- His Airness and His Hareness; what a team! Michael Jordan slams, Bugs Bunny jams and a cavalcade of Looney Tunes and NBA stars hoop it up in the rim-rattlin’, out-of-this-world, roundball romp: Space Jam.Running Time: 88 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN Rating: PG Age: 085392753727 UPC: 085392753727 Manufacturer No: 27537
Movie DVDAlthough at first glance it looks like a movie dreamed up by a marketing committee (and in some respects it probably was), Space Jam actually defies the odds against it to become a dazzling display of family entertainment. There’s a kind of demented genius to the idea of casting NBA superstar Michael Jordan in a live-action and animated movie costarring the beloved characters from Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes cartoons. They play off each other like seasoned veterans of vaudeville, and Jordan never falls into the kind of awkward, amateurish showmanship that you might expect from a sports idol. He’s comfortable in the cartoon land of his costars, who include Bugs Bunny and sexy newcomer Lola Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester & Tweety, Speedy Gonzalez, the Tazmanian Devil, Foghorn Leghorn, and Yosemite Sam. They’ve all been hijacked to an outer-space amusement park run by the Nerdlucks, who strike a Faustian bargain with the Looney heroes: if Bugs and Co. can defeat the Nerdluck “Monstars” in a basketball game, they’ll win back their freedom; if they lose, they’ll be doomed to stay there forever as enslaved entertainers. So they kidnap Jordan as their coach and “secret weapon” while the nefarious Nerdlucks suck out the basketball skills from such stellar victims as Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing. It all leads to reckless abandon on the basketball court, and Bill Murray pops in for some hilarious support. Combining traditional animation and computer-generated Nerdlucks with its live-action cast, Space Jam was made in the anarchic spirit of the Looney Tunes cartoons, where anything goes as long as it’s funny and off-the-wall (or the ceiling, or the door, or the floor…). Technically astounding, it’s also witty enough to entertain adults and kids alike. –Jeff Shannon
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April 8, 2008
#1
My daughter was shown this movie in her public school classroom several times while she was in grade school. It wasn’t until years later that I saw it, and I was HORRIFIED!!! This was a movie aimed at children??? What does a children’s movie need a sexy bunny for? The lead female character was a very sexy bunny wearing skimpy clothing and “strutting her stuff” on the basketball court in a very provocative manner, until the male characters were panting, drooling, and clawing their way after her like a bunch of sick, depraved perverts. This scene was highly innapropriate for children, and is NOT the idea of womanhood that should be shown to boys or girls. Not only that, the idea was put forward that only a fortune teller with a crystal ball was able to discern the truth about what happened to the players abilities. This movie should be kept far, far away from children, and was truly deserving of zero stars.
April 8, 2008
#2
everything it seems involving jordan is overrated and this film is no exception to the rules.very boring and one of the worst cartoon films ever period.and how do you mess up a cartoon film? just ask jordan.
April 9, 2008
#3
Michael Jordan has trod upon sacred ground by engaging in this blasphemously horrible movie. In his seeming quest for the all-mighty dollar (and you thought he had enough!), he out-mongers even himself by participating in this… film. The worst sin of this all is dragging the likes of Bugs Bunny down with him. A piece of advice for the wary viewer: skip this film and tune in instead to some classic Looney Toons at home.
April 9, 2008
#4
How could they? How could the masters of animation do this? Poor Friz Freleng, poor Bob McKimson, poor Tex Avery, poor Ben Hardaway, poor Bob Clampett, poor Frank Tashlin, and poor Mel Blanc. They must be rolling over in their graves right now. As for poor Chuck Jones, he probably cried when he saw this, for his wonderful characters were ruined, even Sniffles. The reasons why I hated this mess of a movie:
1. Everyone is out of character. Bugs Bunny, the reasonable, smart rabbit you knew from the cartoons is now a helpless, stupid little girl. Daffy Duck, the cantankerous, off-the-wall duck we loved from the cartoons is now a bumbling, try-hard idiot. And WHO ever heard of Marvin Martian FLYING?!?! HE CAN’T FLY! And he isn’t even an earthling, so why is HE kicking some alien tail? Tweety, the smart canary who would always keep himself out of a puddy tat’s stomach in a usually violent yet funny manner is now a “South Park”-esque character with a REALLY BAD voice. Elmer Fudd, the hapless hunter who would always have the hunted get the best of him is now what Bugs Bunny is supposed to be. Also, more than half of all of the characters are not in the stadium but in the audience.
2. The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies apparently live in a hole in the ground. Oh sure. The ONLY Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters who would do THAT are Bugs Bunny, The Goofy Gophers, Sniffles, Speedy Gonzales and company. If you were birds like Roadrunner, Beaky Buzzard, Tweety, and Daffy Duck, “HOME SWEET HOME” would be somewhere else, wouldn’t it be? Or a human, cat, pig, a skunk, a coyote… THEY would choose to live in houses, barns, bushes, or the desert.
3. The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are HARDLY in the movie at all. There are WAY too many scenes with the human actors instead. It took such a long time for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies to appear onscreen, I was even doubtful that they were even going to be IN the movie AT ALL. It just feels like they are just making what seems like a bunch of long cameos. IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A LOONEY, MERRIE, TOONY, MELODIE OF A MOVIE, AND IT CAN’T BE WHEN THERE ARE TOO MANY HUMAN ACTORS!!!!
4. The original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies had violence that was meant to be funny, but now, there’s horrid, gross humor that Bob Clampett would NEVER use in his cartoons. In one scene, one of the Monstars squishes poor Sniffles to death and Sniffles’ eyes pop out. Absolutely disgusting. Leon Schlesinger would die of shame if he were still alive.
Overall, this was a very disgusting film and I was very disappointed. See the original toons, the webtoons, and “Back In Action” and avoid this like the plague.
April 9, 2008
#5
They won’t let you rate anything with zero stars otherwise that’s what I would have given it. This is one of the worst things ever created. I can’t even call it a film. Don’t buy it. Do yourself a favor, buy the Looney Tunes Box set instead. You won’t regret it!