Space Jam Collection

Comedy

Animation

Family

Science Fiction

Space Jam

Warner Bros. Family Entertainment

Ivan Reitman Productions

United States of America

English

Michael Jordan

Wayne Knight

Theresa Randle

Manner Washington

Eric Gordon

Penny Bae Bridges

Brandon Hammond

Larry Bird

Bill Murray

Thom Barry

Charles Barkley

Patrick Ewing

Muggsy Bogues

Larry Johnson

Shawn Bradley

Del Harris

Vlade Divac

Cedric Ceballos

Paul Westphal

Danny Ainge

Bebe Drake

Patricia Heaton

Dan Castellaneta

Linda Lutz

Nicky McCrimmon

Kelly Vint Castro

William G. Schilling

Albert Hague

Michael Alaimo

James O'Donnell

David Ursin

Douglas Robert Jackson

Alonzo Mourning

A. C. Green

Charles Oakley

Derek Harper

Jeff Malone

Anthony Miller

Sharone Wright

Andre Rosey Brown

Brad William Henke

Connie Ray

John Roselius

Joe Bays

Charles Hoyes

Luke Torres

Steven Shenbaum

Bean Miller

Billy West

Dee Bradley Baker

Danny DeVito

Bob Bergen

Bill Farmer

June Foray

Maurice LaMarche

Kath Soucie

Jocelyn Blue

Charity James

June Melby

Catherine Reitman

Colleen Wainwright

Dorian Harewood

Joey Camen

T.K. Carter

Darnell Suttles

Steve Kehela

Frank Welker

Ahmad Rashād

Jim Rome

Mel Blanc

Greg Bronson

Amy Chance

Horace Grant

Charles Hallahan

Kent Kasper

Steve Kerr

Barbara Anne Klein

Luc Longley

Brandon Loomis

Scottie Pippen

Michael Rothhaar

Dylan Tucker

Bill Wennington

Jim Wise

Joe Pytka

James Newton Howard

Leo Benvenuti

Steve Rudnick

Timothy Harris

Herschel Weingrod

Fred Cline

Richard L. McCullough

Stephan Franck

Michael Schlingmann

Edwin Shortess

Scott T. Petersen

Bill Perkins

Earl A. Hibbert

Tanya Calderon

John Dillon

John Williamson

J.C. Wegman

David Falk

Daniel Goldberg

Sheldon Kahn

Michael Lander

Joe Medjuck

Curtis Polk

Ivan Reitman

Kenneth Ross

Gordon A. Webb

Michael Chapman

Janet Hirshenson

Jane Jenkins

Skip Jones

Rich Dietl

Roberto Casale

Mark Mangini

John T. Reitz

Gregg Rudloff

Gary C. Bourgeois

Gary Alexander

Jim Fitzpatrick

David E. Campbell

James LaRue

Gene S. Cantamessa

Geoffrey Kirkland

Jennifer Williams

Marlene Stewart

Bruce W. Talamon

Austin McCann

Lisa Lovaas

Nancy Frazen

Christein M. Goldstein

Korey Coleman

Ashley Burnham

Neal Wiser

David Harris

Patrick Sekino

Sherman Labby

David Stoten

Marco Rubeo

Richard Puga

Jon Mentzer

Frank Perl

Jamie Barber

Bud Schindler

Paul Wilkowsky

David Luckenbach

Christopher Lawrence

Larry Waggoner

Anita Gibson

Cyndi Reece-Thorne

Glenn Forbes

Dana I. Heckler

Carlos Arguello

Manny Demello

Patricia L. Adams

Sean Mannion

Babak Forutanpour

Mark Johnston

Darrell Pritchett

Bob Bralver

Laura Albert

Neil Boyle

Derick Tortorella

Fraser Maclean

George Hrivnak

Dick Johnson

Michael Battaglia

Nathaniel Bellamy Jr.

Shawn Broes

Morgan

Terry Claborn

Scott Fieldsteel

Daniel Windels

Glenn Corbett

Ira S. Rosenstein

Mercedes J. Sichon

Ian Cook

Raul A. Bruce

Oscar Mitt

A wonderfully constructed marriage of live action and animation, probably the best since Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It's a simple story of the Looney Tunes teaming up with Michael Jordan to stop the oppressive Monstars from enslaving them. The basketball scenes are great, the jokes mostly land, and Bill Murray steals the show whenever he's onscreen. Not to mention the fantastic soundtrack that today is pure standard. 

If you're looking for a serious movie, Space Jam isn't your thing. If you want a fun family movie that makes you laugh and cheer on the greatest basketball star of all time, then this is definitely worth your time.

Brings me back to my childhood days!

I forgot how much I loved this film.

Filipe Manuel Neto

**It was a landmark film for young people and children in the 90s, but it is currently forgotten.**

This is one of those movies that almost everyone has seen or heard about… or, at least, everyone who was children or teenager in the 90s, like me. Currently, the film is largely forgotten, and I feel that not even the release of a new film has served to spark interest in it. I don't know if that's entirely fair, because the movie is quite entertaining and works well, providing some nice, enjoyable fun for everyone… even non-basketball fans like me, who've never even seen a game.

The plot is simple: a group of tiny, seemingly unthreatening aliens are willing to do anything to kidnap the Looney Tunes and take them to their planet. Watching them, Bugs Bunny comes up with the idea of ​​challenging them to a basketball game that will decide the toons fate, convinced that everything will be resolved easily. But lo and behold, the aliens steal the talent of top NBA players and turn into monsters, dominating the match. Aware of the situation, Bugs and Daffy Duck decide to bring in Michael Jordan, who had retired to play baseball.

The film was, financially, a safe bet for Warner Bros. We don't just have Looney Tunes, the crazy creatures we've grown used to after decades of cartoons, but also basketball, a particularly popular sport in the US. In addition to Jordan, other famous players of the time will appear in the film, also representing themselves, in addition to their teams, and I have no doubt that the NBA paid a lot of money for all this publicity. And it's not even worth talking about the huge amount of products that come up strategically or that are named in the dialogues, and that also paid for it. Add to the advertising revenue the box office receipts (it was the most successful basketball movie to date) and all the merchandising that was sold afterward, from toys to coasters... and we have an idea of ​​how profitable the movie was for the studio.

Michael Jordan made his cinematic debut here, as it was the first (and, I think, the only) feature film he starred in. He's not an actor, he's not trained as such, but he managed it reasonably well, which shouldn't have been too difficult, as everything was limited to playing himself and making a few passes with the ball. The other players also did a decent job, and seem to be enjoying while parodying themselves. In the dramatic field, it is really Bill Murray who shines, as a professional comic actor, giving us the best performance in the film. There are several competent voice actors here, with Danny De Vito being the most easily identifiable and the one who stands out the most.

Technically, the film deserves an applause for the quality of the animations, and for the positive way in which they play with real characters. It's not a pioneering film, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” did the same several years earlier, and with better results, but what we're given here is good enough. The cinematography is good and the same can be said for the effects. As for the soundtrack, only the song “I Believe I Can Fly” stands out particularly, and this film contributed a lot to popularize it and guarantee it the Grammy Award that year.

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