I remember being obsessed with the original as a kid, and having no clue who Bill Murray was or why he showed up in the end. Now as an adult I know who he is, but still have no clue why he shows up in the end
Bill Murray always plays himself in movies. He has this funny ongoing joke about him, where he’ll be places you’d never expect because he’s famous. I’m zombieland, he was HIMSELF which it why it was hilarious. In real life, he showed up to a place where construction workers were and just worked with them for no reason. He’s known for just “popping up” places. Movies too. When you watch ghostbusters, he’s so unamused by the situations because it’s literally HIM just popping up in random scenarios, in reali life, and in movies. When you watch most of his movies he has this unamused attitude. One time at a restaurant, he walked up to a woman and apparently ate her fry and said “no one will believe you.” He’s known for randomly being places.
@@hannahlynn8028 yes. Actually I got it wrong, he showed up to the construction workers to read them poetry. But it proves my point further lol. That’s his shtick. Being somewhere you wouldn’t guess. He also showed up to a random guys bachelor party. And shows up to random college football games.
I just remembered there was a time when I was about 11 I knew the entire space jam script by heart. I didn’t even know I did. One day me and my sister would just repeat one line we found funny, and then one time I decided to commit to saying as much as I could remember, and I talked out the entire fucking thing
I think the first Space Jam was such a big deal because the live-action/animation combo was still pretty novel back then. I mean, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is obviously the superior film, but Space Jam made us nostalgic for it.
I love how Warner bros said they’d remove lola’s sexuality so they could work on her character in the second movie, than gave her less of a character in the sequel
This seems like a common trend these days. People want to (often rightfully) fix something that hasn't aged well, but they just replace it with...nothing. You might have had a problematic interesting character and now they're a cardboard cutout, which isn't much better.
@@galacticglamourgirl Lola in the first movie is pretty inoffensive outside of the sexual stuff that most tend to exaggerate imo, compared to the second one trying so hard to make her relevant because *Independent Female*
@@galacticglamourgirlYeah, I shouldn't have implied that she was great before. I've never seen Space Jam, but this video didn't exactly give me faith that they had anything else going on for her character other than her being eye candy. I more meant that part as a comment on the general trends.
I got good news though, I ate some Tijuana flats today, no picture of “drew gooden” was featured, we are making some progress towards a more little stinky guy society
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 I watched them in spanish at first and then I watched again in english and I was confused why they talked weird Like in spanish they had like normal dialogue, but wtf was going in the original dialogue
im just now realizing how much my nostalgia for this movie has made it seem good to me, because anytime drew shows a clip intending for it to highlight the movies faults, it's still gold to me. I will admit tho Definitely hornier than I remember
Honestly he tries to make it look bad and fails in almost every way, everything thats bad was either intentional, or he didn't get the joke. The only "bad" part of the movie is when bill murray shows up at the end. Like no one cares, this wasn't built up, it was a one off line about how awesome bill murray thinks he is. There is no joke there. Otherwise great movie, b+ a- for sure. New space jam? F to D-
The director of the first Space Jam, Joe Pitka, is literally considered the commercial king. I worked on a KFC commercial with him. The first Space Jam was a Nike ad.
I've always felt like the space jam worship was from people who only vaguely remembers the movie. It had some good one-off humor and stuff and it had MICHAEL FREAKING JORDAN in his prime, but it always felt like a bunch of cartoonists got locked in a room and told they weren't allowed to get lunch until they finished, so they just quickly improvised a "plot". And even as a little girl, the sexualization of female characters made me really uncomfortable.it would have been one thing if it was like "oh she's so pretty! Let's all be nice to her". But there's something weird about watching a bitch of cartoons try to get some hot bunny action that's just bizarre (and not in the good way)
Listen. The first Space Jam wasn’t great. But the intro?? Cinematic Masterpiece. I can’t name a single movie intro that gets me as hype as the one from Space Jam. I still listen to the space jam theme song.
@@yowatchie nope. I like the montage of Michael Jordan’s best NBA moments too. I watch the montage on RUclips sometimes. The whole scene at the beginning of the movie is the only part of the movie that I actually pay attention to.
I agree. also like how his comedic timing hasn’t diverted too much from his comedic timing when he started to make RUclips videos. drew’s editing complements his humor so well
I think it's because it was the 90s, when a lot of fans were kids, there was a lot of marketing around the movie, it probably got promoted to hell on Cartoon Network. I think most of the bad reviews are objective people saying, "It may be nostalgic, but the movie is still awful..."
Not being an American, I lost the original domestic reception, but the history I have read is as follows: it was fairly succesful with the main target public, children, and it revitalized the Loony Tunes before theneyes of a generation more familiar with the Tiny Toonies even if it was not the hit the partnership of Jordan and Bugs would make one think it could be. However, as the '90s gave way to the 2000s, said children became cynical teenagers and young adults, and the whole social climate changed, too. The people who had the most reason to remember the movie fondly started to see it for the exercise in commercialism and opportunism it (in part) was. More recently, the nostalgia for the sweet '90s of their childhood and early adolescence (i.e. the yearning for a simpler and arguably less awful time) did its work, and Space Jam started to be seen as an enjoyable artificial of its time. Probably not iconic enough to deserve a sequel or something like, but good fun nevertheless.
When I was a kid, the scene where the kids jeer the players off their court and they're calling them "wannabes." I thought they were saying "Wallabies" so I called everyone a goddamn wallaby for like two months before anyone told me.
This is the sweetest thing, honestly! I think most kids do that, I remember I thought the gas chain "Kwik Fill" was "Kiwi Fill" due to my mild (undiagnosed) dyslexia until I was like 19. My sister who is 12 years younger than me corrected me when I asked if we were stopping at Kiwi Fill 😅 I think these memories are precious and I hope kids today can be as innocent without growing up too fast or feeling embarrassed for being human.
