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Some, admittedly, more than others and for entirely different reasons and now I feel sad.
Best Christmas present I ever got.
“Ha! Ha! Yes! Yeeeeeeees!”
“I prefer the term “blundered”.”
Alright, so in the nineties Nike did a series of ads featuring Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny fuckin’ around and gettin’ into mischief. They were pretty awful, but at least had the virtue of being short. Then some GENIUS had the GENIUS idea of expanding this premise into a feature length movie. Now, don’t get me wrong, the mere fact that Space Jam is based on a series of advertisements did not automatically mean it had to be bad. Hell, The Lego Movie was 100 minutes of product placement and actually garnered enough critical acclaim to win a coveted Oscar Snub. This movie’s dubious parentage is not the issue. Its faults are its own. So let’s take a look at Space Jam, or, as I prefer to call it, Prelude to a Fratricide.
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“NICE BUTT!”
I guess what I’m saying is, it’s not really in keeping with the tone of the film that follows.
Well anyway, after the credits we cut to several years later where Michael Jordan is announcing his retirement from basketball to pursue a career playing base ball. See, this is why I hate this movie. I doesn’t respect its audience’s intelligence. I mean, are we really supposed to believe that the most successful basketball player in the history of the NBA is just going to retire at the peak of his success to start again in a completely new sport? It’s ludicrous! It’s insane!
It’s…what the close up mouth whore fuck that ACTUALLY HAPPENED!?
Does…does that mean aliens are real? Because we now cut to Moron Mountain, an alien theme park run by Swackhammer, an evil cigar-chomping meanie voiced by Danny De Vito. Swackhammer tells his dimuinitve lackeys, the Nerdlucks, that the park needs some new attractions. He sits on his TV remote which causes like thirty different Looney Tunes shorts to play on all his security monitors simultaneously which seems a little improbable, and, dare I say it, hacky? I’m not complaining though, as those 20 seconds of Golden Age Looney Tunes are about as close to genuine wit and inspiration as we’re going to get so soak it up folks. Realising that the hack gods have given him a sign, Swackhammer exclaims: “Yes! Looney! Yes! Now yer talkin’! Looney! Looney! That’s it! That’s the word I was lookin’ for! Looney! Get the Looney Tunes!”
Writing.
Back on Earth Michael is playing the base ball but his stats are nooooooo good and everyone is sad because they will lose base ball today. Everyone is still in awe of Michael from the days when he was playing the sport he was actually good at to the point where even the guy who catches the base ball for the other group of base ball playing guys is giving him tips on how to play base ball. So let’s talk about Michael Jordan and his weird decision to pursue a career in something he has no real experience or natural talent for.
Let’s talk about his acting.
Saw me comin’ a mile away, didn’t ya? Okay so, in my honest opinion, Michael Jordan is not actually that bad. Seriously. I mean, considering that this is a guy with virtually no acting experience carrying the lead role in a major motion picture where he faces two of the toughest challenges that can face any actor (acting with animated characters and trying to work with a piss-poor script) I don’t think he disgraces himself. In fact, I would even see potential for him as an actor. I mean, not in a comedy. God no. He doesn’t have the lightness or the timing. But I could actually see him doing well with something a bit heavier. He’s definitely got presence. Pair him with a decent script and a director who knows how to get the best out his actors and I could see Michael Jordan surprising everybody in a different movie.
“Mouse, what are you doing?”
I’m sorry, I don’t like giving wholly negative reviews. Alright, we’re also introduced to the Baron’s publicist Stan Podolak played by Wayne Knight.
Hello…Knight.
Stan tells Jordan that he’s basically here to be his bitch, doing absolutely anything that needs to be done to keep him happy and I’m pretty sure that’s not what a publicist does. Especially for someone that they don’t technically work for. Anyway, the game is briefly interrupted by the revelation of life on other planets when a space ship flies over the field and ploughs into the very earth. The rest of the movie deals with the massive social upheaval and waves of existential terror unleashed on the entire world as humanity struggles to come to terms with this immense…nah I’m fuckin’ with you it’s completely glossed over Jordan doesn’t even mention it to his wife after the game.
The Nerdlucks fly towards the centre of the earth, with one of the little aliens asking “are we there yet?”
“Hack HACK! Hack! Hack!”
“HACK! HACK! Hack! HACK! HACK!”
