![]() ![]() Perhaps he was right, and the movie was just that bad. He took this to mean they didn’t like it and “just wanted a free rental.” After reviewing the film, he’d find it working perfectly every time. He even remembers the film’s VHS cover.Įven more curious, he mentions that on many occasions, people would return the film to the video store, claiming there was something wrong with the VHS tape. He remembers not only seeing the film, but also ordering two copies for the store (“at half the price,” he wrote, presumably given its lack of popularity). The most interesting part of EpicJourneyMan’s analysis, however, is his complete memory of managing a video rental store at the time. Suffice it to say, the film they remember involves two young siblings, a boy and a girl, who stumble upon a genie’s lamp. ![]() If you read them both, you’ll notice the similarities. In it, he presented a rough outline of a fairly generic, and poorly received, early-1990s children’s movie starring Sinbad.Īnother Redditor, by the name of SoaringMoon, later shared a similar memory of the film, more or less corroborating EpicJourneyMan’s. The most popular summary of the missing film appears to belong to a Redditor called EpicJourneyMan, who posted his “complete analysis” to the subreddit r/MandelaEffect on October 1, 2016. Many remember Shazaam releasing a few years earlier. To begin with, let’s make one thing clear: Most people who claim to remember Shazaam also remember Kazaam, and see them as two completely separate movies. What, then, is this mysterious Shazaam, a film that so many people claim to remember yet can no longer find? A Synopsis from Another World In fact, here’s a Cracked article from 2009 in which the author accidentally refers to Shaq’s Kazaam as Shazaam, the same mistake I made. Image: Kazaam/Touchstone Pictures/Wikipedia Not great by any means, but I do remember it. And how could I forget? In that bizarre film, Shaq played the titular rapping genie Kazaam who lived in a magical boombox. What I was actually thinking of turned out to be 1996’s Kazaam, starring Shaquille O’Neal. So I did a quick search, and the only thing I found was Shazam - a DC Comics character with a new movie coming out in 2019. I didn’t remember any genie movie starring Sinbad. Now, when I first started looking into this, I thought, Shazaam? Yeah, I remember that, but it starred Shaq. Others still have claimed to own a copy of Shazaam on VHS, only to later search through their collections and find that it simply doesn’t exist. Others perfectly remember renting the VHS when it first released, claiming it was produced by Disney or Universal Pictures or some other well-known studio. Some claim to have watched it over the years, even within the last decade. People remember hearing about or seeing a Sinbad genie movie as children. well haven’t done one YET, but I am going to do one so we can close this chapter Okay for all you people who think I did a genie movie. The problem? That movie doesn’t exist on this particular worldline. This time, we have an “anomaly” involving the comedian Sinbad and an early 90s movie called Shazam or Shazaam (I’ll refer to it as Shazaam from here on out), in which he played a magical wish-granting genie. There’s always something new and exciting going on in the wonderful world of the Mandela Effect. ![]()
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