I can’t help but think there is an intentional parallel between the Looney Tunes being captured by an evil theme park in the movie (made in 1997) and in real life, Six Flags acquired the rights of Looney Tunes in 1984 and used them to market Six Flags. Six Flags also has a park named Magic Mountain. Idk, just thought it was interesting! Edit: oops it’s tunes not toons
Well you can definitely get away with calling them "The Looney Toons", cause the show itself is about the music, the tunes, but the characters are cartoons, so it makes more sensr to call em toons imo.
I think the writer/director of this movie just had an unbridled lust for basketball players and had no socially acceptable outlet for it. So he chose looney toones
This is one of the last movies i ever saw with my father before he died the next year. When you started showing scenes from the movie i quite literally started tearing up and now I'm trying to pull myself together. It may have been a silly movie but it's still dear to my heart. Thank you
I wish i could know for sure if you were telling the truth. Ppl on the internet. Ill give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this really happened. Hope you the best
The first movie was exactly what it was supposed to be, thats what makes it so good. The second one just felt like a giant warner brothers ad for a streaming service
@@dthbdbsfgh The first one was an enjoyable movie for kids tho, I watched the second with my little brother who loves lebron. Without me saying a word, he got bored and stopped watching 20 mins in. Hes a 10 year old and told me it was boring and he could care less and would rather play 2k lmao.
I never watched space jam but I always thought it was so weird that people praised it so highly when it's about aliens, looney toons, and basketball players
@@Wiizl I don't know about original... Who Framed Roger Rabbit took the whole cartoon in reality concept and fucking ran with it, with way better execution. But I think that crossover is what really stuck with people, because let's be real, who doesn't like the idea of running with cartoons? I mean that's why I liked Space Jam!
same. I just made a similar comment saying I don't remember caring about it, nor did any of my friends. If parents bought toys it was because they marketed the shit out of it and it was all over the place. Parents most likely bought the toys and merch because it was pushed in all of the stores.
amanda the jedi made a really good video that, in part, talked about how the branding in the new space jam was wayyy more overbearing than the old one, even though they both obviously use a ton of it
Y'know, I've heard many people talk about how space jam was their furry awakening, but now I'm just thinking about how many people discovered their inflation kink in this movie.
As someone who grew up to have an inflation kink, this scene didn't do shit for me. Didn't enjoy it then or now, it's got to be one of the least sexy inflation scenes there is. If only it had happened to Lola Bunny instead...
Who knew a movie with a crap direction would be a nightmare to act in? Its like its bad to alow idiots to be in charge. I for one didn't mind the movie but no one can say its on par with the first unless they are insain and think they were made in the same way.
I really appreciate the fact that you put time into actually writing out captions and not just relying on the automated ones. So yeah…thank you for that :)
e.g. in macdoesit's vids i believe fans do most of the captioning, often adding lil jokes of their own here n there, and are generally pretty active n eager to participate
@@sambibambi5409 didn’t youtube remove that feature tho? About a year or so ago they removed the ability for people to help out making/editing cc on the platform, which really sucked because it was a really good feature :(
@@blue1584 shiii i think youre right, what the hell :( googled 'youtube community captions' and yeah i guess they really flushed that down the toilet last year
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The first space jam was aimed at the age group that I was in at the time, so I loved it. Still love if for the nostalgia. Of course it isn’t perfect, but I always put it on if I stumble upon it.
you can criticize Dion Waiters for his bad acting in that clip but I thought he did a great job portraying 'man learning how to read for the first time'
you're 100% right when I was a kid, I would rewatch the credits many times just to listen to all the songs again and again The MonStars' theme was literally a collaboration by LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, Method Man and B-Real, how fucking cool is that???
one thing that has certainly spawned from this movie is that there’s an uptick in people stealing lebron heads it used to be zero, now it’s definitely past two, as a walmart employee I highly approve of it but it’s an interesting thing that’s happened from this movie nonetheless
What I remember from Space Jam (and I only saw it like two years ago, I have no emotional childhood attachment to this franchise): - Michael Jordan talks to cartoon characters - Good soundtrack - A whole lot of basketball - The guy from Ghostbusters becomes a balloon Edit because I wrote this before watching the video (like a buffoon): It was Wayne Knight who turned into a balloon. Because of course it was.
My favorite part of this movie is that you don't realize Bill Murray is playing himself until about halfway through the movie. Like, yes, Michael Jordan is playing himself, but Wayne Night is playing a completely fictional character. Until they called him "Mr. Murray" I just assumed Bill was some random... friend
I recall an offhand mention of how the producer got him involved (in the game, but also probably the movie in general). Also, the main boss guy calling him 'Dan Aykroyd' is comedy genius in my books.
Meanwhile, Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) starring Brendan Fraser has absolutely no flaws and can be compared to other cinematic masterpieces such as Shrek (2001) and Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleased (2004).
For those complaining that the sequel was too long, can we please collectively remember that the first movie's opening credits were like 6-7 hours long
That scene where they go to the medium is kinda funny. Also, Charles Barkely promising he'll never swear again if God gives him his talent back is fine.
Yeah this video did for me the exact opposite of his intention. The original has everything one loves about Looney Tunes. Especially with after them drinking the secret stuff and becoming suddenly “good” at basketball with violence
facts. everything he thought we were laughing at was intended to be funny. In the context of the whole movie that shit hits. also surprised he didnt google the cast and see that Danny Devito played the mucus monster
What matters is context. The Loony Toons were super popular when Space Jam came out, so everyone was excited to go on adventure with them and America's most famous athlete at the time. Not to mention all the cool 90's music. Space jam 2 feels solely like a cash grab, even if the 1st one was too. But it was also new and exciting within the context of the 90's.
I'm not going to lie, this video has completely reminded me exactly of why I loved space jam as a child and I still think that I possibly will still enjoy it and do want to watch it again. Thanks Drew, I know that wasn't your point, but I appreciate it anyway.
Yeah I haven't seen both but after seeing some clips of the second movie and then seeing this video, I still think the original is better and ACTUALLY funny at times.
