Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo!

Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo! is a 1993 fantasy family comedy-drama film directed by Hogarth Mardins and Ron Clements, who previously directed Disney's Aladdin, based on the skits featuring the character of the same name from Long's Long Hour. Co-written by and starring Noah Long as a genie who helps two kids named Jonas and Carol help their father find love after the death of their mother.

The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the special effects, the characters, and the plot, but criticized the writing of the film. The film was a moderate box office success, grossing $52 million at the box office. The film has gained a cult following on home video releases and television broadcasts.

Plot
The film begins with a family consisting of struggling computer programmer and windowed father, Avery MacNeese (John Costelloe) and his two kids Jonas (Steven Batcher) and Carol (Janet DiVeun) driving home from Jonas' baseball game, where his father announces that his boss, Jason Fletcher (Robin Williams), will greenlight his game project, "Spiral Storm" at the inaugural Fletcher-Con on Saturday, and if it is a success, he will be promoted to assistant manager of his company, Fletcher Games. While Jonas and Carol are glad that dad's project will be greenlit, they mourn how their presumably deceased mother, Shelia (Kyra Sedgwick) will miss his greenlighting. His father tells them that no matter if their mother is dead, she will always know what's coming in the afterlife. At night, after Avery tucks Jonas and Carol, who both share a room in, Carol and Jonas sneak up to the attic, where Carol reveals to Jonas that she found a box of their mother's old stuff, and they decide to look around. Inside, they find a lamp containing a genie, Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo (Noah Long), who has the unique ability to grant 6 wishes. At first, Carol and Jonas think he's a friend of Avery's that escaped from the mental hospital and took shelter in the attic, but Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo demonstrates his magic by summoning Patrick Stuart into the room briefly, which angers him as Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo had summoned him several times before.

After Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo sends Stuart back, the two are fascinated but confused about why Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo can grant 6 wishes. Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo explains by inviting them inside his lamp and telling them that he is infamous amongst most genies because of him being a, "6-wisher", which are very uncommon in the genie world, though he doesn't tolerate with his hatred among them, as he says that the other genies don't know how good a master's life can get with 6 wishes. He then shows the two his hall of fame & infamy, where many of his masters are famous people like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, and infamous people like Genghis Khan. Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo explains that his masters must never reveal him as a genie, as it is the most sacred of all genie rules. When Carol and Jonas ask why, Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo tells them that genies are unaware of what would happen should a master reveal their genie's abilities to the public, as the rule has not been broken for hundreds of years. Promising to meet them again in the morning, Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo sends the kids back into the attic, where merely 5 seconds had gone by.

The next day, a tutor from Jonas and Carol's school, Cara Pettendime (Martina Summers) arrives at the house claiming to be the tutor the school had sent for the two. Entering their room, Cara reveals herself to be Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo in disguise. Thinking about their first wish to grant, the two notice a list they made with their mother about their planned "fun week", and they both wish for the two to be able to complete their fun week with Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo while two clones take their place for the week. Arriving back home in Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo's car, the three witness their father being verbally abused on the phone by his boss. The kids are then compelled to tell Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo about the way their father's boss has been acting recently and how he became widowed a few years ago, sometime after Shelia stopped talking to Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo. The two then decide to use their second wish to help their father find love, as Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo cannot make people immediately fall in love. Thanks to Sha-Ba-La-Ka-Zoo's magic, Avery meets and falls for a young model named Susan Johanson (Lauryn Hill).

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