Michael Jordan has retired from basketball to play minor league baseball. Meanwhile, under the ground, Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes are being kidnapped by the Nerdlucks, small aliens from a theme park called Moron Mountain. Bugs challenges them to a basketball game. The aliens steal the skills of Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Muggsy Bogues and Shawn Bradley and become the Monstars. The Tunes pull Jordan down a golf hole. Space Jam came from a Nike commercial, and it made 230 million dollars and a soundtrack that sold six million copies.
What Happens In The Game
The first half is a massacre. At half time Jordan and Bugs give the Tunes a drink called Michael’s Secret Stuff, which is water. Bill Murray walks on to the court from nowhere and plays. The ending is Jordan stretching his arm the length of the court for the winning dunk, which was the one physical thing he could not actually do. Wayne Knight is Stan Podolak, the publicist who gets flattened.
Why It Is Still The One
Jordan shot it in a green-screen gym with NBA players flown in to play pickup games during breaks. R. Kelly’s I Believe I Can Fly and Quad City DJ’s theme were both hits. The 2021 sequel with LeBron James exists, but this is the one people mean.
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