Movie Review: Space Jam: A New Legacy 7-16-21
Lebron James is a legendary basketball player, but his son Dominic wants to design video games. One day, while visiting the Warner Bros Studio to learn about the upcoming VR website WB 3000, Lebron thinks it’s a stupid idea, which infuriates super-intelligent AI Al G Rhythm. Al transports both Dom and Lebron into the Server-Verse, which is inspired by Ready Player One, and the only way Lebron can get Dom back is to beat him at a basketball game. When Lebron gets dumped into the Looney Tunes world (which is one of the many worlds in the Server-Verse), he has no choice but to team up with Bugs Bunny and reunite the Tune Squad for the basketball event of the century.
As I am typing this, Space Jam 2: A New Legacy has a shockingly low rating of 34% on Rotten Tomatoes. However, I think it’ a great film for the summer with a solid story, excellent visual effects and animation from ILM , enough Easter Eggs to fill up three Pixar films, and a threatening villain who’s years ahead of, say, Scarlett Overkill from Minions.
Lebron encountering Al for the first time, as homage to The Wizard of Oz. |
For those still uncomfortable with the over abundance of CG films from the likes of Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, and Sony, most of the scenes with the Looney Tunes characters are in 2D. While they don’t look as well as they did in Space Jam or Looney Tunes: Back in Action, it’s still a breath of fresh air in an ocean of CGI films.
LeBron in the cartoon world. |
Rating: 3.6 stars out of 5.
great review, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I really enjoyed seeing this movie! Very nostalgic for 90s kids :)
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