@@lotus-prince I appreciate it dude! I only came to the comments to find out the answer to that....I thought it looked awfully symmetrical aside from the center part. Your comment was one of the top comments and answered that so thanks so much!
I figured it would be gibberish because half of it is mirrored. It's just there to be "ethnic" and look like Arabic. The filmmakers didn't give a shit about respecting culture. 90s as fuck.
So I actually went searching the comments because that part stuck out to me (I figured someone else made the same observation)...I’ve worked with audio engineers, there are/were cassettes of various types used in audio production. Old ADAT tapes were pretty much VHS tapes used for audio, too. I know, that’s a little bigger than what they’re showing in the movie but just saying, not all “tape” in audio production is reel to reel
I love that James is like completely lost in thought for most of the review. It's like Kazaam was so bad that it gave him an epiphany that he couldn't stop thinking about.
Totally n being serious bc there is no proof now for what I am saying but no bullshit n really being honest here. I never cared for Kazam as a kid bc I thought it was a strait knock off of sinbad shazam. The comedian sinbad who I never in life called sinbad I referred to him his entire career as shazam the genie. Not until I was older did I care to give kazam a fair chance.
Fun Shaq fact, I recently discovered a box of CD's I've had since the 90's. Among them, it appears that I have both of Shaq's albums. Gonna give them a spin and see what I was thinking as a child...
I had a friend who worked at a video rental store chain called "Hollywood Video" during the mid to late '90's. I talked to him in recent years, and he is convinced that Mandela effects are real and that the movie Shazaam starring Sinbad was also real. He told me that one day, while he was routinely moving VHS's from the "new releases" section to their appropriate sections in the video store, he placed a couple copies of Kazaam in the kids section, and then noticed that there was already a copy of a movie called Shazaam in the same spot. Then he pointed this out to his co-worker because these two movies were so similar to each other and only released one year apart. When he heard about the Shazaam Mandela effect, he thought people were full of shit, because he knew that movie was real. But after discovering that the movie never existed, he fell deep into the Mandela rabbit hole.
I figured this was what reminded them of it. I've been making jokes for months now people are going to confuse Shazam in 20 years with wasn't that the weird Shaquille O'Neal Genie movie?
@@richard5X5 Pretty sure it's done bad on purpose. Also keep in mind that these are just some dudes on UA-cam doing this in their spare time the fact that they got a 3-D model is a miracle.
The cinematographer on Kazaam was Charles Minsky and he specializes in that whole fairy tale look. He worked on episodes of Spielberg's Amazing Stories and the movie Pretty Woman.
Actually in the clip you guys showed for Da Brat master recording, it looked like a DAT which is exactly what a studio would have used back then. It's a high quality digital recording, just on magnetic tape.
Seriously love these segments. You guys kill it every time. I had the same copy of kazaam when I was a kid because my dad worked for the wherehouse entertainment and we constantly had promo tapes coming in. It was great.
The wishmaster! That’s the movie I walked into with my mom once in the 90s as a little kid and thinking it was kind of creepy. I’ve been trying to remember what the name of that movie was for like 20 years. I kept thinking like “dream catcher” or some shit like that lol thanks for reminding me
Look into the 'Testament of Solomon' and 'Lesser Key of Solomon'. King Solomon was said to capture every demon inside an urn, in which he sealed them in with 'divine' symbols/sigils. He would call upon any demon he sees fit to do his deeds from this urn. - Very much like the modern concept of a "genie" in a lamp.
That wasn't a cassette tape, it was a DAT. Before everything went fully digital, they were industry standard for final mixes to be sent out for mastering.
That "master tape" wasn't actually a cassette tape... it was a DAT tape, which was a popular studio standard of the time and could've actually been a studio master back in the 90's. As each tape holds 8 tracks of uncompressed 44.1khz 16bit audio.
