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This 1996 live-action/animated film is what happens when you base a feature-length film upon a sneaker commercial. Nike had ordered a few commercials featuring and an animated facing off against alien cartoon characters.In the film, the must recruit NBA superstar Michael Jordan to play on their basketball team.
They need Jordan's help because these aliens called Nerdlucks intend to take them back to their planet, and make them the new attractions for their evil boss Swackhammer's evil theme park. Bugs, noting how tiny the Nerdlucks are, decides to challenge them to a basketball game.This backfires when it turns out that the Nerdlucks can (they do this to NBA players Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Muggsy Bogues, Larry Johnson and Shawn Bradley in one of the movie's many, many subplots). This transforms them into (aka —wait for it— The Mean Team). This is where Michael Jordan comes in, but during the time period the film is set in, he had retired to play baseball (and, ). Thankfully, he wasn't drained of his skills and had actually just unretired at the time the film was made. Note In fact, part of the deal was for Jordan to be provided with state of the art training facilities between takes.
According to this film, saving the Looney Tunes is. The film is notable for introducing Bugs' girlfriend Lola Bunny, who has been featured in most Looney Tunes projects made since then. It's not to be confused with, which is officially a.
It was also one of the earliest movies to feature a, which is still running to this day (and has not been updated since 1998). Note Warner eventually finally noticed it, however, so they archived the site under a different URL.
We eventually had to change the link to the new archived version.There was even a.with (, ) attached to produce and as the star. In February 2019, James that Space Jam 2 would begin shooting during the NBA's off-season with Malcolm D. Lee directing (replacing original director Terence Nance), for a projected release date of July 16, 2021. The jam used in.Michael's Secret Tropes:.: The movie is mostly set in 1994, and ends with Jordan's return in 1995.: The is played to decide the fate of all the Looney Tunes characters as slaves to Swackhammer or not. Michael Jordan proceeds to raise the stakes by offering himself in servitude as well.: The Nerdlucks become cocky upon turning into Monstars.
Bang is the most pronounced example, going from nervous and concerned to aggressive and arrogant enough to taunt Michael Jordan.:. When appears in the game, Swachkhammer confuses him with, and Murray mentions that 'the producer' gave him a ride to the portal. Murray and Aykroyd did the movies together, which were directed by producer Ivan Reitman. During the therapy sessions, Larry Johnson says that his grandmother can play better than him (reference to a series of Converse ads where he played his 'Grandmama'), Shawn Bradley says he could, and Charles Barkley brings up declaring that 'I'm never gonna go out with again.'
.: The Junior Novelization has one, in which the Road Runner comes in and scores the second-to-last points of the game instead of Bill Murray. This was based on the original planned ending for the film.: freely admits he has no place in this story.: It's basically a feature-length version of an Air Jordan commercial where Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny played basketball against aliens. The director is even the same.: Mr.
Swackhammer, the main antagonist, who is also a to the Nerdlucks.: The individual names of the Monstars are never mentioned in the film; however, they are given in the ending credits, the storyboards and the merchandise. Their pre-Monstar species is 'Nerdluck', and their individual names are Pound (the orange one), Bang (the green one), Bupkus (the purple one), Nawt (the red one) and Blanko (the blue one).: Michael Jordan's kids are watching when, out of nowhere, Porky comes in to say everyone is needed immediately and everybody leaves the scene. The kids are left with only an empty background to see.: Done with both the Looney Tunes and the live-action actors. Michael Jordan gets compressed into a ball which is then dribbled, passed and dunked. Stan Podolak gets under all five Monstars.: When Michael Jordan tells Bugs that he doesn't play basketball anymore, Bugs replies, 'Right, and I'm a actor.' He even pulls out a skull in reference to 's monologue.: When Bugs and Daffy have to sneak into Michael Jordan's house to get his basketball gear and lucky shorts, Daffy gets to deal with Jordan's very, very angry guard dog.: asks this twice, in one case following a.: Mr. Swackhammer fantasizing about Jordan working at Moron Mountain.
It's kinda scary. The implications of it are even scarier (Jordan never being able to see his family again, and living his life in misery). And the fact that Jordan was willing to risk it!.: If you wanna get technical, this movie is this towards Michael Jordan's retirement and return to basketball. In real life, Jordan retired from basketball due to burnout from the game, which was accelerated by participating in the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics and the murder of his father, joined Minor League Baseball for a few years and returned to basketball due to a combination of not wanting to be considered a 'replacement player' during the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike and the Chicago Bulls faltering heavily. As well, while he was considered a decent player, the movie considers him a terrible player who is way out of his league. Maybe it's just people's expectations as compared to Basketball.