The centre of the earth, as we all know, is a toon world owned by Warner Brother’s inc.
“That was the agreement. They get everything below the earth, I get everything above.”
We’re introduced to Bugs Bunny being chased by Elmer Fudd (both voiced by Billy West).
I think I’m on safe ground when I say that Bugs Bunny is one of the coolest characters ever. Hell, Bugs Bunny invented cool. Before Bugs Bunny came along, if something was cool you couldn’t say it was cool, you had to tug on your bowtie and say “That’s fancy.” He’s James Dean cool. Fonzie cool. The bassist from the “Actual Cannibal Shia La Boeuf” music video cool.
Just look at that suave motherfucker. Look at him!
As the first big-screen outing for Warner Bros’ most iconic character, Space Jam is a massive failure for a couple of reasons. Firstly, you shouldn’t make Bugs Bunny the star of a feature length movie period. It doesn’t play to the character’s strengths. Bugs Bunny doesn’t have some rich inner life that needs an hour and a half to explore, he’s so hyper competent that he can deal with any threat or enemy in under seven minutes. He’s built for shorts. Stretching him out to an entire movie is like if Monty Python did an entire film based around the Spanish Inquisition.
Secondly, execution. Billy West is at least recognisable as Bugs, but it’s different enough from Mel Blanc to be distracting (his Elmer Fudd is much better) but he’s not really the issue. The animation is. Technically it’s fine. It’s fluid and the models remain consistent and all that. But it’s also really garish and trying way to hard to be wacky. This is the thing, Bugs Bunny is not really an “eyes-popping out of his skull” kind of cartoon character. He’s often remarkably subdued, a tall thin centre of calm in the storm. In Space Jam Bugs over-acts. Horribly.
In fact the whole movie has this problem. It has no sense of subtlety. The camera is in your face (quite literally, there are so many goddamn extreme close ups), the music’s obnoxious, the colour scheme makes Batman and Robin look like The Seventh Seal and the attempts of comedy have the hallmarks of someone who’s seen original shorts but has no idea as to why they worked. Okay, so the Nerdlucks take Bugs prisoner (uh yeah, no) and demand that he summons all the other Looney Tunes which he does (uh yeah, no.) At a Town Hall meeting, the Nerdlucks tell the Tunes that they are now their prisoners but Bugs tells them that they need to give them a chance to defend themselves. Bugs and the Looney Tunes confer in a scene that homages Patton because Jesus the parallels are obvious I gotta draw you a diagram? Patton! Looney Tunes! Basketball! C’mon people!
“Because when you put your hand into a pool of paint that was your best friends FACE?! You’ll know what to do…”
The Tunes reason that the Nerdlucks are small, slow and unathletic and that therefore the best way to beat them is to strap a couple of tonnes of Acme TNT to them and go out for ribs challenge them to a basketball game. The Nerdlucks agree, but when they realise they’ve agreed to a game they can’t possibly win they decide to cheat by stealing the skills of five NBA all stars.
From left to right: Larry Jonson, Tyrone Bogues, Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley and the Creature of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, an assemblage of deceased body parts given life through mysterious and sinister means.
This causes the player’s to lose their talent and stumble around the court like baby deer on tranquilizers. Michael watches this on TV while eating McDonald’s in his hotel room (how else do you think he stays in such good shape?) when Stan pokes his head in through the door and gives possibly the single most sell-out line in movie history:
“C’mon, Michael! It’s game time! Get your Hanes on, lace up your Nikes, grab your Wheaties and your Gatorade, and we’ll pick up a Big Mac on the way to the ballpark.”
I just. Wow. That’s not even infuritating, that’s just goddamn tragic. This movie needs an intervention from Sting.
“Spaaace Jam! You don’t have to put on that red light! Schill for corporate sponsors! You don’t care if it’s wrong, of if it is right!”
Thank you Sting.
And yes. I painstakingly searched for the one frame where Jordan looks like he’s really into it. I gotta find joy where I can.
Uh, Foghorn? If I were you I’d dial that “boy” stuff WAAAAAAAY the fuck back.
“Space Jaaaaaam!/Put on that red light!/Space Jaaaaam!/Put on that red light!/Space Jaaaam!”
Interesting fact: this movie was how those Taiwanese CGI news guys got their big break.
