Boring

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I leading roles - Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny! How could anyone resist this announcement... In 1996, this movie was a miracle that, even without the internet, caused big hype. I loved it as a kid, and now, two decades later, I didn't enjoy any less.An amusement park, somewhere far away in space, begins to decline in attendance and the owner has to provide new attractions to stay in business. He decides to go to Earth and kidnap Warner's cartoon characters. The fate of the Looney Tunes will be decided by a basketball game against aliens, and desperate toons are calling for help from Michael Jordan.Story is classic Looney Tunes cartoon combined with feature film. Beside probably every Warner animated character and Michael Jordan, there are few more NBA players and genius comedians Wayne Knight and Bill Murray. From today's perspective, the film is technically rather outdated, but even if you are not able to look at it from the perspective of the time in which it originated, its speed, humor and a lot of interesting details and references (which you have no chance to catch all during a single viewing) leave you no time to bother with technical shortcomings. I also particularly liked the music (Seal, R. Kelly, Salt-N-Pepa, Technotronic, 2 Unlimited), which objectively might not be that great, but in me, who grew up in nineties, it woke up some nostalgia and its specific atmosphere put me in the right mood to enjoy this wacky film.8/10

Most people consider "Toy Story" to be the animated movie that bridged the "playful kiddie stuff" with "sophisticated adult appeal" to produce a product that all could enjoy. However, I think that sometimes this quirky little gem is overlooked in the pantheon of animated fare as it shares many of those same "Toy Story" traits.For a basic plot summary, "Space Jam" sees "former" (during his "baseball years") NBA great Michael Jordan (played by himself, of course!) join forces with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and all the other Looney Tunes gang to play a b-ball games against the evil minions of Swackhammer of Moron Mountain in Toon Land.The reason this film works so well is two-fold:First, it is just a great kid's movie. I mean, what kid doesn't like the Looney Tunes, right?! There are enough crazy antics to keep most kids entertained for the runtime.The true hallmark of the film, though, is how well it stands up to "nostalgia viewers" like myself, or those who saw it "live" back in 1996. "Space Jam" took full advantage of Michael Jordan's mystique (back when the NBA was relevant to everyone and still fighting the NFL for popularity), added some great music, and even capitalized on Jordan's retirement by making it a plot point.Simply put, "Space Jam" may be somewhat of a forgotten effort due to basketball's waning popularity, the time gone by after Jordan, and the fact that even the Looney Tunes themselves are no longer as popular as they once were. However, the cultural significance of this movie (for those who "lived it") cannot be ignored. When Jordan is flying around the court and "I Believe I Can Fly" is crooning in the background, this is pure magic for the nostalgic set.

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 film is one I truly enjoy watching over and over again, that is something I rarely say about a film.I first watched this film when I was 6 after realising that the sequel was in fact a sequel, I enjoyed the acting of Basketball players, usually when someone plays themselves in a movie, in a main role, they do a poor job, but the acting in this film felt genuine.This film despite being a comedy still has an inspirational feel, this is most evident when Michael Jordan is training in one of the most serious moments in Looney toon's history.This film is one of the greatest I've ever seen, and deserves more reconnection for the many aspects and it's great blend of comedy and drama.