[A] summer-weight but winsome basketball fantasy.
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03/25/08
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Like Mike (2002)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:13
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.7/10
Consensus: A pleasant and innocuous diversion for kids, but adults may have trouble sitting through the movie's predictable plotlines and schmaltz.
Theatrical Release:Jul 3, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $51,362,626
Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Calvin Cambridge (Lil' Bow Wow) spends his days at the orphanage waiting to be adopted and shooting hoops with his best friend, Murph (Jonathan Lipnicki). When he starts to wear a... [More]
Starring: Lil Bow Wow, Morris Chestnut, Jonathan Lipnicki, Brenda Song
Director: John Schultz
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Reviews for Like Mike
Top CriticDirector John Schultz's movie is as lame and predictable as you'd imagine, and it's chock full of orphanage cliches.
03/25/08
Top CriticA valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the NBA.
07/11/02
Top CriticAs with too many studio pics, plot mechanics get in the way of what should be the lighter-than-air adventure.
07/11/02
Top CriticIt's not so much a movie as a joint promotion for the National Basketball Association and teenaged rap and adolescent poster-boy Lil' Bow Wow.
07/11/02
Top CriticIts sense of harmless, inoffensive wish fulfillment, along with its celebration of fatherhood ... is genuinely touching, if overly familiar and formulaic.
07/11/02
Top CriticA featherweight kids' movie set against a heavily sponsored official NBA backdrop, John Schultz's Like Mike is superhero fantasy for sport-minded youngsters and the adults they watch TV with.
07/10/02
Top CriticThis is a lot of fun and Lil' Bow Wow, now calling himself Bow Wow, is very charming.
07/10/02
Top CriticSlick piece of cross-promotion.
07/03/02
Top CriticPleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle.
07/03/02
Top CriticOne of the summer's pleasant surprises.
07/03/02
Top CriticBoth the slapstick and the schmaltz are workmanlike enough to keep the little ones' eyes wide and bright. Grown-ups should be prepared to have their nerves milked dry.
07/03/02
Top CriticEssentially an unoriginal 'poor-lil'-orphan' story jazzed up with some crowd-pleasing hoops action and a string of cameo appearances by NBA stars such as Allen Iverson, Jason Kidd and Chris Webber.
07/03/02
Top CriticA ho-hum effort populated by a far more engaging cast than it deserves.
07/03/02
Top CriticA movie that can't help but trip over its own wholesomeness.
07/03/02
Top CriticThe movie overcomes its lack or originality in the setup by making good use of its central idea, that a pair of sneakers could make a kid into an NBA star.
07/03/02
Top CriticIn the long, dishonorable history of quickie teen-pop exploitation, Like Mike stands out for its only partly synthetic decency.
07/03/02
Top CriticLike Mike doesn't win any points for originality. It does succeed by following a feel-good formula with a winning style, and by offering its target audience of urban kids some welcome role models and optimism.
07/02/02
Top CriticA clean movie suitable for young children.
07/02/02
Top CriticSo accomplished is Like Mike as an article of league public relations that one is easily distracted from its schematic story line.
07/02/02
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