While not Oscar-worthy, the first Space Jam was an entertaining movie that did not take itself seriously. Such is not the case for A New Legacy. I was ready to quit after less than 30 minutes
Like its predecessor, Legacy starts off with a brief "glimpse" at a famous basketball player's past - here, Lebron James. From his youth where he liked video games to his present where he over-focuses on basketball, we see his impressive legacy. Unfortunately, it doesn't translate well into his family life, where he wants his two sons to be like him, even though one of them doesn't quite care about being a player...
Little do most people know that the first Space Jam took its inspiration from a Super Bowl ad. And yet, they were able to make a decently entertaining movie that didn't take itself seriously. This "sequel" is all the opposite.
Indeed, just the introduction shows that it will be a moralizing movie - young Lebron was playing video games and seemingly made his high school team fail a tournament. Once an adult, the movie becomes a cliché family movie where the overbearing father wants to impose a life to his children, one of which hates it.
It gets worse when Lebron gets trapped in the Toon universe. He himself becomes a toon for some reason, and Bugs is the only one left in his universe. Through the rest of the movie, Warner Brothers plugs their property to remind us that they produce the movie. It could have been funny if they had been more than just cameos in the final game toward the end.
In short, avoid this movie, especially if you like the first one. It takes itself too seriously, it's moralizing and Lebron James doesn't have Michael A Jordan's (!) fun personality. Jordan mock his baseball "career" in the first opus, which "made sense" for the plot. Here, no such thing
Final evaluation: 2/5 - at least the CGI and drawings were done well