Space Jam: Everything wrong with 90's movies

I'm all for Seven and 12 Monkeys, but Space Jam rubs me the wrong way, in that it feels like a group of WB executives sat around and tried to figure out how to turn the Nike commercials into a movie. The wrapped a movie around a flimsy plot of a basketball game against aliens, the Looney Tunes characters personalities are all 90's up to be hip. The movie looks like it took an hour to write. I do agree Bill Murray is always awesome, and I like the soundtrack, actually forgot about Hit'em High.

You nailed it...Space Jam is a great kids movie form the 90s that actually has some lasting value, Murray and the Toons have some actually hilarious lines. Criticizing the script of Looney Toons movie isn't that hard

b) I see no difference in today's movies

Now, the product placement aside, Space Jam is just a rollercoaster fun type of movie. It's the Looney Tunes in the real world movie - what kind of story did you expect? The story is tertiray, at best, in a movie like this, much as in about everything the Looney Tunes ever did. Bugs tries to convince Elmer that it is duck season and Duffy tries to convince Elmer that it is rabbit season - that's the plot of EVERY skid with Elmer in it.

Jordan can't act but nobody expects him to do (and I think he did okay, so did most other bb stars in this), again, this doesn't matter much in a movie that literally is a cartoon. They threw in Bill mothereffing Murray, playing himself, for no other reason than to have Bill mothereffing Murray in it and it was a good call.

The soundtrack - excuse me, but this is considered one of the better OSTs. HipHop and R&B stil thrived back then and this had some good representatives of that era. I still play "Hit'em high" in clubs from time to time and people love it. Maybe you just can't stand hiphop, well, that's bad for you, but hiphop and basketball go together like truckers and country music.

Your only valid point is the product placement, but
a)there was actually alot of satire and commentary on the industry in this, including a scene where they mock the idea of product placement and sponsors.
b) I see no difference in today's movies

I don't hate hip hop or r&b but when this movie came up that was the music of the moment I actually like the Monstars song BUT the movie reeks of being put together but committee, I can picture the WB music, marketing and representives of the NBA and Nike in a meeting coming up with a way to "synergize" there areas and maximize exposure to catch the youth audience, and the result something that resembles less a movie and more a commercial. Just because it's a kids movie doesn't make it have to be stupid.

lets say i happen to like daddy Yankee a lot.
does that mean i wish daddy Yankee music was in Avatar? or do i wish daddy Yankee songs played in the Frozen movie? ABSOLUTELY NOT (do you have any idea how weird that would be?
was this supposed to be a cartoon movie for kids? or who was the audience for this? using cartoons that were 60 years old and combining them with what was cool in the 90s. how did people buy into this?
Sometimes adding what is popular in the radio can ruin a movie later on, look at vanilla Ice in ninja turtles 2... Look at Prince in Batman..., that makes the movie feel really old and no one on earth likes vanilla Ice anymore. Just because something is big on the radio, doesn't mean it will fit a movie.
Imagine if they added Miley Cirus to the Avengers... just because kids happen to love her right now. in a decade she might not even be famous anymore, yet the movie will always be seen by new generations.
Adding radio popular music to movies doesn't always work. I wish this movie had an original soundtrack, something like Disney used to do, songs that would fit the Looney Tunes better.

why not use the music from the otiginal looney tunes show?
This movie is kind of a mess.

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This existed in the 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s, and yes 30s...product placement is as old as nearly the films, themselves. It's kind of selling point for producers to gather funding for a movie by offer advertisements or commercial products in the film ... I think if people were trying to make film or have made on ...it would make a more sense.

I read that in the sequel Jordan will play basketball with Fraggles to cure cancer.

lion king is a kids movie

yet it borrows from Shakespeare....

thats such a cop out, i find it ridiculous to use as an excuse

Hows this for product placement:


"What kind of Mickey Mouse organization calls themselves "The Ducks"?


Son, you can't polish a turd