Thursday, February 24, 2011
His Royal Airness, and Bugs Bunny?
A large part of my childhood was the Looney Tunes. I grew up upon Bugs, Daffy, and especially the Tasmanian Devil. I would watch anything that even mentioned my favorite characters. So, when Warner Brothers released a theatrical Looney Tunes movie, I was overjoyed. What got me even more hyped, was when I found out Michael Jordan was in it. This movie was released and it rocked my childhood. It was called Space Jam, a back story to Jordan's return to basketball. It was great when I was young, but somethings don't hold up as much today. The first is the odd plot. It has aliens from a theme park try to capture the Lonney Tunes to make them attractions for customers. However, the Tunes challenge them to a basketball game to see if they'll go or not. Knowing they'll be beat, the aliens steal the talent from NBA players to get the upper hand, becoming the Monstars. Meanwhile, Michael Jordan has retired from basketball to play baseball, which really happened. One day he's playing golf with his talent agent, and Bugs Bunny brings him to the Looney Tune's home. He decides to help them out, along with a new character, Lola Bunny. The talent agent chases after Jordan and decides to be a reserve player. When the game finally gets played, Michael raises the stakes to where if they loose, he'll be an attraction too. We'll once Air Jordan discovers anything can happen in this world, he unleashes his inner Toon and wins the game(with a little help from Bill Murray). The aliens are defeated and he returns home to play basketball again. So, the plot is weird, but there are some weirder things, like the voices. The Looney Tunes sound nothing like Mel Blanc's voice. Bugs is a little good, Daffy is awful, and Pepe sounds like the candle from Beauty and the Beast. Next, the animation is spotty. The cartoons are sometimes realistic, sometimes cardboard. Plus, the human acting is stale. Well, I have to give it credit. The movie's hilarious, and mildly entertaining. So to be fair, I'll give it 3 and a half out of 5, since it's a huge part of my childhood.
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