More fun to look forward to than actually to look at: a feature-lengthening of the TV commercials combining a live-action Michael Jordan and an animated Bugs Bunny, here reunited under the same director, Joe Pytka, along with other Looney Tunes luminaries, and at the last minute Bill Murray, for a basketball game against cartoon extraterrestrials. (Don't ask why.) The 1973 prologue conjuring up a juvenile Mike and his -- in real life, murdered -- father shows questionable judgment. The loud and flashy reprise of athletic-career highlights then wastes time explaining who Michael Jordan is. The constant shuttling back and forth, early on, between the natural world and the cartoon world creates considerable mess. (It's fun, for a second, to hear Tweetie try to enunciate Jordan's name, but Daffy doesn't sound much like himself, more like Richard Dreyfuss.) The aliens, whether in their diminutive form or their bulked-up Mean Team form, are crudely drawn. And the movie never really finds its legs, never escapes the shadow of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (the three-dimensional shading of the formerly flat Looney Tuners, the curvaceous Lola Bunny for rabbity romantic interest), never is rescued by the old Warner Brothers wit and quickness. All in all, the furthest thing from a slam dunk. An absolute air ball. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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