Max goes to his personal secret hideout and tells Kazaam about his father.
#SHAZAM WITH SHAQ FREE#
But he initially doesn’t care because his father, Nick Matteo by name, is overjoyed to see him again, introduces Max (Matteo) to the other employees of the agency, and gives him free VIP passes to an upcoming concert at the nightclub he works at. Max eventually finds his father, only to learn that he is a musical talent agent who specializes in unauthorized music. He suddenly encounters Kazaam during his travels, who pesters Max into making a wish. Max then sets out to search for his father in the hopes of rekindling their relationship. Max instantly rejects Travis, and when his mother confronts him on his behavior, he counters by confronting her that she lied to him about his real father's whereabouts, and that he is actually located in the city. Max spots his father in passing during his return home from school, and finds that his mother is marrying a fireman named Travis O’Neil ( John Costelloe). The genie, who introduces himself as Kazaam (Shaquille O'Neal), a 5,000-year-old genie, tells Max that he is now Max's genie and proves it to him by demonstrating his powers, which results in Kazaam disappearing off the face of the earth. Max is chased into the abandoned building, where he discovers the boombox and accidentally unleashes the genie inside. The bullies later chase Max through Brooklyn after school. Max is confronted by a gang of bullies, who hold him on the bathroom floor and spray paint his outline, in retaliation for a key he gave them for a robbery being no good. He greets his friend, Jake (portrayed by Jake Glaser, director Paul Michael Glaser's son), with a goofy face and is chastised by his teacher. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old boy named Maxwell “Max” Conner ( Francis Capra) goes to school. The genie inside decides to make residence inside the boombox from there on. A wrecking ball destroys an abandoned building, the impact knocking over a magic lamp inside and causing it to land on a boombox.