Why, Bugs? Why?

Rating: 2/10 (26 September 2000)

Way, WAY back in high school, I took an animation class over the summer, and everyone in the class, myself included, were huge fans of the classic Warner Brothers cartoons. They were, essentially, the very reason we were all into animation in the first place, and we were all a bit upset about the current sneaker commercials that featured the characters playing second-fiddle to athletes. So, as you might imagine, when one student mentioned that he had heard a rumor that they were going to make a *movie* based on the commercials, we took the news in the same way lots of people reacted to the "Star Wars Episode II" rumor that Boba Fett may turn out to be JarJar Binks in disguise.
I could totally rip this movie apart, but I don't happen to have the energy. Just know that, indeed, the classic Bugs Bunny we all know and adore would need *NO* help in defeating the (ergh) "Mean Team". (OH, hahaha! I get it! Oh, brilliance! Oh rapturous laughter such a pun hath generated!) I can also sum up, in two words, the gut-wrenching, toe-curling, fan-pooping-on badness of this *thing*: Lola Bunny. Yes, even the once totally anarchic Looney Tunes must bow to (cringes) Political Correctness and have a Strong Female Character retrofitted into their world. I am so touched by this decision, I think I just might vomit.
"Space Jam" is getting a two only for its parody value and the admittedly funny out-of-nowhere visual shout-out to Quentin Tarantino. Which has in all likelyhood been cut out.