Actually Never

I’d hoped that starting this blog would encourage me to sit down and actually watch some movies. Didn’t happen until we got a lightning storm, scaring my cat and sending him scurrying to the basement. In keeping him company, I had time for a double feature that should be right up my alley but that I’d somehow never gotten to.

It’s worth noting that Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is one of my favourite movies. And I loved Looney Tunes as a kid. And now.

What I knew

Pretty much the whole deal? Toons w/Michael Jordan play basketball against aliens. There’s a lady rabbit who awoke a lot of feelings in a lot of people.

What I know

My friend Dave inspired me to watch Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. I literally got the “How have you never seen that movie?!?” treatment. The correct wording is, of course, Actually Never™ but he’d have no reason to know that yet.

Anyway, after I was done Big Adventure and told him I was moving onto Space Jam, he replied with a gif suggesting that I had maybe made a poor choice.

Space Jam wasn’t nearly as bad as the gif would suggest, but I wanted to like it more than I did. And I probably would have loved it if I’d seen it as a little kid, but even upon its release I was 20 and not the target audience.

This isn’t a long movie and even so, they managed to play a whole-ass song over the opening credits, which are just Michael Jordan highlights. The song is a bop, though, I’ll give them that.

I dunno. Roger Rabbit is the human/toon gold standard and this, while fine enough, fell short. I didn’t hate it, but it was just there. And that’s not just nostalgia talking either – we watched Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, the movie from last year with Andy Samberg and John Mulaney as the voices of Chip ‘n Dale, and I enjoyed that a lot.

But that lady rabbit thing? I get it.