Isn't Kazaam a rip off Sinbad's Shazam, which doesn't exist. But in our timeline it's a superhero movie about Captain Marvel which is not the same Captain Marvel in another superhero film called Captain Marvel. I'm soo confused.
am i the only one who watches these over and over again? i literally pull up the rental reviews playlist like atleast every other day and rewatch them all over again. in a way it feels like im hangin with some of my buddies. because all of you are so easy to relate to :D id love to see an Evil Dead vs Evil Dead 2 episode one day!
Love watching these reviews. I was searching and couldnt find anyone that has done much on the TV show ALF from the 1980's. Id love a review of the series ALF. I know its movie rental reviews but it would be cool to seea tv show review too.
Maybe a review of cobra kai season 1 before they talk about season 2. Also they might talk about the karate kid movies(both the original and the jaiden smith remake)
@@thatonea-hole They already talked about Season 1. They already talked about the Karate Kid movies. Hell even before that Rolfe listed John Kreese and Terry Silver in his Baddest Bad Guy list. And before that, AVGN reviewed the NES game early in his career.
At the time this movie was released, Shaq was still playing for the Orlando Magic. So that might he been why he didn't get any hometown love from the LA Times.
Well.. Far as I know of how things work.. Genies are basically the nicer ones.. Even then they are kinda evil. Jinn on the other hand are extremely evil. They will twist anything and everything to basically inflict the most pain and death. ( The Jinn that is... Genies will still twist things but not as bad as the Jinn. Think Genies as slightly evil tricksters and Jinn are pure evil. ) Also you guys should watch Deep Rising.
@@markhenry893 You know, by your logic we shouldn't trust any actors, and I think that's a little much. If you want to remain in denial that's fine though.
This was a guilty pleasure even as a kid lol. The raining food scene still sticks with me. I wanted to live in that warehouse with candy piled to the sky
When I was a kid, my grandpa was good friends with someone who owned a video store, and he gave us a ton of those demo tapes for cheesy 90s B movies like this.
I like the original opening of these videos better,mostly because the second opening is like a sitcom,and the third opening sounds like the theme to Seinfeld.
James looked preoccupied with trying to figure out how to fit Shaq in the store
well this movie existed
Fun fact: One of the bullies near the beginning is played by Efrain Ramírez, best known as Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite.
Well gosh
*Napoleon Bonafrog* (TMNT voiceover;) )
@@thestwinner680 That was Jon Heder.
Also Wade Robinson.
Didn't know that
Arabic speaker here. The text doesn't mean anything, it's gibberish. They even wrote some letters backward
Who cares?
@@thechemiist14 Justin Silverman, who asked the viewers to translate the Arabic last year, which is when the comment you're responding to was posted.
Asked my buddy from work (who is a native Arabic speaker) he even said it doesn’t mean anything.
Why am I not surprised
@@lotus-prince I appreciate it dude! I only came to the comments to find out the answer to that....I thought it looked awfully symmetrical aside from the center part.
Your comment was one of the top comments and answered that so thanks so much!
Its such a shame they stopped making rental reviews
got that right 0:12
After Kazaam I'm still waiting for the day for you guys review Space Jam
No one say shit about that movie Space Jam was awesome
I would love to see that, especially their thoughts on Lola Bunny.
Gonna fly like an Eagle....
@@TheSonOfTheDragon Lola is smoking hot
@@LUCKO2022 Calm down I wasn't mocking her, In fact she's one of my favorite Looney Tunes characters. I just like seeing people's reactions to her.
Should have had Shaq instead of Will Smith in the new Aladdin movie.
FR
No they should've had Sinbad.
Any day!
Why?
Shoulda been sinbad
“You shat on Caddyshack,
But you love this Shaq,
You sad sack”
This quote made me laugh so hard I saw spots, but i had not felt that good all April .
Chris VanVlair it was pretty funny.
Slight chuckle worthy at most
@@austins.2495 **raspberries**
it doesn't have a meaning the club's name is only gibberish and not real Arabic I tried to read it but I couldn't.
