There’s a bunch of funny cameos throughout, but being a Looney Toons movie, the story is very simplistic. Space Jam itself is basically a very ‘90s cartoon featuring Michael Jordan showing off his signature basketball moves to the Looney Toons at the prime of his career. It creates a great ending with the perfect song to project this feeling. It sums up the protagonist finally starting to let go of the pains of his past and ready to start anew with his new girlfriend. Perhaps the film’s musical highlight is ‘Let Go’ by Frou Frou, which is used in the final scene. The songs on the soundtrack all have a pretty mellow sound, reflecting the film’s mood. The soundtrack includes great indie artists such as The Shins and Remo Zero (the soundtrack putting them closer to the limelight), while also including some more mainstream artists like Coldplay and Simon & Garfunkel.

The connection between the music and the film’s story is definitely a strong point throughout Garden State. Braff commented on the soundtrack by saying, ‘Essentially, I made a mix CD with all of the music that I felt was scoring my life at the time I was writing the screenplay’. Garden State’s soundtrack is rightfully considered one of the most memorable movie soundtracks ever released. However, in hindsight, at times it feels like the film is being quirky for the sake of being quirky, and even inspired the trope of the “pixie girlfriend”, played here by Natalie Portman. Upon its release, Garden State was critically acclaimed and shined new light on its star, writer and director Zach Braff’s career. It is definitely an album you would want to listen to if you want to feel like you were part of the notorious grunge scene. The soundtrack contains songs from song of the biggest rock bands of the 1990s, such as Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, The Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains and more. The Singles soundtrack is indeed a snapshot of the early 1990s grunge scene happening in Seattle at the time.Ī lot of the bands on the soundtrack became huge around the time Singles and its soundtrack were unleased unto the world. It probably would have been completely wiped from pop culture conscious if it weren’t for its grunge heavy soundtrack. The acting from all the cast is good, but there are simply too many characters and plots going on at once, all in some way revolving around relationship problems. While not a bad movie by any means, the movie itself has more or less been forgotten.

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