![]() Happening upon a pair of old Nikes with the initials M.J. Couple that with an in-house bully (a disturbingly realistic Jesse Plemons) and a shady house manager (aptly cast Crispin Glover), and you can see life for Calvin is pretty rough. ![]() In place of supernatural delights in "Like Mike," what we get is an awkward comedy, an improbable moral, and a plot that is a rehash of the 1993 sports fantasy "Rookie Of The Year" (which had a young boy joining a pro baseball team).Īs a 13 year-old orphan, Calvin (rapper Lil' Bow Wow, making his starring debut) is having an increasingly hard time being adopted. There is little wonder and awe to "Like Mike" ( IMDb listing), a film that centers around a pair of magical sneakers and other assorted fantasies that require a respectful level of disbelief that normally would be associated with films of this nature. Lil' Bow Wow fakes the funk on a not-so-nasty dunk.
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