With either one of these iconic stars on the marquee, you have a surefire success. Put the two of them together, and you have unstoppable fun, a force too powerful to be reckoned with. The teaming of Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan is nearly of mythical proportions, but that’s exactly what they did in the 1996 live-action/animation tour de force, Space Jam.

Bunny and Basketball player had teamed up for a commercial here and there in the past and so, it was only logical to see what they could do on the big screen. Setting during a time when Michael Jordan had turned in the basketball for a baseball bat in real life, the film finds him content in his courtly retirement, free to spend time with the family and tee-off on the golf course when the mood strikes. Things aren’t going quite as well for floppy-eared Bugs Bunny and his cohorts though; they’ve all been kidnapped by a sinister outer space amusement park operator named Swackhammer, who is eager to boost the gate receipts at Moron Mountain. Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the gang, having been brought to moron mountain by the diminutive henchmen called Nerdlucks, are desperate for an escape plan, so they make a simple wager – if they can beat the Nerdlucks in a game of B-Ball, they get to go on their merry way.

Unbeknownst to the cartoon critters, however, is that their rivals have the deck stacked heavily in their favor, having stolen the skills from five of the NBA’s most treacherous players – Larry Johnson, Muggsy Bugues, Shawn Bradley, Patrick Ewing and the cantankerous Charles Barkley. With this experience under their tiny belts, the Nerdlucks, by all appearances, are unstoppable. But there is one superstar whose talent they have yet to steal, that of the formidable Michael Jordan. The Looney Tunes have managed to recruit MJ for their team - granted, somewhat against his will. Only the big game can determine if they have the game to emerge victorious and return to their home planet.

Space Jam received some additional superstar help in the musical department, with hit songs provided by R. Kelly (“I Believe I Can Fly”) and Seal (with a stellar remake of Steve Miller’s “Fly Like an Eagle”.) The film also introduced a brand spanking new Looney Tunes character, a voluptuous female named Lola Bunny. All of this combined to make Space Jam a certified winner at the box-office. Unfortunately, before a sequel could be considered, Michael took his Air Jordans back to the basketball court and decided to resume his career as a legend. Bugs is reported to be somewhere between here and Albuquerque.