Yeah honestly it was a good mix of over the top looney tunes stuff and the human parts of the story. The scenes where Barkley and Ewing are dealing with losing their powers are really funny. I watched it over and over as a kid and it's still good today imo
to be fair, "challenging short aliens to basketball in a comedic attempt to outsmart them" is exactly a Looney Tunes thing to do Bugs clowned on Gossamer by pretending to be a hair stylist one time, have you ever _seen_ Looney Tunes?
The whole time he was criticizing looney tunes scenes was exactly the kind of thing they would do in their cartoons, I didn't see anything wrong with it LOL it was great just seeing these clips again
That’s why the original Space Jam works whereas the new one doesn’t. Space Jam 1 played up the absurdity of situations and gave stupid, looney tunes styled solutions to them like pumping a guy with air after he got flattened, whereas Space Jam 2 is just references to other movies and shows. It’s not the Looney Tunes, it’s some executives trying to make a quick buck with the Looney Tunes
Yea I wasnt understanding where he was going with certain points. I was sitting here just thinking, "well isn't that the point of looney tunes ? To be in looney, wacky impossible situations ??" The first space jam gave exactly what needed to be given, stayed pretty faithful to the cartoon.
Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez expect us to believe he's 2 different people even though he couldn't be bothered to change his initials between his alter egos, let alone his appearance and personality
fun fact about me: i was in dance class and the first dance i had to perform was a dance to the space jam theme song (idfk), and so when you started playing the theme song, my body went into a fight or flight response before remembering that this is a youtube video and i don't have to perform a dance.
The biggest sin of "Space Jam 2: LeBron gets kidnapped" really is being almost two hours long. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit until the basketball game began. I was even looking forward to it, until I realized that the game would last another whole hour, especially because it wasn't as entertaining because of the *style points* imo
I think that’s the problem with cinema these days. RUclips video essays are 45 minutes to 3 hours long, 12-16 hour tv shows get binged in a day, so every film HAS to be long enough to be justified. This movie might have been better if it was less dramatic and leaned into the fact that it’s legacy is trash rather than trying to do an epic family drama for 20 minutes with an hour and a half of meta reference gags.
Drew's actual knowledge of basketball makes the jokes in this video so much better: "That's touching Lebron, but I'm gonna have to give you a shot clock violation because you've been holding the ball for four minutes"
Space Jam 2 heavily reminds me of the worst RUclips rewind videos. It’s like Warner Bros just took every successful media they had the rights to and mashed them into one very confusing storyline that mostly skips around but somehow had a happy ending.
I agree with Drew that the new movie was too long, but other than that I honestly just enjoyed it. It was just entertaining. It was just fun to sit back and just take something in like when I was a kid.
@@johnwerner69 No it’s just everyone around me always said it was a great movie but when I watched it I didn’t see anything great about it, didn’t speak up in fear of being murdered. Who framed Roger rabbit was wayyyy better
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People seem to forget that NBA players in movies were actually a big thing in the 90s and that space jam was originally based on a commercial with bugs and MJ made years prior so there was already hype around the looney tunes and NBA collab. What is SJ2 playing off of? Just nostalgia of the first and nothing more. Sequels are historically worse than the original with a few exceptions and SJ2 isn't one of them.
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just came from watching a Drew Gooden video and now this guy’s interrupted my day. Fucking furious
Nice pin
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Xss
I want my money back
pinned gg
I remember being obsessed with the original as a kid, and having no clue who Bill Murray was or why he showed up in the end. Now as an adult I know who he is, but still have no clue why he shows up in the end
He said it himself, he was friends with one of the producers, so they gave him a ride.
producer was ivan from ghostbusters..enough said...he owed him a favor and was a big bulls fan
Bill Murray always plays himself in movies. He has this funny ongoing joke about him, where he’ll be places you’d never expect because he’s famous. I’m zombieland, he was HIMSELF which it why it was hilarious. In real life, he showed up to a place where construction workers were and just worked with them for no reason. He’s known for just “popping up” places. Movies too. When you watch ghostbusters, he’s so unamused by the situations because it’s literally HIM just popping up in random scenarios, in reali life, and in movies. When you watch most of his movies he has this unamused attitude. One time at a restaurant, he walked up to a woman and apparently ate her fry and said “no one will believe you.” He’s known for randomly being places.
@@jaytheaqua2795 lmao is that story true?
@@hannahlynn8028 yes. Actually I got it wrong, he showed up to the construction workers to read them poetry. But it proves my point further lol. That’s his shtick. Being somewhere you wouldn’t guess. He also showed up to a random guys bachelor party. And shows up to random college football games.
i forgot there was so much baby-making music in the first space jam
@TommyInnit 🅥 shut up dude
jarvis pls
Jarvis are you high on baby powder again smh
Drew be like:
Evil aliens get addicted to basketball
And something about a nice looking bunny
Also first furry
Jarvis is now one of the early squad
The “touch it STOP it” edit is BRILLIANT
time stamp?
@@darinmorris4917 15:06
I was dying!🤣
Lol
Drew's editing is nothing short of a masterpiece
Drew just casually calling them "the little alien bitches" is the funniest thing I've heard today
wdym this is nickisnotgreen
@@spoog2651 what does nickisnotgreen have to do with this? this is danny gonzalez?
@@yowsglosers no..that is nick the mayor of kurtistown
While I was reading this I was at part of the video where he called them that
.. this is logan pail
Watching this as someone who’s never seen either space jam movie before, this was an experience, to say the least
First space jam was one of my favorite movies growing up. Now looking back on the movie it’s a weird experience but a good one to me.
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Ditto.
Same😂
@Mary B. it’s called gen z
Bugs Bunny saying "That's all folks." as he dies is the funniest thing I've seen all day.
I literally busted out laughing when that happened 😂
@@ryoko-maul busted? hm
@@elizabeth-js8ko busting 🤤
That’s depressing
@@eawkgle4090 i- im.. gonna.. BUST 😫
This movie wasn't made for this generation's children nor nostalgic-filed adults. It was made for me-the number 1 fan of space and jamming since '01.
