Space Jam: A New Legacy follows the basic premise of the original movie, but it’s missing one key thing that helped the first movie connect a bit better with the audience – here’s what it is. Since their debut in the 1930s, the Looney Tunes have been involved in all types of adventures, but none can be compared to what they went through in 1996 in the movie Space Jam. Directed by Joe Pytka, Space Jam is a sports comedy movie that mixed live-action and animation and brought together two worlds unlikely to cross paths in the real world: professional basketball and the Looney Tunes.

Space Jam told a fictionalized account of what happened in Michael Jordan’s career between his retirement from the NBA in 1993 and his return in 1995, in which he was enlisted by none other than the Looney Tunes to help them win a basketball game against a group of aliens called Monstars, who wanted to enslave them and use them as attractions for their theme park. Now, a bit over two decades later, comes a proper sequel titled Space Jam: A New Legacy, with Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James leading the Tune Squad and the team facing a new menace, very different from the Monstars. The first trailer has given fans a taste of the story and the tone of the movie, but it also shows that this new adventure is missing a key element from the original movie.

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Although Michael Jordan was the main (human) character in Space Jam, he wasn’t the only one. The movie showed a fictionalized version of his family (played by Theresa Randle, Manner Washington, Eric Gordon, and Penny Bae Bridges), included more NBA players (especially those whose talents were stolen by the Monstars), and counted on the comedic talents of Wayne Knight and Bill Murray. Knight played Stan Podolak, a publicist assigned as Jordan’s assistant during his short-lived baseball career and who followed him around at all times. Murray, on the other hand, and very on-brand, played himself, though as one of Jordan’s closest friends. Stan and Murray served as a foil to Jordan and the Looney Tunes in different ways, as well as a link between both worlds, something that Space Jam 2 doesn’t seem to have.

Bill Murray huddles with Michael Jordan in basketball game Space Jam

Space Jam 2 will see LeBron James and his son Dom (Cedric Joe) being pulled into a virtual space where a rogue A.I. named AI-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle) takes Dom hostage and will only let him and LeBron return home safely if the NBA star defeats his team, the Goon Squad. Space Jam 2 will also include fictionalized versions of LeBron’s family, but no other human characters that could serve as a bridge as Stan and Murray did in the first movie. Their presence in Space Jam helped bring some balance to the main human character who is almost a superhuman athlete (look no further than to his final move in the game against the Monstars) while also bringing a touch of comedy, and Murray’s appearance during the game, explaining that the producer is his friend and that’s how he made it to the team, is the best example of the role these two other human characters played in the movie.

So far, Space Jam: A New Legacy doesn’t seem to have this link to the real world beyond LeBron’s son, and it’s unknown what his role will be in the rest of the movie after being taken hostage by AI-G Rhythm. Surely, the movie could have a trick or two up its sleeve, with surprise human characters doing the work of Stan and Murray or using other elements to bring that contrast and connection between the human world and that of the Looney Tunes.

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