Allyourbase
[09] Warrior
Now he's got time to work on a Shaq-Fu sequel! ... or Kazam.
Shaq Retiring?
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Ghengis_John
[13] Hero
Little known fact, Kazaam spawned a candy bar that was pulled from shelves lightning fast after the movie's horrible flaming nose dive at the box office. ... I wanted to post a picture of it... But one doesn't exist!
The candy bar supposedly makes an appearance (or doesn't) in the movie when the kid says "I want some candy" and the titular genie makes it rain candy bars and m&m's and what not. The bars came wrapped in purple plastic with a green Kazaam marquee on the front and nutritional information on the back and you could find them in outlet stores and Pick And Saves for a couple years after the movie's grim demise. (I guess in a world populated by "abbazabbas" and "whatchamacallits" a "Kazaam" bar probably had some kind of warped sense of entitlement.) The shame of it was that Kazaam bars were actually delicious. They were and I shit you not, probably the best genie themed candy bar (out of the many) that you will never get to taste and probably the best thing ever shat out by whatever company made them. They had 8 ingredients and trying to remember them all is now impossible, because like some mythical beast you probably are going to put whatever you dream of in there. "Yeah I seem to recall it had puffed rice, peanuts, caramel, cookie wafers, peanut butter and unicorns" "Naw you're remembering it wrong, it had puffed rice, peanuts, marshmallows, coconut, bacon and panda bones." The thing I loved about Kazaam bars though was the design process. You had to imagine there were a bunch of guys in a smoky room, trying to come up with something at the last minute and then they go "I dunno, shit just put everything in it".
But yeah, it was always a shame to me that they didn't take the same candy bar and repackage it to outlive Kazaam's failure at the box office. If more people tried the candy bar maybe it wouldn't have been pulled from shelves in the first place. Then again, I suppose nobody wants to be reminded of everyone's least favorite movie when they're picking a treat at the checkout stand. I wish it had stayed for that reason alone. To see people's faces suddenly contort when they got to the Kazaam bars would have made my day every time.