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Published 16:45 25 Oct 2016 BST
Updated 16:54 25 Oct 2016 BST
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It goes without saying that Space Jam is utterly, utterly ridiculous. It doesn't make sense as a sports film, and it doesn't really make much sense as a cartoon either. For a movie about basketball, there's bugger all of it in the entire film. There's no training montages or inspirational coaching moments - literally, the last thing Jordan says before the Tunes are potentially enslaved for the rest of their lives is, "Guys, let's just go out and have fun." Good job, coach.
If this were a Looney Tunes cartoon, it would have been over in six minutes. Someone would have dropped an anvil on the aliens and then blown up the anvil with dynamite and then dropped the blown-up anvil off a cliff and then let a steamroller run over the blown-up anvil. Unfortunately, six minutes does not a movie make, so the Tunes have to save their anarchic approach to problem solving until the very end of the film, by which time they may as well be playing nuclear war instead of basketball.
But the thing about Space Jam is that literally none of that matters. Space Jam isn't about making sense or being logical; it's about blind, relentless optimism in the face of madness and death. A team of giant aliens with the embodied talent of five NBA stars versus Michael Jordan and a useless bunch of cartoons - what else are you supposed to do except go out and have fun?
And when it looks like you're about to be consigned to an eternity of slavery in an alien theme park, all you need is a blast of Michael's Secret Stuff - you know, the stuff that's been inside you all along - to spur yourself on to victory.
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