Like Mike

    Like Mike
    2002

    Synopsis

    Calvin and his friends, who all live in an orphanage, find old shoes with the faded letters MJ connected to a powerline. One stormy night, they go to get the shoes when Calvin and the shoes are struck by lightning. Calvin now has unbelievable basketball powers and has the chance to play for the NBA.

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    Cast

    • Shad MossCalvin Cambridge
    • Morris ChestnutTracey Reynolds
    • Jonathan LipnickiMurph
    • Brenda SongReg Stevens
    • Jesse PlemonsOx
    • Julius RitterMarlon
    • Crispin GloverStan Bittleman
    • Anne MearaSister Theresa
    • Robert ForsterCoach Wagner
    • Eugene LevyFrank Bernard

    Recommendations

    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Appealing movie, one of the summer's pleasant surprises.
    • 63

      Philadelphia Inquirer

      It's basketball Fantasy Camp for the cost of a movie ticket.
    • 50

      Charlotte Observer

      Lil' Bow Wow deserves a better-made film than this pleasant, sloppily assembled fairy tale.
    • 42

      Entertainment Weekly

      Like Mike has the synthetically wrapped pseudo-charm of a perfunctory ''Flubber'' sequel.
    • 40

      New Times (L.A.)

      I liked when they had the paint fights and the pillow fights.
    • 40

      Variety

      The court action contains only a fraction of the hoops energy one would expect from a pic co-produced by NBA Entertainment -- and film suffers from the conspicuous absence of the title's Michael Jordan.
    • 38

      ReelViews

      A soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for NBA properties.
    • 30

      Washington Post

      The frightening myths about adoption that run through Like Mike make even its happiest endings a little bit creepy.

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    • Shadine Taufik