However, Jordan agrees after a confrontation with the Monstars, and forms the Tune Squad with the Looney Tunes they are joined by Lola Bunny, with whom Bugs is enamored. Bugs explains their situation to Jordan, who is initially reluctant to help. While golfing with Bill Murray, Larry Bird, and his PA, Stan Podolak, the Looney Tunes abduct Jordan into their universe.
The Looney Tunes realize that they need professional help. The Nerdlucks use these talents to transform into gigantic, muscular creatures, whom Sylvester refers to as Monstars. After learning more of basketball, the Nerdlucks infiltrate various games, usurping the talents of Charles Barkley, Shawn Bradley, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, and Muggsy Bogues. Noting the Nerdlucks' small stature, the Looney Tunes challenge them to a basketball game. Upon their arrival beneath Earth's surface, the Nerdlucks take the Looney Tunes prisoner, but Bugs Bunny convinces them into allowing them to defend themselves. Swackhammer, the park's proprietor, learns of the Looney Tunes from his minions, the Nerdlucks, and tasks them with forcing them to use as attractions. Meanwhile, in outer space, the amusement park Moron Mountain is in decline. Twenty years later, following his father's death, Jordan announces his retirement from basketball and pursues a baseball career. In 1973, a 10-year old Michael Jordan tells his father, James, about his dreams of playing in the NBA. It was a box office success, grossing over $250 million worldwide to become the highest-grossing basketball film of all time and the tenth-highest-grossing film of 1996.Ī standalone sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy, was released in July 2021, with LeBron James in the lead role. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who were divided over its premise of combining Jordan and his profession with the Looney Tunes characters, while the technical achievements of its intertwining of live-action and animation and the Looney Tunes were praised. Feature Animation, and was released theatrically in the United States on Novemby Warner Bros. Space Jam was the first film to be produced by Warner Bros. The film is a fictionalized account of the timeline between Jordan's initial retirement from the NBA in 1993 and his 1995 return, during which he is enlisted by the Looney Tunes characters to aid them in a basketball match against visiting aliens who intend to enslave them as attractions for their amusement park. The film stars basketball player Michael Jordan as a fictional version of himself Wayne Knight and Theresa Randle appear in supporting roles, while Billy West, Dee Bradley Baker, Kath Soucie, and Danny DeVito headline the voice cast. Smith and Tony Cervone, and written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod. Space Jam is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka, with animation sequences directed by Bruce W.