Not even state-of-the-art technology can stop this vanity project turning into a shameless parade of product placement and backslapping -- not to say endless high fives.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2025

Here we have the reliance on special effects, the mixture of cheap moralising and confected mythology that passes for a plot, the triumph of merchandising over art.

| Apr 22, 2025

Space Jam is quite the ride, and a mostly good one at that, with its insane story, blending of live action and animation, and great soundtrack

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2024

It’s a stroke of evil marketing genius.

| Original Score: D | Sep 1, 2022

Imagine a movie with Michael Jordan acting alongside Tweety, Bugs... and a few other Warner Brothers characters. Then imagine paying seven dollars to watch them play basketball. If you can't imagine it, consider yourself blessed and skip this one.

| May 16, 2022

On November 15, 1996, not much could top Space Jam in my eyes. 20 years later, on November 15, 2016, Space Jam has become nothing more than a nostalgic guilty pleasure and thats not always a bad thing.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 14, 2022

Space Jam is the defining cult film of Generation VHS.

| Dec 4, 2021

This disappointment amounts to the most expensive piece of fan mail ever produced.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 7, 2021

Based on a sneaker commercial, it's aliens vs. earthlings on the basketball court. Bill Murray makes it watchable. (4K HD Warner Home Video blu-ray review).

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 18, 2021

You had to be there to understand the excitement: Michael Jordan left the NBA for baseball and then came back. That was looney and so is this mix of animation and live action.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 17, 2021

You would be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't love Bugs Bunny and Warner Bros. cashed in on his popularity.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 8, 2021

Space Jam boasts technical achievements with its live-action/animation hybrid approach and has some solid humor even if some jokes don't age particularly well.

| Jul 6, 2021

While one can argue it's quality, it's difficult to argue that where it works, it's an absolute slam dunk.

| Jul 5, 2021

Sans nostalgia it's serviceable kids' entertainment at best with a paper thin plot, but a lot of Looney Tunes antics.

| Dec 4, 2019

Give it a watch through I bet you will agree it's an entertaining flick.

| Original Score: B- | May 4, 2019

Space Jam is so obviously a work of the marketing/demographic-hunting mentality that it's rather surprising to find that the brazen creature gathers a certain charm as it rolls along.

| Mar 22, 2019

Space Jam is nothing if not a product made by men who gauge a film's success by how many soft toys it spawns.

| Mar 22, 2019

Children will love the energy of both the live and animated characters, and there's plenty to keep adults amused, too.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2019

The animation is eye-popping. And the co-mingling of 'toons and people is dazzling.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2019

Space Jam is not a movie. It's a feature-length infomercial for Michael Jordan Inc. and a host of related corporations that made their product-placement arrangements early.

| Mar 22, 2019