User:LancedSoul/sandbox/Space Jam 2

NOTE: This sandbox is meant to major revamp of the article for Space Jam: A New Legacy, with the WINTDBAGR and RQ sections being mostly redone

1="I find it disconcerting at times that many folks seem more interested in crossovers, cameos, references & post-credit scenes than they do the actual story & characters of a specific film! When making a film I spend 99.9% of my time thinking about the story and character & 1% of the rest."

- James Gunn
 * -|2="I think this easily has to be the worst movie of 2021. Yeah, it's one of the worst sequels I've watched in ages. I'd even call this the Dumb and Dumber To of animated sequels."

- Movie Lover 120
 * -|3="Space Jam: A New Legacy could have been good, at least by Space Jam standards. But instead, they just decided to make the movie into a giant commercial, again. And that's not what we want. We want actual movies with an actual story and actually engaging cast, with something of actual value that'll bring us back to it years later. We don't want shameless corporate garbage, we want quality!"

- MisAnthro Pony
 * -|4="The truth is that LeBron ain't Michael, the new version of Bugs Bunny looked like one of those fluffy dolls you buy at an airport gift shop to bring your kid when your business trip has taken too long. I've worked with three people that have this magical quality that they affect people no matter what; they see them and some light goes on, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, and Madonna. All three have this quality where people connect immediately without understanding anything about them. And nobody else has that quality. LeBron is a fantastic basketball player, he's a top-20 basketball player of all time. He is not Michael. Maybe they should call it something else. They should not call it Space Jam 2, or whatever. It should be another movie. It's not Space Jam. Space Jam is Michael Jordan. No matter how much LeBron wants to be a great player — and he is a great player — he's not Michael Jordan. There will never be another Michael Jordan."

- Joe Pytk Space Jam: A New Legacy is a 2021 American live-action/animated science-fiction sports comedy film produced by Warner Animation Group, SpringHill Entertainment and Proximity Media and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is directed by Malcolm D. Lee from a screenplay by Juel Taylor, Tony Rettenmaier, Keenan Coogler, Terence Nance, Jesse Gordon and Celeste Ballard. It serves as a standalone sequel to mh:greatestmovies:Space Jam and is the first theatrically released film to feature the Looney Tunes characters since mh:greatestmovies:Looney Tunes: Back in Action. The film stars basketball player LeBron James as a fictional version of himself; Don Cheadle, Khris Davis, Sonequa Martin-Green, and Cedric Joe star in live-action roles, while Jeff Bergman, Eric Bauza, and Zendaya headline the Looney Tunes voice cast. Set in a shared Warner Bros. virtual space multiverse, the film follows James teaming up with the Looney Tunes to win a basketball match against digitized champions to rescue his son from a rogue AI. It premiered in Los Angeles on July 12, 2021 and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on July 16 simultaneously in theaters and through HBO Max for one month.

Plot
Superstar LeBron James and his young son, Dom, get trapped in digital space by a rogue AI. To get home safely, LeBron teams up with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang for a high-stakes basketball game against the AI's digitized champions of the court -- a powered-up roster called the Goon Squad.

