![]() LeBron isn't a stranger to a little bit of over-acting, after all, but he was perfectly serviceable in the movie. It's safe to say that acting with green screens and digital renders is tough, so for someone as great as Jordan, that's a tough hill to climb when you're not an award-winning actor. There are definitely differences between the two flicks: The Jordan-led appearance in the 1996 film planted him firmly as a real character in an animated world - the LeBron James successor does a decent mix of both. It's fine, it's entertaining, and you know what? That's perfectly OK. LeBron JamesĪs mentioned, there's not much aside from starpower that makes "Space Jam" a good movie, no matter how subjective that measure. The movie, though, is severely lacking in Bill Murray. ![]() If you're bored, slightly buzzed or have a young family and are looking for a fine way to kill a few hours on a Friday or Saturday night, you can do much, much worse than watching "A New Legacy" - such as juggling those chainsaws or going to Bed, Bath and Beyond. There's a decent mix of entertaining one-liner humor, and gags - LeBron James morphing into Robin when getting to DC world is a nice bit of meta-humor - and legitimate heart and soul, two things that the original move actually lacked, making way to massage Jordan's ego a bit. (Bugs Bunny cosplaying as William Shatner? *Chef's kiss.*) shared properties) that features more than enough slapstick humor that will entertain the kids and high-level (and, sorry) older references that'll keep the adults entertained. "Space Jam: A New Legacy" is a largely inoffensive and entertaining two-hour animated/CGI romp through Tune World (and all of Warner Bros. "Space Jam: A New Legacy" is fine, and it's even good at times - it's a nice, forward spin on Jordan's film for a new generation that grew up on their cell phones and on Instaface or SnapGram or whatever they're using now. The challenge that movie critics often face is that they largely review for themselves and not for the intended audience. (Editor's note: This review contains spoilers.) Space Jam: A New Legacy review But, surprisingly, shockingly … flabbergasting-ly? … "Space Jam: A New Legacy" actually lives up to its predecessor, and in some ways it surpasses it. So the bar for "A New Legacy" wasn't high to clear. (Sorry, dudes, Michael Jordan's cologne smells like burnt rubber mixed with expired egg nog. Listen, no one is saying "Space Jam" was one of the finest pieces of American cinema to ever grace the silver screen - that label is reserved for finely crafted films such as "Batman Forever" and "Gigli." The love for Jordan's flick is strictly driven by beer-fueled nostalgia goggles and an undying need to deify anything related to No. There are much worse ways to spend your time, such as learning to juggle chainsaws. We're not philistines over here at SN, and we can say that "A New Legacy" was a fairly entertaining and fun flick. "Space Jam's" long-awaited and rumored sequel finally came to life in "Space Jam: A New Legacy" on July 16, and we're here to tell you it's … definitely a movie that happened and that some poor soul at Sporting News was tasked to watch. (And to think, you probably have kids now.)īut also hitting theaters in 1996 was the classic Michael Jordan-led "Space Jam," a fine slice of Americana that belongs in the Library of Congress alongside William Hung's discography and a DVD copy of "Phantoms" (Ben Affleck was the bomb in it, yo). And, by the way, you never fed that Tamagotchi you begged your parents to buy you. "Pokémon Red" and "Blue" were introduced to the United States. Kurt Angle won a gold medal with a broken freakin' neck. What a splendid year in American culture.
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