One of the Monstars (no, I don’t know their names, yes I could look it up on IMDb, no, I am not arsed) tells Jordan “You’re all washed up, Baldy!”
“They still can’t find anything wrong with us!”
“We’re fine. It’s probably just some psychosomatic deal.”
“Urrrrrrrrrr!”
Meanwhile, Michael has decided to help the Tunes after the Monstars had the UNMITIGATED GALL to suggest that he didn’t have hair. He discovers that the Looney Tunes, despite betting their freedom on being able to win a game of basketball, have never actually played the sport. Well. All except one of them.
Lola Bunny.
Hssssssssssssss!
“Don’t call me babe.”
Actually? That reference is an insult to the progressive feminism of Barb Wire. Listen movie, I’ll take Lola seriously as a strong female character when you lay off the damn porno sax music every time she’s onscreen and keep the camera off her cotton tail.
Alright so Michael says that he can’t play in golf shoes so he sends Bugs and Daffy to his house to pick up his basketball kit. Daffy goes off on his own because he doesn’t trust that Bugs knows where he’s going and I gotta say, I’m with the duck on this one. This is the same rabbit after all that tried to get to Pismo Beach via Albuquerque and ended up in the Himalayas. After some time wasting comic business with the family dog and the Jordan children (all very nice young ladies and gentlemen who are doing the best they can) the return to Michael the source of his power. Stan follows then back and convinces Michael to let him be a benchwarmer.
So the night of the big game arrives and the stadium is packed. The Tunes are psyched and ready to kick some ass but Michael advises them to “Just go out there and have some fun.”
“I mean sure, if you lose you face a lifetime of slavery, but that’s no excuse for forgoing the simple pleasures of the game.”
Mike, I don’t mean to tell you your job but he’s indestructible and runs faster than the speed of sound. PUT HIM ON THE COURT.
So, it’s halftime and the game has the kind of one-sided score you usually only see at the end of an Ireland-England rugby match.
Can you fit an entire country in the burn ward? ‘Cos they just got burned. By me.
“NICE BUTT!”
“I will own you! You’ll toil away without pay while I grow ludicrously wealthy from your talent!”
“Crap. This is going to be like playing college basketball all over again.”
The game starts up again and now the Monstars just start massacreing the Looney Tunes. Michael calls a timeout and surveys the wounded.
Any fans of Speedy Gonzales in the house? Here he is dead in a mousetrap, his little neck broken.
He finally calls Stan up to play, and by some miracle he actually scores but is flattened into a hideous CGI pancake by one of the Monstars (which of course is a classic Charles Barkley play). Michael asks Bugs how Stan was able to survive that and Bugs explains that in Looney Tune land even human beings can contort like cartoons. Michael says “Ten seconds to go? Thanks for telling me.”
So…this is something you just can do normally?
They still need one more player however, or else they’ll have to forfeit the game. But then, their prayers are answered.
Sorry Bill. Some things are beyond even your ability to save.
The Tunes pull out all the stops, get the ball to Michael who manages to score by stretching his arm from centre court as the clock ticks down to the final second. The match is over, the Tunes are saved and Swackhammer is defeated.
And everyone is happy because they have won basketball today.
Swackhammer starts tearing strips out of the Monstars for losing but the Tunes remind them that they’re big huge monster now so they cram Swackhammer in a rocket and launch him into space. Michael makes the Monstars give the powers back and they turn back into tiny Nerdlucks. The aliens ask if they can stay with Bugs and the gang and so the Nerdlucks join the storied ranks of the Looney Tunes, taking their place in a legacy that stretches back to before the Second World War and will doubtless go on for decades and perhaps even centuries to come.
They were never seen again.
“Well actually Mouse, they did have a brief cameo in an episode of Animaniacs…”
“They were never. Seen. Again.”
“Hey cmon guys, leave the baseball player alone. You know he doesnt play basketball anymore.”
“Yeah, you know he probably hasn’t even got it anymore.”
“Urrrrrrrrrr!”
Michael says that there’s only one way to find out if he still has it, and we cut to his first game back with the Chicago Bulls, finally revealing the reason behind his return to basketball.
Because some other players were mean to him.
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That’s it. Drink to forget.
“You…you really don’t like it?”
“No! Of course I don’t! That’s why you got me to review it in the first place!”
