{"id":14702,"date":"2019-07-19T21:01:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T01:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=14702"},"modified":"2022-11-04T20:59:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T00:59:36","slug":"shazam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/shazam\/","title":{"rendered":"Shazam!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Oh hey there, son. Oh hey there, other son that I also have that&#8217;s related to that son I just passed in the hallway.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shazam!<\/strong> released in 2019<\/p>\n<p>Billy Batson has been running away from foster homes in order to look for his mom. Now a group home has taken him in, and the people there are nice. When he gets whisked away to a mysterious place, a wizard gives him his powers &#8212; which he can turn off and on by saying the word &#8220;Shazam.&#8221; He&#8217;s invulnerable to bullets, he has super speed, and he has super strength &#8212; and he can make lightning come out of his fingers.<\/p>\n<p>Things are a bit slow at first but they pick up once he becomes Shazam. I liked how the people at the group home were introduced, both the owners and the kids.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny, and it has a nice message about family.<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Levi is perfect as a boy in a superhero body.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Mark Strong, Asher Angel, and Jack Dylan Grazer. Directed by David F. Sandberg (<strong>Lights Out<\/strong>). The heroic music is by Benjamin Wallfisch.<\/p>\n<p>The previous movie in the DCEU I watched is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/aquaman\/\"><strong>Aquaman<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Oh hey there, son. Oh hey there, other son that I also have that&#8217;s related to that son I just passed in the hallway.&#8221; Shazam! released in 2019 Billy Batson has been running away from foster homes in order to look for his mom. Now a group home has taken him in, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-14702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14702"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20010,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14702\/revisions\/20010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}