What Sarah said:
A classic from the ’90s that I remember enjoying more than once, most likely because of the music, the characters, the crazy plot and all round fun time. Some iconic rap lyrics and a cast full of all your favourite Looney Tunes characters, NBA stars and Bill Murray playing a high stakes basketball game, what’s not to like? At least that’s what my memories of it are.
Mike’s verdict:
This took ages to review because despite, being a ’90s classic, it’s simply not interesting. It sort of ebbs and flows between silly and cringe-worthy, as so many children’s movies do, but not in any interesting ways. I’ll admit that it is definitely fun to see basketball players being used so blatantly as marketing tools; Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Shawn Bradley (did I miss anyone?) are surprisingly terrible actors considering they are playing themselves. That said, the ‘toon actors are all on point – somehow Bugs and the gang just never seems to get any older…
I do appreciate the obvious irreverence for the fourth wall though – making a movie designed solely to explain what Jordan was doing during his fake retirement hiatus from the NBA is pretty clever. And any movie that suddenly busts-out Bill Murray to save the day will always get bonus points from me. I’m also giving another few bonus points because, inexplicably, Warner Bros. still maintaining the original Space Jam website in all its ’90s glory!
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