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 The reboot of the famous Michael Jordan comedy is better and wittier than the original, but still mediocre.

Space Jam: The Next Generation (2021)

Space Jam: A New Legacy

animation, comedy, adventure, family, sports, science fiction, fantasy

Director: Malcolm D. Lee

Cast: LeBron James, Zendaya, Don Cheadle, Sonequa Martin-Green, Jim Cummings

Premiere: July 15, 2021

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 GameBoy aside and completely devote himself to training, now demands the same from his son.

In an effort to mend a 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 directly 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 a frankly stupid idea to make 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 childhoo Michael BIJYIMBU d, 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 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 is 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 

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