The referee, Marvin the Martian (voice of Bob Bergen), informs Jordan that unless the team gets a fifth player, they will have to forfeit the game, at which point Murray appears and volunteers to be the team's fifth member. Stan becomes the fifth player and manages to score, but is literally flattened by the Monstars and is removed from the court. To ensure his victory, Swackhammer has the Monstars play rough and injure all of the Tune Squad until only Jordan, Bugs, Daffy, Lola and Stan are left. During a timeout, Jordan raises the stakes of the game with Swackhammer: a win by the Tune Squad would require the Monstars to give their stolen talents back to the NBA players, while a Monstars win would get Jordan as a new attraction. Bugs and Jordan convince the rest of the Tune Squad to fight back and the first quarter of the second half allows the Tunes to catch up using old school gags and Acme weaponry.
Stan overhears a conversation between the Monstars and Swackhammer, learning of how they gained their talent and informs Jordan and the Tune Squad. On the day of the match, the Monstars dominate the first half, leaving the Looney Tunes unconfident. Another new recruit is Lola Bunny (voice of Kath Soucie), a skilled basketball player whom Bugs falls in love with. Meanwhile, Stan has been digging out the golf hole to find Jordan, but spots Bugs and Daffy leaping down another one and pursues them, reuniting with Jordan in the Tunes' world and joins their team, the Tune Squad. He then sends Bugs and Daffy Duck (voice of Dee Bradley Baker) to his house to retrieve his basketball gear. Jordan at first refuses, saying he does not play basketball anymore, but changes his decision after he is insulted and humiliated by the Monstars when they squash him into the shape of a basketball and bounce him around like one. While playing golf with Bill Murray (as himself), Larry Bird (as himself) and Stan, Jordan is sucked down a hole and is recruited by Bugs Bunny (voice of Billy West) to help the Tunes win against the Monstars. The Nerdlucks absorb the talent, transforming into the gigantic "Monstars" who easily intimidate and terrorize the Looney Tunes.
SPACE JAM CAST PROFESSIONAL
The Nerdlucks steal the talents of professional basketball players (Charles Barkley), (Shawn Bradley), (Patrick Ewing), (Larry Johnson) and (Muggsy Bogues), leaving them incapable of playing. The Looney Tunes live in an animated world called Looney Tunes Land hidden in the center of Earth, but ignore the Nerdlucks' threats and challenge them to a game of basketball. Swackhammer (voice of Danny DeVito), sends his diminutive minions, the Nerdlucks, to capture the Looney Tunes as new entertainment. Jordan is assigned a publicist and assistant, Stan Podolak (Wayne Knight), to make his new career less bumpy.Įlsewhere, in outer space, an intergalactic amusement park called Moron Mountain faces dwindling popularity, so its owner, Mr. However, he is not as skilled in baseball as he was in basketball. In 1993, Jordan announces his retirement from professional basketball to follow his now deceased father's career as a baseball player.
Impressed, Jordan's father jokingly asks if next he is going to wish he could fly, and Jordan turns to make one final shot. Jordan shoots while making several wishes like going to the University of North Carolina, playing on a championship team, joining the NBA, going on to play baseball, and successfully scores every shot.
In 1973, Michael Jordan (as himself) is practicing basketball. His father steps out and tells him it is bedtime, but lets him make a few more shots. Despite its box office success, the film received mixed reviews from critics who were divided on the merits of combining Jordan and his profession with the Looney Tunes characters. 1 in the US and grossed over $230 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing basketball film of all-time. Family Entertainment banner on November 15, 1998, Space Jam opened at No. The film also serves to introduce a new Looney Tunes character, Bugs' love interest Lola Bunny. Space Jam presents an alternate history of what happened between Jordan's initial retirement from the NBA in 1993 and his comeback in 1995, in which he is enlisted by Bugs Bunny and his friends to help them win a basketball match against a group of aliens who want to enslave them for their amusement park. The film was produced by Ivan Reitman, and directed by Joe Pytka. Nigel Miguel was a basketball technical advisor. Gallery Space Jam 1 1 ½ is a 1998 American live-action/animated sports comedy film starring basketball player Michael Jordan and featuring the Looney Tunes cartoon characters.
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