@Wally Wally if it's not related to the video, keep that shit to yourself. thanks!
Come on... and JAM....
wow you were born in 1901?? you must be at least 70!
I dont know why but this is perfection
There's no 'space' in the sequel tho
I just remembered there was a time when I was about 11 I knew the entire space jam script by heart. I didn’t even know I did. One day me and my sister would just repeat one line we found funny, and then one time I decided to commit to saying as much as I could remember, and I talked out the entire fucking thing
Jesus fucking christ, I'm impressed
Me and my 18 year old friends do this with revenge of the sith
i do this with the simpsons movie
Gigachad behavior
I think I can do this with Scream lmao
My son watched this with me when he was 4, and the only thing he got out of it was - "I wish MY dad was bald 😔"
kids are hilarious
oh my god
rip
@Skeeblesss lmao
It's not a hard wish to grant, y'know.
in the theatre when bugs died someone yelled “HES DEAD?” and i busted out laughing
This has no right to be so funny
Might’ve been my mom tbh
You went to the theatre to see this? Lmfao
I didn't read it fully and for a second i thought your comment said "and I busted" and then it just ended right there haha
@@qualityrivolt4406 It’s called having younger siblings
"No way Jose"
"It's Michael"
This line is one of those that you miss and then 2 seconds later laugh out loud.
José*
Low bar buddy
@@BeccaMoses "I am the comedy police" Get a job.
I didn’t even get it at first 😭
That's exactly what happened to me lmao
Love how at 11:42 Drew had to mute the audio due to copyright, so he linked "Rich People Have Bad Taste" in the corner. Masterful.
Drew? wdym it's Danny!
@@Br33zifyshut your gob
sorty
@@Br33zify old joke detected 🤢
@@you-nh8xojoke? Thats Danny
@@Br33zify bad joke detected 🤢
Yeah the Space Jam movies were weird and all but can we talk about how Sharkboy and Lavalgirl weren't in EITHER of them?
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Mr Electric send Michael Jordan to the principals office and have him expelled!
This is a sin
Honestly would've made the movies better..👀
That's not even a WB property.
"No way, Jose."
"It's Michael."
That joke killed me.
Same
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Honestly I wish it would have
@@SimonVanliew26 lmao
No that was OJ
I think the first Space Jam was such a big deal because the live-action/animation combo was still pretty novel back then. I mean, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" is obviously the superior film, but Space Jam made us nostalgic for it.
I love how Warner bros said they’d remove lola’s sexuality so they could work on her character in the second movie, than gave her less of a character in the sequel
This seems like a common trend these days. People want to (often rightfully) fix something that hasn't aged well, but they just replace it with...nothing. You might have had a problematic interesting character and now they're a cardboard cutout, which isn't much better.
@@io_est To be fair, Lola wasn't interesting in the slightest in the first movie.
@@galacticglamourgirl Lola in the first movie is pretty inoffensive outside of the sexual stuff that most tend to exaggerate imo, compared to the second one trying so hard to make her relevant because *Independent Female*
@@galacticglamourgirlYeah, I shouldn't have implied that she was great before. I've never seen Space Jam, but this video didn't exactly give me faith that they had anything else going on for her character other than her being eye candy. I more meant that part as a comment on the general trends.
@@io_est true
Drew is just upset that he, as a famous basketball player prominently featured in every Tijuana Flats location, was not included in the sequel
He even teamed with LeBron. What a traitor.
I got good news though, I ate some Tijuana flats today, no picture of “drew gooden” was featured, we are making some progress towards a more little stinky guy society
I guess he'll just have to sulk about it over a taco, chips, and a drink.
@@enshen2190 yay
@@p0p_n0x I’m assuming those chips are takis of course
“Did he just die?? DID BUGS BUNNY JUST DIE???” Made me fall off my chair laughing
I had the same reaction in the theater 😭
And if that wasn’t bad enough. His last line is “that’s all folks”. Lol
Thanks for typing it out. I forgot that part by the end of this short review.
He didn’t actually die , after the credits he shows up as he drops his kid off at camp
@@kbugg0650 yeah, it’s really weird because they just don’t explain at all how Bugs survived.
my brain removed and blocked the inflation scene from my memory and you forcibly dragged it back out again, thanks Drew!
Same. Its almost as if our brain has a natural self defence system that supresses trauma
My brain removed it twice, until drew brought it up and then I read your comment. Can't wait to forget it again.
@@landonkam6727 welcome back to remembering!
@@qlitch I have no clue what we're talking about, so I think I forgot again 👍
Children's comedy sure has changed, I wouldn't necessarily call it evolved, but it sure has changed.
Can you give any examples please? I’m having trouble thinking of any myself
@@leonthethird7494 Less sexualizing of cartoon humanoid lady-rabbits maybe.
Although I haven’t independently verified this fact.
@@seanmatthewking That's not part of the comedy tho so I dont think thats a very good example
@@seanmatthewking she could have used a better voice actor though
@Scott Covert well it changed get over it
I love being Mexican and watching these films dubbed.
The dub saved Jordan and LeBron’s acting in both films. Really epic
It's an awesome dub
dang now i gotta watch this in spanish with captions
Just like the dub for the Star Wars prequels.
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 I watched them in spanish at first and then I watched again in english and I was confused why they talked weird
Like in spanish they had like normal dialogue, but wtf was going in the original dialogue
same thing in brazilian portuguese. jordan has the same voice as batman, he sounds so cool.
im just now realizing how much my nostalgia for this movie has made it seem good to me, because anytime drew shows a clip intending for it to highlight the movies faults, it's still gold to me.
I will admit tho
Definitely hornier than I remember
Ikr it was funnier than I remember
Honestly he tries to make it look bad and fails in almost every way, everything thats bad was either intentional, or he didn't get the joke.
The only "bad" part of the movie is when bill murray shows up at the end. Like no one cares, this wasn't built up, it was a one off line about how awesome bill murray thinks he is. There is no joke there. Otherwise great movie, b+ a- for sure.
