Starring:	Michael Jordan	84min
	Wayne Knight
	Bill Murray	1996
Screenplay:	Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick	Family
	Timothy Harris, Hershcel Weingrod
Director:	Joe Pytka	Colour

Region	2	Studio:	Warner Brothers
Format	Single Sided, Single Layer	Subtitles	English
			English & Italian Closed Captions
Aspect ratio	16:9		French, Italian, Dutch
			Arabic, Spanish, Portugese
Anamorphic	Yes
Soundtracks	Dolby Digital 5.1	Extra Features	Theatrical Trailer
	French / Italian Dolby Digital 5.1		Production Notes
	Dutch Dolby Digital 2.0		Biographies
Case type	Cardboard

The DVD * * *		The Movie * * *
Space Jam, and Das Boot. Not exactly an obvious pairing, granted, but these two discs turn out to have the finest soundtracks yet available on DVD. This is stunning. Absolutely stunning. It's a highly stylized mix, with traditional atmospheres abandoned altogether frequently, but boy is it effective. The dynamics! The multi-channel! That LF WOOF that can break stuff! Just brilliant. Add that to a near flawless picture transfer, and this is one helluva advert for the quality of DVD. Interestingly, I remember thinking the live action/animation looked ropey in the trailer at the cinema. And, wouldn't you know it, it looks equally ropey on the trailer on the DVD. Must be something to do with contrast I guess, 'cos it all looks pretty durned impressive on the actual film. The rest of the disc is a fairly limp affair, unfortunately. Illogical menus lead to nowhere very interesting - this is surely a prime candidate for some "Making Of" material, offering a chance to see those stand ins running around covered in green and all. Bit of a wasted opportunity. But if you have kids, chances are they'll enjoy this film. And that's all the excuse you'll need to grab yourself a copy, pack them off to school, turn the volume up to maximum, and giggle like a, well, a schoolkid I guess. It could be your little secret.		Somewhere down the line, a person employed by Warner Brothers decided that 40's cartoon characters and American sports should be permanently welded together. To whoever you are - may an anvil be dropped on your head. For a while it was just merchandise, but now they've actually started releasing movies, for goodness sake. Why? Perhaps it makes some kind of sense in America, where baseball and Loony Tunes are both family institutions, but it sure don't here. Get this for a plot. A race of tiny but nasty toons on another planet need entertainment, so capture Bugs & co with a view to enslaving them on their evil world. The good guys fool them into accepting a basketball duel, figuring that they have a crucial size advantage. But when the baddies steal the talent from all the major NBA stars, multiplying their bulk by a trillion in the process, Warner's finest decide to kidnap Michael Jordan, so he can coach them to success. What the hell is that all about?! Oh, did I mention Warners again? This 84 minute film - don't worry if it seems a tad long, 'cos it's only 75 minutes without the credits - is less a movie and more of an infomercial. Wait a second - over 10% of the film is closing credits, for goodness sake! Never mind. Be that as it may, it all cracks along at such a furious pace and with a few knowing references, that the whole thing isn't the ordeal you'd expect. The animation is good, Jordan isn't too embarrassing, Murray is welcome whenever he's on screen, and if you stay with it long enough, you'll even be rewarded with a cool Pulp Fiction gag - always fun for the pre-schoolers. But the vocal talents of Mel Blanc are painfully missed - surely the corporate might of Warners could have found someone that even slightly resembled the original voice? Inevitably, this will be extremely unfavourably compared to Who Framed Roger Rabbit, that painstakingly magnificent labour of love to the golden age of Hollywood animation. This, by contrast, is pacier, yet utterly devoid of soul. It is at least tribute to the technical skill of the people involved in this that it's so fast and furious, you barely notice.