![]() Like most youngsters their age, Calvin and his best friends at the orphanage, Murph and Reg (Jonathan Lipnicki and Brenda Song), are flat-out hoops crazy: They while away their time shooting baskets, playing one-on-one and cheering on their local NBA team, the Los Angeles Knights. Taking a little from "Oliver Twist" here, a bit from "Cinderella" there, and just a dash from "The Red Shoes" for good measure, "Like Mike" concerns a cunning little orphan named Calvin (Bow Wow) whose problem is that he isn't all that young: At 13, he has aged out of the infant-toddler stage at which most kids are adopted. Maybe next time his agents can find him a movie in which he - oh, gee, let's see - actually sings and dances. ![]() Although the preternaturally gifted rapper and dancer is able to strut his stuff for a few minutes in "Like Mike," his gifts are largely wasted in favor of a tiresome story and myriad special effects sequences. Weirdly, the packaging geniuses at the NBA (which co-produced "Like Mike") have chosen rap star Lil' Bow Wow to sell their basketball tickets and merchandise. ![]() This "heartfelt family comedy," as its marketers describe it, is more pointedly a slick piece of cross-promotion for stuff that has nothing to do with the movies. ![]()
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