New space jam? F to D-
The director of the first Space Jam, Joe Pitka, is literally considered the commercial king. I worked on a KFC commercial with him. The first Space Jam was a Nike ad.
It was all an ad for the space jam jordan 11's
That’s insane
I've always felt like the space jam worship was from people who only vaguely remembers the movie. It had some good one-off humor and stuff and it had MICHAEL FREAKING JORDAN in his prime, but it always felt like a bunch of cartoonists got locked in a room and told they weren't allowed to get lunch until they finished, so they just quickly improvised a "plot".
And even as a little girl, the sexualization of female characters made me really uncomfortable.it would have been one thing if it was like "oh she's so pretty! Let's all be nice to her". But there's something weird about watching a bitch of cartoons try to get some hot bunny action that's just bizarre (and not in the good way)
and yet it still felt like a film, whereas the second was a giant pos
Hahahahaha, Tall Joe
Listen. The first Space Jam wasn’t great. But the intro?? Cinematic Masterpiece. I can’t name a single movie intro that gets me as hype as the one from Space Jam. I still listen to the space jam theme song.
I agree!
Then it’s really just the song you like.
@@yowatchie nope. I like the montage of Michael Jordan’s best NBA moments too. I watch the montage on RUclips sometimes. The whole scene at the beginning of the movie is the only part of the movie that I actually pay attention to.
Seriously, we had the cassette of the soundtrack and listened to it all the time 🤣
COME ON AND SLAM
*AND WELCOME TO THE JAM*
As a kid I wasn't sure if MJs arm actually stretched that far, or if I had just imagined it
shouldnt have ate those paint chips when you were a kid
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12:41 I love the visual of Yosemite Sam playing basketball *with a gun*
We don't talk enough about Drew's editing skills. His timing is impeccable 👌
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#johnnyotti ❌1️⃣⭕⭕💯🔥🔥🔥💪🏾🙏🏿
Jesus the bots are crazy
I agree. also like how his comedic timing hasn’t diverted too much from his comedic timing when he started to make RUclips videos. drew’s editing complements his humor so well
“Touch it”
“Stop it”
I always thought it was universally acknowledged that the first one was terrible and that’s why it’s a classic.
Same, that's why I held absolutely no animosity towards the sequel. Yet surprisingly people got all up in arms
@@piratenerdz1602 Same here. Because I have a feeling todays children will have the same thoughts for the sequel as we do for the OG
I think it's because it was the 90s, when a lot of fans were kids, there was a lot of marketing around the movie, it probably got promoted to hell on Cartoon Network. I think most of the bad reviews are objective people saying, "It may be nostalgic, but the movie is still awful..."
No?
Not being an American, I lost the original domestic reception, but the history I have read is as follows: it was fairly succesful with the main target public, children, and it revitalized the Loony Tunes before theneyes of a generation more familiar with the Tiny Toonies even if it was not the hit the partnership of Jordan and Bugs would make one think it could be. However, as the '90s gave way to the 2000s, said children became cynical teenagers and young adults, and the whole social climate changed, too. The people who had the most reason to remember the movie fondly started to see it for the exercise in commercialism and opportunism it (in part) was. More recently, the nostalgia for the sweet '90s of their childhood and early adolescence (i.e. the yearning for a simpler and arguably less awful time) did its work, and Space Jam started to be seen as an enjoyable artificial of its time. Probably not iconic enough to deserve a sequel or something like, but good fun nevertheless.
When I was a kid, the scene where the kids jeer the players off their court and they're calling them "wannabes." I thought they were saying "Wallabies" so I called everyone a goddamn wallaby for like two months before anyone told me.
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This is the sweetest thing, honestly! I think most kids do that, I remember I thought the gas chain "Kwik Fill" was "Kiwi Fill" due to my mild (undiagnosed) dyslexia until I was like 19. My sister who is 12 years younger than me corrected me when I asked if we were stopping at Kiwi Fill 😅 I think these memories are precious and I hope kids today can be as innocent without growing up too fast or feeling embarrassed for being human.
The scene makes no sense, anyway. If they're such basketball fans, how do they not already know what happened to Charles Barkley and the other 4?
Drew screaming “DID BUGS BUNNY JUST DIE?!?!” in disbelief has me cry-laughing right now. 😂😂😭😭
I can’t help but think there is an intentional parallel between the Looney Tunes being captured by an evil theme park in the movie (made in 1997) and in real life, Six Flags acquired the rights of Looney Tunes in 1984 and used them to market Six Flags. Six Flags also has a park named Magic Mountain. Idk, just thought it was interesting!
Edit: oops it’s tunes not toons
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Well you can definitely get away with calling them "The Looney Toons", cause the show itself is about the music, the tunes, but the characters are cartoons, so it makes more sensr to call em toons imo.
That’s really interesting. I guess warner brothers had a grudge
@@Netizpossible sense*
I think the writer/director of this movie just had an unbridled lust for basketball players and had no socially acceptable outlet for it.
So he chose looney toones
you know what, pretty valid theory tbh.
Better then my theory tbh
Yeah.
it started with two super bowl nike ads so, (which featured jordans and the tunes so yea)
To be honest, Drew is a former NBA player
Like it or hate it, he makes sense
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Also he created youtube so .. like it or hate it .. everyone should be grateful to him!
@@amyfarrel4374 yeah exactly
Oh yea I forgor 💀
@@skibiditoiletbrainrot_ i rember 😁
i love how over the years, the drawings he puts in the background get better.
This is one of the last movies i ever saw with my father before he died the next year. When you started showing scenes from the movie i quite literally started tearing up and now I'm trying to pull myself together. It may have been a silly movie but it's still dear to my heart. Thank you
I wish i could know for sure if you were telling the truth. Ppl on the internet. Ill give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this really happened. Hope you the best
Pouring one out for your dad.
