don't mention it to be polite.

Going through some old Honest Trailers that I didn't watch at the time and seeing these guys interacting in person is so nostalgic.

I applaud Lon’s Lil John impression 👏👏👏

I think they used Djimon Hounsou instead of an actual old actor because they plan on having him play the same character (just very much younger) in the black adam movie.

I liked that they got Lex Luthor’s dad from Smallville to play the dad of another rich bald DC villain.

One of the times I saw Shazam in theaters there were lots of kids there. Many of them cried several times during the movie

Dan: "Because it's not that they want to hear the trailer, it's that they can't hear us" That was MY COMMENT!!! Thank you so much for hearing your audience. Keep up the great work.

I was the 1% clapping in the theater when mr mind appeared

“WE’RE GONNA KILL A HORSE!” Lol

"Its that they can't hear us" YES thank you! You're listening to the comments!! 😂😂

I'm proud to say I was the one person slowclapping at the mister mind reveal. Well it was more like "OMG are they really going to do evil caterpillar?!?!" But I was excited that they'd attempt something that blatantly ridiculous. And I only knew of him from the animated Justice League Action show.

i think they should do a live action gargoyles also. i think they could get a lot of the original voice actors! it is good to know i'm not alone in thinking this.

You need to add these honest commentaries either to the old playlist or create a new one

I was that guy that clapped at the mid-credits scene. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd ever see Mister Mind in live action on the big screen. He's actually an incredibly terrifying villain.

I think Shazam may have underperformed at the box office because two HUGE Marvel movies opened right around it, and it had no room to leg out. The opening weekend also wasn't great because of Us (and maybe even Dumbo). If it came out in August, maybe a week after Hobbs & Shaw (because F&F movies tend to be pretty frontloaded), and well after The Lion King plays out, it might've really broken out.

Guys, Levi was cast as Shazam 6 months before shooting started. There's no way he could've gotten in shape in time.

I actually loved the Lil Jon reference. And then you kept the music playing. It really made me laugh.

7:14 Yeah, this joke was spot on. Watched the Honest Trailer before coming here for the commentary and I actually said, "Holy shit..." out loud to myself when the split screen came up during the trailer. I was wondering who called this in the writer's room, nice catch Spencer. Thanks everyone for the trailer and commentary. Edit: 11:20 "To be fair to the wizard..." Another great moment that came out of this Honest Trailer and Commentary.

Shout out to Lon for the perfect Three Amigos reference!

While the movie wasn't a huge hit, every time I talk about this movie with someone I tell them it's a must-see. Not a lot of movies I talk about that way, and I think in the long run this will be remembered more than some movies (*cough* Aquaman) that made more money.

Thank you for pointing it out! The whole padded suit discussion bothered me so much last year when it became viral. With Zachary Levi Instagramming his gym workouts and stuff. The whole time I was thinking: he's a kid that turns into an adult superhero. When exactly is Zach supposed to show off his abs? To the monsters and Sylvanna? A 'The Situation' kind of intimidation tactic?

The convo about He-Man and Adam is without a doubt the funniest thing I’ve heard today. Thanks guys for making me laugh

Guys, I don't think they're going to do every Quentin Tarantino movie next week−even though he has a new one coming out soon and we've all been requesting for this one ever since you made career retrospective Trailers a thing!!! On the other hand, I am looking forward to next week's Honest Trailer for Batman Returns! Hopefully the Comic-Con crowd loves it!

Wow, this just went right off the rails and I love it.

I might have the answer to why they have to age someone up to be the old wizard. It could be because when he gave the power to Black Adam, he was much younger so they can use him at his real age or slightly older in that movie. It's always easier to age up with make-up and hair that to de-age with digital tech. That's my opinion... and my hope for the Black Adam movie.

Billy didn't steal a police car, he just trapped the officers in a pawn shop so he could use the computer in the police car.

One of my favorite commentaries. Also, one of my favorite movies.

Big 2: Electric Boogaloo is great on so many levels. Call You by my Name is also really good.