Why It Needs To Deleted By Al-G Rhythm
NOTE: Some problems were carried over from the first film.
 * 1) Let's get the elephant out of the room: Similar to mh:greatestmovies:Ralph Breaks the Internet, the biggest main problem with this film is that it mostly serves for Warner Bros to self-promote their properties rather than being a real movie with a real story. Its honestly very worrying to see how many studios (except Pixar and, to lesser extent, Sony Pictures Animation, since they are making the original concept, instead of Cinematic Universe, aside from Into the Spider-Verse, through at least it focusing on main story) are now more invested in setting up shared universes and filling up their movies with easter eggs and pop-culture reference cameos by copying the Marvel Cinematic Universe because that's what this movie is more focused on (although some have well-executed, while most of them are not). In fact, this is what Ralph Breaks the Internet did with their Oh My Disney scene, except there, it only took up one scene, while this, literally took up at least 80% of the entire movie. Unfortunately, its all this really has to offer. The Looney Tunes franchise has always had a heavy focus of promoting Warner Bros. properties, with the classic shorts being filled with innumerable parodies, impressions, and sometimes even clips of then-popular films, actors, and songs.
 * 2) *Just like Ralph Breaks the Internet, Cartoon Network (which is also owned by WarnerMedia, and by proxy, [adult swim]) is barely represented in the film, despite being companies by WarnerMedia.
 * 3) *And not to further mention, it was only made as a huge cash grab and it only existed just to promote on the new streaming service, HBO Max (or just the WB film catalogue in general in other countries).
 * 4) *Compare this movie to Ralph Breaks the Internet, Ralph at least had a story and did not be too reliant on self-promotion, while this movie isn't.
 * 5) This film has been in development hell for 25 years after the original film, which is waaaaaay too long and late to do a sequel about this movie for Space Jam.
 * 6) *In fact, they planned to make multiple sequels based around not just basketball but based around different sports (even spies), but all of them got cancelled except this one.
 * 7) *Also, the director is thinking about making a third movie based around wrestling, but given the current box office numbers and critical reception, it may end up being cancelled like with the rest of the sequels that were once planned.
 * 8) Most of the acting is mediocre, pathetic and poor, even from the live action cast such as LeBron James, with the exception of Don Cheadle.
 * 9) *On the topic of LeBron, his screams sounds either awkward (as if he sounds like a drunken high-pitched Crash Bandicoot) or barely audible. See it for yourself.
 * 10) * While Zendaya gives a decent voice performance, she was miscast as Lola Bunny. Lola's original voice actress, Kath Soucie, was reported to reprise her role; however, when the first trailer was released in April 2021, it was reported that Zendaya was chosen instead for unknown reasons, most likely to get more people to watch it, and that is exactly the problem with these sequels and TV to movie adaptations, where they recast an iconic voice actor for someone more famous without even informing the voice actors they were going to replace, just to get more views. This is basically the case in the point of Scoob! where the iconic voice actor for Mystery Inc. members from the show Scooby-Doo is replaced with celebrities, except Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo himself.
 * 11) ** On the side note, it was criticism that has been made of Lola's less curvy redesign for whatever reason, but its hardly the first time that's happened. The Looney Tunes Show did the same ten years prior, although the show's art style made it not very noticeable.
 * 12) *Gabriel Iglesias, while again giving a great voice performance as Speedy Gonzales, barely sounds like how he sounded in various Looney Tunes projects.
 * 13) The premise of the film about how LeBron James must be helping with Looney Tunes to play Al-G Rhythm in a basketball game to get his son back only because LeBron said Al's algorithm was bad is rather very dumb and generic. In fact, there were even false rumors that they were supposed to battle for Instagram followers, meaning that the plot that we ended up with is not much better, and it also uses the multiple clichés that were already used in several times, such as the "Daddy doesn't understand me" cliché, the "be yourself" cliché, the "Play basketball!" cliché and the "King James" cliché.
 * 14) * Bugs Bunny's storyline isn't any better as well, and it doesn't really make sense: His friends suddenly decided to abandon him just because they got turned on him and now they want to explore other worlds from Serververse so he wants to get them back; but, why did they abandoned him just like that? They're supposed to be a group. This is never explained why all his friends had left him in the first place.
 * 15) * They also wasted the lot of potential for the plot that the fans hope this film would be good, but it isn't. More like wasting a perfectly good song. "Get Ready for This" is the only returning song from the first film's iconic soundtrack. You might expect it to play again during the game like it did the original movie's most popular scene, but it was disappointing that it only used briefly during a comedic dance scene with Al-G Rhythm. Daffy's new role as the coach and manager gets used for some jokes, but it has no bearing on the plot. Additionally, some who wish he got to play have noted he could’ve stayed manager in the film but join the game as an 11th-Hour Ranger.
 * 16) ** Pepe learning about consent could've easily been a great way to showcase how times have changed since he was introduced, instead of getting rid of him all together. Even victims of sexual assault have pointed this out.
 * 17) ** LeBron and Bugs traveling to various worlds and finding the other Looney Tunes is glossed over in one montage, even though the concept of Looney Tunes going through other cinematic worlds could've been a movie in and of itself. We never even see where Gossamer and Tweety were living.
 * 18) ** Granny is shown to retain her powers from The Matrix. Given this development, you might expect the other Looney Tunes to use any skills or assets they've picked up in their respective worlds throughout the game, like Foghorn unleashing dragons or even Daffy joining the game with Superman's powers. Unfortunately, Granny is the only player who ever gets shown doing this, while the rest of them are not.
 * 19) ** Also, the video game that LeBron plays just looks like an albino ripoff of NBA Jam as well.
 * 20) ** It is never made clear what Al G. Rhythm has against the Looney Tunes; he refers to them as rejects when he sends LeBron to Tune World and threatens to delete them if they lose the game. His hatred may have something to do with his need to be recognized, or a general dislike of anything old-fashioned, but no explanation is ever given or even hinted at. Likewise, why he feels the other animated properties like those of Hanna-Barbera are more relevant despite most of them falling out of fashion or into obscurity in a meta sense outside of failed attempts at revivals or Jellystone! is also never brought up. Nor do the Tunes or HB characters ever interact directly with one another.