Seconding this. It's made to look like Arabic but half of it is mirrored/not actually letters.
I don't know arabic at all, but even to me the letters looked kinda odd.
It said "aloha snackbar"
I figured it would be gibberish because half of it is mirrored. It's just there to be "ethnic" and look like Arabic. The filmmakers didn't give a shit about respecting culture. 90s as fuck.
It could be Persian
shaq always looked like he was 40
Like how Danny Devito has been 49 his entire life ha.
Yeah he has looked like the same age for years. Good for him now though, he doesn't look as old as he could
"You're a monster" That was some Oscar winning acting right there.
I'm Arab and I couldn't figure out what was written, it's just random letters.
That's dope they got Will Smith for the intro
Ha.
I liked Will Smith.
Best...comment...ever
@Levi M I still don't get it unless it's an Aladdin reference
Keep the Genies name out your motha fkn mouth 👋😂
Craig from Malcolm in the Middle is back!
Lmao!!
Craig Feldspar!
supermario_2
but cooler
Wonder is Tony going to see the Aladdin remake. If he does, he should go to the cinema dressed like Jafar.
I mean he already has the costume.
I'm just impressed that he has a Jafar costume for some reason.
Im impressed they make kid costumes that big!
We need to diet
11:59 what a weird transition. Like we needed a moment of silence for Shaq being killed by rain food.
yeah that made no sense, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!
An ad came right after that transition for me, that must have been why
You mean food rain xD
Justin was wearing a Game Sack t-shirt when Tony called him a sad sack.
Hence why Tony points at it when he says that.
Sounds like a sequel to the Mandela Effect video.
Its a prequel to Shazam 🤔
Dude, I saw the thumbnail for this video and thought exactly what you said.
@@randalgraves6979 i dont think so because the the actor said he never act in that movie before 🤔
I mean The Shazam that just came out. From DC. 😏🤨
@@randalgraves6979 lol
I like how the front of the movie says "The $19 Million Comedy Hit!" Like the amount of money spent makes it a better movie...
The "master tape" could be a DAT tape. Those were used as masters in the 90s.
RyManda It could also be a Digital Compact Cassette, no?
So I actually went searching the comments because that part stuck out to me (I figured someone else made the same observation)...I’ve worked with audio engineers, there are/were cassettes of various types used in audio production. Old ADAT tapes were pretty much VHS tapes used for audio, too. I know, that’s a little bigger than what they’re showing in the movie but just saying, not all “tape” in audio production is reel to reel
That shitty genie is bizarrely amazing and mesmerising.
PolarPhantom
beats Sonic from the new movie trailer every time
I want to see you guys review drop dead fred
i think this movie is more famous in europe as in the us... maybe
I kinda want to see him review Freddy Got Fingered
I watched drop dead Fred many times religiously as a child. It would be nice if they talked about it.
They should review The Young Ones, specifically the Bambi episode with University Challenge!
Glad to know I'm in the minority of Yanks knowing who Rik Mayall is then. The Young Ones and Bottom are brilliant.
19:47 damn Steve aoki's looking rough
Hai
I hope they review BASEketball next, it'll be a timeless rental review.
SmrtPhonRtistCF they review shit films...not awesome films.
if they havent dont it yet, they should do "willow"
Ahh a Cinemassacre upload that warms my heart
don't they all though
I love all the Mandela references in the background of the Kazaam video.
A reality that NEEDS to be checked
"You're a monster!"
That was really funny. 😂
famous line 0:56
Wow, James really had very little to contribute during this one.
James sounded like he slept through most of it. These other two guys sounded like they LIVE for this movie. Very weird chemistry here.
He secretly likes it. 😂😂😂
There's really not much to say about this movie altogether. James said it best himself, this movie is pretty generic.
james isn't funny or personable, that's the problem with this, and a lot of these videos.
@@hellmuth26 His AVGN is pretty funny. But yeah. The other Cinnemassacre videos are hardly worth watching.
