On the occasion of the arrival of the film in the Netflix catalog, let’s go back to talking about the controversial sequel starring LeBron James.
FILM INFORMATION
When at the end credits you remember more the myriad of quotes and easter-eggs present than the main plot, it means that something has gone wrong. AND Space Jam – New Legends is indeed a film that lives exclusively on its excessesspurious and unsolicited sequel to the 90s cult that saw nothing less than center stage Michael Jordan, the legendary basketball champion
who made the whole world dream with his plays.A role here dressed – or it would be better to say improvised, given the results – from colleague LeBron James, also a star of the NBA however, with much less charisma in the actor’s shoes, so much so that for a good part of the story it is replaced by its animated version, limiting itself in the aforementioned phases to dubbing only. However, the choice of the human protagonist is not the only problem Space Jam – New Legendsas we will see now in this article in which we return to talk about it after the entry in the Netflix catalog and in the related top 10 of the streaming platform. For other offers, read our special on April’s Netflix releases.
Space Jam – New Legends: A missed basket
The plot is a sort of copy-paste updated with some variables, where the current sports champion is kidnapped and transported to the server where it will finally take place the match between the good guys and the bad guys. Once again it will be i Looney Tunes to play the role of nice teammates, each with their own distinct peculiarities as well as with unsuspected powers (just look at Granny who turns out to be the chosen one, pace of Neo/Keanu Reeves) who come out in times of need. Bugs Bunny, Duffy Duck, Tweety, Willy the Coyote and Beep Beep, Taz and so on, complete with a charismatic female figure entrusted to the always very athletic Lola Bunny (voiced in the original version by none other than Zendaya).
It is a pity that the final match points to the exaggeration and that there is not even a shadow of competitive fundamentals: let it be clear, the fantastic soul was also predominant in the progenitor, but here it seems that everything has been focused on an invigorating and daring chaos
where the free is the master in the name of a show to be seen only with the brain switched off.A bit of everything’
Space Jam – New Legends capitalizes on the increasingly rampant multiverse fad without particular inventiveness, going to explore multiple Warner Bros. film and serial universes: from the DC Comics world to Game of Thronesfrom Harry Potter to matrix, the screenplay has no contempt for the ridiculous and adds and adds without stopping and even without respect. In a handful of clips, the characters enter the great classics of cinema, so much so that they even bother an everlasting masterpiece such as Casablanca (1942).
The quotes are not limited to films or franchises, but they also expand to really existing actors and characters, as when the protagonist makes a joke about the height of Kevin Hart – now mentioned several times in similar contexts and is also a little bored – or when Sylvester the Cat announces the entry of Michael Jordan and takes his place instead…Michael B. Jordan, making fun of the relative homonym. By the way, have you read our Creed III review?
The family matter that LeBron James has to solve and that even sees his son, computer genius with little passion for basketball
taking the side of Don Cheadle’s villain, follows the typical reconciliatory logic of the trend – but on the other hand it could not have been otherwise – but it is one of the more easily forgivable naiveties, in an operation that seems paradoxically slave to those algorithms who play the part of the nemesis. But as often happens, the logic of “whoever you have, the more” risks turning out to be fallacious and counterproductive, especially in a mixed media film that carries with it a heavy legacy like that of the first Space Jam.