Michael Jordan film cartoon

In 1996, at level of Michael Jordan's popularity and appeal, Warner Bros. Released an element film that showcased Jordan as a live-action character in a cartoon globe. Actually, he had beenn't a character at all; he just played himself along side these types of cartoon notables as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

Directed by Joe Pytka, and featuring the voices of, and others, Billy West and Danny Devito, area Jam had been Jordan's first feature movie look, and an extremely strange one at that. The movie features a tongue-in-cheek treatment of Jordan and his career as a superstar and a pure dream land involving a parallel cartoon world. When a group of Looney Tunes cartoon stars, including Bugs and Daffy, are kidnapped by some bad aliens, the cartoon figures hatch a plot to free themselves using the baseball talents of Michael Jordan., which he displays to great effect when you look at the film's finale.

The film's animators smoothly combined live-action video footage with hand-drawn and computer-generated animations, enabling the cartoon characters to travel from their cartoon universe to ours, also to pull Jordan from our world into theirs. Area Jam, declared Roger Ebert into the Chicago Sun-Times, "is a happy wedding of great ideas—three movies the cost of one, offering united states a comic treatment of the profession activities of Michael Jordan, crossed with Looney Tunes cartoon and some showbiz warfare…. The result is delightful, a family movie in the most readily useful sense (whichmeans the grownups will love it, also)."