Space Jam

A cynical attempt to cash in on the popularity of Warner Bros. cartoon characters and basketball player Michael Jordan, inspired by a Nike commercial. The plot isn't the thing, but imagine MORTAL KOMBAT thoroughly sanitized for tender sensibilities: Evil aliens come to Looney Tunes land to enslave the beloved cartoon characters, whose fate rests on a basketball game against a bunch of hypermuscled monsters fueled by the purloined talent of NBA stars. But never fear -- genial Jordan helps them slam-dunk those alien slavers right back to the planet Moron. It sounds paradoxical to complain about cartoon characters being two-dimensional, but over the years Bugs Bunny,...