“Oh…I mean, of course! And you fell right into my…”
“Oh God. You actually love this movie and really just wanted me to review it, didn’t you?”
“N…n…no…”
“Okay. Well now I feel like a heel.”
“Ah don’t worry about it. Different strokes. Farewell brother.”
“See ya.”
“Watch out for Blucatt.”
““Sure th…what?”.”
“Never mind. Too late now anyway. Goodbye, brother.”
unshavedmouse 
Boy this Scotch is damn tasty tonight….*hic*
Send some of that my way.
“Beware the cats of march…” Okay then.
I feel like an idiot now for reading it as “Beware the cat sofmarch.” I was wondering what the heck a sofmarch was
Lol I read too much Shakespeare. 🙂
Yes, yes, this movie is pretty bad. But I’d by lying if I said that it didn’t make me laugh a few times.
Alright. The scene where the three tallest players knock their heads in the door was pretty funny.
Also, I am extremely fucking pissed that the Nerdlucks, the FUCKING NERDLUCKS were ranked HIGHER than Stitch by watchmojo for best animated alien. Excuse me while I borrow Bullshit Mountain from you and scream from its highest slopes, “BULLSHIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!” In short, fuck you Watchmojo, and fuck you Space Jam…
Wait what? WHAT? But Stitch is awesome!
I know. It was a travesty.
Wow. I did not know that. I hope someone on watchmojo was fired for that blunder.
Firing is too kind. I WANT BLOOD!!!! 😠
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N5C-RrMqDFg
Honestly the only character I think actually deserves to be higher than Stitch is Marvin the Martian. This is rank bullshit.
Well, it IS watchmojo. That’s honestly the kind of crap I expect from them.
Indeed. The only time I’ve ever agreed with them is when they put Avatar as the #1 best animated show of the 2000s.
Yeah, and you’d have to be living under a rock not to realize that.
I actually can’t get over the awkward voice acting in Avatar to enjoy it…to me it feels like an anime dubbed by Funimation, and if you’re not familiar with Funimation dubbing, let me assure that it’s not a good thing.
Are we talking about the same show?
The first season I can see what you mean, but it gets better as it goes along.
This movie sucks. It’s bad and the only thing good about it is its theme song.
On to some more interesting things, I have actually seen the Birmingham Barons (the baseball team Michael Jordan played for) play. They’re the AA affiliate of the Chicago White Sox and they are one of the oldest franchises in baseball. I go to school a the University of Alabama, which is in Tuscaloosa, about an hours drive from Birmingham. They just recently opened a brand new park (Regions Field) and it is fantastic. A bit small, but ridiculously nice, fully MLB quality but for the size. Great place to see a ballgame.
Speaking of Alabama, Charles Barkley went to Auburn (if you didn’t know, Alabama and Auburn are HUUUUUUUUUGE rivals). This is a terrible thing. He was a great basketball player, sure, but he is a godawful actor and an absolutely atrocious broadcaster. I just wanted to point out how awful he is because Auburn sucks (Roll Tide).
Also, I actually had the pleasure (misfortune?) to attend the World Premiere of the second Looney Tunes movie, Looney Tunes Back in Action. The mom of one of my good friends in elementary school worked for Warner Bros., so they invited me to go with them to the premiere. I was also invited to the World Premiere of the first Harry Potter movie, but I was like 8 at the time at it was on school night so my mom wouldn’t let me go. Back in Action is not very good, but it is better than Space Jam, so there’s that.
Wallace and Gromit are absolutely amazing and I can’t wait for your review, Mouse. Are you going to be reviewing the movie (Curse of the Were-Rabbit) or some of the shorts? The Wrong Trousers is a classic.
Wrong Trousers. It’s short so I may actually sleep that week.
I have to admit it: Until five minutes ago, I also thought that it were the “Looney Toons”. In my defence, I was never a big fan of this particular brand of humor which enjoys the misery of certain characters way too much – the only reason I watched them at all was the catchy title melody they always played in front of the “Bugs Bunny show” and “Tom and Jerry” respectively in German TV.
But I did try to watch the movie once…emphasis on trying. I think the bunny boobs undid me. Among other things.
Glad you get a reprive next week.
(I guess I am the only one who thinks that the Lego movie wasn’t THAT big of a oscar snub…it might have deserved the nomination over the Boxtrolls, but I prefer any of the other four movies to win either way. Hopefully one of the traditially animated ones).
