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  • 1996
  • PG
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 1996
  • PG
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • 1 h 33 m

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.

Directed By: Paul Michael Glaser

Written By: Christian Ford, Roger Soffer, Paul Michael Glaser

  • 1996
  • PG
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 1996
  • PG
  • Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
  • 1 h 33 m

Kazaam

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
24
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 46 User Ratings
6.1
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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.

Directed By: Paul Michael Glaser

Written By: Christian Ford, Roger Soffer, Paul Michael Glaser

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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36% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
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36% Mixed
5 Reviews
64% Negative
9 Reviews

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50
Pure wish-fulfillment for Shaq-watchers who can't get enough of their 7-foot-1 basketball hero. [17 July 1996, p. 9D]
By Susan Wloszczyna FULL REVIEW
40
Alas, the movie's producers could use a genie of their own. Surely, if granted three wishes, they could have produced a better film.
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6.1
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11% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 46 User Ratings
6.1
48% Positive
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11% Mixed
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41% Negative
19 Ratings

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Assonance
May 4, 2021
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ire5933
Mar 16, 2023
I am currently plummeting to my death under the golden gate bridge and Kazaam (1996) directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Shaquille O'Neal is the only thing I can think about. Kazaam (1996) directed by Paul Michael Glaser and starring Shaquille O'Neal was the only meaningful thing to occur in my life. Thank you Shaq. For everything.
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40
It's probably just passable for children, but adolescents won't sit still for this bland mixture of mediocre jokes and soft-core action.
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33
It takes the movie all of 15 minutes to descend into sub-Spielbergian banalities about poor Max's search for his absentee dad.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
30
The odd truth is that the film's novice star is better than the material.
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25
This is as witless as movies come -- an unamusing, moronic blend of horrible acting and inept screenwriting.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
0
It's full of special effects that are big on smoke and noise, but short on logic and payoff.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
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Compi24
Nov 28, 2012
The 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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KazaamFam23
Mar 7, 2021
I Love this movie so much, Truly life-changing It makes me smile so much every time I see it. I love the character development and the plot. It cured my cancer and my ED, I really don't know what I would do without it anymore. I watch it at least 7 times a day and have bought over 7,000 copies. Shaq's face is the last thing I see when I go to bed and the first thing I see in the morning. It lightens my mood all of the time! I Love Shaq and his muscles I want him to pick me up like a baby and smother Icy-Hot all over my body. I love all of Shaq's work like Space Jam,Kazaam,Billie Jean. His music and his soft voice helps me with my love life and my wife doesn't complain either. Watching this movie is a whole entire different sexual experience. Every time I watch it calms me down and doesn't make me hit my kids(They are 3 and 6). Shaq's rock hard abs are the only thing stopping me from dropping my kids Chris Brown 1-2 style. So anyways it's and Okay movie.
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Production Company Touchstone Pictures, Interscope Communications, Polygram Filmed Entertainment
Release Date Apr 17, 1996
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline The world's most powerful genie has just met his match.
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/kazaam.3185/
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Awards

The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards
• 2 Nominations

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