What’s It About
Welcome to the Jam! Basketball champion and global icon LeBron James goes on an epic adventure alongside timeless Tune Bugs Bunny with the animated/live-action event “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” from director Malcolm D. Lee and an innovative filmmaking team including Ryan Coogler and Maverick Carter. This transformational journey is a manic mash-up of two worlds that reveals just how far some parents will go to connect with their kids. When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.’s digitized champions on the court: a powered-up roster of professional basketball stars as you’ve never seen them before. It’s Tunes versus Goons in the highest-stakes challenge of his life, that will redefine LeBron’s bond with his son and shine a light on the power of being yourself. The ready-for-action Tunes destroy convention, supercharge their unique talents and surprise even “King” James by playing the game their own way.
MOVIESinMO REVIEW
Someone needs to explain to me why they made a second Space Jam. The original wasn’t that great, and twenty-five years later, it’s still a horribly acted, ninety-minute waste of time. After all that time, you would think they could have produced the best movie ever, but instead, they made the same movie with better graphics. In the original, there was a collection of Jordan highlights from high school, college, the Olympics, and the Chicago Bulls, of course. In this one, the introduction is all about LeBron. His kids, his parental skills, and a collage of his highlights as a player and the many times he switched teams. The bad guy in the original was a carnival owning toon wanting a better attraction. This time the enemy is an advanced computer A.I. named Al-G Rhythm, a program that had become self-aware. Al-G felt he deserved respect from the world because of his limitless abilities. And just like the first movie, the only way to decide who’s better is by winning a basketball game. From this point, Space Jam: A New Legacy transformed into one long Warner Brothers commercial. If WB owns it, it’s more than likely in this movie. As for the actual story, it’s all about LeBron and his relationship with his youngest son. James wants him to follow in his footsteps as a basketball player. Dom, his youngest son, wants to program and create video games. This major disagreement makes it easy for Al-G Rhythm to manipulate and use Dom against his father. Al-G tells LeBron the only way to get his son back AND save the entire Warner Brothers library is to beat him at Basketball. Unlike the first film, where the only things at stake were the freedom of the Looney Tunes and the skills of five NBA players. This time it was LeBron’s family and practically the entire viewing public. The Tunes would be permanently deleted. By the end of the movie, everyone has learned their lesson, except for the moviegoer, who for whatever reason thought a film that uses Basketball to save the world would be better the second time around.
OUR RATING – A NOT SO LOONEY 5.5
MEDIA
- Genre – Family
- Street date
- Digital – September 3rd, 2021
- DVD/Blu-Ray – October 5th, 2021
- Video – 1080p
- Screen size – 1.85:1
- Sound – English, English-ADS, English ATMOS, Latin Spanish, Canadian French, Brazilian Portuguese
- Subtitles – English SDH, Latin Spanish, Canadian French, Parisian French, Brazilian Portuguese
Extras
- First Quarter: Game On
- Second Quarter: Teamwork
- Third Quarter: Out of This World
- Fourth Quarter: The Looniest
- Deleted Scenes