Wow. I mean, wow. WHAT did I just read about? I mean, I’ve heard of the movie before, and even saw a bit of Nostalgia Critic’s review of it, but this movie just seems so “WTF” to me. And I love Looney Tunes, but they deserved better than this. I’m sorry you had to review it.
If I may offer a suggestion to take your mind off this movie? I found this channel on YouTube called “Google Translate Sings” and basically it takes the lyrics of a song, puts it into Google Translate, translates it into a different language, translates that translation into another language and so on about five or six more times, and then translate what’s left back into English. And what you get is a very different song, so to speak, because Google Translate isn’t very reliable and some words don’t exist in other languages. The channel has done Disney songs as well as some non-Disney songs. And since you’re a Disney fan, I thought you might be interested in taking a look. Not sure whether you will like this or not, but I’ll let you be the judge. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGnYtw5ezZI-BnVCUhMOcBqi9KggS1fhD
Ooh, Wallace and Gromit! I love those guys! What exactly are you going to review? The shorts? The movie? All of the above?
Just the Wrong Trousers for now. Thanks for the recommendation.
Oh man, that Google Translate group was awesome. Their I’ll Make a Man Out of You caused me to laugh in tears.
But, did they win baseball today?
No. They choked and did not score enough balls.
I….love this movie >,> maybe it’s my nestalgia glasses, but I don’t see any of these problems in the movie even watching it now. Yeah, teh human actors are hammy, but I dunno – it is what it is? I love Looney Tunes and thought they were done well in this movie, and really liek the music haha. I see all the points you made as valid but, I just love this movie ok >,> -slinks off into the corner before she is shot-
Hey Mouse. It has been a few months since we have spoken, but I am proud of you and the progress that you have made in all of your endeavors.
Now that I think about it, this movie is definitely not good, too over the top, which is an issue when there is lot of live action. The plot is really, really dumb form what I remember it. This is a movie you see on TV if there is absolutely nothing else to watch, but otherwise, this movie is ignorable.
Ignorable. There’s your one-word review.
I’m back…
Think you would be rid of me so easily?
What news of far off lands sirrah?
Well, to the North bandits are raiding. To the South the cannibals are having a feast. To the West wild dragons are reeking havoc in the mountains, and to the East on the High Seas, the Pirates are Pillaging the coast. In the dark tower at the center of our land, our red Lord cackles in delight at it all.
In other words…
A typical Sunday.
Ah, finally we get to hear the master speak on the Looney Tunes. And it is, as expected, glorious.
That said… are you going to review LT: Back in Action anytime soon? If not can you tell us what you thought of it here?
No plans at present. It’s been a while but I remember it as being…passable.
I hate to admit it but i have to put my nostalgia goggles on and declare that this wa my favourite movie when I was a kid. I know its bad but i can’t help but have fond memories of being manipulated by insidious corporate advertising. I mean, it got me into playing basketball, that’s a good thing right?
Also, i love Wallace and Gromit. Bring on February
That’s the thing I loved it as a kid too. Part of my fury came from shame.
I hate to admit it but i have to put my nostalgia goggles on and say this was my favourite movie as a kid, evil corporate advertising and all. I mean, it got me into playing basketball, that’s a good thing, right?
Also, I love Wallace and Gromit. Bring on February!
Great job! The best reviews are the ones where you utterly pan a movie.
Sometimes your reviews make me decide to check out a movie (i.e. Hunchback, Coraline). This one- I would rather do my maths homework. It sounds that shit.
Awesome Review, Mouse! I haven’t watched this movie since I was a little kid and I really don’t want to watch it again. xD And I am really looking forward to your Wallace and Gromit review, I adore them. The Wrong Trousers is my favourite short, it is awesome in every way. 😀
It’s OK man, I always thought it was Looney TOONS as well. It has letter repetition that way, after all!
I actually really like this movie, and I’ll admit that’s largely due to nostalgia, but I actually like the majority of the humor and music, and even the ludicrous concept of playing basketball to defeat aliens.
Probably my favorite joke in the movie is when Bugs and Daffy are in MJ’s house and comment on merchandising. It went something like–
Bugs: Look at all these coffee mugs and t-shirts! You ever see any residuals off any of these?
