Overrated and overhyped

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

It's Difficult NOT To Enjoy This Movie

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Lebron sucks. Only typed this let because I had to.

The film's twenty years old already, man, how time does fly by. I grew up watching the Looney Tunes characters back in the Fifties, so for me, that's what kids cartoons are all about. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck were my favorites, and they have prominent roles here, so that was cool. Having been away so long from the shows I watched as a kid, the presence of Lola Bunny was a bit of a surprise, I had never seen her before, or at least the iteration of her here wasn't familiar to me. Because all of the original voice artists are gone, folks like Mel Blanc and Chuck Jones, the Warner Brothers characters sounded just the slightest bit off to me, but that's a minor nuisance. Teaming up the cartoon characters with professional basketball players was a uniquely creative concept, though I would have liked to see some of the other players like Barkley and Ewing in the Monstar game themselves. But no matter, this is a colorful flick with decent animation and humor, with cool appearances by Wayne Knight and Bill Murray. Murray was effective doing his type of character from "Groundhog Day", a slovenly but decent guy who can make you laugh just by looking at him.

This is a great film aimed at children, but adults will love it too, especially if you like Loony Tunes and basketball. It combines action and cartoons, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and both films are equally good. Aliens arrive on Earth, zap the talents of real-life basketball stars like Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing so they can beat Bugs Buuny and the Loony Tunes gang at SOMETHING, and Bugs and the gang recruit Michael Jordan so they can have a fighting chance.My favorite scenes are the basketball game showdown (that's hilarious! watch for the "men in black" reference), the golf scene where they "recruit" MJ, and Jordan's baseball scene. Everything about this movie is thoroughly enjoyable, and everyone will love it. Guaranteed. i loved Bill Murray, Wayne Knight, and Larry Bird in it! *** 1/2 out of ****

Space Jam (1996): Dir: Joe Pytka / Cast: Michael Jordan, Theresa Randle, Wayne Knight, Bill Murray, Larry Bird: Space Jam sounds like something I did while parallel parking. It opens with a young Michael Jordan impressing his father with basketball. Too bad the screenwriter couldn't impress us with a screenplay worthy of the talent involved. Meanwhile the Looney Tunes may becomes slaves to a theme park unless they can win a basketball game. The opposing team travel to Earth to suck the talent out of the N.B.A stars save for Jordan who is persuaded to help. Ridiculous storytelling without any of the intelligence of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animated characters look dashing with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, Roadrunner, and a rather suggestive appearance by Lola Bunny. Her innuendo is perhaps a tad more suggestive than the film's intended audience deserves. The film is an excuse to cash in on the popularity of Jordan who actually holds his own opposite the cartoon and will need to think beyond human means to solve the plot. Other roles are merely cardboard with Wayne Knight, Theresa Randle and Bill Murray. Directed by Joe Pytka who highlights the star and the animated characters but hiring people to put an effort into plot would have been nice. The result is a very dull game that should be jammed in the space between a tire and the pavement. Score: 2 ½ / 10