Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam

A very dragging re-frying of that very dated Space Jam movie from my early teenage years, with small icons of the Titans providing side commentary, never as fun or engaging as MST3K or the likes, never. Bummed out. I really wish the Space Jam to go away from it, but you have 1 hour 15 minutes of it...

While the format of characters watching and commenting on another movie can obviously work, it fails here. Ultimately it suffers from not having enough "Teen Titans Go!", while simultaneously not having enough "Space Jam". The movie is transparently an attempt to bring attention to the reboot "Space Jam: A New Legacy", even though it is never explicitly mentioned. There's nothing wrong with that if the result is good, but this is not.

Early on in the movie (as part of the original "Space Jam") there is a scene where the baseball-playing Michael Jordan strikes out, yet is cheered and applauded by the crowd and other players. Even though he stinks at what he's doing now, everyone comes out to see him because he was great at what he did previously. That's this movie. "Space Jam" is MJ's basketball career, "Space Jam: A New Legacy" is his baseball career, "Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam" is WB hoping fans will go see the new (and ignore all its flaws) because they loved the old, and it's kind of sad.

There are a few good jokes, but they are few and far between. There are some lame jokes, but they are also few and far between. There just aren't enough jokes, period. Apparently they don't want to get in the way of the original "Space Jam" by having commentary all over it, but when minutes go by without any Teen Titans popping up, you wonder why they're there in the first place. Things like the butt-shot counter are OK, it fits the group, but when that's the ONLY joke, it wears thin quickly. A large portion of the commentary also centers on shaming the lead villain's smoking (but not the "doping" scene), and covering up the Tune's use of guns (only lead-spitters though, ray-guns (and ACME explosives) are still perfectly fine). Not enough "Teen Titans Go!".

As for "Space Jam", it gets butchered. Almost all the scenes with NBA players are cut. We see Barkley and Ewing get their talent stolen, and that's it. The other three players are never seen, nor the other teams protests against the "infection", the attempts to cure the five players, or Barkley getting schooled on the playground. Other scenes are trimmed as well. Worse, all the licensed music has been stripped out. During MJ's warm up, he no longer "flies like an eagle", he does slow-motion dunks to electronic elevator music. The player introductions at the start of the big game are similarly missing their signature hype music. Near the end, they end the watch party before MJ's return to the NBA, missing an easy setup for at least a couple more jokes about his on-again-off-again basketball career. Not enough "Space Jam". (Interestingly, the cut actors, cut music, and stills from the cut scenes are all still included in the end credits, which are tacked on from the original "Space Jam".)

If you're a "Teen Titans Go!" fan who's never seen "Space Jam", this might hold your interest, but you'd be much better off enjoying them separately.

The Titans are enjoying a summer day of sunbathing when an alien craft appears. The aliens reveal themselves to be the Nerdlucks, which Cyborg recognizes, but the others do not. Thankfully, Pound has a copy on VHS when Starfire wishes to see the film after Cyborg explains it to Raven and Beast Boy, Cyborg invites them in for a screen, despite Robin's protests due to the Nerdlucks being aliens (and movies have made him into a xenophobe that believes all aliens are evil, despite the fact Starfire is an alien herself).

So, technically, this TV movie serves as a sort of spoof of shows like Mystery Science Theater 3000 and RiffTrax, as the Titans watch the first Space Jam film and give their comments and even have some shennanigans with the Nerdlucks (which includes allowing the group to steal their superpowers). For the movie being viewed, we get an edited version to fit the length of the special, with edits to include commentary from the Titans, as well as to cut or change some elements of certain scenes (which mainly cutting the intro and changing the music to some scenes, possibly due to the use of music that Warner Bros. Possibly no longer has the legal rights to use, and also one of the songs is from R. Kelly, who has since fallen from grace, and even going as far as to censor the use of firearms, which mirrors the controversy the HBO Max-exclusive Looney Tunes cartoons faced for banning them, although they didn't bother to censor the scenes of Swackhammer smoking his cigars, possibly because Cartoon Network allowed it since he was the main villain of the movie).

While it gets a two star for the fun facts, it does run afoul for being in the usual humor Teen Titans Go! Has become infamous for. During the film, Beast Boy has a counter that goes up when the movie gets a shot of a character's rear end (which sounds pretty juvenile, as not everyone, including the target audience of kids, cares for such things) as well as the many jokes aimed at Robin, which sound mean spirited as they're making fun of things from past episodes (like having no powers, baby hands, etc) while the others are stupid enough to let them steal their powers, transforming them into. But at the end of this day, this TV movie was made for one reason and one reason only: to get kids hyped to see Space Jam: A New Legacy, a sequel that ditches the aliens in favor of being set in cyberspace to milk money off being one huge shameless crossover with almost every property under Warner Bros.'s ownership. Only watch if you don't have the Space Jam on DVD or are a TTG fan.

Fantastic, showstopping, spectacular, amazing, genius, incomparable, making movie history here, peak comedy, the best thing i've ever seen. If you liked space jam, you'll hate this!!!

So we let our son choose a Dvd to watch at home and he chose this. We've seen Teen Titans before and the 'Go to the Movies' movie is great fun. We assumed more of the same.

However to charge 6 quid for this rubbish is bordering on unethical. It is literally Space Jam the movie (which we already own) with the Teen Titans popping up to comment occasionally. There is almost nothing new here and the title and packaging is very misleading.

Warner Bros have a terrible habit currently of mixing franchises together to sell something 'new' in lieu of actually having a script. Space Jam 2 was like this and so was Scoob!

If I could demand my money back I would. Total garbage- at least if someone reads this review and doesn't buy it some good would have come from our experience!