Now where's that Shazaam rental review video gone?
somebody answer
Answer Now
This was actually one of my favorite movies as a kid, I even had the novelization of Kazaam (which I found at a Goodwill LOL)
ToruKun1 Was the Novel any better? d:
Same here
@@otistebeats3958 No, mostly because it didn't explain how and why Shaq was able to squish that guy down into a basketball LOL
I love that James is like completely lost in thought for most of the review. It's like Kazaam was so bad that it gave him an epiphany that he couldn't stop thinking about.
Gotta love James just spacing out over how tall Shaq is
He's right 5:30
That Genie is better than Will Smith as the Genie.
Well you certainly are getting your money’s worth on those Genie effects.
I like how James is humble enough just to let the other 2 guys just run all over the place and he basically stands back.
Honestly these rental review videos are just a nugget of gold on youtube just a group of guys chatting about movies, keep em coming 👌👍
I avoided this movie like the plague. Even as a kid I knew it was bad.
I went in the theater for this. THE THEATER!!!! As a kid (and even then I knew it was huge mistake. A little too late).
Totally n being serious bc there is no proof now for what I am saying but no bullshit n really being honest here. I never cared for Kazam as a kid bc I thought it was a strait knock off of sinbad shazam. The comedian sinbad who I never in life called sinbad I referred to him his entire career as shazam the genie. Not until I was older did I care to give kazam a fair chance.
[Seinfeld Music intensifies]
*WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THAT?!*
*AIRPLANE FOOD, LIFE, WHATEVER*
Easy to beat!
haha the bad guy in Kazaam is Ranjit from How I Met Your Mother
Fun Shaq fact, I recently discovered a box of CD's I've had since the 90's. Among them, it appears that I have both of Shaq's albums. Gonna give them a spin and see what I was thinking as a child...
I'm Arabic man the scene in Arabic it's just some Letters do not mean anything
@@UR86 thank you
u got shazaam with sinbad somewhere over there??
the gumball scene was the best
U believe that movie existed???
@@kameron454ci tell me move about it..
I had a friend who worked at a video rental store chain called "Hollywood Video" during the mid to late '90's. I talked to him in recent years, and he is convinced that Mandela effects are real and that the movie Shazaam starring Sinbad was also real. He told me that one day, while he was routinely moving VHS's from the "new releases" section to their appropriate sections in the video store, he placed a couple copies of Kazaam in the kids section, and then noticed that there was already a copy of a movie called Shazaam in the same spot. Then he pointed this out to his co-worker because these two movies were so similar to each other and only released one year apart.
When he heard about the Shazaam Mandela effect, he thought people were full of shit, because he knew that movie was real. But after discovering that the movie never existed, he fell deep into the Mandela rabbit hole.
Why do you hate Caddyshack but love Kazaam! @3:14
Caddyshack*
Oh, the one where shaq turns a bad guy into a basketball
...
OMG! A leslie nielsen autograph!
Do the Sinbad genie movie next!
STFU
Technically it doesn't exist.🤔 But only in past life.
@@AtomicClown69 where's my uncle Rick when I need him. 😆
Its real look it up
@@someguy5319 nope
the arabic club name is gibberish, does mean anything
Shaq has a sense of humor, well you should thanks Adam Sandler for that. 😁
When I read the title, I read it "Shazam", looks like the Mandela effects are kicking in.
Ender tails I remember this as Shazam. So weird. Wtf is Kazzam
@@codyw518 It's the Mandoozie Effect
Sinbad
I figured this was what reminded them of it. I've been making jokes for months now people are going to confuse Shazam in 20 years with wasn't that the weird Shaquille O'Neal Genie movie?
Stop perpetuating stupid terms coined by morons.
OMG I was going to ask you guys for this movie review... now do steel, space jam, nutty professor, the mask, breverly hills ninja, batman and robin..
I'm pretty certain the UN has decreed The Mask as a crime against humanity.
