OK, I’ll get
this out of the way, I love the Looney Tunes, I love their witty dialogue,
great comedy and a story filled into a less than 10-minute short. Looney Tunes is a classic beloved by people
over the world and most episodes rely on fairly simple plot-lines. So what
happens when you try and stretch that into a 90 minute movie? Can you capture
the essence of the Looney Tunes in that sort of time period?
The answer
is… sort of… kinda… not entirely. In the 1990s Nike (amongst others) ran a set of commercials
featuring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. Jordan’s agent approached Warner Bros
with the idea of essentially doing a feature length version of such a
commercial, paying homage to lots of classic Looney Tunes and helping to boost
the waning popularity of Michael Jordan.
So, 2 months
filming and a year’s production later we get Space Jam. It made $230m on it’s
$90m budget, making it a financial success however critics were less kind to
it, it currently holds a 35% rating on rotten tomatoes.
So… It’s
been years since I last saw this movie, how does it hold up? Let’s take a look.
