Space Jam review – Michael Jordan’s 90s merch-hocking basketball blockbuster rises again

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Space Jam review – Michael Jordan’s 90s merch-hocking basketball blockbuster rises again, The Jordan-fronted live-action/cartoon hybrid is 30 years old – and with its R Kelly soundtrack, it feels it. Cue Seinfeld’s Wayne Knight to rescue it for a second time This 30th anniversary rerelease brings us the strangest piece of 90s pop-cultural detritus imaginable, at once surreally baffling and very dated – not least in its resounding soundtrack use of I Believe I Can Fly by R Kelly, the now disgraced singer currently serving a 20-year prison term for child sexual abuse . Space Jam is the live-action/cartoon hybrid and nakedly commercial brand partnership of NBA superstar Michael Jordan and the Warner Bros stable of Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd; this feature was developed from TV ads in which Jordan was paired with the hyperactive rabbit. The idea is that an evil race of animated space aliens have captured the Looney Tunes squad and propose to enslave the

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