 * 21) This movie makes LeBron unlikable to his son, manipulating him to be an athlete instead of what he wants to be which is a video game creator, Which is annoying to the audience. LeBron isn't just unlikeable with his son, but he also does treat Bugs like crap due to him using the Looney Tunes characters for LeBron's basketball team instead of characters LeBron wanted like Superman and The Iron Giant. There is also moments where he was unlikeable to the rest of the Tunes as well due to them being inexperienced (except for Lola) with basketball and instead using their antics. It has even gone to the point where the Tunes were mad at LeBron during halftime.
 * 22) There are lots of unnecessary filler moments, especially with dozens of very pointless subplots that goes nowhere.
 * 23) There is also another bigger problem with the Looney Tunes themselves (despite not be flanderized, at least): they don't have a real motivation or a reason to join the Tune Squad and win the game. In the previous movie, they were forced to play and recruited Michael Jordan because their freedom was at stake and if they lost they would be imprisoned by the aliens; in here, they join the Tune Squad just like that and the real stake comes right before the game starts and this one is very predictable: Al-G Rhythm says if the Looney Tunes lose, they will be deleted permanently and imprison the real-world spectators permanently if the Goon Squad wins, its in that moment when you realize that the Tunes themselves are basically minor characters of their own movie, they're only a plot device so that this sequel can exist but they don't drive the story and are almost irrelevant in it.
 * 24) * Although the original movie isn't a masterpiece, both Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes actually had character identities, goals, and arcs. In here, they make no effort and do nothing to progress that artificially, they try to shoehorn the references, hints, or cameos in the second way to enrich the plot, which the they have no involvement whatsoever; they simply exist, their mere presence is seemingly enough.
 * 25) * The Looney Tunes are basically treated as a whole than individually. They do understand what the essential traits of each character are but from there, they fall very short. Yes, they are silly, crazy, violent but in reality, its not only that; if this cartoon had only been about violence and wackiness, it would not have gone so far, there was ingenuity at the time of writing that violence and the interactions between the characters were what made the show fun. Here, they start to feel like background characters, the ones who are in the crowd watching the game not the main ones, they don't have any identity, and we're talking about the Looney Tunes, you know.
 * 26) Just like Son of the Mask, it has extremely unfunny humour, and we mean.... extremely, EXTREMELY unfunny humour, only lacking the first film's quirky and self-heartedness humour and just relying on fart, immature and bathroom jokes instead, which is plain ridiculous, we're ain't joking. Also, this is Looney Tunes we are talking about and its known for its humor.
 * 27) There are a few rather pointless moments throughout the movie, like several intervals in the different WB worlds and a rap battle with Porky, in which case, this movie tries to be hip and cool with the kids, which is odd.
 * 28) * Speaking of this, the Notorious P.I.G. scene isn't the first time a Looney Tunes character rapped, with Bugs Bunny performing the song "Buggin'" in the first film's soundtrack. Porky also had a rap battle in an episode of New Looney Tunes.
 * 29) * It even has dated internet dances, like the scenes with LeBron's son (in video game form) doing the "shoot" dance, and LeBron dabbing (even Dom didn't want LeBron doing the latter).
 * 30) * There's even a cringe reference to the Looney Tunes episode Wabbit Twouble, where Big Chungus is (for some reason) referenced, most likely due to its cult following meme status in December 2018, and not out of homage to the source material.
 * 31) **It was later revealed that Big Chungus has officially become canon, mainly due to him being playable for Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem game.
 * 32) *For at one point, Granny saying "Haters gonna hate" and Tweety mentioning "salty". There's even a scene where Granny mentioned Twitter
 * 33) The idea of using characters and worlds who don't have anything to do with the Looney Tunes could be somewhat confusing for some viewers. It feels like it is trying to be like Kingdom Hearts except Kingdom Hearts did work out well and it made sense, unlike this. To be fair, Looney Tunes is no stranger to spoofs and crossovers in regards to media that is not related to Looney Tunes, but this movie decides to take the wrong turn.
 * 34) * Likewise, the idea of having some R/MA-rated (or MA15+ rated) characters such as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Agent Smith, Rick and Morty, and the Droogs from mh:greatestmovies: A Clockwork Orange, who belong to R-rated (or MA15+ rated) films, can be unconvincing toward younger audiences.
 * 35) * Though the Looney Tunes characters returned to the big screen, one of the main criticism and strange is the omission of Pepé Le Pew, since the way he chases female cats who don't want to be near him is suggestive of "rape culture", whereas the film features appearances of Alex and his Droogs from A Clockwork Orange, who have clearly and blatantly raped people onscreen for no reason!
 * 36) The movie tries way too hard to shove as many pop culture references into our throats at the last minute, as it could, which ends up being very unoriginal and giving more like a rehash plot version of films such as mh:greatestmovies:Ready Player One, mh:greatestmovies:Ralph Breaks the Internet, and even The Emoji Movie to some extent.
 * 37) The movie also basically copied the plot of mh:greatestmovies:The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, as both main characters must help for another character to rescue the anything that got kidnapped by villains (through Sweet Mayhem isn't the actual villain, only Rex is) to another world into the space and went into random adventure world to do something.
 * 38) The scene where Bugs recruits the Tunes feels like a copy-paste of the scene where Kermit goes recruits other Muppets in The Muppets (2011).
 * 39) The cameos during the climactic basketball game end up being quite distracting to the viewer that they can pay more attention to the characters in the background than in the basketball game.
 * 40) * Also, the live-action characters' cameos look very poor and laughably fake; they look more like extras dressed in Halloween costumes or people you see in an SNL skit. For example, the actor in the crowd dressed as Arnie's Mr. Freeze looked more like the Night King from Game of Thrones than Freeze himself. Also, the Pennywise actor looks like he doesn't know what he is doing for dancing. Even a flying monkey from The Wizard of Oz is clearly a costume for some reason so why can't the flying monkey be animated?
