Space Jam review – Michael Jordan’s 90s merch-hocking basketball blockbuster rises again (opens in new tab)

The Jordan-fronted live-action/cartoon hybrid is 30 years old – and with its R Kelly soundtrack, it feels it. Cue Seinfeld’s Wayne Knight to rescue it for a second timeThis 30th anniversary rerelease brings us the strangest piece of 90s pop-cultural detritus imaginable, at once surreally baffling and very dated – not least in its resounding soundtrack use of I Believe I Can Fly by R Kelly, the now disgraced singer currently serving a 20-year prison term for child sexual abuse. Space Jam is th...