![]() Space Jam: A New Legacy plays this whole thing with deadly seriousness, too! There’s no wink at the camera, no gag undercutting the moment. And the gambit works! The Toons win, the day is saved, and Bugs is mourned on Toon World as he seems to ascend to the heavens in what’s maybe the most bizarre scene in a thoroughly bizarre movie. LeBron wants to be the one to sacrifice himself, but just before he’s about to catch the ball, Bugs intercepts it and performs The Move instead. In the climax of A New Legacy, Dom thinks this might be true of Al-G’s version of Dom Ball too, and that reproducing the glitch will cause Al-G to lose control - at the expense of one player being deleted forever. Dom wasn’t able to finish, though, so doing the move causes Dom Ball to glitch out and the character who performed it to be deleted forever. There is, however, a flaw in Dom Ball: Dom, wanting to pay tribute to his star father, put a signature move that LeBron taught him into the game. Thus, it’s impossible to actually beat Al-G, because he can always cheat. ServerVerse controlled by the sentient algorithm Al-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle), the entire game is dictated by his whims. Coyote gag involving a ball-multiplier machine that comes out of nowhere simply because it’s time for the game to end.) The only thing that is clear is that, since the game is taking place in the Warner Bros. (The best and worst moment of this is when a thousand-point deficit is closed with a pretty great Wile E. ![]() More in a confusing, how-do-we-know-who’s-going-to-win? way. Other than the vague notion of video game-style power-ups, there are no clear rules to Dom Ball - but not in a fun way. There are no power-ups in the NBA (just cool sneakers), and while I think basketball is already pretty sweet, it might be even better if, like Dom Ball, it had a bit of Mario Kart thrown in there. Dom calls it “basketball, but better,” which (1) offends LeBron deeply, and (2) is kind of true. Instead, LeBron James and the Tune Squad are facing off against the Goon Squad in Dom Ball, a video game made by LeBron’s son, Dom. Unlike in the original film, the climactic sports showdown in Space Jam: A New Legacy isn’t really a basketball game. In the end, video games do the wily hare in. So of course, Space Jam: A New Legacy kills Bugs Bunny. It’s also a movie for children, and must therefore conclude with an ending that speaks to the child in all of us: by being pleasant and also entirely predictable. ![]() Space Jam, as a franchise, is known for its intricate plotting that heavily foreshadows carefully constructed climaxes, as the Jungian archetype that each Looney Tunes character represents plays off the more Freudian psychology of the NBA players they’re juxtaposed against for a finish that is both satisfying and thematically rich. I am going to spoil the end of Space Jam: A New Legacy.
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