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Slate's Spoiler Specials

Shazam!

Slate's Spoiler Specials

Slate Podcasts

Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6724 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on Spoiler Specials, Sam Adams and Marissa Martinelli review Shazam! Where does this movie fit into the larger DC comic universe? What ever happened to Justice League 2? Also, what was that post credits scene about? Listen to them discuss! Podcast production by Danielle Hewitt. Engineered by Merritt Jacob.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I want to tell you my secret now.

0:02.8

I see dead people.

0:05.8

Silent green is people.

0:10.4

Need my sister and my daughter.

0:15.4

Rushberg.

0:17.7

What's in the box?

0:19.5

Hello and welcome to another Slate Spoiler special.

0:22.1

I am Sam Adams and I am joined in Slate's New York Studios by Marissa Martinelli.

0:26.3

This week we're spoiling the movie Shazam.

0:28.8

Shazam is the story of Billy Batson, an itinerant foster child who search for his birth

0:33.4

mother brings him to a group home in Philadelphia.

0:36.2

After defending his disabled foster brother from a pair of school bullies, Billy flees into the Philadelphia subway,

0:41.1

but he's unknowingly transported to the rock of eternity, where he meets a wizard with a proposition,

0:46.2

say my name and take on my powers. Saying that name, Shazam, transforms Billy into a muscle-bound

0:52.8

superhero played by Zachary Levi,

0:54.8

but he's still a 14-year-old boy inside,

0:57.3

which means that even as he's defending the world

0:59.5

from ancient terrors,

1:00.4

he still has to figure out who he is and where he belongs.

1:03.8

So Marissa and I have both seen Shazam.

1:06.5

I think we both watched it this week,

1:08.2

and I saw it before that a few weeks ago.

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