Like Mike
Cast
Lil' Bow Wow as Calvin Cambridge
Morris Chestnut as Tracey Reynolds
Jonathan Lipnicki as Murph
Brenda Song as Reg Stevens
Jesse Plemons as Ox
Directed by John Schultz
The story is about a boy named Calvin Cambridge who lives at an adoption home. He wants to be taken by some family but nevers gets the chance. A nun brings some clothes and out pop some sneakers with the tounges labeled MJ. Calvin believes they are magical shoes, and they help him to be better at basketball. He goes to a Knight Game at the Staples Center and is chosen to play against Tracey Reynolds, a player for the Knights. They assumed Calvin would be horrible but he ousted Tracey. Calvin gets drafted and the rest of the plot ensues.
Rater #1
7/10. This was actually a good movie. I was holding out on it for a little bit longer, so I could see Austin Powers, but I decided to get Like Mike instead.
The camera shots were very interesting. Some were more fake than others because of how they were played. I mean, come on, a short 11 year old kid dunking by jumping from 25 feet out. Most of the other shots were very good and felt like I was watching a real game on T.V. It almost wanted to make me interested in basketball to take up as a sport.
The acting was fairly good. Lil' Bow Wow did some great acting and this was his chance to play out one of his dreams. I'm not talking about acting, I'm talking about basketball. He really wants to play basketball when he grows up. Tracey was a pretty cool guy. He didn't like Bow Wow's character early on but it was happy to see them together at the end. The other characters were much less noticeable.
All in all, this was a good movie, and could be summed up as one of the better sports movies out at the time being.
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Rated PG for brief mild language.
Running time: 99 minutes
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