@@henrysphone6364 bruh why even say anything
@@henrysphone6364 I don't see why people would lie about this? It's not like they are getting any benefit saying this
@Henry's Phone dude you don't know them. so to assume that someone's lying is something I wouldn't do if I were you
"Like maybeeeee... talking about my hotdog?" And that's the phrase that got Drew banned on most social media platforms.
“He doesn’t have time for sports anymore he’s too busy playing baseball and golf” lmao
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@Wally Wally This song is terrible, now PERISH
The first movie was exactly what it was supposed to be, thats what makes it so good. The second one just felt like a giant warner brothers ad for a streaming service
Yes
@@dthbdbsfgh The first one was an enjoyable movie for kids tho, I watched the second with my little brother who loves lebron. Without me saying a word, he got bored and stopped watching 20 mins in. Hes a 10 year old and told me it was boring and he could care less and would rather play 2k lmao.
Nah they both shit
true, even if the original space jam was bad, it's campy and loveably bad and i think that's what it was supposed to be
I never watched space jam but I always thought it was so weird that people praised it so highly when it's about aliens, looney toons, and basketball players
At least it was new and original. This time it's just "let's throw in lebron and milk that shit!!"
@@Wiizl it was just really dumb
That's exactly the reason this is so good
@@Wiizl in al honesty, it was the absolute epitome of a marketing cash grab, it was only original in how blatant it was
@@Wiizl I don't know about original... Who Framed Roger Rabbit took the whole cartoon in reality concept and fucking ran with it, with way better execution. But I think that crossover is what really stuck with people, because let's be real, who doesn't like the idea of running with cartoons? I mean that's why I liked Space Jam!
I didn't even like space jam when I was a kid, yet my mom assumed I loved it and bought me a bunch of space jam decor for my bedroom for some reason
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Wtf are the replies?
same. I just made a similar comment saying I don't remember caring about it, nor did any of my friends. If parents bought toys it was because they marketed the shit out of it and it was all over the place. Parents most likely bought the toys and merch because it was pushed in all of the stores.
@@samfitz5416 the youtube replies have been particularly overrun with bots recently
I just finished Danny’s video and immediately after drew uploaded this is the height of luxury
same😭
Same 😄
Same 🥲
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I love the random basketball 101 given at 13:50
The clip where he stretches his arm very far with questionable editing and scores cracks me up every time
seems like a looney tune thing to do.
Sings
amanda the jedi made a really good video that, in part, talked about how the branding in the new space jam was wayyy more overbearing than the old one, even though they both obviously use a ton of it
Drew's wife is a jedi?!?!?!
@@wishtopublish lol
this whole movie is just wb flexing it's properties
Y'know, I've heard many people talk about how space jam was their furry awakening, but now I'm just thinking about how many people discovered their inflation kink in this movie.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has competition now
Wtf is a inflation kink?
@@gohom3882 HUMAN BALLOON AHHSJSJDJS
As someone who grew up to have an inflation kink, this scene didn't do shit for me. Didn't enjoy it then or now, it's got to be one of the least sexy inflation scenes there is.
If only it had happened to Lola Bunny instead...
@@Mriya6 kinks are hereditary
Fun fact: Bill Murray is in the film because he just showed up on set and made up his lines!! Look it up is disturbingly true
I have looked it up and I can't find a single reference to this "fact." So I'm pretty sure you made it up.
Apparently, the reason Bill Muray is in this film was that Michael Jordan was miserable on set and just needed someone not in a green suit to talk to.
I had heard that one of the producers from Ghostbusters was involved with Space Jam and was just like “Hey Bill wanna come do this?”
so you're telling me Lola Bunny is fake? what now, you gonna tell me the entire looney tunes are just cartoons? 🙄
@@ayubali2431 no way. it cant be true
@@ayubali2431 no it’s just Lola bunny that’s fake
Who knew a movie with a crap direction would be a nightmare to act in? Its like its bad to alow idiots to be in charge. I for one didn't mind the movie but no one can say its on par with the first unless they are insain and think they were made in the same way.
“He doesn’t have time for sports anymore, he’s too busy playing baseball, and golf”
@Emily An You don’t make sense
Hi I would like to buy this video, my offer is 3 walnuts and a ball of yarn
Good one!!!!!
Literally pawn stars lol
vouch
A ball of yams
🤔 Are the walnuts shelled and what kind of yarn?
11:50 i dunno if its just me but the captions are kinda fucky arlund here
I really appreciate the fact that you put time into actually writing out captions and not just relying on the automated ones. So yeah…thank you for that :)
I imagine he pays someone to do so but I appreciate it regardless
i guess this will works as a collective "you" ^
i fix CC and translate sometimes for fun if i can be assed and notice the user edits are enabled
e.g. in macdoesit's vids i believe fans do most of the captioning, often adding lil jokes of their own here n there, and are generally pretty active n eager to participate
@@sambibambi5409 didn’t youtube remove that feature tho? About a year or so ago they removed the ability for people to help out making/editing cc on the platform, which really sucked because it was a really good feature :(
@@blue1584 shiii i think youre right, what the hell :( googled 'youtube community captions' and yeah i guess they really flushed that down the toilet last year
did drew really go the whole review without mentioning that the mutant alien guys are called the MONSTARS?
Yup. What a blunder. He must have been in his phone the whole time he was watching it.
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The first space jam was aimed at the age group that I was in at the time, so I loved it. Still love if for the nostalgia. Of course it isn’t perfect, but I always put it on if I stumble upon it.
you can criticize Dion Waiters for his bad acting in that clip but I thought he did a great job portraying 'man learning how to read for the first time'
The one thing the old Space Jam has over the new one and it's not even close is the soundtrack. Full of bangers! Also, MonStars > Goon Squad.
Yeah the Monstars felt like actual characters.
you're 100% right
when I was a kid, I would rewatch the credits many times just to listen to all the songs again and again
The MonStars' theme was literally a collaboration by LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Coolio, Method Man and B-Real, how fucking cool is that???