In the opening scene, a young Jordan tells his father he wants to attend and play basketball for the University of North Carolina. While Michaels mother was Carolina fan, he was in fact a devoted N.C.
State fan and hated the Tar Heels as a child.: When Bupkis falls for Wile E. Coyote's explosive booby-trap during their game with the Tune Squad, his face is blackened as a result.: Jordan and a whole bunch of other celebs and basketball players. In light of who Mike hangs around with all day, it makes sense. Bugs Bunny also receives top billing under his own name.: Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam do this during the second half slapstick montage.
It's a direct to.: In one scene, Michael is watching his old team on television after they have lost their talent. At one point, someone says 'What the hell's going on!?' Surely enough, the film got a PG rating for 'Brief mild language'.: ' by.: 'Hit'em High' is a song-shaped one for the Monstars. The best instance being the chorus:.: Played with—Jordan, when compared to his teammates (cartoon characters) and opponents (humongous aliens) is a mundane human.
Then again, he's widely considered to be the greatest basketball player ever. And when he learns how to use.: Bugs asking Daffy if he saw all the Jordan kids' toys and lunchboxes of them has a really hopeful, soft tone to it, and it sounds like he's about to say something touching about being an inspiration or something. Bugs: You, uh, ever see any money from that stuff?.: Lola Bunny. One of the Monstars as well.: Lola Bunny, as well as the other furry characters in their Tune Squad uniforms. This is when Jordan gets his golf cleats stuck to the floorboards and asks if the toons have a pair of basketball shoes he could borrow—cut to a few shots of the toons' feet and baffled looks.:. Lola Bunny goes into a basket-busting frenzy whenever anyone calls her 'Doll.'
. Jordan has a few of these: Don't call him wussy man, don't call him chicken, don't call him washed up, and especially don't call him baldy. If you think his head blew there get ready for the big one: Don't hit Tweety in front of him.: Happens to Jordan when he first meets the aliens. They invoke this trope.: Swackhammer, whose evil desires drive the plot even though he himself doesn't have that much screentime.: Subverted by Stan, played straight by Bill Murray in a spectacular fashion. The latter is hilariously by Swackhammer.
Swackhammer: Whoa, whoa, whoa! I didn't know!.: Appropriately so. All the Monstars and three of the Tune Squad's starting five (Bugs, Lola and Taz) get awesome entrances. Daffy attempts his own but, and while Michael gets a round of applause, his entrance is a more straightforward NBA-style affair with no crowd pandering.: The climax of the movie is one big, epic and cartoony basketball game to decide the fate of the Looney Tunes.: Cartoon cars are inching along the approach road to the basketball arena, honking horns and bumping each other to make progress.: See. Also, Moron Mountain is a spoof of.: The Monstars, especially the transformation sequence, where they grow freakishly large.: Near the end of the film, Jordan sarcastically calls Bugs Bunny 'Doc'.: After The Monstars acquire the talent and transform we get this exchange. Stan: So, what is it (the car)?Jordan: deadpan voice.: The Nerdlucks/Monstars do this at the end after they lose the game.
When the Monstars turn back into the Nerdlucks, they ask Bugs if they can stay with the Looney Tunes and try to prove to him they can be loony.: Stan is ordered by his boss to keep Jordan happy and he does so, even if it means helping him defeat the Monstars and letting him quit baseball, which quite possibly meant losing his own job.: Bill Murray's last minute appearance (see ). Within universe, the toons stop 40-year-old cartoons due to an important meeting.: Possibly. Joe Pytka is credited as the film's director, however many people who worked on the film (mostly the voice actors) have all said Ivan Reitman was the film's actual director, and that Joe Pytka was only a director for the animation ( said he had gripes with not having total control).
For whatever reason, Pytka got the main director's credit, while Reitman is only credited as a producer.: This obviously happens to in Lola Bunny's introductory appearance when she enters the gym to try out for the team.: The Nerdlucks/Monstars' comeuppance on their. When Jordan points out that they don't have to take his abuse, they suddenly realize that they are much bigger and stronger than him.