 * 41) *Yes, its true enough, they're cameos so they don't really have to do a lot, but then why are damn so many characters in the most important scene in the movie then if they're just going to be there for the sake of it? The animated characters are only in the background making weird expressions and that's it.
 * 42) False advertising: The trailers for the film depicted the Tunes as mostly CGI, but in the film itself, they are mostly 2D animated. The reason for this is that Warner Bros. was most likely concerned that audiences wouldn't be interested in seeing 2D animation in a family film anymore. Another misleading advertisement is that before the movie was released, many people said Michael Jordan, the star of the original Space Jam, was going to make a cameo, but in the actual movie, it turns out it was actually Michael B. Jordan who they were talking about. While it was a good joke at first, it became more disheartening that Michael A. Jordan himself never made an appearance at all after that for the rest of the film. With no connection to the previous movie, Space Jam: A New Legacy feels more like a soft reboot then a actual sequel to the original Space Jam.
 * 43) * On the bottom of that, this film can't decide whether it wants to be a sequel, a stand-alone film, or a reboot, until its confirmed that it is a stand-alone sequel movie.
 * 44) * Even so, another cameo that was supposed to happen that we've never seen was Stanley Ipkiss from mh:greatestmovies:The Mask and Jim Carrey was supposed to reprise his role. And yet, we didn't even see Ipkiss in the movie at all.
 * 45) * The Goon Squad all have interesting designs and abilities, but they only appear during the game itself and therefore don't have the same presence that the Monstars did.
 * 46) * Despite being advertised as a player, Marvin the Martian appears only to have his ship stolen and then get flattened by it a few times. He never joins with the other Tunes (despite other traditionally 'villainous' ones doing so) for no discernible reason. Especially bad given he was already underutilized in the first film, which at least had a clever reason for his limited role. Even worse is his second appearance alongside all the other toons could've easily been rewritten to have him get recruited.
 * 47) * Chronos, the speedy robot inspired and voiced by Damian Lillard, is the least prominent Goon Squad player. He only participates twice before he is defeated by Granny.
 * 48) * While this film arguably spreads the wealth amongst the Tunes' screentime better than the first, a few of them never get the chance to show off in the climactic basketball game. Particularly bad is Foghorn Leghorn and Speedy Gonzales' cases, as the former only had one small assist in the first film and the latter is the only new player who doesn't get a scene highlighting any contribution to the game.
 * 49) * While Daffy has one of the larger roles as the Toon Squad's manager and coach, several fans were disappointed that he didn't get to contribute to the game as a player unlike in the first film, despite the marketing promotion, such as toys and posters.
 * 50) *The other NBA and WNBA players who star in the film, Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, Damian Lillard, Nneka Ogwumike and Diana Taurasi, only get a brief scene where they cameo as themselves. The rest of the film relegates them to voicing the digitized teammates of Al-G and Dom which only exist to use their special powers to play basketball. This is a stark contrast to the professional athletes who starred alongside Michael Jordan in the first film, who had an entire subplot of losing their talent and facing fallout from it.
 * 51) * The Monstars themselves are limited to a few brief cameos (in their normal Nerdluck forms) during the climactic basketball game when they appear, never once directly interacting with the Tunes. It doesn't help they're just reused footage from the first movie.
 * 52) *Earlier promotional material has Penelope as part of the Tunes Squad when she did not appear. This could most likely due to Pepe's removal.
 * 53) * Despite the title Space Jam, it does actually NOT have space background, which is digital server background, as many characters never went space in this movie! If anything, the title would've feel like Digital Server Jam or Digital Space Jam, instead of space whatsoever, which is exactly pathetic.
 * 54) * Given the film hints at a Wizard of Oz world appearance, you might expect Witch Hazel to appear as the Wicked Witch of the West, but she's only given a very brief cameo.
 * 55) * The cameos from the other Warner properties in general. As soon as the first leaks came out, people assumed the Tunes were going to face off against the likes of Joker and the It version of Pennywise, and not the Goon Squad that was in the final film. In the end, however, almost every one is reduced to nothing more than a background cameo, with the live-action worlds being visualized by Stock Footage.
 * 56) The film literally even has no idea for its target audience, as it overuses the word "hell" and "damn" (to secure a PG-rated and avoid the G-rated), but has the Looney Tunes characters on it, since it feels more like an adult film. There is even a scene where Al-G said a cuss world that was bleeped out. The same can be said about certain cameos as already mentioned before like Pennywise, Rick & Morty, etc.
 * 57) The soundtrack, while good, contains most of the rap music that were out-of-place and too generic for unfitting for certain scenes.
 * 58) If you looks closely at the second trailer for the film, you clearly see the scene where the Tunes Squad wins the game for final round and goes to 2D animated form, which just spoils the movie for the ending.
 * 59) It never explains how Bugs Bunny came back to life in the ending after he had a fake-out death sequence when he sacrificed himself to save his friends. Also, it never explains how his friends had teleported to the real world with him in the end credits. However, it was actually revealed that he survived because as a fictional character, he can't actually die and stay dead, unlike Al-G Rhythm and the Goon Squad.
 * 60) In the second half of the movie, during the start of climactic basketball gaming, there is so much CGI and special effects in the movie that it may look like they spent almost their entire $150 million budget on it. Seriously? How on earth did WAG beat the budget with $99 million for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part for no reason at all!?
 * 61) What would insulted of the fans further is that they removed most of the credits of the animators and the artists from the closing credits. For example, in a Vailskibum video, Vail said that an artist for the film, Dave Alvarez (who also draws many Looney Tunes comic books currently), was completely removed from the credits, despite that he did plenty of work on the movie's character designs and backgrounds. Even Alvarez himself and his kids are mad about this.
 * 62) The pacing isn't that good and seems weak and sloppy.
 * 63) While the CGI looks decent on some of the Looney Tunes, it looks really off on Porky and Lola - Porky looks like he's made from Play-Doh and Lola falls through the uncanny valley, the latter looking really uncanny on even a few pieces of official merchandise. Also some of the facial expressions that Bugs makes look weird in CGI like when he says "Yikes" or when Bugs starts crying.
