Space Jam

Space Jam.

Briefly ‘Space jam’ is all about the loony tunes, and Michal Jordan mixing cartoon with real life!

Swackhammer a big green space monster, also the owner of the amusement park planet Moron Mountain is desperate to get some new attractions for his park and his miniature minions convince him to get the Loony Tune characters for a Loony attraction. As it was his minions that wanted the Loony Tunes he sends them down on the task of bringing them back to the park if they like it or not.

Once arrived it is clear that these miniature characters are not intelligent but they do come with big space guns meaning Buggs Bunny is forced to come sort of deal. Buggs confers with all of the other Tunes and they come up with the so called smart plan of challenging the miniature characters to a game of basketball thinking they are sure to win. However the mini monsters have something up there gammy cheating sleeves, they steal the power of 5 of the best basketball professionals around (Globe trotters) and turn their mini selves into Huge overly stimulated muscular ‘MONSTARS’. They have no sympathy and smash the Tunes into pieces. In the desperation this is what makes the film so good Buggs Bunny does some kidnapping of his own and steals Michal Jordan (just retired from basketball) and convinces him to play so that they will stand a chance of winning and winning back their freedom.

The film I have chosen is a comedy, suited to all ages because of its immaculate individuality but mainly I would say teens and smaller children of about the age of 10 onwards, it is age rated U meaning anyone can watch it. The film has a simple story line to follow and it includes lovable characters and then quite clearly the bad guys/guy. The little monsters also turn out to be quite lovable and cute as in the end it turns out they aren’t very smart and they got pushed around there whole lives. They ask bugs for acceptance and bugs accepts there apology and there plea. The films budget was $80 million and for me it is well worth it! I can imagine most of the money went into the technical animated side of the film and on getting all of the actors to enrolee on the filming.

The film’s director was Joe pytka, the film is a big step for him as he is a small film director and music video director, meaning space jam gave him a big opening to his career being the success it was. He had huge actors and stars in the film e.g. Michal Jordan, Bill Murray, the star of so many films e.g. ghost busters and Ground Hog day. Also stars Wayne knight from Jurassic park etc the film also has many more sports stars such as Larry Bird etc.

The film was made at two studios Northern Lights Entertainment and Warner Bros Animation, all computer generated graphics and cartoon editing happened at the Warner bros Animation owned by the Warner Bros and northern light is owned by Northern lights co. The technology used is old school too us now, but back in the day it was ground breaking what Warner Bros did too this film. The film was shown in 3D in certain specialised cinemas but the main stream film we see today is the normal 2D edit. It was filmed on ‘film’ and does not use CGI. The film studio Warner Bros distributed the film as it is all based around there cartoon inventions.

The film was released on November 15, 1996 (1996-11-15) worldwide, the film was shown on international screens in different languages but I cannot find how many exact. The film was recognised most by the poster all around, and the premiers over the USA.