One Of My Favorite Films Growing Up

Rating: 9/10 (9 March 2020)

Space Jam is one of my favorite childhood films. Set during Michael Jordan's struggling baseball career, the basketball legend is summoned to Looney Tune Land as it faces it biggest crisis: little aliens from an intergalactic amusement park have been sent to force them there as entertainment, and after challenging them to a basketball game, the aliens decide to take the talent of the best basketball players of the time and use it to transform into Monstars.
Yeah, this is a good movie. The story is set around real life (as Michael is playing baseball) and it has some good characters. Wayne Knight (best known for playing Newman in Seinfeld and Dennis Nerdy in Jurassic Park) plays Stanley Podolak, who serves as one of the comic reliefs of the movie, and the film would be the one to introduce Lola Bunny, a female bunny who Bugs would have a crush on. Also, NBA players Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Shawn Bradley, Larry Johnson, and Muggsy Bogues, who were NBA greats at the time of the film, star as the players who get their talent stolen, and even Bill Murray and Larry Bird are in this.
For voice work, Billy West (best known to some as the voice of Phillip J. Fry in Futurama as well as the red M&M) voices Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, with Kath Souric voicing Lola. Danny DeVito voices the film's villain, Swackhammer. The voice acting is perfect, as the actors nail the characters they voice.
As for humor, there is plenty of it. Otherwise, it wouldn't be Looney Tunes. With comedy, star power, and action, Space Jam is a must watch.