And pretty easily, the Looney Tunes characters and animated segments were my favourite moments. There was plenty of laugh out loud moments and I found them very very funny and the animation for them and the animation throughout the film is really great.
Also this is a film that has a well meaning message that I thought was really nice and will connect with plenty of people.
And finally the performances are really good. LeBron James is very charming throughout the film and Don Cheadle is very entertaining as well.
Unfortunately that was all I enjoyed of this film so now we need to move onto the negatives. And the big problem with this film is it doesn't feel like a film made by a director with a clear vision. It feels like a studio product taking what was built from the foundation of the first Space Jam film and used to feature previous film adaptations as a meaning to remind audiences of their acclaimed properties and given the history of Warner Bros and the issues and treatment of previous directors and their films, this is a really gross and distasteful idea that I cannot believe this studio has the audacity to do.
Now I could respect this idea if Warner Bros would do this to apologize for their actions and attempt to make amends but instead it feels like they have no consideration or remorse for what they did and instead made a film that feels self-indulgent, pretentious and has studio interference written all over it.
And it doesn't help that they only reference their acclaimed and successful properties. Now yes you could argue that many studios can reference their past work in other films but all that matters with the writing and the writing for these references are just so in your face like they're forcing you to admire their work and with doing that, they're sacrificing a film that could have had a cohesive story and instead gives us a film that feels like a gimmick.
Now moving over from this, this is a film that also suffers from a distinct target demographic. Because they're referencing their past properties and placing them in a film filled with Looney Tunes characters, this begins the question of who this film is targeted to, who would want to watch this film, who is the target audience? And I really don't see a coherent audience being targeted for this film. Some adults may find the Looney tunes segments amusing but overall I don't believe they're not going out of their way to see Space Jam 2 and the children who do see this film are not going to understand all the precious products that are in this film.
Game of thrones scenes are replicated in this film that even if you ignore the fact that Game of thrones ended years ago, children aren't exactly familiar with the characters of that show. The Matrix is featured as well and yes it's a well known film franchise but are children really going to understand the references? Pennywise the Clown is even featured and many children would not be familiar with It. And yes adults would be familiar with these products but Looney Tunes is all through the marketing of this film so they're not going to be interested.
And finally the 3rd act is just too long. Its entertaining at first but it seriously outstays its welcome and eventually becomes a very confusing messy finale.
So overall whilst there are indeed films that's have been released this year that are indeed worse, this is probably the most distasteful film of the year with few redeeming qualities and is not going to age well at all in years to come. I have never said this before about a film but I do hope this film bombs because Warner Bros need to have their eyes opened about how they have treated directors and audiences and choosing to do this as their next film is just a really distasteful thing to do.
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