2. Shazaam, Starring Sinbad
One of the most well-known examples of the Mandela Effect is the movie Shazaam starring Sinbad. Many people remember a movie from their childhoods in 1990s titled Shazaam, in which Sinbad appears as a genie. There is discussion about specific details and scenes, as well as people who vividly remember renting the movie from their local Blockbuster and watching it repeatedly.
All of that is impossible, because Shazaam doesn’t exist. Sinbad himself actually had to take to the internet to clarify the issue, stating that he had never starred in a genie movie, and that Shazaam is not real. Regardless, there are countless voices insisting that they have vivid memories of watching the movie, and those people are utterly convinced that it’s a real movie.
The most plausible explanation is that those people are confusing Sinbad with Shaquille O’Neal, because Shaq starred in a similar movie called Kazaam in 1996. However, there are many who refute the idea, saying that they remember unfavorable comparisons in the ’90s and that Kazaam‘s writing was deemed inferior and that the film was considered a well-known rip-off. Though there’s no proof that Shazaam ever existed, there are many that believe it did, making it one of the most powerful examples of the Mandela Effect.
The E.T. thing is just pedantry at best. The first time E.T. says it is reversed, true. But then both Gertie and Elliot say it the common way and all subsequent times E.T. says it are in the order everyone remembers.
Shazam actually is a movie that starred Sinbad. It was a bad movie but it was an actual movie that was made and released. Hell you even use a screen shot from the movie when he uses magic just after meeting the two kids who release him from his bottle on the page trying to tell us the movie doesn’t exist.
The image here is from some fake scenes that Sinbad himself made as an April Fools Day prank a few years back. If you can find any real evidence that the movie actually does exist we’d love to cover it though!