While the movie didn't have a dark tone overall, I thought that Billy's mom completely abandoning him at that carnival when he was a toddler was VERY dark. I mean, even before we saw the truth, it was very obvious what really happened to Billy. No parent would've left a stone unturned without their kid, had they lost them in a crowd like that, ANYwhere. That was dark.

Please do an honest trailer for the Final Destination series!!!

"Like Shazam and the Rock start fighting, and then they become friends" HELL NO Black Adam is evil to the bone

You have to make the honest trailer of American Psycho

come on its Big with superpowers, what was not to love! this was a good film.

When I saw Mr. Mind in the early part of the movie, I squealed. But I will confess to having a fair number of the comics when he was a common character. My mom was with me and didn't remember him, and she read Captain Marvel, Mary Marvel, and Captain Marvel Jr. during WWII.

The Tyrone Biggums joke nearly killed.

00:14:07 The nerd version of The Bat Signal is THE BAT SIGNAL.

It still puzzles me how it failed at the box office.

You Captain DC would have been hilarious

I got super excited for mr mind from the second they showed the caterpillar enclosure when the wizard was introduced

The power of the Wizard selects mostly children because they are less corrupted than adults who have seen the evil and horrors of the world. And an innocent child can be molded, guided or "brainwashed" to accept the kind of "Justice" the the power of SHAZAM can bestow upon the world.

Lon, the wizard Shazam look existed before Gandalf and long before Dumbledore. Casting Honsou was actually the biggest deviation, although I think he did great. People forget how old this character is coming out only 2 years after Superman

I don’t think being street smart means he’d know adults jobs he didn’t spend time around healthy adults so he just knows business men go to offices.

Reminds me when i saw lawnmower man at a screening and i was still in gradeschool...i loved it! But none of my classmates believed me

The angry caterpillar from the Alice and Wonderland movies confused the hell out of me. I thought I inherent vice'd that scene until you had it in your trailer again.

Aww, Dan is really read comments.

I'm thinking they really missed the boat by not having Sylvester Stallone be the wizard."Yo Kid! Touch my staff!"

PLEASE DO AN HONEST TRAILER FOR THE FINAL DESTINATION SERIES!!!!!!!!!@¡!!!!!!

32:30 "We need to lure more boys to take the staff from us" How do you sleep at night? Wait. No. I don't wanna know...

I think this is my favorite of the new dc films

"I'm gonna floss this fact into your gums of truth" - Dan "The Man With a Damn Plan" Murrell

you win my LIKE with the He-Man talk

i hope the shazam sequel comes out on a better release date, because the timing for this movie sucked. one of my biggest regrets is not being able to see this in theaters bc of that poor timing. it truly deserved to make as much as suicide squad (lol) if not more

The Tyrone Biggums think killed me

I live right outside of Philly and you are giving actual Philly cops too much credit

In the wide shot of the guys the right side of the screen wraps around to the left, you can see dans arm apear occasionaly on the left in full screen wide shots

24:30 That moment in the movie got the biggest smile out of me. even as a Marvel fanboy that was one of my favorite super hero moments in a long time

I'm the one guy who knew Mister Mind and the Monster Society of Evil!

The cops being so nice would have been more believable if they were actually in Shazam's city, Fawcett City. But instead they made it Fawcett High in Philly. Batman, WW, Aquaman, the Flash, and Superman got their fictional cities, why they gotta diss Shazam like that? DC always messing with Fawcett.

About the scary bits in this movie, it kind of reminded me of when I was a kid and I went to see the Sam Raimi Spider-man films in theaters. I was still single-digit years old, so I ended up closing my eyes in fear during the scene when Norman got the goblin gas, or when Ock's tentacles murdered all the doctors trying to operate on him. That said, I appreciate scenes like that more now and am fully on board with having them in -kids- family movies (the P is in the rating for a reason).

Foster's Home for Super Friends was pretty good.

I love that Joe has his own signature outro now! Love how you guys listen to my requests - The compassion is being achieved to the proper level in general. Just need a dance number from the studio, and then all the compassion requirements will be achieved 🙂