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(2019)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action, language, and suggestive material
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Sex & Nudity

  • When Billy meets the wizard, the wizard tells him to "touch his staff" (meaning his magic staff). Billy looks disgusted and says "Ew. Gross!"
  • When Shazam leaves the strip club for the first time, Freddy asks "Did you see any boobies? Did you see nipples?"
  • The superhero costumes are very bulging and over accentuate the character's bodies even though they are completely covered.
  • A superhero and several children come out of a gentlemen's club and a young woman holds her hand over a young girl's eyes; one teen boy lags behind and he comes out with glitter on his face.
  • A man runs out of a public restroom holding his pants closed after a superhero transforms inside the restroom (we see flashes of light coming from inside the building).

Violence & Gore

  • Several fight scenes throughout the movie, with little blood shown.
  • A teen boy is struck by two other teens in a pick-up truck; he is knocked to the ground, then helped up and punched by the teens from the truck and when he falls to the ground they kick him repeatedly until another teen strikes the attackers with a crutch and runs away; they chase and call out threats ("You're dead kid") when the boy gets away on a subway train.
  • During their first encounter, the main hero punches the antagonist really hard in the testicles.
  • Seven demons identified as the seven deadly sins are huge statues that become animated at the will of a man and wreak havoc in several scenes, killing people and causing property damage; they each have very large sharp teeth, some have spikes on their backs, one has giant wings and sprouts sharp claws, one has a very long tongue that flaps around, and one has a mouth that is the size of its body.
  • Bright light glows behind a closed door and when a woman touches the door, we see her slowly turn to charred embers and she falls to a pile of ash on the floor as she screams.
  • Bright flashes of energy shoot out of a staff held by a man and the man breaks into glowing embers that fall to a pile of ash on the ground and then blow away.
  • A supervillain floats in the air, confronts a superhero and punches him hard in the stomach throwing him in the air and he crashes down onto a car denting its hood and breaking the windshield (he has a bloody nose and moans).
  • A supervillain grabs a superhero by the throat and flies high into the sky with him, he throws him into the distance and the superhero falls to the ground unable to fly but stops inches from the pavement where he is then struck by a truck and thrown into another car before sailing over an overpass; the two continue to fight throwing each other through high-rise office building windows, crashing through floors and ceilings of stores and through a road (we see a deep hole).
  • A huge demon roars at several children cowering on a sofa (we see its sharp teeth and glowing red eyes).
  • A supervillain throws a superhero into stone thrones and he tumbles to the ground moaning, the supervillain is slashed on the back of the head by a thrown blade (we see a trickle of blood before the cut heals itself), and the superhero stabs the supervillain in the back with the blade and throws him into a wall (we see him pull the blade out later and no blood is seen).
  • A boy opens a door in a dark cave where he sees a few large alligators seated around a table and they charge toward him as he closes the door; another door is opened and a large tentacle with teeth reaches toward the child outside, before the door is closed.
  • Supervillain and a superhero fight in the air and other superheroes and monsters fight on the ground with punches thrown; the large head of a statue of a man falls in a square among people (no one appears injured).
  • A monster chases a man dressed as Santa Claus and he runs screaming through a carnival, and a demon wraps its many tentacles around a superhero that fights back and gets free.
  • A superhero extracts a glowing orb from a supervillain's eye and we see him pulling it out with tendrils of energy flowing around.
  • A car driving on a dark road drifts into the oncoming lane toward a truck, swerves to avoid the truck and spins a few times before stopping; the car is then T-boned by another truck and thrown rolling a few times and the driver of the car is shown with a lot of blood on his head as he lies in the snow (we see him in a wheelchair later) and the two other passengers are unharmed.
  • A man picks a teen boy up and presses him against a locker threatening him.
  • Two teenage bullies elbow a teen boy in the head (he is unharmed).
  • A man falls off a roof and dangles from the ledge, the ledge breaks and he falls and he is caught before crashing to the ground.
  • Two men with guns rob a convenience store until a superhero confronts them: he grabs the gun from one of the men and the other shoots him (we see bullet bounce off his body), he tells the men to shoot him again and many bullets bounce off him and they then shoot him in the face and many more bullets bounce off his flesh; the superhero throws the men through the store front window wrapped in strings of Christmas lights and they roll around on the pavement as we hear police sirens approaching.
  • A superhero runs at super speed and slams into a man that he believes is trying to steal a woman's purse; she explains that the screaming he heard was the thief because she sprayed him with pepper spray.
  • A young woman walks into a road in front of a snowplow truck and a superhero runs at super speed to get her out of the way before being struck.
  • A pick-up truck is lifted off the ground and out of sight and its owner is alarmed when he cannot see where it has gone; the truck then slams to the ground discharging its airbags, flattening its tire and breaking its windows.
  • A boy swings nunchucks toward two teen boys and threatens them until he hits himself in the back of the head (he winces but we do not see any injury).

Profanity

  • About 7 uses of "shit", two middle finger gestures, one use of "dick", numerous uses of "ass" and its variations, "douchebag", and a character dressed as Santa Claus drops a few f bombs, but these are bleeped out. Shazam also says to the antagonist that his aim "sucks balls".
  • Regular mild language; "hell" "butt", "nuts", "moron", "suck" and "pee" are used. "Oh my God", and "Jesus Christ" are also used.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Two main teen characters are able to buy beer, but they spit out the first mouthful and return it to the shop for sweets.
  • There is a scene where Shazam! and Freddie are sitting down and Freddie says "all the criminals are probably on drugs or asleep by now"

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are intense and at times scary scenes throughout the movies.
  • The "Seven Deadly Sins" are shown as gargoyle-like creatures.
  • Includes scenes of people being massacred by demons and burning into ash.
  • A young boy walks with his mother in a crowded carnival and drops a key ring on the ground; the boy chases it as it is kicked through the crowd, separated from his mother and we see him calling for her later before he is shown with police officers attending to him (we understand that he was never reunited with his mother).
  • A glowing orb slams into a man's head knocking him to the ground and when he gets up we see a large gash on his forehead and cheek and his eye glows blue.
  • A teen boy in a subway train car finds himself alone after other passengers seem to disappear, the train speeds and the windows are covered with ice until the doors open and the boy steps out into a dark cave where he meets a man holding a glowing staff and they talk; the man describes millions of lives being lost if he cannot find a champion to inherit his magic (we see silhouettes of people running in a crowd screaming).

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • In one very intensely violent scene, a man enters a conference room full of people at the top of a tall building. He throws one man crashing through the window to his death. He then releases demons that bite the heads off two people offscreen and massacre the rest, most of which we see through fogged conference room windows, but we still hear people screaming in terror.
  • A doctor touches a door and disintegrates letting out a blood curdling scream.
  • One of the gargoyle-like sins puts a character's head in its mouth. Just before it bites down, the camera cuts to a shot of the person's feet, showing them go limp as they die.
  • A car accident leaves one person bloody and severely injured.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Freddy suggests Billy is addicted to his new fame and powers.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is a car crash in the beginning of the film, where a boy's father is badly injured.
  • The antagonist receives his powers from the 7 deadly sins, shown as demonic creatures. In several scenes these demons kill people as they scream and attempt to get away.
  • A woman presses her hand against a door with magic symbols. She suddenly bursts into flames and turns into ash as she screams in agonizing pain.
  • Billy finds out his mother left him on purpose.

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