I’m liking your picks, those are great for this nostalgic kind of video
there is a pepsi in the back , IT WAS PLANNED
Ohhh, I'm allowed back in the store?
......No.
I was laughing quiet hard.
Yes! That genie from the deck enhancer episode is back. I hope he becomes a reoccurring character.
TheSonOfTheDragon ^^^^^^
I don't mind the model, but I HATE the dance. lol
I honestly don't like him. The animation just isn't that good, and is too repetitive. But that's just my take.
@@richard5X5 Pretty sure it's done bad on purpose. Also keep in mind that these are just some dudes on UA-cam doing this in their spare time the fact that they got a 3-D model is a miracle.
You can tell James did not watch this movie..
i was thinking his same thing
I can also tell that he needs to go fuck himself because a lot of people like this movie and I should know because I'm one of them.
I think so too
I feel like he must've watched this sometime in his life, but not recently.
@@K-dawg26 I love it, too. I actually even own it on Vudu. 😂😂😂
The cinematographer on Kazaam was Charles Minsky and he specializes in that whole fairy tale look. He worked on episodes of Spielberg's Amazing Stories and the movie Pretty Woman.
Actually in the clip you guys showed for Da Brat master recording, it looked like a DAT which is exactly what a studio would have used back then. It's a high quality digital recording, just on magnetic tape.
Mandella effect probably still has james buggin’ out 😂😂
1. UHF
2. Dirty Work
Dirty Work is the shit!! Just watched it today for the umpteenth time.
Dirty work is one of the best comedies ever
@@iamradical Definitely agree.
!
Seriously love these segments. You guys kill it every time. I had the same copy of kazaam when I was a kid because my dad worked for the wherehouse entertainment and we constantly had promo tapes coming in. It was great.
Get Shaq on the show. That would be awesome.
Watch out, he's gonna make Shaq-Nado soon enough! XD
Shaq give that boi some cream... With ice cream from the pocket
Can I start singing over you?
The wishmaster! That’s the movie I walked into with my mom once in the 90s as a little kid and thinking it was kind of creepy. I’ve been trying to remember what the name of that movie was for like 20 years. I kept thinking like “dream catcher” or some shit like that lol thanks for reminding me
Look into the 'Testament of Solomon' and 'Lesser Key of Solomon'. King Solomon was said to capture every demon inside an urn, in which he sealed them in with 'divine' symbols/sigils. He would call upon any demon he sees fit to do his deeds from this urn. - Very much like the modern concept of a "genie" in a lamp.
That wasn't a cassette tape, it was a DAT. Before everything went fully digital, they were industry standard for final mixes to be sent out for mastering.
You just had to bring the genie back.
That "master tape" wasn't actually a cassette tape... it was a DAT tape, which was a popular studio standard of the time and could've actually been a studio master back in the 90's. As each tape holds 8 tracks of uncompressed 44.1khz 16bit audio.
I had only two VHS movies in my childhood and they were The Mask and Kazaam. I watched them over and over again. Kazaam is love, Kazaam is life.
Wasn't this actually the movie Shazaam with Sinbad? But they reshot the scenes with Shaq and renamed it Kazaam?
Not sure
Yes!
Isn't Kazaam a rip off Sinbad's Shazam, which doesn't exist. But in our timeline it's a superhero movie about Captain Marvel which is not the same Captain Marvel in another superhero film called Captain Marvel. I'm soo confused.
am i the only one who watches these over and over again? i literally pull up the rental reviews playlist like atleast every other day and rewatch them all over again. in a way it feels like im hangin with some of my buddies. because all of you are so easy to relate to :D id love to see an Evil Dead vs Evil Dead 2 episode one day!
The only thing I remember about his movie is one of the Boyz II Men guys sang the theme/love song called wishes.
Marshall Manesh aka Tony's father plays villain in Kazaam, and I knew I know him from somewhere, he also plays Ranjit in HIMYM.
Let me guess. Is your rug gonna be double parked outside?
