Sinbad’s kids want you to know there was never a Shazaam movie starring their father. Like all good collective memories, this one was started by the Internet and quickly surged in popularity. As kids of the 90s will argue to the hilt, there was a conception that Sinbad starred in a genie movie helping some kids. But, what’s likely going on is that fans are mixing the 1996 Shaquille O’Neal movie Kazaam with one of the comedian’s appearances on All That. Now, most of the decade was a blur, so it’s hard to blame audiences. However, Sinbad’s son and daughter, Paige Bryan and Royce Adkins, would kindly request you stop approaching them trying to convince the family that it did indeed happen. They talked to LX about the entire phenomenon. It’s bewildering to cover in its totality, but it’s an illuminating window into a psychological construct called false memory syndrome or “The Mandela Effect.” In summation, a large group of people remembers events one way when the moment in question unfolded in another.
Have you noticed no one my age has seen this so called Sinbad Genie movie, only you people who were kids in the 90’s. The young mind !
