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Joe Petka – director of Michael Jordan’s original “Space Jam” – chimes in on the LeBron James reboot, calling it an uninteresting mess… and that’s about the nicest thing to say.
Pytka – also known for directing popular music videos and commercials in the 80s and 90s, including the “I Am Tiger Woods” commercial – told TMZ… “Space Jam: A New Legacy” is so boring, it can’t be finished in one sitting.
In fact, he says it took 5 separate sessions to complete 2 hours of uptime.
The director has many issues with rebooting, starting with LBJ. Pytka points out that when “Space Jam” was produced in 1996, MJ wasn’t just the best basketball player… he was the biggest celebrity in the world.
Joe says LeBron is a great athlete and a very good actor, but adds… “The truth is, LeBron isn’t Michael.” Furthermore, Pytka says that his movie connected the plot to MJ’s personal life – his retirement from the rings to play baseball – while the new movie misses the personal connection to LeBron.
Pytka is just getting started… He feels that 1996’s “Space Jam” featured a very superior supporting cast with Charles Barkley, Maggie Boggs, Sean Bradley, and Bill Murray. In New Legacy… he says he can’t even remember a single thing Anthony Davis or Damian Lillard or the others did.
The director also thinks the reboot’s soundtrack is “trivial” while OG’s is classic, but his biggest beef is what happened to Bugs Bunny. No spoilers here, but Joe finds Bugs’ role in New Legacy “heartbreaking.”
Pytka says this new BB has nothing to do with the previous graphics – something they took close attention to in OG “Space Jam”. In short, he says, the new version “looked like one of those cute dolls you’d buy at an airport gift shop to bring your child when your business trip was taking too long.”
Take all this with caution, because Joe admits that his “Space Jam” was mostly panned by critics – just like this reboot – but it’s still a cult classic.
And just to be clear, Pytka says he’s not mad at ‘A New Legacy’… he just thinks it’s bad. Ouch!!! As Bugs says, “What’s up, Doctor???”
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