Plot Summary – Superstar LeBron James and his young son, Dom, get trapped in digital space by a rogue AI. To get home safely, LeBron teams up with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang for a high-stakes basketball game against the AI’s digitized champions of the court — a powered-up roster called the Goon Squad.

★★ 

Watched on 20 Jul 2021

I am genuinely so disappointed in this film. I am a really big fan of the original film and had decent expectations for this film, but most of this movie is so boring and uninspired that it feels like a product rather than a film. It’s so artificial in its construction, from the first scene in which a young LeBron loses a basketball match cause he’s thinking of Bugs Bunny or something to the central theme of the film being that LeBron is a bad dad. Is that really what people came to watch Space Jam 2 for? And I hate the argument that “It’s just for kids” for 2 reasons. I watched it with my young cousins and they were bored and confused and walked away before there was any basketball played so it failed on that fundamental level but also because there’s no compulsion that adults or mature audiences cannot enjoy films that are “for kids” or that these cannot have any artistic value. Look at Luka or Spider-Verse, both are phenomenal films made ‘for kids’. The writing is genuinely so bad that it honestly feels like it was written by an algorithm which is ironic because the villain of the film is an AI algorithm called Al G. Rythm played by Don Cheadle who is absolutely phenomenal in the film. He manages to make this terrible dialogue seem convincing and gives every fibre in his body to make this silly joke of a film seem like it has substance. I’ve given it an extra star just for his performance. LeBron is a poor actor which is worsened by the poor writing which seems to want to show his weaknesses in terms of acting. The sheer amount of product placement and WB Intellectual Property flexing made me want to puke by the end of it. This is an unnecessary and boring film that I would not recommend to anyone.