 * 64) When LeBron and Dom drop into the Warner 3000 Serververse, LeBron asks him if he's okay, and he says, "I'm fine, Dad.", but his lips never move.
 * 65) *During the 2D animated part, when characters talk, their lips are out of sync, for example, in one scene, when Bugs Bunny and LeBron James arrive at the train and interrupted, Daffy Duck says "CUT!", but his mouth is saying a whole sentence.
 * 66) The movie is inconsistent at times. For example, in the first movie, Michael Jordan stayed live action when he was in the animated world, but for the sequel, LeBron was 2D animated for half of the movie, which really felt unnecessary, although it was somewhat justified, since it was from Warner 3000 Serververse.
 * 67) While the visual effects is decent, it does have the flaws. For example; the spectators in the climactic game have been said to resemble cosplayers in green screen. Their flailing and stilted movements don’t help in the slightest. Then again, they are inhabitants of the Serververse and are made up mostly of data.
 * 68) Awful direction by Malcolm D. Lee, who also directed Scary Movie 5 (and that's a red flag) and Girls Trip.
 * 69) Subpar production values for the most part.
 * 70) Plot Hole: When LeBron and Bugs went to go look for the rest of the Looney Tunes cast, Gossamer for some reason just appears randomly. Where did LeBron and Bugs go get Gossamer? (Though in the tie-in comic by DC Comics, Gossamer does appear in the Scooby-Doo world).
 * 71) *Another plot hole: The animated characters like The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Mystery Gang, Dick Dastardly, The Iron Giant, Igoo, Gloop, Gleep, Penelope Pitstop, Jabberjaw, The Looney Tunes characters, etc. are CGI during the basketball game yet the Nerdlucks are still hand-drawn animated.
 * 72) *When Granny and Speedy were at a computer during The Matrix scene, Granny said she had a Twitter yet her computer doesn't seem to show off Twitter.
 * 73) Continuing the topic of CGI, even if the Tunes are not involved with the CGI. Sometimes it also looks uncanny when Al-G mocks LeBron during a conversation with Dom, Pete showing his crooked teeth, or when Al-G transforms just to become tall enough for the basketball game.
 * 74) For some reason, there is the product placement of the original Game Boy during LeBron's flashback during the opening of the movie. The same can be said about E3 being in the movie.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It does provide a great moral about not letting distractions prevent you from doing your best.
 * 2) Don Cheadle's performance as AL-G Rhythm was really good.
 * 3) All of the Tunes (except Lola Bunny) were perfectly cast and their voice actors do a great job voicing them.
 * 4) *Even the new character, Pete, Al-G's robot assistant, is a pretty adorable, and likable character, even if it looks like his only intention was to sell toys.
 * 5) *Jeff Bergman reprises his role for Bugs Bunny after Eric Bauza took over in 2018 to the present, and its great to hear from him again.
 * 6) *Despite his flaws, Gabriel Iglesias did a good job voicing Speedy Gonzales.
 * 7) The Looney Tunes characters are still likable and the good thing is that its not flanderized, despite their campiness, and flaws throughout.
 * 8) *In addiction, Road Runner only had a single scene in the first film while both Gossamer and Speedy Gonzales were just background characters. Here all three are present throughout as members of the Tune Squad and gets the important role (though Speedy's one appearance showed he was on the team in the first game). Granny also counts, though she was in the original more than the others, being the team's cheerleader. Still, she noticeably gets more focus in this as a player.
 * 9) The idea of a real-life basketball player going playing basketball with the Looney Tunes to save them is still a unique idea.
 * 10) *In fact, it might've even improved upon the original's plot of the strong Looney Tunes enlisting Michael Jordan's help to defeat a big threat, by making it the other way around.
 * 11) Decent CGI and traditional animation (for Looney Tunes characters).
 * 12) *Speaking of traditional animation, 2D animation makes yet another comeback to modern-day Western animation cinema once again as well as the first film from Warner Animation Group, after the box office disappointment of Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Winnie the Pooh, despite having the traditional animation for certain scenes, like end credits, for computer-animated movie.
 * 13) The Warner 3000 Serververse is an interesting virtual realm despite the poor execution.
 * 14) Despite the flaws, the cinematography is gorgeous and well done for Warner Animation Group film.
 * 15) Sometimes, the pop culture references can work in this movie's favor (well, when and if you can see what’s going on):
 * 16) The Rick and Morty cameo can be pretty amusing for Adult Swim/Rick and Morty fans, and their cameo is very decent compared to others, and the two of them at least aren't out of character. Some can even enjoy Rick and Morty going outside of their own show.
 * 17) Three amusing scenes: Granny and Speedy Gonzales parodying The Matrix (considering how the fourth movie is planning to release this year). Wile E. Coyote is parodying "War Boys" while Road Runner is running for car pursuit in Mad Max: Fury Road. And lastly, Yosemite Sam is parodying in Casablanca.
 * 18) Wonder Woman’s cameo with Lola Bunny was also good.
 * 19) There are some good moments such as Bugs mimicking Fat Elmer, nicknamed "Big Chungus", despite seemingly being there to meme pander and the Nerdlucks (the villains from the first Space Jam) making a cameo appearance as "Goon Squad" supporters (Despite the animation being reused).
 * 20) Warner Animation Group apologized on Twitter for not crediting some animators, and thanked most of the artists who worked on the film, especially Dave Alvarez.
 * 21) It brought back Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam’s guns as an improvement over the temporary ban for Looney Tunes Cartoons where they didn’t have guns.
 * 22) After two films of being interrupted during saying the line, Porky Pig finally gets to say "Th-th-th-th-that's all folks!" at the end of the movie.
 * 23) There are some funny lines such as “What in the matrix hell?”, "It's been 25 years, I thought he aged gracefully" and “Son of a glitch”.
 * 24) The credits show the Tunes being placed on various live-action pictures which is a nice touch.
 * 25) Good soundtrack with some legit bops like notably We Win, Control The World, See Me Fly, Just For Me, Mercy, My Guy, and The Best. Even though most of the soundtrack is reliant on rap music and unfitting.
 * 26) The CGI on the Goon Squad as well as the designs do look kinda cool.
 * 27) Believe it or not, Al-G is by far the darkest Looney Tunes villain to ever be put in a Looney Tunes related media which is a first for the franchise.
 * 28) Say what you want but the scene where Bugs Bunny sacrifices himself in the basketball game was by far the least "looniest" thing Bugs ever did. His brief moment of death is pretty emotional to those who grew up with Looney Tunes complete with Bugs saying "That's All Folks".
 * 29) Despite LeBron being unlikeable, he does get some character development one way or the other where he doesn't treat Dom or The Tunes like rubbish anymore.

