Postmodernism at its finest.... or lowest.
Space Jam 2 or " a new legacy" is an abhorrent sequel that soils the good name of its predecessor.
its a dumpster fire and a lacklustre one at that, its only defining feature is the amount of ip's contained within the film, yet its also the films biggest problem as it truly shows we are living in a postmodern era, no new ideas to be seen.
Rather than developing a good story with likeable characters, Warner Brothers rather opts to copy and paste the story of the original but make it more modern, take a giant basketball star and the looney tunes ands mash them together, BUT!! this time make it..... tech, this takes away from any charm the original had as it entertained the idea of the looney tune world being right below us, a real life fantasy, yet this film takes that all away and decides to apply a more realistic, yet very boring explanation to how the real world can cross over with the tune world.... Technology.
The tunes have become 3 dimensional in a strange way using CGI yet their personalities have become 2 dimensional, diverging from themselves in this films precursor, they where colourful and full of life, and now replaced with what seems to be robotic lifeless versions.
at the end of the film we are thrown in to a basketball match, and to watch the match is all the character Warner Brothers could find, Pennywise, Batman, Joker, people from game of thrones and Harry potter etc. this distracts the viewer from the actual action, as we are too busy trying to catch all the character but when we do we are greeted with a deformed version of them that hold resemblance to their actual movie version, but just look odd as they are not played by the actual actors, this leaves a bad taste in the mouth for the spectator as we can clearly see the studio was too busy getting as many characters they could to sell the film instead of actually making a GOOD FILM.
everything is just a copy of something that has already happened.
my review: BEST FILM IVE EVER SEEN!!!! ✰✰✰✰✰
Interesting and not at all surprising - the original Space Jam was already a pretty good example of postmodern culture but this reboot sounds like the kind of facsimile that would give Baudrillard plenty to talk about! When examining culture that is so obviously of its time can often lead us to believe that there's no questioning its Postmodernism credentials or Postmodernism as a theory... However... I think it's always worth looking at a couple of other theories that might still be applicable from a traditional sense - such as Neale's Genre theory or Todorov's stages of Narrative - do they still hold up even when everything else is there purely from a surface perspective?
The other theories which are also…