review kazaam and say it a bad movie isn not hard at all after all and critic at the time it come out fell all over themselves excoriate this film say it be among the bad film of the decade . so the fact that i say it bad or anyone else say it bad be certainly no surprise . it like someone talk about wwii practically no one say that be a good thing and right . the question i have and no place on imdb can answer it be why do they make this in the first place . after all and it obvious to anyone who isn not severely brain injure that the film would be horrible . but and movie like ed ( a baseball playing chimp ) and cool a ice ( star the ever popular vanilla ice ) and troll 2 ( which doesn not even have any troll in it ) and baby genius ( einstain like superhero baby ) and pinocchio in out space ( huh . ) prove that any idea and no matter how dumb and can make it to the big screen . so and the idea of the best basketball player of the time star a a genie to an obnoxious little brat seem downright normal . the film start with a kid who be pretty jerky key the locker in the hallway of the school . like the punk from free willy and this kid be somehow amisunderstood ( in other word and a total brat ) and you know that no matter how selfish and horrible he be and by the end of the film he will have learn something and grown . just once and i want to see a punk kid like this end up in prison or or dead by the end of the film . eventually and while the neighborhood bully be in the middle of pummel him and the genie kazaam ( shaquille oneal ) be accidentally release and insists on give the brat three wish . but and the kid doesn not believe him and the genie magic seem a tad rusty . eventually the brat do realize that kazaam be for real . however and unlike most kid and he withhold make his wish so and in the meantime and kazaam be force to follow him around everywhere like his own personal servant . and and accord to the cliché and you know that by the end of the film and max and kazaam will have become lifelong buddy and a bunch of tear will be shed . oh and and max will have come to term with his absent father and mom fiancé ( i be gon na gag ) . apparently this genie be a bit of a social worker in addition to be a granter of wish . a for kazaam and shaquille speaks in rhyme through much of the movie and even take a break to rap . very poorly . i be a middle age white guy and i think i could probably rap at least as well . he an amaze basketball player and i have hear he a nice guy but a rapper . no way . as far a his acting go and he wasn not great but have such a nice personality in the film that it hard to hate him even if they make him do a lot of very stupid thing . so be the movie a excruciatingly awful a you have probably hear . through the first two third of the movie and i would have say no . shaquille seem to try his best with an unlikable kid and a bad script . however and later in the film and the bad becomes horrid a kazaam seem too concerned with himself to help the kid when he really need . and and out of nowhere and the plot get really and really weird a the guy who want to make kazaam a rap star ( . ) turn out to be an evil mobster . and and oddly and this guy seem to accept that kazaam be a genie with no hesitation . in addition and the last portion of the film consist of people try to kill max and his dad . i know that the kid be annoy and but this be suppose to be a kid film . what part of try to kill the kid do not the writer not understand . then and in an end that make this perhaps the bad kid film end in history and kazaam becomes god or something and it all be like a drug induce hallucination . this end be even dumb and weird than the one in the black hole . and boy and do it make my brain hurt . uggghh the horrible dialog be just too much to bear . overall and it a terrible film that be due mostly to writer who be certifiably insane . yes and folk and with a mess up message and bizarre non kid friendly material and horrible character and this be one wretched film . sadly and give the idea and actor and it hard to imagine the final product turn out much bad . by the way and if you want to see a genie in a modern world film that be good and try the british make for tv film bernard and the genie a charming and exceptionally well write film from start to finish .