Shazaam will probably never be remembered as a great movie… or for that matter, really remembered at all.
SHAZAM SINBAD POSTER MOVIE
When all is said and done, the final wish had to be that Shazaam never came into their lives, the package was never delivered, and indeed none of it ever happened - the kids retain their memories of something that technically never existed, of course… just like the audience. Released June 17th, 1994, 'Shazam' stars Devon Sawa, Sinbad, Tina Majorino The PG movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 34 min, and received a user score of 80 (out of 100) on TMDb, which compiled.
Sadly, the movie also falls back on a classic trope: the undo button (mild spoiler to follow). Sinbad might seem an off choice for a Baba Yaga babysitter, but who actually believed Robin Williams could go an entire G-rated cartoon without dropping an F-bomb? The kids are adorable and probably have long careers ahead of them, and this sort of thing seems a natural for Sinbad - he could probably stick to this genre for a while. Too bad they couldn’t have waited a few years and secured a better budget, because as far as children’s movies go, you could do worse. While adults will probably be rolling their eyes, they really aren’t the target audience.
Once you get past the over-thought trailer candy bits that Hollywood spoonfeeds us as “funny,” there’s some heart hidden in here thanks to some clever casting and solid chemistry. In spite of the production values, Coneheads director Steve Barron manages to turn out a not-quite coming-of-age story for the latch-key, single-parent generation. It took less than a year for 20th Century Fox to fast track a low-budget, live-action version of Disney’s smash hit animated film Aladdin but had to settle for comedian David Adkins - aka Sinbad - for a less-magical performance. After the mandatory getting-everything-they-ever-wished-for montage, Chuck and Nan are whisked away on a journey of discovery into the past and future about their beautiful late mother (Amy Yasbeck), their hard-working father, and how they can make their own wishes come true with magic all of their own. Even though the cover art on the Kazaam poster a genie and a kid on a purple background is eerily similar to what some Shazaam- truthers claim to remember from the Sinbad film, true. Faster than you can sing “A Whole New World,” an ancient genie named Shazaam (Sinbad) is unleashed: an anachronistic wisecracker who becomes a surrogate parent. When Chuck (Austin O’Brien) and Nan (Mara Wilson) are left home alone by their absentee museum curator father (Danny Huston), a mysterious package is delivered containing an antique Middle Eastern oil lamp. Superficial on the surface, important life lessons linger within.
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