Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Don't listen to the negative reviews

Captivating movie !

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Twenty years later this movie is still a great movie!! I thought eh, what the heck... let's watch this cinematic adventure of Shaq as a genie after such a long time. It's true, EXTREMELY CORNY. But, isn't that what 90s nostalgia is all about? The junkfood scene, the Shaq in the "magical" shower scene...and of course... the coveted cassette... the WE GENIE rap. Ahhh...brings me back to a time of fruit by the foot, frotopia drinks and N64. If you're looking for a spectacular plot, a moving speech, tears.... you may want to look elsewhere. HOWEVER. If you are wanting a brief adventure back to 96' with a little chuckle here and there, enjoy KAZAAM! I am forcing my kids to watch this movie repeatedly until they admit it really is an awesome movie....

"Kazaam" is a massive failure on so many levels that showcases a production company's desire to take advantage of children. It fails in terms of everything it sets out to accomplish if there was anything to even begin within the screenplay. Shaq as a genie didn't even make me laugh as much as it made me feel uncomfortable every time I saw that stupid smile of his staring at the kid. This film sucked so let's get this over with.It's about a kid, Max (Francis Capra) who lives with his mother, Alice (Ally Walker) in Brooklyn, New York. During school, Max is chased by bullies into an abandoned building where he falls through a floor and discovers a boom box. He accidentally unleashed the genie inside who calls himself, "Kazaam" (Shaq). Kazaam becomes Max's Genie and follows him around until he can grant the kid three wishes. Max discovers that his mother lied to him about his father, Nick (James Acheson) who left the family years before. He discovers he is in New York and sets out to find his father while hauling Kazaam behind him.I would love to know the real reason why this was made. It doesn't even have any potential to be good at all. It's an excuse and all I can think of is that Shaq was really desperate and needed to make this film. I can't believe he was offered 7 million for this. This is also supposed to be a children's movie. I strongly disagree with that as it quite a violent film as well but I will get to that. So, this garbage starts off with a massive wrecking ball taking up 5 mins of the films opening to destroy a building that houses a magic lamp that Kazaam is inside. The thing tips over and lands on a boom box. The Genie decides to take up residence inside.We are introduced to Max who tries to hard to be a bad boy and gets bullied by some stupid kids who try even harder to be bad boys. It's like the director told the kids to look like wannabe drug-dealing thugs because that what they come off as. These kids are supposed to be high school students but they are so mean-spirited and one of them wears an earring bigger than my fist. It adds a seriously violent tone to the film as they beat Max up for no reason. I can't even begin to believe they are bullies. There is a sequence in a bathroom where they outline his body on the floor with paint. I think I'll stick with the director telling them to be drug dealers because I don't believe they are in high school. This is just awful. Why do we need to show "Bullies" painting a teenager's body on the floor? Was the director hinting something here? The kids are scared off when Kazaam appears and one of them decides to try to hit the Genie with a piece of wood. Does that sound like something someone would do if a Genie, oh I don't know, popped out of nowhere and looked like Shaq dressed as a ridiculous clown? Shaq looks like a TV commercial for the middle east as he walks around with the kid at 7 foot 6 and smiles like an idiot whenever he stares at the kid. From here on, we learn that Max's equally stupid father pirates music and get involves with some of the most laughable actors I have ever seen in a film. These guys are truly pathetic. One of them, I think he is the main villain, speaks with a clearly fake Russian accent and can't act at all. It all leads up to a violent ending involving Max and an elevator shaft. Oh, and then Shaq kung-fu fights a group of terribly acted Russian gangsters. Apparently they want to learn Kazaam's power or something. At this point in the film, I just wanted it to end.Nobody in this film can act. The direction is thrown out the window and the screenplay is such a mess that they need to fill time in so they have Kazaam show Max his powers by using horrible special effects to make it rain candy bars. The special effects are so bad they will hurt your eyes. If that's not enough, Shaq uses even more horrible special effects to shower in front of Max and ride a stupid bike into the air while laughing like an idiot. I think Shaq was a rapper around this time which would explain why there is a dumb subplot where some moron sees Kazaam rap and hires him to open for the female hip hop trio, Salt-N-Pepa. The story takes a complete detour and forgets everything so they can showcase Shaq as a rapper until the end of the film comes along and it forgets Shaq was a rapper so they can end what becomes quite violent.This movie should never have been made and the screenwriter is a joke. Too many bad ideas fused together to make a choppy movie and attempts to showcase Shaq in many different ways that fail; his outfit being the silliest of them all. I'm just mystified as to why the director made this film violent. It's not kiddie violent either. The ending is pretty serious for a "children's movie." I hope parents don't take their kids to see this awful film. The people who made it should be ashamed of themselves for taking advantage of Children. I hope the director, Paul Michael Glaser never makes another film.

*may contain spoilers* OK, this isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, however, it's not a good movie. the child actor wasn't great here and was kinda mean and rude to Kazaam. Shaq (playing Kazaam) was as good as he possibly could be, which of course isn't good. Shaq's just not an actor, he's a physical specimen, he's a monster basketball player who you don't want to play against, but acting isn't his thing and if that was his real rapping, then that also is really bad. He actually said, "Let's Green Egg and Ham it." Anyways, the plot is that Shaq's a rapping genie who gets let out of his radio type lamp and gives Max three wishes and Shaq "raps" (or as i call it, doing bad poetry) almost everything he says. If you like Shaq and just want to see his presence or are curious to see his very short rap career, then, watch the movie. i, however, didn't love it, but again, it wasn't the worst I've seen.

This movie has gotten a bad wrap over the years, but in reality, it maybe one of the best of our generation. I remember watching this movie over and over and over and over again as a child and enjoying it more than any of those cookie cutter Disney movies.We have become so jaded and left our youth behind if we say this movie is terrible. Think about it; the acting was definitely above par for such a film, the direction was great, and the musical score was beautiful. It was subtle enough that I could hardly notice it but left me tapping my feet noticeably from the for the entire film. I love this film, always have and most certainly always will. It might not be The Godfather and it might not be Titanic but it is definitely not one of the 100 worst movies of all time. To place this piece of work there is dishonest and over all wrong! Enjoy this fantastic family movie.