Seriously, this is one of my favorite childhood movies, and every single person i know agrees with me. The score is unbelievable to me. Who is voting for the rating on this thing. The lowest possible rating I believe it should have is MAYBE a 7.8? It is on right now and I still am laughing. Bill Murray is hilarious, there are so many funny parts, Jordan is awesome...what is the deal.
shareIts true, remembering how great the movie was when i was growing up i was surprised by the rating, so i went back to watch it again now that i am older. The movie does suck, and only works for youngsters who don't think beyond anything else. When i was young i'd probably give this movie a 10, now i give it a 4/10.
shareI thought there were satire parts. Like when there showing the introduction basketball video, it was all white guys, that didn't really play well style wise. Then next scene they went straight to a basketball showing all black guys on the court who were very good at what they were doing.
sharefilm nerds go into the cinema expecting character development and a strong plot and come out disappointed.
seriously this movie catered to fans of MJ and basketball. the rest will never understand why we love it
Loved it then, love it now, 10/10
Greatest Movie Line Ever: "GARBAGE DAY !"
Or people go in expecting to watch some of their favorite characters only to seem them degraded for the sake of a Michael Jordon commercial. If you're more of a Michael Jordon fan or like masturbating to bunnies with boobs, then of course your going to Space Jam more than people who really like Looney Tunes who will just consider their characters wasted in this film.
On the plus side, it was probably a better commercial choice for Jordon than doing something based off his Hanes ads... but not as fun as a Barkley vs Godzilla movie could have been.
If you're more of a Michael Jordon fan or like masturbating to bunnies with boobs, then of course your going to Space Jam more than people who really like Looney Tunes who will just consider their characters wasted in this film.
I feel like a lot of people only like this movie for nostalgic reasons. People come up with excuses as to why they still enjoy it, but always seem to mention that it reminds them of their childhood. I don't doubt that people still enjoy watching this movie as adults, but they're probably enjoying the nostalgia and childhood memories moreso than the actual movie itself
Excuse me... I believe you have my stapler
When i was 5 or 6 i would watch this movie all the time and i enjoyed it.I am 21 right and i can still enjoy Space Jam,3 ninjas,the Super Mario Bros Movie and the Power Rangers Movie and it does bring back memories in a good way not in a way that makes me sad and wish i can be a kid again. Space Jam is not something that is TV MA or Rated R that has topless women,swearing and violence,but it is silly and fun. I am 21 and can still laugh and be entertained by Spacejam,i can enjoy all those shows and movies that are TV MA and Rated R,but can also enjoy shows and movies from my childhood
I use to own this town Now my life's been turned upside down Just a phase I'm going through
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Not for me like i said i am 21 and i can still enjoy movies i saw when i was younger without wishing I was a kid again
I use to own this town
Now its been turned upside down
Do You Think Its Just a phase I'm going through
Haven't seen it in awhile, but I do remember my parents enjoying it at the time.
"This guy next to me is doing something very weird in his raincoat!"
There are actually horny furies who love Space Jam. That exists.
shareAhh, Space Jam - I was young when I first watched this movie and, well let's be honest, I'm still young today. I remember first watching this after preschool at the extended day-care waiting for my parents to pick me up. I loved the movie, because of Michael Jordan, the Looney Toons, and that R. Kelly song, "I Believe I Can Fly". I'm 19 now, soon to be 20, and I can still say that this movie rocks my socks off. I think the reason why this movie holds sentimental value to me (and for many others as well) is that it brings me back to those happy days when I was really young. Back when I was growing up in the 90s, MJ and the home team Chicago Bulls were still running down their string of championship rings, the Nintendo 64 cartridges were still getting blown to work correctly, and the small paper milk cartons were hell to open (still are). These things represented my upbringing. When you're a kid, you don't look for commercialism and money-hungry corporations. You look for innocent, funny, exciting, child-centric things. This is exactly the reason why I still like many of the movies I watched as a kid. I didn't need to look past blatant advertisements or product placement, because I just didn't care.
This is why I agree with you, FilmGeekWannabe. Though there is no one way to view a movie, I think some people look far too in-depth into them, or have a set mindset or ideal on how a movie is supposed to be. The storyline must be this or that, the movie has to have this but it can't have that. Watching movies through kids eyes is much more simplistic and enjoyable and so I would rather hold onto that childhood perception of film, rather than looking through the amateur director's view, criticizing every bad thing the movie does. Space Jam still is one of my favorite movies, and I would give it a 10,000 out of 10 for the great job it does helping me reminisce of those days and for the many times that movie brought me happiness in that daycare. Thanks Space Jam
This is the truth of how most people are. Most of us don't become sad elitists picking on cartoon characters. I really think some of it just a bad defense mechanism when some kids grown up lives suck. anything that reminds them of their past is now terrible and anyone who likes it is either full of nostalgia or doesn't have "taste". It's really not Bugs Bunny's fault at all.
The average person however doesn't become this. I'd be hardpressed to find adults or people i grew up with now that all of a sudden dislike cartoons. They like what they liked then and have continued to grow their tastes from there, not shrink them and go on message boards to complain about them.
However a fun thing you may notice is that a lot of these rating sites used to be stomping grounds for the haters. But now that more normal people are all over social media, sites like them as well as here and youtube are slowly becoming more positive of older things. Including right here on IMDb, several older movies and cartoons have seen their ratings creep up as time goes on.
Gamefaqs has a far worse population than IMDB
It is Bugs Bunny's fault, actually. If you are a true looney tunes fan, then Space Jam is basically kicking you in the balls.
shareNot a fan of either, but I remember that the animation was groundbreaking for the time (along with roger rabbit) and still holds up well today. You look back at some CGI scenes for LOTR and despite being more recent haven't aged well.
share Let me put it like this: Who Framed Roger Rabbit was closer in time to Tron than Space jam (and yes, they're using computer animation in Space Jam). Space Jam was not a groundbreaking film in any way except in giving a ton of speaking lines to hall of fame basketball players.
Death to shakeycam directors!
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Hopefully this should answer some of your questions. I don't always agree with everything he says, but there is always some truth to what he says. And it's always really funny.
People forget it's a kids' movie--silly and fun--and judge it by uncompromising adult merits.
Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves.
Nobody is forgetting that Space Jam is a children's movie. I, as an adult, have the right to hate a movie made for children.
shareNo matter what age it will always be a 10/10 for me. I just remember loving it so much and watching it again makes me feel like a little kid again. Ah good ol nostalgia.
It will never get a good rating because of the type of movie it is, but it doesn't mean it is not a fun movie...at least for those who saw it when they were young.
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