“Touch it” “Stop it” the perfect edit
When you were like “you know who else isn’t a good actor?” I really expected you to say Bugs Bunny
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I thought he was going to say "My mom"
almost burned my house down making a grilled cheese while watching this video a year ago and now this video smells like burnt grilled cheese
what the fuck
one thing that has certainly spawned from this movie is that there’s an uptick in people stealing lebron heads
it used to be zero, now it’s definitely past two, as a walmart employee I highly approve of it but it’s an interesting thing that’s happened from this movie nonetheless
weird
Sings
Kevin Garnett actually gives a great performance in Uncut Gems, and not even just for a professional basketball player, but for anyone
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I was just thinking that
Agreed
Ray Allen in He Got Game also had a great performance too
YES
Danny and Drew on the same day this is a gift
no it's the last day of the month and their sponsors have a deadline
And within a few minutes of each other
Exactly lol
Yeah forget capturing the avatar
.. With Kurtis just 1 day ago
The Holy Trinity
What I remember from Space Jam (and I only saw it like two years ago, I have no emotional childhood attachment to this franchise):
- Michael Jordan talks to cartoon characters
- Good soundtrack
- A whole lot of basketball
- The guy from Ghostbusters becomes a balloon
Edit because I wrote this before watching the video (like a buffoon): It was Wayne Knight who turned into a balloon. Because of course it was.
My favorite part of this movie is that you don't realize Bill Murray is playing himself until about halfway through the movie. Like, yes, Michael Jordan is playing himself, but Wayne Night is playing a completely fictional character. Until they called him "Mr. Murray" I just assumed Bill was some random... friend
Bill Murray actually appears as himself in a lot of comedies, now that you mention it
I recall an offhand mention of how the producer got him involved (in the game, but also probably the movie in general). Also, the main boss guy calling him 'Dan Aykroyd' is comedy genius in my books.
Literally only one of the main actors plays a character and you're confused that Bill Murray is playing himself
C'mon Drew, everyone knows that the first Space Jam is so much better than the second because it has Danny Devito in it.
danny devito keanu reeves reddit speech 100 chungus moment minecraft fortnite bad
Danny DeVito is the best
This one has Austin Powers.
Dismissed.
Ahhh yes the second most famous Danny according to Famous birthdays.
@@tunafish5462 the first famous Danny being Drew Gooden
Meanwhile, Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) starring Brendan Fraser has absolutely no flaws and can be compared to other cinematic masterpieces such as Shrek (2001) and Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleased (2004).
Brendan Fraser is a god of fun movies, I can't think of one movie with him that I dislike, dude was great and I remember him fondly
@@injetavel279 What about Crash? Do you like that one?
Sarcasm aside I actually like back in action though
It's just so absolutely stupid it ends up being great for me.
I beg to differ! It is Scooby Doo: Zombie Island 🙄
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For those complaining that the sequel was too long, can we please collectively remember that the first movie's opening credits were like 6-7 hours long
The rant about the end of playoff NBA games was the most relatable thing Drew’s ever said
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you just convinced me that the original movie's scripts was indeed genius and hilarious. also the b-plot of the 5 players is the best part lol
That scene where they go to the medium is kinda funny. Also, Charles Barkely promising he'll never swear again if God gives him his talent back is fine.
Yeah this video did for me the exact opposite of his intention. The original has everything one loves about Looney Tunes. Especially with after them drinking the secret stuff and becoming suddenly “good” at basketball with violence
@@Sellipsis Yes, Porky Pig would say "I peed myself." Looney Tunes was not known for gross out humor
Genius and hilarious? Yikes.
facts. everything he thought we were laughing at was intended to be funny. In the context of the whole movie that shit hits. also surprised he didnt google the cast and see that Danny Devito played the mucus monster
What matters is context.
The Loony Toons were super popular when Space Jam came out, so everyone was excited to go on adventure with them and America's most famous athlete at the time. Not to mention all the cool 90's music.
Space jam 2 feels solely like a cash grab, even if the 1st one was too. But it was also new and exciting within the context of the 90's.
Yes, precisely this.
yes i couldn’t agree more, well said
The first one was made to sell Jordan’s shoes and is 100% a cash grab. It’s probably more of a cash grab than the second one
Yes Space Jam was a fresh original movie. So much more entertaining and funny to me with the real GOAT
i.e. *Back in my day intensifies*
12:56, he filled it up from the Hot Water tap, which puts them at risk of lead poisoning
I'm not going to lie, this video has completely reminded me exactly of why I loved space jam as a child and I still think that I possibly will still enjoy it and do want to watch it again. Thanks Drew, I know that wasn't your point, but I appreciate it anyway.
Right! I’m ready to rewatch the original now 🤣
Yeah I haven't seen both but after seeing some clips of the second movie and then seeing this video, I still think the original is better and ACTUALLY funny at times.
Yeah honestly it was a good mix of over the top looney tunes stuff and the human parts of the story. The scenes where Barkley and Ewing are dealing with losing their powers are really funny. I watched it over and over as a kid and it's still good today imo
90's humour is still pretty funny to me, and I feel like the writers these days are just terrible compared to them
The superior Looney Tunes movie has always been 2003’s Looney Tunes: Back In Action starring Canadian heartthrob Brendan Fraser.
Greatest movie of all time in my opinion.
OH SHIT I REMEMBER THAT
I frickin LOVE this movie!
I love Brendan Fraser so much.
Honestly I think that movie deserved a sequel, not space jam
Casey Frey cameo tho 😏
whatsup chregkmark
all of y'alls lips are now chapped
I don't gotta talk down I just move how I need.
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Nice comedic timing!
to be fair, "challenging short aliens to basketball in a comedic attempt to outsmart them" is exactly a Looney Tunes thing to do
Bugs clowned on Gossamer by pretending to be a hair stylist one time, have you ever _seen_ Looney Tunes?
