Space Jam: A New Legacy

Omg this new version is AWESOME!! I always enjoyed the original (which is still watchable to this date) but this one is truly awesome. The effects the storyline and the throw backs to the old ones and everything WB is just epic. Every geek will love this movie. Remember ready player one few summers back well get ready for Space Jam a New Legacy 12/10 awesomeness bonus!!!

The comments on this movie make me think those people were clearly not fans of the first movie.

To me this was an amazing follow up and much better than I was expecting. The build up, the lessons, the allowing the toons to do toon, the sacrifice at the end and such a great WB nostalia trip akin to ready player one.

As someone who as a kid LOVED the original I absolutely loved it!!!

With all the cameos and Easter eggs, I don’t understand the bad reviews. It was silly, but it was a LOONEY TUNES movie! It was laugh out loud funny. Was LeBron a good actor? Of course not, but be honest - was MJ? Don’t come into this thinking it’s a sequel or expecting it to bring you the same feelings it did when you watched the original when you were 7 years old. And don’t go into it thinking it is about coding (with Acme physics you’re questioning the fact the coding story line isn’t accurate, yeah ok). But definitely DEFINITELY look into the background and enjoy all those WB characters. This movie made me nostalgic. Not for the original space jam, but for cartoons and movies of my youth. 9/10, a fun escape.

Is it a great movie? Maybe not. Is it a great sequel? Maybe even notter. But oh boy, did I have fun with this one. With the original Space Jam being the first movie I ever watched in a cinema as a kid I was fully pumped with nostalgia. In no way I expected to SJ2 to be much fun and for the first 20 or so minutes I was kinda stumped. The tech babble was a bit too much and I guess LeBron is not really that much of an actor. But the good thing is: After those first 20 or so minutes he doesn't have to, anymore. I won't spoilt anything because there was a lot that caught me of guard and I absolutely LOVED the assembly of the team.
So I guess if you liked the first movie and you're in the mood for a ~~goofy~~ loony movie, you might want to dust off that old tune squad shirt and move your ass to the cinema.

To be honest I enjoyed the film. While it's nothing like the original Space Jam that's to be expected with 20+ years between the original and this sequel. However this film does have a few issues that really bug me, from the awful tech jargon used in the movie from the son to the poor acting and straight up dislike of LeBron. LeBron comes across as an awful father who forces his own ideals and opinions onto his children than letting them being individuals and that Basketball isn't fun and is solely just work. Also despite all the cool television and movie references throughout (felt very much like Ready Player One) it did feel a bit over the top at points and felt more like a big advert for WB content.

It's very clear this movie is aimed at millennials: people who grew up watching, not just the original Space Jam, but also DC super-hero shows & movies, The Matrix, Harry Potter, and (more recently) Game Of Thrones. All of theses, along with various other things cameo heavily throughout the movie. They've decided to take a very different approach to the last movie, leveraging any & every WB-owned property, in a very "Ready Player One"-style. In fact, this whole movie is arguably "Ready Player One, but make it LeBron James".

Which is especially disappointing when Lebron comes across as such an unlikeable, unsympathetic character for most of the movie. According to this, when he was a kid, he has a coach who told him that he needed to focus on basketball more, and take it more seriously, and he's lived by that and nothing else ever since. He spends most of the movie ignoring the feeling and directly expressed wishes of basically everyone around him. This lead to him alienating his son, who run into the arms of the villain, and inhibiting the Tunes from doing their thing, which is exactly how they won last time. If this movie is to be believed, Lebron James is a bad father who only cares about basketball and doesn't like fun. He even explicitly says that basketball isn't fun: it's work.

Of course, the revelation of the movie comes when he decides to loosen up, but it ends up feeling so hollow. LeBron just isn't that good at being Looney. He looks stiff and goofy, trying to play along with the Tunes, most of which feel off anyway. Elmer Fudd is played more like Mr Magoo than a hunter, and Yosemite Sam seems to only be here so they can repeat that same "shoot the ball" joke from the original movie. Porky Pig also seems wrong somehow. I don't mind him spitting bars, but all the other words out of his mouth don't land right.

And yet, despite all that, I somehow enjoyed it. Maybe it's just residual joy from the original. Maybe I'm a sucker for all the references and meta-jokes. But I still sort of liked it. **But the original was better.**

having watched the original before this -- sequel's better, man. i don't know what the outrage over product placement is, unless product placement = all the intellectual property that wb owns? which again, capitalism. but they advertised nike about as much as the original did, and aside from something like e3 game camp being given lip service and the occasional electronics, the product placement was just acknowledgement of other wb owned franchises. and that's CUTE, not annoying. i love that they visited mad max world and lebron being a hufflepuff for a hot second was really endearing.

and is he the greatest actor? absolutely not. he's an incredible basketball player though so who cares? plus the other acting is solid, and i think both space jams highlight a big thing about acting: it's easier when you're working with other tangible people. when there's a lot of special effects to interact with, it takes a specific kind of person to make that believable. good actors aren't necessarily going to be just as good when everything is a green screen. michael jordan and lebron james both were a lot more convincing in their roles when they were interacting with other human beings -- and lebron also did better voice acting than a hell of a lot of other athletes have for video games, for that matter.

this was true feel good nostalgia for a kid who grew up with the original space jam. and it had a more cohesive story, more complete follow through on its jokes, and it was such a colorful delight to experience. if you were wowed by into the spiderverse, this gets kind of close (but obviously nowhere near) to that feeling.

Due to all the Warner Brothers movie references and cameos I found the sequel even more fun than the first film. Lebron is the least interesting thing about the movie though.
Michael Jordan had more charisma on screen. Lebron is a bit wooden and too much of a control freak father to be likable in it. As Lebron’s wife, Sonequa Martin-Green (Star Trek Discovery) seems like she is trying too hard to win an Oscar every time she acts, even in a Space Jam movie.
The Looney Toon characters are at least entertaining throughout. Even when the basketball game they are playing isn’t as entertaining as they are. The film loses a lot of steam during the basketball game.

A little corny as expected. Tunes are solid and Lebron wasn’t bad, didn’t see the AI storyline coming

So much better than I thought it’d be. Great message built within the film that made he just think…blend between animation and live action was very good!