Retro saturdays and space jam

Welcome to the space jam, with those words the infamous intro song pumped you up and got you ready for the action. Space jam like it's title suggests, is about a basketball game played in looney toons world which is the gist of this movie. The loony toons are happy being their cartoon selves when aliens from another planet invade the cartoon world. Said aliens are about 2 feet tall and get mad by being short and challenged to a b b ball game by the toons. Rather then take steroids (which wouldn't help in basketball) or get stilts, they decide to steal the talents of: charles barkely,shawn bradley(why not shaq?) mugsey bogues, patrick ewing and larry johnson who all at that the time were all stars and great nba players

Michael Jordan movie wise was retired from the nba and playing minor league baseball so his talent didn't get stolen, therefore bugs bunny steals him during a game of golf with bill murray and larry bird. He quickly joins the loony toons to help the team and instantly becomes their best player. One thing I don't get is why didn't the monstars steal alonzo mourning or shaq or david robinson's talent instead of shawn bradley. In 1996 or 1995 or 1994 when this movie was most likely made, those 3 players were much better then shawn(sorry) and looking back at it now it looks like a silly choice

The basis is a winner take all game in loony toon world which of course the toons win although not without some drama and funny skits among the way and even a bill murray cameo. At the end mj decides to go back to the bulls and we seem him playing against the magic(you can even see shaq) and we all have a happy ending

At the time of it's release MJ was and still is a huge superstar and this was a great move to do this movie. It was extremely popular and I even had a toon squad and monstars jerseys, I also had a space jam backpack I carried everywhere. It came with a small plush bugs bunny and had a little fold down hoop with a foam ball. I used to carry my goosebumps books in it among with disney adventures magazines and egm2 and gamepro magazines and my taco bell stretch armstrong toys

For a generation of boys it was cool to see mj and bugs bunny team up