Jordan:Bupkis: Because he's bigger.Pound: He's bigger?!Bang: Than we used. To be.Monstars:Swackhammer:.: When everyone starts drinking Michaels, Daffy initially disapproves, saying it goes against everything he learned in Health Class.: In-Universe. When Stan gets found snooping by the Mon-Stars and is zapped to within an inch of his life, Daffy sneers that he looks like he ran into a bug zapper. Shoves him and gives a disapproving glare.:. Jordan isn't very surprised to find himself suddenly confronted by a number of fictional animated characters, even rolling his eyes at them.
Not even Jordan's kids are all that taken aback when they meet Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck breaking and entering their house, though they at least have the excuse that they're young kids who would be more accepting of this sort of thing. Plus seeing them might explain why they disappeared from the TV earlier in the film.: Lola ties her ears back in a ponytail (qualifies as the page image).: Michael uses Toon Physics to stretch his arm long enough to score the winning dunk.: Either this or they all are. The heroes and foes seemed to be on fairly good terms in the film when outside the classic shorts, and probably it was because all of their future careers were on the line, so they had no choice but to cooperate.: Jordan's ineptitude at baseball is exaggerated to drive home the fact that it's not his sport.: After the movie's climatic basketball game, Michael asks the Monstars why they take crap from their boss. They reply that it's because he's bigger than they used to be. They all quickly realize the key phrase there is used to be.: When tells Daffy that he's only there because he's a friend of the producer, Pound (The orange Monstar) can be seen in the background, and shakes his head in disgust when Murray mentions this.:. The Monstars are gigantic compared to Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes. Mr.
Swackhammer is from the Nerdlucks' perspective.: The transition from Nerdlucks to Monstars leads to them.: The game takes place (and Jordan is roped into it) because Mr. Swackhammer wants new attractions for his theme park, even if it means enslaving the Looney Tunes.: The film's bizarre plot is really a set up for the Looney Tunes antics, Jordan's presence, and the climatic basketball game with both.: What leads to the above moment. The Monstars do the explaining, Swackhammer does the.: Bugs Bunny puffs himself up while introducing himself to Lola Bunny. He can't sustain this pose, and soon returns to his potato-sack body shape. Lola politely giggles at this faux machismo.: The first time Bugs calls her 'doll', Lola becomes enraged enough to develop flaming eyes.: Jordan stays with the Looney Tunes characters in their universe to help them defeat the Monstars, and then he leaves for home when done.: Despite this being the origin place of Lola Bunny, she really has no definitive personality apart from being a sexy bombshell rabbit for the other guys to ogle at.: The Monstars and the Toon Squad, respectively. The Monstars are, brute-forcing their way through the game; the Toon Squad, on the other hand, are, countering with various goofy antics.
They also have Michael Jordan and his skills.:. Lola's introduction was rather.
Interestingly displayed, especially after beating Bugs. She approaches him with bedroom eyes, as one of her shoulder straps had fallen off her shoulder.
Then she does a ' with her ears, and leaves the room with an. All the while a playing in the background. Very subtle, developers. Bugs suggesting a 'one-on-one game' with Lola wouldn't sound that bad; unless you take it as a and the fact alone that Bugs is melting at the sight of her. This dialogue at the end. Sylvester: We've got balls! opens a locker containing basketballs and other sport ballsMichael.You sure do.
This place is a mess.: The first time that the five Nerdlucks transform into the Monstars, the moon overhead is so large and bright that it occupies almost as much of the screen as any one Monstar.: Bill Murray comes in as a when the team needed a fifth player. He proves to have in identifying a Monstar player weakness and quick enough to psych out another when they recovered the ball. But he is really exhausted afterward and talks about needing to ice his knees.
This is only after ten seconds of play time.: Bugs' Secret Stuff, which is really water, but the toons treat it as steroids. Daffy notes this is wrong. Using the basketball players' talent is made to look like this on the aliens' side.:. The Nerdlucks transforming into the Monstars makes all of them bigger and muscular. Bugs Bunny later to convince his teammates that works.: Lola's appearance has all the toons (and Jordan, although that could simply be out of confusion) pause momentarily, but Bugs. Never quite recovers from seeing her the first time.: The Nerdlucks change sides after they use their Monstar forms to beat the stuffing out of their abusive boss.
