Kazaam
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Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings
- Starring: Shaquille O'Neal
- Summary: When young Max bumps into an abandoned boom box, he's shocked when it releases a tall, Black genie named Kazaam (O'Neal), who grants the kid three wishes. The two become friends, and Max wants Kazaam to help him track down and ultimately save his father from criminal entanglements.
- Director: Paul Michael Glaser
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Comedy, Family, Musical
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Positive: 0 out of 14
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Mixed: 5 out of 14
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Negative: 9 out of 14
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The movie is decidedly old-fashioned, aiming to send kids and their parents out of the theater feeling good about themselves.
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38Is Kazaam racist? In effect, yes. But it'sracism linked to bad marketing: You can't really mix a black-pride rap film with a revamped version of "Free Willie" and expect them to magically jibe.
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38As for Shaquille O'Neal, given his own three wishes the next time, he should go for a script, a director and an interesting character.
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33It takes the movie all of 15 minutes to descend into sub-Spielbergian banalities about poor Max's search for his absentee dad.
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Positive: 3 out of 6
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Negative: 3 out of 6
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HaroldW.9Entertaining fable for kids, and not at all "dark" ( as some critics said it was) by present day standards and sensibilities.
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1The kind of movie you really wish you could forget you enjoyed at some point in your life. So much bad writing. So much bad acting.
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