Critical response
Just like the first film, Space Jam: A New Legacy wasn't well-received by critics, who found it spoiled with heavily criticized for its screenplay, excessive amount of product placement by the studio and lacking in the original film's quirky and self-referential humor. However though, unlike the original film, the audience reactions were more mixed, and the animation, visual effects and acting were well received, with some fans claimed its a great installment to the first film, others dismissed that its unwanted, bad and disappointed installment. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 25% based on 220 reviews with an average rating of 4.5/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Despite LeBron James' best efforts to make a winning team out of the Tune Squad, Space Jam: A New Legacy trades the zany, meta humor of its predecessor for a shameless and tired exercise in IP-driven branding.", however, it has a verified audience score of 79%, with Audiences Says consensus reading: "LeBron James probably won't win any acting awards, but this is an entertaining all-ages movie with solid animation, a positive message for kids, and fun cameos for older viewers.". According to Metacritic, which assigned a weighted average score of 36 out of 100 based on 29 critics, the film received "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, the same as the first film, while PostTrak reported 78% of audience members gave it a positive score, with 58% saying they would definitely recommend it. On the IMDb, the film got the score of 4.4/10. On Letterboxd, the film has a user score of 2.0/5, behind The Ant Bully (despite having the same score as well).

YouTuber Movie Lover 120 (who enjoyed the first film) even hated this movie and called it the worst movie of 2021 and one of the worst sequels he saw in ages in his review for this film.