Daffy: Not a cent.
Next week is Wallace and Gromit!!?? I. Freaking. LOVE Aardman animation, and ESPECIALLY the Wallace and Gromit shorts. (Was actually a bit disappointed by the movie, but ah well, I like all of Aardman’s other movies a lot to make up for it)
I remember watching this movie as a kid, and I also remember thinking, “Well, that was kind of stupid.” afterwards.
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Yay for Wallace and Gromit, love those two lads! 🙂
Oh jeez. Space Jam is one of my childhood guilty pleasures… but that doesn’t mean I’m blind to the sheer terribleness of this film. Never cared for Lola btw, even as a kid.
As for the hidden message, does this mean that March is going to be the month of cats? (AKA: Cats Don’t Dance & Felidae) That’ll be something interesting after the awesomeness that is Wallace and Gromit.
Well, I remember this being an okay movie. Not a masterpiece, of course, but okay. And I also find it interesting that you despite how much you say you hate it, you kind of like the opening scene, and you think that Michael Jordan isn’t such a bad actor.
This is one of those movies that other people hate that I like. I think it is funny and charming.
for the ladies we have…lemme think…Granny and Tweety (maybe? Did we ever get confirmation on that?)
More proving your point than refuting it…there’s also Penelope Pussycat, the black cat who gets sexually harassed by Pepe Le Pew. Also, Witch Hazel, but I don’t think either of them were in this movie.
When I was little I was obsessed with this movie for a short time simply because there was a new GIRL Looney Tune with a pretty design and I was that starved for representation.
And I’m pretty sure that Tweety is male too.
He is. It was a joke.
Hazel gets a cameo definitely.
I also distinctly remember Penelope being in the audience in Space Jam.
Thank you for taking apart Lola like that. She was bland and shallow, the very epitome of the whole “Strong Female Character” stereotype that Hollywood likes to trot out when they’re too lazy to try and write interesting female characters. But the thing that galls me the most about her, is just how many people bought into it. A ton of people seem to genuinely think that Lola is some of female empowerment figure.
Back when the Looney Tunes Show revamped Lola into Bug’s insane, ditzy stalker, I was amazed to see some fan utterly outraged by this. “They ruined Lola!” they shrieked. “She used to be a good role model for girls!” No. She. Wasn’t. She only looked like it.
Don’t feel bad Mouse, I made that mistake about the “Tunes” versus “Toons” too. It’s all about what generation you’re from and the perspective you have on a piece of animation history. Lots of people do that.
I remember “Space Jam” when it came out. I was 10 years old and in 5th grade at the time. Most of the people I know actually liked it and thought it was funny, though it was something of an odd stretch after seeing these characters in short little animated flicks throughout the years. I felt very weirded out while watching it, and yet I also thought it was fun (and still do).
I am a personal witness to the fact that “Space Jam” was a huge hit for several target audiences: the black community, basketball fans, Michael Jordan fans, and kids. I’m actually surprised my family never got a copy on DVD.
I especially loved the title song and “I Believe I Can Fly,” and we sung it at my 5th grade graduation ceremony (don’t ask, it’s a stupid Elementary-to-Middle-School ritual some schools practice in the US).
Incidentally, I was a little scared when I saw the tiny aliens transform into gigantic monsters that could both play basketball as well as beat the Loonies to bloody pulps. I think it’s very possible that the basketball stars playing the 5 guys whose talents had been stolen, probably wore bluescreen suits with pips and sort of acted out the parts of the Monstars. (Yes, they were using blue-screen tech as far back as the ancient 1990s, kids). Not sure if they did the voices though. The film-makers said in a behind-the-scenes show that the hardest part of making the movie was filming live actors with cartoon ones. Again, blue/green-screen tech.
I personally like Billy West because he does the voice of Philip J. Fry on “Futurama” (as well as several other characters on there). I also loved that they added Lola Bunny to the the gang, especially since Bugs Bunny needed a girlfriend and they didn’t have enough girls in the cartoon cast anyway.
Oh, and Mouse, Tweety Bird is a boy, or so people have told me, so don’t be fooled by the eyelashes and high kiddy voice.
So overall, it’s all in how you look at a movie. I think “Space Jam” is one of those movies where you either hate it or you like it, and I’m okay with that. I mostly liked it (save for that one scene you mentioned). Kids, of course, think it’s awesome too.
