Space Jam: A New Legacy 4K 2021 Ultra HD 2160p

The film tells the story of LeBron James, who interacts with the heroes of various Warner Bros. franchises to stop a new artificial intelligence that is stealing followers from his Instagram. Also, the central place in the film will be given to the son of LeBron. The original picture was released 25 years ago, and its main characters were Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny. The latter will be back in the new part as well.

Space Jam a New Legacy 4K Review
LeBron James (LeBron James, who else) keeps his son at home in tight-knit gloves: while the little guy dreams of a trip to E3, where he can present the game he has developed, the father endlessly pesters the boy. Childhood lessons were not in vain, and the famous athlete, who, according to the flashback, in his youth was advised to take the GameBoy aside and devote himself entirely to training, now demands the same from his son.

In an effort to mend his relationship with his son, LeBron takes him to a Warner Bros. presentation. Studio bosses offer the basketball player to digitize his personality and add James to famous franchises like Game of Thrones or Harry Potter. The Luddite star, of course, refuses and already wants to leave the office with the boy, but falls right into the clutches of Algo Rhythm (don't ask) - a digital villain played by Don Cheadle, who, angry with the hero's decision, is going to make LeBron his intellectual slave. The only chance to avoid this is to fight a cyber enemy on the basketball field, but LeBron has only a couple of insane Looney Tunes characters in the cage against the modernized NBA stars.

Who would have thought that the frankly stupid idea of ​​making a movie about a galactic basketball game with a real sports legend and naughty cartoons would again result in "Space Jam"? Despite the popular love for the film with Michael Jordan, the original of 1996, to put it mildly, is not worth revisiting now (roughly - it is impossible): behind the nostalgic haze there is almost the largest disappointment of maturity - believe me, we have experienced it ourselves. If you choose the most ossified artifacts of the 90s era that have absolutely not passed the test of time, then Joe Pitka's picture will be in second place, somewhere between MMM stocks and stale, like a loaf of bread forgotten five years ago in a closet, Turbo chewing gum.

However, it is either good about the classics of childhood, or with caustic hints - hardly anyone wants to read in the text about the new "Space Jam" that everything was deception and fake. Yes, a completely conflict-free story, where the main intrigue (apart from the central battle with aliens, of course) is whether the cartoons will be able to get Jordan his sneakers and whether Murray will get into big basketball. Yes, a technically outdated movie is still at the release stage - "Roger Rabbit" was making not such tricks with his ears already in 1988. But also "Jam" is a fond memory of a time when the world was different, and the whole world loved basketball even without Netflix series.

It is much more interesting that with all this legacy the film is trying to make, in the title of which the word Legacy is even rendered. Well, first of all, forget about the ideal Michael Jordan - he was still an icon, an exceptional athlete, who outgrew the status of a basketball star and became a symbol of the times. LeBron James can achieve the highest results and even get his own film with Looney Tunes, but the athlete gained his popularity in an era when the institution of idols and idols had long since died. This also underlines the central conflict of the "New Generation": the main character is an unlucky father who is trying to mold a copy of himself out of his son. Sometimes not empathic enough, sometimes even harsh in expressions. In short, not a deity (for all the self-irony of the old "Jem", that was what Jordan appeared in the film), but that one, excuse me, was choking.

There is also a game of postmodernity. When LeBron James enters the digital world, he has to gather partners to fight the invincible team of Algo Rhythm - initially he plans to bring Kong, Godzilla and other inspiring Warner Bros. characters to the site, but Bugs Bunny has other plans: he will lead the hero through a dozen cult films (from "Casablanca" to "Superman") to return the escaped cartoons home and put together from them the composition of your (but not LeBron's) dreams. And besides that - jokes on the topic of corporate algorithms, winking at the viewer with the help of phrases that basketball players do not know how to play movies, and the best gag of the film about Jordan. We will not tell you the last - do not even try, you must see it.

Lola Bunny is no longer sexualized, the entire caste, as they say, is sheer diversity, and there seem to be more references to the reality of video games than references to the reality of basketball. In general, a lot of work has been done - certainly more painstaking than during the creation of the first "Jam", and as if much more meaningful. What the New Generation cannot be denied is in the scale of the revision. True, no matter how many innovative (within the framework of the same universe, of course) details there may be, in this "Space Jam" it is very difficult to hide a seemingly unintentional vibe, if not the 90s, then the 00s.

Still from the movie "Space Jam: The New Generation"
Lola Bunny in a scene from the movie "Space Jam: The Next Generation"
It manifests itself in everything. In the villain from digital reality - a walking artifact of the time, when computers and technologies were still seen as a threat of a galactic ("The Terminator") and not a personal ("She" Spike Jonze) scale. In childlike spontaneity, when the comic effect is achieved more often not due to really witty jokes, but thanks to gags from the old Looney Tunes series. Even in the fact that structurally, the story of the match at the price of life is almost ideally superimposed on the plot of the old "Jam". No matter how director Malcolm D. Lee, by the way, Spike Lee's cousin, tries to update the story, he inevitably faces the central problem of the entire franchise: its idea is so outdated and, in general, commercialized (after all, it all started with advertising) that no director or screenwriter can tame this crazy and discordant concept.

And even more so, Russian dubbing will not do the trick - for us LeBron was voiced by the performer L'One, whose wheezing apathetic intonations make the basketball star's already inexpressive game terribly dull. If we are to come to terms with the fact that "Space Jam" is a movie holiday, a bright, whistling and squeaking comedy about strange cartoon characters and basketball players, which does not care about all modern trends in art, then the Russian voice acting will once again remind you that at every party there is always there is a Russian rapper who will manage to ruin the celebration.