>>46619
>How does it shit on the original movie?
First of all, the original
Space Jam was just a silly movie that took the concept of a couple of sneaker commercials and turned them into complete film. And, the prime time to make a sequel was within the decade of the films release (We'll get to that later).
Second,
Space Jam was made during a time when it was extremely hard to mix together live-action and animated concepts for movies. You had successes like
Roger Rabbit, and flops like
Cool World. So,
Space Jam was more remembered for it's technological achievement rather than it's quality as a movie. Today, CGI is used all over the place, so the marvel of the concept is gone. However, they could have fixed that by making the characters completely animated as a way of being unique in the wave of everything else. Except, they didn't. They did the same realistic-CGI aesthetic that everyone currently hates about movies.
Third, the film had been in development Hell for more than the past two decades for a reason:
the executives at WB refuse to let people just make a damn movie. After the success of
Space Jam, WB went through some major restructuring in order to expand upon the concept of a
Looney Tunes crossover (With some of the concepts being Spy Jam, Skate Jam, Race Jam, Golf Jam, etc.). However, once everything was said and done, the
only film we've gotten as a result of this was
Looney Tunes: Back in Action eight years later (That used a rejected
Spy Jam script), and everyone on set
hated making the movie. To give you an idea, the director of
BiA talks about how he wanted to make a live-action/animated comedy about Chuck Jones making the
Looney Tunes series back in the 30's and 40's (Sort-of as an anti-
Space Jam because a lot of people didn't like the depictions of the
LT characters in the
SJ), WB's response was that they liked it
BUT they wanted another
Space Jam, so the director caved and agreed to do what the studio wanted thinking that he would at least have some freedom to fix the problem of the
LT characters not being themselves. That was a mistake as the WB exes watched the development of the movie like a hawk, and vetoed anything they didn't like. Everyone involved with the film describes it as the longest film they have ever made (And, keep in mind, these people making
BiA had previously made
Gremlins,
Innerspace,
Aladdin, and
The Emperor's New Groove), and the result was a mediocre movie (That was better than
Space Jam, but could have been so much more if allowed the freedom). With that kind of environment, it sort of tells you just how desperate WB is for money that they finally swallowed their pride and allowed this to finally be made.
Only for LeBron James to be completely incapable of keeping his mouth shut: https://archive.vn/38ue8