Two animated worlds collide when the Nerdlucks, the pint-sized alien villains of Space Jam, turn up at Titans Tower for a watch party nobody quite trusts.
What is Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam about?
Cyborg cannot believe it: his teammates have somehow never watched Space Jam, the crossover in which the Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan face off against a squad of alien invaders. So he does what any self-respecting fan would do and stages a screening of the whole thing at the tower. The guests of honour are the Nerdlucks themselves, the very aliens who once tried to kidnap Jordan and his cartoon teammates. What follows is less a quiet movie night than a running commentary track. Raven and Starfire chime in with their own reactions, Cyborg peppers the room with trivia, and Beast Boy keeps a tally of the gags he finds funniest. Robin, ever the suspicious leader, spends the evening watching the visitors rather than the screen, convinced that a friendly invitation from former kidnappers is too good to be true. Whether the Nerdlucks simply want to enjoy a classic with new friends, or have something else planned for the Titans, is the question that runs underneath every joke.
About the cast
The voice cast is the long-running Teen Titans Go! ensemble: Scott Menville, Hynden Walch, Khary Payton, Tara Strong and Greg Cipes, who between them have been playing these characters for years. Their rapid, overlapping delivery is what makes the watch-party format work, since much of the runtime is the team reacting to another film in real time. Jeff Mednikow directs.
Context & significance
Released in 2021, this eighty-minute feature mixes animation, comedy, family entertainment and sports parody, with a dash of sci-fi and fantasy thanks to its alien guests. It belongs to the Teen Titans Go! line of feature-length specials, which stretch the irreverent tone of the television series across a longer story. The hook is unusual: rather than inventing a brand-new adventure, the film folds an earlier movie into its plot and lets the Titans respond to it scene by scene. Younger viewers get slapstick and colourful chaos; parents who remember the original Looney Tunes basketball crossover will catch the callbacks. It is an American production, but the humour travels easily because so much of it is visual.
Watching Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam on Ktime
K-Time carries Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so families can pick whichever suits the youngest viewer in the room. This page is free to browse; to press play you sign in to a K-Time account, and the whole interface is available in Farsi for viewers across the Iranian diaspora.