Shazam! (2019)

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Starring: Mark Strong, Zachary Levi, Jack Dylan Grazer, Ross Butler

Corrected entry: In one of the first scenes of the movie, Billy locks the cops inside of the store. But the lock was on the outside of the store, and it was a latch lock, not a dead lock/key lock. I'm surprised that the owner of the store hasn't already been robbed yet.

Correction: Stores have shutters with locks like that. It's not a movie mistake just because you don't like it.

Corrected entry: At the carnival Shazam says the magic word to become Billy among several kids and people. The lighting hits him but the people around are not affected by the blast like the monsters were.

oswal13

Correction: The lightning only affected the monster because it was directly on top of him. The bystanders weren't.

Correction: But he uses the blast to hurt Sivana and it works.

oswal13

It's a magical bolt of lightning. It reacts to what he wants to do with it, when he can control it.

lionhead

That, plus the bolt hit an ice rink which exploded so that would have knocked Sivana back as well.

Corrected entry: Zachary Levi is one of the few actors to span Marvel and DC movies - he played Fandral, one of the warriors three, in Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok.

oswal13

Correction: While the number certainly isn't massive, I wouldn't say it just a few. There's over 50 actors that have spanned DC and Marvel.

Bishop73

Correction: Anyway, the point is that he has been in both companies.

oswal13

Generally an actor's resume isn't trivia unless it somehow relates to the movie or character itself. Given that so many actors have done Marvel and DC, there's unique about it and there's nothing to connect the two characters.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: After Billy catches the bus, argues with Freddy and leaves, the floor around the people besides it is dry, then wet, repeatedly.

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Quotes

Freddy Freeman: If you could have one superpower, what would you pick? Everybody chooses flight. You know why?
Billy Batson: So they can fly away from this conversation?

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Trivia

Trivia: Freddy wears several T-shirts of Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman during the movie.

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Questions

Question: What is the actual reason given why the police couldn't find Billy's mom? Just the fact his mom didn't want to find him and left doesn't mean the cops would stop looking. It's hard to imagine a 5 year old isn't able to tell the cops his address, where he goes to school or where he lives in general. Teachers, neighbours, his physician or dentist, classmates, all can tell where the mom is. Next to that isn't his dad in prison and thus easy to find?

lionhead

Answer: He was a baby when he was abandoned - all he knew about his mother was her name, not her birth date or social security number. He didn't know anything about his father and his mother went back to her maiden name. In case you're wondering not everybody has their DNA taken.

He knew his full name. He's a legitimate son born in wedlock. They would have easily tracked down the father who is an inmate: that is on top of what the original poster mentioned, such as his home address or other minimal information. Lionhead, I believe this belongs in the Plot Holes section rather than simply the Questions section: I am not informed about Pennsylvania's laws for child abandonment, but I think it's rather unlikely that someone could just drop their kid in the middle of a crowd and get away with it entirely, especially when the kid knows his own full name.

Sammo ★

I'm not too eager to put it in the plot holes section, because it is plausible I suppose that she disappeared willingly and they couldn't find her specifically. But you address the right point I was trying to make that the cops won't simply stop looking for his mother. It's a crime to abandon your child and they will look up and question a lot of people. And I mean a lot of people to find her. Even if there is literally no family besides mom and dad, the dad will be found since he is in prison. He won't be able to help much but contact will be maintained, even if he doesn't want it.

lionhead

The thing is, they don't even have to question a lot of people since the kid is not a newborn left on the steps of a church or something: he was able to provide his own full name to the authorities. So it's absolutely straightforward for the police to see who his parents are - although it should be noted that he was born in a different state, I don't think it should be a particularly complicated research for the authorities.

Sammo ★

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