The whole time he was criticizing looney tunes scenes was exactly the kind of thing they would do in their cartoons, I didn't see anything wrong with it LOL it was great just seeing these clips again
That’s why the original Space Jam works whereas the new one doesn’t. Space Jam 1 played up the absurdity of situations and gave stupid, looney tunes styled solutions to them like pumping a guy with air after he got flattened, whereas Space Jam 2 is just references to other movies and shows. It’s not the Looney Tunes, it’s some executives trying to make a quick buck with the Looney Tunes
Yea I wasnt understanding where he was going with certain points. I was sitting here just thinking, "well isn't that the point of looney tunes ? To be in looney, wacky impossible situations ??" The first space jam gave exactly what needed to be given, stayed pretty faithful to the cartoon.
We get two of Danny’s vids in one day now that’s srsly intense 🔥
FR
But takis…
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It’s cause it’s the last day of the month, sponsorship deadlines..
fun fact the first time i heard that bugs bunny dies in this one and that his last words were “that’s all folks” i actually crumpled to the floor.
makes sense
Didn't expect a Britanick reference, good to know someone's still repping the classics.
I always saw space jam as a kind of fever dream from my childhood that was simultaneously a mass hallucination
I feel like they should've just stopped with strawberry and raspberry jam
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What about pineapple 😔
I mean, my favorite is strawberry and I still think you should include grape jam
mango, apple and mixed fruit too.
Me seeing raspberry jam instead of grape jam: How dare you stand where he stood!
Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez expect us to believe he's 2 different people even though he couldn't be bothered to change his initials between his alter egos, let alone his appearance and personality
Oh I didn’t realize that til know hahaha
fun fact about me: i was in dance class and the first dance i had to perform was a dance to the space jam theme song (idfk), and so when you started playing the theme song, my body went into a fight or flight response before remembering that this is a youtube video and i don't have to perform a dance.
The biggest sin of "Space Jam 2: LeBron gets kidnapped" really is being almost two hours long. I enjoyed the movie quite a bit until the basketball game began. I was even looking forward to it, until I realized that the game would last another whole hour, especially because it wasn't as entertaining because of the *style points* imo
God, same
And the rap battle that contributes to the score.
I think that’s the problem with cinema these days. RUclips video essays are 45 minutes to 3 hours long, 12-16 hour tv shows get binged in a day, so every film HAS to be long enough to be justified. This movie might have been better if it was less dramatic and leaned into the fact that it’s legacy is trash rather than trying to do an epic family drama for 20 minutes with an hour and a half of meta reference gags.
Drew's actual knowledge of basketball makes the jokes in this video so much better:
"That's touching Lebron, but I'm gonna have to give you a shot clock violation because you've been holding the ball for four minutes"
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Space Jam 2 heavily reminds me of the worst RUclips rewind videos. It’s like Warner Bros just took every successful media they had the rights to and mashed them into one very confusing storyline that mostly skips around but somehow had a happy ending.
I agree with Drew that the new movie was too long, but other than that I honestly just enjoyed it. It was just entertaining. It was just fun to sit back and just take something in like when I was a kid.
Space Jam had Lola Bunny in it so the younger me didn't care if it was good or not
Understandable have a great day.
Sounds like that still applies
@@escaping.matrix.123 not hot lola bunny tho
ew
And she was voiced by Kath Soucie and not a recast that was done for the 100 million Instagram followers it came with.
Drew I think this is the most controversial thing you’ve ever brought up
welp i'm gonna miss him.
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If you honestly still like the original movie you haven’t seen it In a long time
@@johnwerner69 No it’s just everyone around me always said it was a great movie but when I watched it I didn’t see anything great about it, didn’t speak up in fear of being murdered. Who framed Roger rabbit was wayyyy better
@@johnwerner69 I still like it and I rewatched it 2 weeks ago ....I still like jt.....so shut it
I can't believe Lebron James played in the NBA for 17 years just to prepare for this role.
He won 4 rings, 4 FMVP, 4 MVP, and all that for a movie, impressive commitment I got to say.
Respect the method
I wish every actor and actress had this level of dedication to their roles.
The greatest method actor of all time
not that outro wishing me a happy easter while i'm randomly watching this the day before easter......💀
I couldn't stop laughing at the end when bugs bunny fucking gets erased from existence for his basketball crimes
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@@Pamella951 cool
But he came back to life? Which is just as surprising tbh
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@@Pamella951 Yep. Tbm nunca tinha visto n fiquei surpreso agr kkkkkk
That "You gon' make me act up" shit fucking killed me.
Michael Jordan is 6' 6"? Dang, he should've taken a basketball career instead of acting!
Yeah he was really believable as a basketball player!
Agreed. What a waste of talent.
I always thought it was stupid they made him a baseball player for the movie. That would never happen lmao
I thought he was taller... only an inch taller than me. Most people always assume I must be good at basketball.
Love the new video Danny, I didn’t know you had a new channel
I’m actually here to say children most definitely care about King Kong.
Are you being serious or sarcastic?
@@allstarmattking6825 Very serious, I’m helping with a summer camp and the 6-8 year olds are insane for Godzilla and King Kong
@@asafupps very true, my nephew loves the movie
Yeah like 42 or something children at the camp. I dont care for godzilla or king kong
Godzilla is better and stronger
This video just reaffirmed the fact that Space Jam 1 is fire.
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like we should set it on fire?
I like to imagine Amanda filming that beginning. Did she laugh? How many takes did they do? Was she part of the planning for that scene?
Some question are better unanswered
shes the hotdog
People seem to forget that NBA players in movies were actually a big thing in the 90s and that space jam was originally based on a commercial with bugs and MJ made years prior so there was already hype around the looney tunes and NBA collab. What is SJ2 playing off of? Just nostalgia of the first and nothing more.
Sequels are historically worse than the original with a few exceptions and SJ2 isn't one of them.
“A well dressed booger needs to kidnap the Looney Tunes so they can liven up his dilapidated amusement park.”
Mm yes entertainment
Sounds like actual Six Flags now that I think about it
I started reading this exactly when Drew started saying it.
Rick and Morty type shit