Lee (Girls Trip), backed by a team of writers numerous enough to join a social basketball league, is a bombastically unimaginative, Ready Player One-style concatenation of Warner Brothers IP, so over-engineered as to make the slapdash plotting and shameless stupidity of the original – if the term 'original' can rightfully be applied to a film so deeply mired in simulacrum – appear utterly quaint and even charming.īy stepping eagerly into the Nikes vacated by Michael Jordan, James – who has sported a number 23 jersey as a self-aggrandising tribute to the Bulls legend on and off since his high school b-ball days – has again positioned himself as his heir apparent in the realm of personal branding (the film is produced by his own SpringHill Company) as well as untrammelled athleticism. What's finally been delivered by director Malcolm D. Twenty-five years after the corporate synergy slam dunk known as Space Jam lodged itself in the fickle hearts of 90s kids everywhere (and in their parents' wallets) comes the inevitable razzle-dazzle reboot, its sights set on the nostalgia-prone among us as much as a new generation of impressionable, merch-mongering youngsters.įirst announced in 2014, the LeBron James-fronted Space Jam: A New Legacy beat out earlier, tantalisingly half-baked concepts for sequels that would've seen the Looney Tunes diversify their skillset, as paired with Jackie Chan (Spy Jam), Tony Hawk (Skate Jam) or Tiger Woods (…Golf Jam?).
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