Space Jam: A New Legacy

Slate's Spoiler Specials

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Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On the Spoiler Special podcast, Slate critics discuss movies, the occasional TV show, and, once in a blue moon, another podcast, in full spoiler-filled detail. This week, Slate’s senior editor Allegra Frank is joined by Slate staff writer, Karen Han, to spoil Space Jam: A New Legacy, the long-awaited sequel to the original 1997 Space Jam starring Michael Jordan. This time, LeBron James finds himself trapped in digital space by a rogue AI villain. In order to get back home and save everyone, LeBron must team up with the Looney Tunes gang to win the ultimate high-stakes basketball game and save the day. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected]. Podcast production by Morgan Flannery. Hosts Allegra Frank is a senior editor at Slate. Karen Han is staff writer at Slate and you can read her review here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want to tell you my secret now.
0:04.0	I see death.
0:07.0	Silent trade is people.
0:11.0	No, I am the father.
0:15.0	Oh,
0:16.0	Rush, but...
0:19.0	What's in the box?
0:24.6	You blew it up! You blew it up!
0:26.6	Damn you all the hell!
0:29.6	Come on and slam! And welcome to the space jam two.
0:33.6	Spoiler special!
0:35.6	I'm Karen Hines, staff writer at Slate, and I'm joined by Allegra Frank,
0:39.8	senior editor at Slate. Welcome, Allegra. Thank you, Karen. Hello. So glad to be jamming with you.
0:46.8	So today, as per our intro, we are spoiling Space Jam 2, which is technically not Space Jam 2,
0:53.3	but Space Jam, colon, a new legacy.
0:56.7	So I guess we'll start with some general impressions and then get into the spoiler territory.
1:01.6	But first I wanted to say one of the reasons that it's exciting that you are here is that you
1:06.0	are a huge OG space jam fan. Yeah, I feel like it's sort of become my entire personality
1:12.6	at Slate at least for some reason, because I find myself vigorously defending the OGSJ.
1:20.4	It does feel like we have more responsibility to do that because everyone that we work directly
1:25.8	with is, I would say, at least five to ten years older than us.
1:28.6	And I think hates the 1996 space jam on principle.
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