Movie Review – Space Jam

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1996 – Spoiler alerts This could have been fun, but it is an unspeakable mess. After Who Framed Roger Rabbit, another movie promising to mix well loved cartoon heroes with live action seemed sure to be terrific, but then this garbage hit the screens. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other Looney Tunes characters are abducted by aliens from the appropriately named Moron Mountain. It’s the sort of mess Bugs would normally put right in five minutes, but somehow the heroes find themselves trapped in a basketball tournament under threat of slavery if they lose. Bugs abducts the retired real world player Michael Jordan as his star turn, despite Jordan having as much facial expression as a concrete slab and all the acting skills of a potato. Ultimately even he can only win the game by turning into a cartoon. This really needed the Harlem Globetrotters or some other medium instead of basketball. It actually robs the Looney Tunes stars of their talents – an utter shambolic utterly predictable disgrace that is utterly devoid of humour if that is even possible. That’s all folks. Arthur Chappell