Afterwards, they join the Toons and return the talent they stole.: Bill Murray isn't properly introduced to Lola, so he just calls her Girl Bunny.: Done in reaction to some of Jordan's plays.: Subverted. The Looney Tunes do have the game in their world, and use all of their antics to help them out, but are not limited to being able to use it in their world. Likewise, the Monstars are able to use all of their antics.: Most of the movie is devoted to Jordan.: Lola Bunny leaves Bugs Bunny in a ridiculous knot when Bugs makes the mistake of pressing Lola's by calling her 'doll.' .: Averted for most of the cast.
Not only do the Looney Tunes take their usual lumps, but even the usually untouchable such as Bugs and Tweety and some of the live action cast members find themselves taking a comical beating from the Monstars. Out of all of them, Lola is the only character who doesn't involved much in the, to the point the one instance she is almost hurt by a Monstar is.: When Stan gets by the Monstars, some toon nurses use an air pump to blow him up into a large balloon, then deflate him back to normal.: Played with: ◊.: Occurs twice with Lola Bunny. During the tryouts at Schlesinger's Gym, Bugs Bunny puts the move on Lola, asking, 'You wanna play a little one-on-one, doll?'
Lola's signal that she severely dislikes being regarded as a pretty face and nothing more. She quickly leaves Bugs in a ridiculous knot at the foul line, and throws down an impressive jam.
Later, during the Ultimate Game, the Monstar Pound challenges Lola, 'Try to get by me, doll.' After disarranging Pound's face, Lola throws down another strong jam. Notable in that these are the only times that Lola Bunny is seen scoring points.: Said by (the ) when the Monstars visit the Toons' gym to meet and taunt Jordan by calling him a chicken.: Watch the ending to the basketball game while listening to 'I Believe I Can Fly'.: A variation is used in one of the film's posters with Michael Jordan beside Bugs Bunny and half of their mugs at the left and right side of the poster rather than the usual 'split in the middle' version.: When Tweety stands up for Jordan, the Monstars swat him down. Jordan understandably does not take it well.: Even before the Nerdlucks become the Monstars, the threat they pose is urgent enough that Bugs, who normally works alone,. After they become the Monstars, the characters have the deck completely stacked against them and are forced to seek out the aid of Michael Jordan to turn the tide.:.
It's a blatantly commercial movie that ropes WB's stable of beloved cartoon characters into shilling for basketball. But they know this and want you to know that they know.
How can you tell? Bugs: Speaking of toys, you know all those mugs and t-shirts lunchboxes with our pictures on em?Daffy: Yeah.Bugs: You, uh, ever seen any money from all that stuff?Daffy: scoff Not a cent.Bugs: Hm, me neither.Daffy: sigh It's a crying shame.
We've got to get a new agent. We're getting screwed!
( This line is ironically when airs this note But not in.).: Released by in 1996. For tropes.: Sports ability can be siphoned out of someone and placed into a basketball for someone else to use.: Daffy literally kisses his own ass, which is branded with a WB shield, out of affection.: All of the background characters in a single shot in the Looney Tunes' world consist of every single major or minor character created for a Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies short.
EVER. Well, at least from to the start of., save for a couple of portraits of Bosko and Buddy on the wall in the meeting scene.: When the toons are preparing for the game they gear up in this fashion.: In a moment during the 'Basketball Jones' scene, a shrink asks Patrick Ewing if he is having this problem. He angrily responds with a 'No!'
Despite featuring some amazing rhymes from LL Cool J, Method Man, and more, only the chorus is used.: Michael Jordan wagers himself on the basketball game, in exchange for Swackhammer returning the basketball players' talents. Fortunately, he wins the game and doesn't lose himself.: After beating Bugs at a game between the two of them, Lola leaves the scene in an exaggerated swaying motion with her hips, leaving all the males in the room flabbergasted.
And Bugs.he's barely able to stand.: The final 10 seconds, because this is Looney Toon land.: Michael's 'secret stuff' that Bugs offers to the Looney Tunes to help them play better (it's actualy sink water). It gives them such confidence, that in no time, the Monstars are winning by merely two points.: The live action Jordan interacting with toons in their world, and the toons coming to his world.: As mentioned above, the concept for the film was inspired by a popular series of Nike ads featuring Jordan and the Looney Tunes characters. Also wanted to reinvigorate the Looney Tunes, which had lacked any new material for quite some time and were surviving purely on this trope (given the reaction of the typical Looney Tunes fan, this didn't work out so well).