Its funny how they mentioned how bad steal,and speed 2 are because i seen them together in a double feature. Back when movie theaters still did that
Was wondering if they would ever do this review. Cinemassacre serving up another steamy pile of nostalgia!!
Loved this movie as a kid and Disney, back in the late 1990’s, would play it. The ending always had me tearing up..
You were the right demographic. This movie is really bad.
Helgali 🤣 I mean it was aimed towards kids pretty much.
I guess the Pepsi can in the background was a hint at the next AVGN episode.
Love watching these reviews. I was searching and couldnt find anyone that has done much on the TV show ALF from the 1980's. Id love a review of the series ALF. I know its movie rental reviews but it would be cool to seea tv show review too.
When are you guys gonna review The Room?
I've been waiting for this for a decade xD
James got a Corbra Kai hat. Preference or future review of Season 2?
Maybe a review of cobra kai season 1 before they talk about season 2. Also they might talk about the karate kid movies(both the original and the jaiden smith remake)
@@thatonea-hole They already talked about Season 1. They already talked about the Karate Kid movies. Hell even before that Rolfe listed John Kreese and Terry Silver in his Baddest Bad Guy list. And before that, AVGN reviewed the NES game early in his career.
Lucky dude he has a photo autographed by leslie nielsen
FUN FACT: The kid is Francis Capra who also played young Calogero "C" in the movie A Bronx Tale.
At the time this movie was released, Shaq was still playing for the Orlando Magic. So that might he been why he didn't get any hometown love from the LA Times.
That's funny because I was just watching Kazaam a week or so ago.
oh yeah and keep up the good work. 😊😁😁😁😊😊😇😇😇
Well.. Far as I know of how things work.. Genies are basically the nicer ones.. Even then they are kinda evil. Jinn on the other hand are extremely evil. They will twist anything and everything to basically inflict the most pain and death. ( The Jinn that is... Genies will still twist things but not as bad as the Jinn. Think Genies as slightly evil tricksters and Jinn are pure evil. )
Also you guys should watch Deep Rising.
Genie: good
Jinn: Evil
Gotcha!
A stupid popular opinion... but Kazaam is still better looking than the upcoming Aladdin remake.
This movie made me text my dad to apologize for making him take me to see this when I was 10; thanks Cinemassacre!
"OH MY GOD, SHAQ'S GONNA EAT ME!!!"
4:37 isn't that blonde kid Wade Robson? one of the two Michael Jackson's victims who was featured in the recent Leaving Neverland documentary?
Yup he’s an actor. That should tell you everything you need to know
@@markhenry893 did you watch the documentary?
iCach0 yes I watched both parts and the Oprah special. It was great acting.
@@markhenry893 You know, by your logic we shouldn't trust any actors, and I think that's a little much. If you want to remain in denial that's fine though.
Love these skits guys. Thanks for the hilariously fun stuff lately.
This was a guilty pleasure even as a kid lol. The raining food scene still sticks with me. I wanted to live in that warehouse with candy piled to the sky
I agree with Jafar Max is the worst
This is where sinbad was mistaken for making fkn shazam
Accomplished comedian Sinbad filed for bankruptcy for a second time. It looks like things have gone from Sin BAD, to SIN WORSE.
my God.
When I was a kid, my grandpa was good friends with someone who owned a video store, and he gave us a ton of those demo tapes for cheesy 90s B movies like this.
I saw this movie on a field trip with my school during summer camp. So it has memories for me. Imagine a bunch of kids in a movie theater. We had fun.
I mean, he wasn't kidding, that Genie looks significantly better than the 3D animation of that Mortal Kombat movie from last week.
dude i'm the same age as shack in this film. doesn't seem right at all
I remember the teacher making us watch this in class when I was in 2nd grade in the 90s.
Golden Blue89 letting*
@@cakerbaby69 no
I like the original opening of these videos better,mostly because the second opening is like a sitcom,and the third opening sounds like the theme to Seinfeld.