Word: cartooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...broadcast networks, however, are all too aware of what Everett is missing, and they are desperate to do something about it. Distracted by home videos, computer games and round-the-clock cable channels such as Disney, the Cartoon Network and most significantly of all, Nickelodeon, children have abandoned traditional Saturday-morning television like so many grownups shunning whole milk. For the first six weeks of the new season, on average 4.16 million kids 2 to 11 years old tuned into Saturday-morning network shows, down 20% from last season, according to Nielsen Media Research, and a whopping 60% from...
...brief master display of slapdash comedy. But director Joe Pytka, who also did the McDonald's TV spot that cued the film, too often stands slack-jawed before the wonder, the grace, the supernal niceness of his live-action star. The movie could have been a gleaming showcase for cartoon wit. Instead it's an 87-minute commercial peddling sainthood for Michael Jordan...
Look, we're not about to knock a family movie that offers wholesome entertainment, the smartest menagerie in cartoon history, and Michael Jordan--as gorgeous a figure in movie closeup as he is on the basketball court. Well, maybe a little knock: Space Jam, the first feature with all new footage of Bugs, Daffy and other Looney Tunes immortals, is on the wan and sanctimonious side--less a good movie than a safe place to park the kids on a mall afternoon...
Then there's Beavis and Butt-head Do America--MTV's cartoon cretins on the big screen. Kids, it's probably best if the family splits up again. You don't want your parents to know what they're missing...
Disney usually releases an animated feature for the holiday season, but this year the studio has a live-action remake of a cartoon classic, 101 Dalmatians, starring Glenn Close as the dognapping Cruella DeVil. Warner Bros. steps into the vacated slot with Space Jam, a $90 million mix of animation and live action that teams two pop-culture potentates, Michael ("Air") Jordan and Bugs ("Hare") Bunny...