​Billy Batson is a troubled foster care child who has bounced around from one home to another. He gets in to mischief when trying to find his mother, who he lost when he was only a small boy. The now 14-year-old ends up in a new foster home with a humble, caring family.
 
After sticking up for his foster brother, he is on a train when the wizard, Shazam, bring him to a magical realm where he gives Billy magic powers that are activated by saying “Shazam!”

​Batson fights the occasional crime and saves the occasional life between selfie sessions after YouTube videos of him go viral. In the middle of it all, will he have what it takes to keep him friends and stop the evil Dr. Thaddeus Sivana?

Zachary Levi did an amazing job of playing the witty ad handsome Shazam! His ability to act like a pre-teen boy was astounding and worthy of some awards in my opinion! He did things like "floss" and charge people's phones with his lightening powers!

​I can’t really complain about the special effects in this movie. I thought they were great! Animators gave Shazam the ability to shoot lightening from his hands, fly, and do a number of other acrobatic and superhero-y activities. It didn’t look fake to me like some movies can make it look!

The first is the symbolism of the scissors, which play a major role throughout the film. Obviously, the shadows of the people above ground want to cut themselves away from their owners. Adelaide's "shadow" reveals this in a lengthy monologue toward the end of the film, physically representing this idea with paper dolls. The scissors are the weapon of choice for the shadows.

There is also the symbolism of the rabbits. Rabbits are a symbol of new life. At the beginning of the film, there is a slow zoom out from a cage with one rabbit inside that shows a room lined with several cages holding rabbits.  ​By the end of the movie, they have all been set free from their cages. This means that the rabbits were somehow similar to the shadows, since both were freed.

The next is that we are are own worse enemy, which is actually the tagline of the movie. I didn't know this until I looked it up, but I did have that vibe throughout the film. The way I would put it is that we have two sides to ourselves. As a religious person, this is easier for me to understand because my religion teaches that the side of yourself that you feed is the one that wins.

As you know if you've seen the film, the Adelaide that we see as the protagonist is actually the original shadow. I didn't personally see this coming, but the whole thing makes sense if you sit back and watch the film. To begin, Adelaide doesn't talk for a while after her encounter with the shadow. We thought this was because of PTSD, but it was because she didn't know how to talk.