Joe Pytka, the director of the original Space Jam, expressed his hatred towards the film upon its release. Among his complaints, Pytka compared LeBron James to Michael Jordan, who was arguably the most famous celebrity when the first film was released in comparison to James, criticized the story for not tying up emotionally to LeBron's life, felt the first film's cast and soundtrack were superior to the ones of A New Legacy and saw Bugs Bunny's role in the film as "heartbreaking". Pytka had earlier criticized Warner Bros.' decision to make a Space Jam sequel in 2016 back when Justin Lin was attached to direct, dismissing the notion as "ridiculous" despite working with LeBron James and Steph Curry, feeling that neither of them was a "transcendent figure" like Jordan.

Box office
As of October 7, 2021, Space Jam: A New Legacy has grossed $70.5 million in the United States and Canada, and $92.3 million in international territories, totaling the worldwide gross to $162.8 million.

In the United States, exit polling showed strong commercial potential across a variety of audiences. The film attracted a diverse audience, with African Americans making up 36%, Caucasian 32%, Latino 23%, and Asian 9%, with a total of 48% being under the age of 17. Released alongside Escape Room: Tournament of Champions and limited expansion of Pig on July 16, 2021, Space Jam: A New Legacy made $13.1 million on its first day. It went on to debut at the top of the box office with $31.1 million from 3,965 theaters, the best opening weekend for a family film and the second highest for a Warner Bros. film of the COVID-19 pandemic behind Godzilla vs. Kong ($31.6 million), and besting the original ($27.5 million without inflation). Its second weekend saw the box office drop by 69% to $9.5 million due to the steep decline was blamed in-part on the film's simultaneous digital release on HBO Max. Space Jam: A New Legacy grossed another $4.2 million the following weekend.

