2021 · family · comedy · adventure
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee1h 55m2021
When LeBron and his young son Dom are trapped in a digital space by a rogue A.I., LeBron must get them home safe by leading Bugs, Lola Bunny and the whole gang of notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to victory over the A.I.'s digitized champions on the court. It's Tunes versus Goons in the highest-stakes challenge of his life.
Our read: Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) reads as a cosy, breathless, surreal family · comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle family / comedy, surreal in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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How Space Jam feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want loud Looney Tunes-meets-NBA family spectacle with dad-and-son stakes.”
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