Indeed, “Space Jam” has gotten a really bad reputation. But I once met a nine-year-old boy, who loved this movie so much that he was practically obsessed with it. And I’m sure that a lot of other kids liked it almost as much as he did. And I guess that this is how we have to see “Space Jam”, as a silly movie for kids.
Absolutely! Kids don’t mind the crazy plot, and I usually just accept it as part of how kiddie movies are shown. Many kid’s movies don’t make sense as far as plots go, so you have to sort of go along with it if the story is mostly entertaining. If it’s anything like “Thief and the Cobbler,” then you can call it crap.
I knew Tweety was a guy. Sometimes I pretend to not know things when in fact I know everything.
My God, you’re a Q! Move over John de Lancie! xD
The trial never ended, Jean Luc.
*waddles in embedded in a wad of coughed-up blue hair* That cat is just dessshpicable.
I’m in the same boat as you. I remember being quite surprised I was wrong to spell it “toons” all the times I did. Also, wait a second, when did that rule saying you can’t advertise with kids’ shows come into effect? Or did that not apply to Looney Tunes because they weren’t technically kids’ media? I sure did enjoy them as a kid for not being child-based, but then again, I guess General-audience entertainment doesn’t have to be strictly for children.
Uh-oh, who gave Mouse the thesaurus? I have to keep a tab open in Dictionary.com when I read this to keep up with your sharply intelligent vocabulary already. Though I’m glad you keep some of the less polished terms in. I don’t believe “WTCUMWF” will ever get old. Neither will the Mouse’s zero understanding of base ball. Disney and the Warner Bros’ “agreement” made me laugh too. I wonder what scraps the ol’ harlot Bluth got in that deal.
Speaking of movies of the night, great shot from Sting there. I think Sting ought to deliver more searing burns and… Oh man. I was told not to do this… Not… making… obnoxious… pun… Gah… I think I’ve blown a rupture in my squeeze bulb. *passes out*
…*comes to*
Poor Porky. That’s one of the struggles of being the elder statesman. With great seniority comes great incontinence. Also, if Tweety’s female, I’m pretty sure Looney Tunes has a genuine lesbian scene where Sylvester seduces Tweety with his finger which he’s painted to look like a female bird. Which actually might be cool seeing as WB seems to be strict on same sex romance being a gentlemens’ game. More chick love might be a good thing. Though there’s one recurring female character you missed. You can’t forget Penelope Pussyfoot and her long legacy of making people laugh by desperately trying to escape unyielding romantic advances… Yeah, the Looney Tunes are probably due a good lady character. Though I seem to remember Prissy being kind of fun with her rolling pin bashings and all. Also, I seem to remember at least Doug Walker thinking the latest Looney Tunes series actually giving Lola a pretty good overhaul and actually making her pretty uproarious. Haven’t seen much of that though, so I can’t speak from experience there.
I dunno, being swift is all well and good, but how do you expect the roadrunner to score without hands? Then again, Jordan picked Tweety over him, so I’m not going to defend Mike’s choice here. I’ve also got to wonder if anyone making this movie realized they made a silly little advertisement movie that ended up being a black man’s efforts to prevent himself from being condemned to a life of slavery. I’m actually surprised the audiences let that fly. I guess the tackiness was offensive enough on its own so nobody even brought up that that might be a bit insensitive?
Well, Jordan did escape that threat of slavery, didn’t he? So I don’t see why that would be so offensive…
Some might say it’s offensive for making light of a serious matter. Again, maybe that either didn’t bother people as much back then, or was just overlooked for so many other glaring problems.
Believe it or not, but in the most recent Looney Tunes show, Lola Bunny isn’t just used fantastically, she’s the best damn thing on the show! The show itself is kind of a drag, but every scene with her in it is pure gold. I’d even recommend the show simply because she’s in it. 😉
Funny story the road runner was the one that showed up at the last minute instead of Bill Murray in an alternate ending
What was the video at the end again?
ESPN’S retrospective on the match.
No, no. Bugs and Daffy heading to Pismo beach , was in “Ali-Baba Bunny.” They ended up in the Himalayas in “The Abominable Snow Rabbit,” while traveling to Palm Springs. You can trust me on my authority as a “Looney Tunes” blogger.