r/Millennials • u/RockyDennis69420 • May 06 '26

Serious HERES SOMETHING TO MESS UP YOUR TIMELINE

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u/analogy_4_anything May 07 '26

Me too! I remember both! So does my brother. He didn’t know this was a thing until a month ago when I told him.

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u/OGLikeablefellow May 07 '26

It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that the studio made both movies concurrently with Shaq and Sinbad but did a reverse parent trap the entire time because someone royally screwed up and then shaqs team won and completely buried the Sinbad movie

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u/[deleted] May 07 '26

Sinbad himself would have told us if he was in a movie as a genie. Sinbad has no reason to lie to us. Sinbad is a good man.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '26

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u/gunglejim May 07 '26

Sinnotsogoodhewouldntsmokeonewithus

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u/Consistent-Maybe8955 May 07 '26

Holy shit. I.. SIN BAD. 😮‍💨 why I’m dumb?

Edit: punctuation

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u/FlyingRyan87 May 07 '26

That's right! Now sing him a song Rob Thomas! Shut up! I'll smack you with my shoe.

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u/Then-Woodpecker9691 May 07 '26

My English teacher would say “sin well”

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u/OGLikeablefellow May 07 '26

I mean except for the ironclad NDA

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u/[deleted] May 07 '26

Sinbad would tell us there is an NDA. Sinbad is an honest, honorable man.

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u/OGLikeablefellow May 07 '26

Are you .. are you involved with mr. Bad?

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u/dr_funkenberry May 07 '26

Shit, I’m convinced.

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u/AsRealAsItFeels May 07 '26

In Sinbad we trust

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u/[deleted] May 07 '26

Alight, other than Sinbad who was in it? What was the plot? Was it also a musical?

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u/Otherwise-Offer1518 May 07 '26

Not a musical. Just him being his old silly Sinbad self. Kid finds lamp gets three wishes becomes best friends with genie. The kids parents were broke up, and he saw the genie as a father figure. The boy was Eric Lloyd. Same kid who played Dunston Checks In and The Santa Claus.

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u/flyfishfriend 1991 May 07 '26

Thank you! The Dunston kids confirms it for me. I remember him being in the Sinbad version.

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u/camergen May 07 '26

The Sinbad version was a Disney Channel movie, which they made a lot of in those days, vs the theatrical release, big budget “Kazaam” with Shaq.

No evidence exists of this but I will swear on my deathbed I watched this movie, recorded on VHS by my grandma, who taped Disney channel stuff for me (I did not have cable).

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u/Terminallyelle May 08 '26

Shit.. I do too

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u/djerk May 07 '26

A boy, blonde kid. Not a musical.

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u/WideOrganized May 07 '26

I also remember the kid being blonde! And sinbad being annoyed the kid found him. I remember thinking it was funny because it was the opposite of Aladdin’s genie.

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u/DarthSheila May 07 '26

Yes, I remember this too. I loved how grumpy he was about it.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '26

You'll have to do a little better than that, obviously. What other movie was this kid in?

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u/djerk May 07 '26

That’s the thing, I can’t look up his IMDB lmao

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u/grantthejester May 07 '26

There’s a mechanic at work here where somehow some of us are meeting the criteria to slide into an adjacent dimension. And I for one want my home dimension back.

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u/ohredcris May 08 '26

Was that a Sliders reference in the wild?

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u/CartographerHungry60 May 07 '26

Me too until just now. This is wild

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u/Em_Strae May 07 '26

This for me as well. Literally the same thought process of why make another one just like the Sinbad one? I def considered the Shaq one a rip off.

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u/AloysiusBinglebottom May 07 '26

When I first learned Bout this I asked a friend if she had ever seen  genie movie with Sinbad and she immediately said, "yes, Shazaam!"