150 Word Review: ‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ (2021)

Lebron James doesn’t have to be great at everything

Space Jam: A New Legacy stars Lebron James, Bugs Bunny, and dozens of characters from various Warner Brother’s movies in a fantastically expensive corporate promotional video that I imagine was shown to Discovery shareholders when newly-minted Warner Media owners AT&T was trying to sell them on a streaming merger that would benefit both companies and save the telecommunications giant from embarrassment and financial ruin.

The movie is about an epic basketball game in cyberspace between King James and his anarchic Looney Tune friends and an evil AI. The prize? The love of Lebron’s son. But mostly, it’s a charmless tour of Warner’s most valuable assets: Harry Potter, Batman… Mad Max? The voices of Bugs, Daffy and friends is karaoke-quality at best. The spectacle is top-notch though and Lebron seems to be having silly fun. Space Jam: A New Legacy does add shine to the original, which wasn’t very good either.