Amy Nicholson Professional basketball players are a marvel seemingly created by an animator’s pen: elongated arms, mountainous shoulders, whirlwind speed and an ability to leap over defenders in a single bound.
Even among other athletes, they’re unique physical outliers incapable of blending into a crowd — let alone a movie — unless playing themselves.
Or unless their scene partner is also able to contort into a rocket and blast off into space., i.e., is a cartoon.That was the setup of 1996’s “Space Jam,” which challenged the Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan to team up with Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd to win a basketball game that would secure the Looney Tunes’ freedom from an evil corporate overlord.
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