Is this film better than "Who Framed Roger Rabbit"?
yes or no?
shareNo, but it's still a lot of fun.
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Yes
share*beep* no.
shareBoth films, of course, depict a world in which cartoons and real people can interact, and both depict WB characters such as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
In the late 1940s (during Who Framed Roger Rabbit?), it was the golden age of cartoons. Warner Brothers and Disney lived and worked together, sharing the Toon Town district of Hollywood. Although Roger Rabbit and Eddie Valiant thwarted Judge Doom’s attempt to destroy Toon Town, hard times were ahead for toons, especially the WB characters.
After the events of the movie, times changed. Walt Disney became the dominating cartoon company in the U.S. and absorbed ToonTown into Disney Land. Roger Rabbit and his company (Maroon Studios) was acquired by Disney, which is why Roger Rabbit is considered a Disney character, but WB characters had no place to go. Over the next five decades, Warner Bros moves on to other projects (live action films and TV, merging with Time and AOL, etc.), and eventually decided to cut costs and move the Looney Tunes underground to the studio basement*. The Looney Tunes make the best of it, call their new home Looney Tune Land, and keep producing the occasional episode, but things aren't the same for them as they were in the good old days.
Then, later, in the 1990s, Michael Jordan retired from the NBA for the first time, aliens from a cartoon planet decided to kidnap the Looney Tunes from their underground home. And you all know that story....
*(which is how Bill Murray gets to Looney Tune Land at the end of Space Jam)
I think it's much better but a part of that is nostalgia and they're really very different kinds of movies.
shareNo. Roger Rabbit had the much more convincing story imo
shareRoger Rabbit, in every conceivable way, is the better film.
Of course, if you believe that a pro basketball player is somehow THE most important person on Earth . . . then you are both immature and ignorant.
Roger Rabbit is a technical masterpiece and a marvel of pre-planning and creative innovation in practical and visual effects.
By comparison Space Jam is "We've got a green-screen stage and Michael Jordan for a couple of days, let's hammer this thing out and let the animators worry about it later!"
Yes.
It's worst of all animation films among the same studio
s TINY TOON ADVNETURES/ANIMANIACS dynasty, and that's saying a LOT about Steven Spielberg's part.
CHaracters are too annoying.
Even the basically flawed WFRR? (1988), while I'm with extremely popular Canadian b logger on US animaiton YOWP (http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com and http://tralfaz.blogspot.com) on the film by and large, is far better. Hell the cartoon Spin Roger Rabbit car ride gives me a taste of that era's (1940s) armstrong steerig, power steering absent till the mid 1960s, CARTOON Spin - and Lolo..what about Honey,m or past cartoons, Daisy Lou (Bea Benaderet's southern cameo, HARE SPLITTER, 1948, in STARS OF SPAM JAM video!), Mrs.Bugs (Mel Blanc in 1941'2 HOLD THAT LION) for cameos, then MIllicient the Slobovian Wabbit (RABBIT ROMEO, 1957, with June Foray as the "early Natsha" of BULLWINKLE, jsut a few years away Dahhling), for a "all thru the pic" Bugs sweetheart. Well, Elmer snags her fgor him.
Oh..Bugs is a many women rabbit but not gay....Chiclk fil-a hasn't turned HIM away, ..or Foghorn Ah say, but Chick Fil A welcomes that SHNOOK of a Chicken for TASTY Reasons..Chicke, Foghorn.>That's a joke (and all, foks.)(ya know, Chick-fil-a bein' homophobic, not to FICTIONAL chatacters evne if Bugs B's ACTUALLY gay, but to REAL gays)
In short. SPACE JAM SUCKS!