Bugs Bunny has gotten himself and his Looney Tunes cohorts into a jam by facing off against the Nerdlucks, a grouchy gang of tiny space creatures who land on Earth. The Nerdlucks, dispatched by their boss, the ruthless, belligerent Swackhammer (voice by DANNY DeVITO), intend to kidnap and export the Looney Tunes to Moron Mountain, Swackhammer's failing theme park on the Nerdlucks' boring planet. Bugs has challenged the small, weak aliens to a fateful basketball tournament: if the Looney Tunes win, they'll remain on Earth. But if the aliens win, Bugs and company are headed into the hands of Swackhammer. Their lives won't be worth a single cel...The aliens quickly take up Bugs' challenge -- too quickly, it turns out. The aliens quickly take up Bugs' challenge -- too quickly, it turns out.

When Bugs does discover what he's up against, he knows he needs some serious help. But where can he go? Basketball's best players are all having their skills "absorbed" by the aliens.

Of course, there's a baseball player he happens to know...Basketball's most spectacular star, Michael Jordan, has retired from the sport and begun to play baseball -- with limited success. But after the Looney Tunes capture Jordan from a golf course, transport him to Looney Tunes Land and explain, in true Looney Tunes style, their predicament, he agrees to join their team.

"Ehhh, what's up, Doc?"

Jordan has taken on a monumental task, however. Yosemite Sam is shooting up the place, Taz can't take ANY kind of direction, Wile E. Coyote is still after the Roadrunner, and chaos rules everything from the free-throw lane to the locker room. Jordan's nearly in despair -- until he meets the newest Looney Tune to join the Tune Squad -- the gorgeous Lola Bunny, a slam-dunkin' team asset and "the rabbit of my dreams" to the love-struck Bugs.

Can the motley crew of Michael Jordan and the Tune Squad fight off the Monstars on the court and ensure their futures on planet Earth? Could this be the true story of how Michael Jordan returned to basketball?

The Lineup

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If you like basketball, and you like to jam, go no further. Space Jam isn't just about Michael Jordan meeting the Looney Tunes -- it's about a slammin' jammin' game to keep the Looney Tunes out of a failed intergalactic theme park! Rounding out the cast are some of the biggest stars of the NBA, making their feature film debuts.

Michael Jordan

Jam-Central: Production Notes

The Filmakers

• IVAN REITMAN (producer)

• JOE MEDJUCK (producer)

• DANIEL GOLDBERG (producer)

• JOE PYTKA (director)

• DAVID FALK (executive producer)

• KEN ROSS (executive producer)

• GEOFFREY KIRKLAND (production designer)

• MICHAEL CHAPMAN (director of photography)

• SHELDON KAHN (editor/co-producer)

• GORDON WEBB (co-producer/unit production manager)

• CURTIS POLK (co-producer)

• JAMES NEWTON HOWARD (Composer)

• BRUCE SMITH (Co-director of Animation)

• TONY CERVONE (Co-director of Animation)

• RON TIPPE (animation producer)

• BILL PERKINS (Animation Art Director)

• ED JONES (Special Visual Effects)

Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes, led by the creative impetus of filmmaker IVAN REITMAN, blast into the future in their first feature film, "Space Jam," an animated/live-action razzle-dazzle tour de force pairing pop icon and sports megastar MICHAEL JORDAN and classic wisecracking animated hero BUGS BUNNY. As audiences visually zoom between Earth and outer space, between basketball court, baseball field and Looney Tunes Land, from live action with some of the NBA's biggest stars to startlingly rich two- and three-dimensional animation, they'll get a laugh-loaded glimpse of the future as it's never looked before -- in the company of basketball's most watchable genius and the hip-hoppin'-est hoopster a rabbit ever hoped to become. Ivan Reitman produces and JOE PYTKA directs "Space Jam," a fast-breaking comic fantasy.

If you like basketball, and you like to jam, go no further. Space Jam isn't just about Michael Jordan meeting the Looney Tunes -- it's about a slammin' jammin' game to keep the Looney Tunes out of a failed intergalactic theme park!

When you've got the world's greatest basketball superstars and the world's greatest cartoon characters facing off against space aliens, you can't skimp on the jams -- and sure enough, Warner Sunset/Atlantic Records' Space Jam: Music From The Motion Picture is one of the most powerful collections in the universe.

"Ehhh, what's up, Doc?"

You've made it: Jam Central Station, the central depository for all things Space Jam. From the best seats in the house, you can peruse the production notes, find out about the filmmakers, check out the theatrical trailer, and look at a bunch of photos from the film.

Here's a list of some radio stations currently playing the first single from the Space Jam Soundtrack, Seal - "Fly Like An Eagle". Check back here for an up-to-date list of where to listen when you're off-line.

Check out these cool pictures from Space Jam.

The technical Background

One problem that has always existed with cartoons is the sometimes wildly shifting perspectives of a background. If you are using a movie or video camera, panning over any background behind the actors, if you examined the film a frame at a time, you'd see that the background seems to distort a little--or a lot, if a wide-angle lens is used.

The first of the familiar Warners Cartoon stars was Mr. Porcine "Porky" Pig. Porky emerged a star from Friz Freleng's I Haven't Got a Hat as early as 1935. According to Director Freleng, "When I was a kid, I had two playmates--a little fat kid called Piggy and his younger brother, who was called Porky. I always wanted to do a comic strip with two kids with those names. But in animation, everything is animals, so when I had this classroom cartoon, I thought of Porky." Friz Freleng saud, "We were searching for a new character, andthe audience told us Porky was the guy."

Bugs Bunny, the linchpin of the Looney Tunes, has been called everything from "classic" to "perennial" to "an American institution" to "one of our national heroes"--and "wascally wabbit," "long-eared galoot," and a lot of other things besides! But most of us just like to call him Bugs.