Daffy lampshades this by noting that they are getting screwed, as they haven't been paid for any merchandise. Stan lampshades Jordan's shilling by incorporating every product he has ever endorsed into a single sentence while asking him to wake up and get ready for practice.: takes place during Jordan's childhood, then for the main titles shifts to of his basketball career.: The beginning of the movie has a very somber scene where a young Michael Jordan is speaking with his father, then he takes a shot at a basketball hoop, which kicks off the movie. This would be great.if it was a documentary about his life. Unfortunately, it segues into the credits, featuring highlights of his career to an upbeat rap. Then there's the press conference with Jordan announcing his retirement, back to being overtly serious. In fact, most of the parts of the movie that involve the real world in a non comedic context are almost devoid of levity, which is rather jarring given the overall premise is a comedy. The players going through psychological tests ('I'm never gonna go out with again.'
) and visiting a psychic (see ) are probably the only real world scenes which try to be funny.: Makes for a nice change of pace considering his usual gag is cross-dressing.: Lola Bunny has an, and wears a crop-top and shorts outfit. Much of Lola's time in Schlesinger's Gym is accompanied by the, where all the male toons demonstrate, while Bugs Bunny demonstrates.:. There aren't very many direct references to the cartoon plots, but there are a few. For example, when Jordan falls into Looney Tunes land, Daffy shows up dressed as a doctor and gives him a very madcap checkup. This is a reference to, which at the time went over the heads of many as that and many other Clampett Era cartoons were rarely rerun when the movie was released. Another example is from the Tune Squad introduction scene.
When the announcer introduces Daffy Duck, Daffy gleefully shouts thank you to the patrons. But Daffy gets no response. This is a reference to.: So is a Monstar who gets pantsed in the middle of a game.: sportscaster Ahmad Rashad note a real-life close friend of Michael Jordan briefly cameos to deliver a after their talent was stolen.: The Nerdlucks might not have thought to do the whole talent-sucking thing if the Loony Tunes hadn't shown them a video that said 'the best players in the world' gathered in one place. Then again, who would have thought they could steal talent?.: At one point, Taz leers at the camera with bloodshot and snot dripping from his nose.:. Bill Murray tells Daffy that the whole reason he's in Looney Land is because he was good friends with the producer of the movie.
Pound, who's walking past, and Daffy responds with a scoff and 'Uh-huh. Well, that's how it goes.' . When the above happens, Swackhammer mistakes him for. The Tunes examine the Nerdlucks' weakpoints by analyzing a large design chart. The very same line-up used to animate the new characters in the film.: While charismatic enough to at least hold his own against the Warner Bros. Animation pantheon, Michael Jordan still gives exactly the kind of performance one might expect from a professional athlete reading lines in front of a green screen.: When the Looney Tunes are planning on their course of action against the Nerdlucks, Sylvester apparently comes up with an idea.
To eat Tweety.:. Daffy after getting clobbered. 'But Mommy, I don't want to go to school today. I want to stay home and bake cookies with you.' . 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star!'
Was uttered by Daffy after a run-in with Jordan's dog.: 'I'll never go out with again.' .: The Monstars are able to locate and discover Stan spying on them simply by using an exceptional sense of smell.: The Nerdlucks might be small and a little bumbling, but they are not villains to be brushed off as harmless. Stan: Put your Hanes on, lace up your Nikes, grab some Wheaties and your Gatorade, we'll go get a Big Mac, on the way to the Ball Park Franks.: The Nerdlucks, aka the Monstars. They only compete against the because Swackhammer threatened them and wanted them in his theme park by any means possible. Bugs: Speaking of toys, you know all those mugs and t-shirts lunchboxes with our pictures on em?Daffy: Yeah.Bugs: You, uh, ever seen any money from all that stuff?Daffy: scoff Not a cent.Bugs: Hm, me neither.Daffy: sigh It's a crying shame.
We gotta get new agents, we're getting screwed.: Plays at one point during Lola's introduction scene.: Lola appears in a form of this upon entering the arena for the game.: Having lost the Ultimate Game to the, the Monstars surrender their and shrink to Nerdluck size. Their Monstar uniforms do not shrink, leaving the Nerdlucks unclothed. Pound lampshades this: 'My clothes don't fit.' .: A large part of the second half of the game, most notably with Looney Tunes make their comeback (both in-universe and out).: with Lola but played straight with Granny.: The Nerdlucks get pretty damn good ones, both comedic and non-comedic.:. The beginning of Bugs's meeting with the other Looney Tune characters on how to deal with the Nerdlucks is visually right out of.
During the exams, Larry Johnson mentions being that his grandmother can play better than him.
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