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Trivia

 * Don Cheadle was a fan of Michael A. Jordan, the original film and the Looney Tunes cartoons, so he accepted the role once it was pitched to him.
 * The film includes both traditional and CG animation, making it the first film from Warner Animation Group to incorporate the former.
 * Zendaya, who voiced Lola Bunny, also portrayed Rocky in Disney Channel’s 2010-2013 series mh:terribletvshows:Shake it Up, K.C. Cooper in Disney Channel’s 2015-2018 series mh:besttvshows:K.C. Undercover', MJ from Spider-Man Home series, Anne Wheeler from The Greatest Showman and Chani from Dune series, MJ being her best known role, and likely the reason she was hired to voice Lola in the first place. Not to mention that this is her 2nd Warner Animation Group movie since mh:greatestmovies:Smallfoot'' (2018).
 * As soon as the trailer dropped, comparisons to Ready Player One (the film even had the Iron Giant showing up), Ralph Breaks the Internet, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and Kingdom Hearts were inevitable.
 * Space Jam: A New Legacy holds the new current record of Warner Animation Group's longest film, with a 115-minute runtime, beating the previous record-holder The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part with a 107-minute runtime. In addition, the film is 27 minutes longer than the first Space Jam.
 * Zendaya was called up by Ryan Coogler to voice Lola in the film, an offer she accepted because of her interest in working with Coogler and being a fan of the original film, in addition to her family's history with basketball.
 * Not counting Tom & Jerry, this was the first film to use the new standard Warner Animation Group logo.
 * In the second trailer, you can actually see the new Warner Animation Group logo, which is the first time, but not as the print logo, which used the old instead.
 * Gabriel Iglesias was thrilled to be cast as Speedy as the mouse was a childhood favorite. When the crew asked him if he wanted to change Speedy's voice from the traditional delivery, Iglesias decided not to, saying "When people think of Speedy Gonzales, I don’t want them to think of me, I want them to think of Speedy Gonzales."
 * Due to his actions coming off as borderline rapist, Pepe Le Pew has been removed from future Warner Bros. projects until further notice, starting with this movie.
 * Candi Milo is the current voice of the Looney Tunes character Granny since 2017 after June Foray died.
 * A popular trend on TikTok involves ripping the heads of the Lebron James action figures made for this movie from the stores for views, some of which are sold on eBay for way more than the actual figurine itself, an issue so bad that later prints of the toy have plastic over the head to prevent people from stealing it. Similarly, many Lebron James stretch toys made for the movie were sold for the sole purpose of people filming themselves filling it with water or doing other things with it to get views.
 * Despite the negative reviews, it spawned several internet memes.
 * While Michael Jordan does not appear in the film, he is briefly seen on the Space Jam poster shown in Al-G Rhythm's Warner 3000 pitch. Michael B. Jordan cameos as himself, appearing as a visual gag; this was teased by Don Cheadle prior to the film's release, who stated, "Michael Jordan is in the movie, but not in the way that you would expect it."
 * Much like with 2017 (The Lego Batman Movie and The Lego Ninjago Movie), this was the second time to release two movies from Warner Animation Group, more than one in single year. The first movie was Tom & Jerry and the second movie was Space Jam: A New Legacy. But unlike that however, they never released with Lego-related film and have a different franchise from the cartoon shows.
 * Before Don Cheadle was cast, Samuel L. Jackson, Keith David, & Kevin Hart were all considered for the role of AI-G Rhythm.
 * South Park co-creator Matt Stone said in an interview that if they made an episode about the film industry and its impact on American culture, "it would, for sure, be about Space Jam 2." The streaming films South Park: Post Covid and South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid depict the film as a principal cause for society's collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic.