![]() I’m sure a lot of people will read that previous sentence and feel the urge to hop into my Twitter mentions to ask, “How can you possibly say that when exists?” I’m not trying to discount the excellence of the great albums that accompanied equally excellent films like High Fidelity and The Graduate, but the record officially dubbed Space Jam: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture is one of the most esteemed members of a very exclusive club: soundtracks for non-musicals consisting of mainstream songs composed specifically for a movie. However, the same cannot be said for its soundtrack, which remains one of the finest collections of songs to accompany a motion picture in the history of Hollywood. Last week, I suggested that anyone who’s been waiting with bated breath for the release of Space Jam: A New Legacy should probably start preparing to have the air knocked out of their lungs by the crushing disappointment they’d likely be hit with upon its release-and based on the deluge of scathing critiques that have flooded the internet since then, that will likely be the case for most viewers.Īs I noted in that article, the fact that the Space Jam sequel probably isn’t going to end up in the Criterion Collection shouldn’t really come as a huge shock when you consider the original isn’t exactly a masterpiece.
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