Kazaam

1996
PG
1h 33m

IMDb RATING

3.1/10

26K

YOUR RATING

Francis Capra and Shaquille O'Neal in Kazaam (1996)

A troubled kid inadvertently releases a genie, who must grant him any three wishes he requests.

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A troubled kid inadvertently releases a genie, who must grant him any three wishes he requests.A troubled kid inadvertently releases a genie, who must grant him any three wishes he requests.A troubled kid inadvertently releases a genie, who must grant him any three wishes he requests.

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IMDb RATING

3.1/10

26K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations

Mrs. Duke
(as JoAnne Hart)

Brandon Durand

Vasquez

Wade Robson

Elito
(as Wade J. Robson)

Jake Glaser

Jake

Efren Ramirez

Carlos

Jonathan Carrasco

Z-Dog

Jesse Perez

Vasquez's Sidekick

Todd Sible

Engineer Ed

Juan Gabriel Reynoso

Hassem
(as Juan 'Rambo' Reynoso)

Said Faraj

El-Baz
(as Anthony Ferar)

Randall Bosley

Foad

Director
- Paul Michael Glaser
Writers
All cast & crew
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Trivia
This film was a critical and financial disaster, but Shaquille O'Neal has not expressed regret for his involvement. He said in a 2012 interview, "I was a medium-level juvenile delinquent from Newark who always dreamed about doing a movie. Someone said, 'Hey, here's $7 million, come in and do this genie movie.' What am I going to say, no? So I did it."

Goofs
Even though the movie is based in Brooklyn, while Max is talking with his dad in the car, you see a bus with Red and Orange stripes roll by. Buses in New York have blue stripes. Red and Orange were the colors of the Metro buses in Los Angeles in the early to mid-1990s.

Quotes
Kazaam: [while rapping] Let's green egg and ham it!

Crazy credits
Film title logo appears as the end credits are finished

Connections
Featured in Special Effects: Anything Can Happen (1996)

Soundtracks
Fantastic Voyage
Written by Coolio (as Artis Ivey), Brian Dobbs, Fred Alexander (as Fred Alexander, Jr.), Norman Beavers,Mark Wood, Otis Stokes, Marvin Craig, Tiemeyer McCain, Thomas Shelby and Stephen Shockley
Performed by Coolio
Courtesy of Tommy Boy Records

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KAZAAM *1/2 OF ****

Shaquille O' Neal plays a rapping genie helping a kid(his name....who cares) to re-unite with his work~a~holic father. OK, this movie is deeply flawed, mild in entertainment, but with all of these rappers and basketball stars (Omarion in "You Got Served, Darius Miles in "The Perfect Score) in movies playing rappers and basketball stars, at least Shaq attempts to be a genie,and TRIES to stretch his acting ability by being something he's not. Besides that, the kid's wishes are implausible, seeing as candy bars and burgers rain (through a roof somehow) and come down perfect in order and unsmushed. I can't see which audience this is targeting. Kids won't be awed and 12+ will be laughing for all of the wrong reasons.

VERDICT: *1/2 of **** Not Recommended