Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe team behind the blockbuster Michael Jordan docuseries “The Last Dance” are now taking their jam to space.
22.07.2021 - 02:47 / justjared.com
Joe Pytka, the director of the original Space Jam movie in the 90s, is speaking out with his thoughts on the sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy.
To sum up his comments, let’s just say that he’s not a fan at all!
Pytka spoke to TMZ about the new movie and he said it took him five different sittings to finish the two-hour movie.
Click inside for everything he said…
“The truth is that LeBron ain’t Michael,” he said while comparing the original movie’s star Michael Jordan to the sequel’s star LeBron
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThe team behind the blockbuster Michael Jordan docuseries “The Last Dance” are now taking their jam to space.
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Space Jam film, has hailed its sequel so “boring” that he “couldn’t finish it in one sitting”.In an interview with TMZ, the filmmaker said that it took him five separate sessions to finish the film, which he referred to as “an uninteresting mess”.Pytka also took aim at the film’s star LeBron James, who he believes doesn’t hold the same celebrity appeal that Space Jam‘s star Michael Jordan held in 1996.“The truth is that LeBron ain’t Michael,” he said, while adding that the sequel lacked “a
The director of the original “Space Jam” doesn’t seem to be a fan of the new sequel.
Personal foul! Joe Pytka, director of the original Space Jam, has some thoughts on the new sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy — and they’re not great.
“Space Jam: A New Legacy” hasn’t been a hit for everybody — and apparently that includes the director of the original “Space Jam.” In fact, Joe Pytka has revealed that he has a laundry list of problems the sequel to his 1996 hit.In comments made to TMZ, Pytka revealed that it actually took him five different sittings to finish “A New Legacy,” rather than watching it all in one two-hour period. His biggest problem with it was mostly its protagonist, LeBron James.
Space Jam film, with Dwayne Johnson as its star.“Dwayne Johnson would be an interesting choice,” the director told Entertainment Weekly.He added: “It would be different. I’m not sure what his skillset would be, maybe he goes back to wrestling.
wrote with a grinning emoji.The sequel to 1996’s Michael Jordan-led “Space Jam” pulled in more than $13 million on Friday, according to multiple reports, despite poor reviews.
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“abomination,” to which the audience consensus seems to be, “Well, what did you expect?” The sequel to the ’90s cult classic, “Space Jam,” was unleashed Friday at theaters and on HBO Max to some not-so-glowing reviews, with critics panning it as “garish and soulless” and simply “pointless.” But many Twitter users think that anyone holding high expectations for the LeBron James-starring animated film needs to come back down to earth.One Twitter commenter, @el_budget, had a concise response to
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has a new star player in LeBron James, but the sequel knows who did it first: As LeBron, playing a version of himself, goes about recruiting a basketball team's worth of Looney Tunes, there are a number of winky references to another NBAer having done this all before. It's not until the movie's big game that Michael Jordan's name is first dropped.
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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.