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80Sure-fire heart-warmer: lively, funny yet emotion-charged and uplifting.
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75The 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. This is a message a lot of kids have been waiting to hear.
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75Doesn'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.
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75Appealing movie, one of the summer's pleasant surprises.
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75I don't want to sell Like Mike as something it's not. It's a cash-in, all right - just better written, more tightly edited, sharply performed, and a little more heartfelt than most.
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70Rides high on its old-fashioned sentiments and the precocious charms of its teenage star, who can be both obnoxious and endearing.
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67The charisma of L'il Bow Wow's spirited screen presence turn a contemporary Cinderella gimmick and a by-the-numbers script into a better film than anyone would have expected.
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63It's basketball Fantasy Camp for the cost of a movie ticket.
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60A solidly crafted family comedy.
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60This Flubbery fantasy won't win any prizes for elegant craftsmanship or originality, but it's entertaining, good-natured and a slam dunk to be a hit with young kids.
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60Sappy but sweet B-ball Cinderella story that succeeds thanks largely to the outsize charm of its 4-foot-8-inch, corn-rowed protagonist.
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50Has something going for it that you wouldn't expect from the tired mechanics of the story — and that is the star-making appearance of 15-year-old rapper Shad Moss, who goes by the name Lil' Bow Wow.
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50Unfortunately, the vehicle chosen for the corn-rowed cutie's Hollywood coming-out party is pretty lame.
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50Pleasant but not more than recycled jock piffle.
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50It'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.
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50Lil' Bow Wow deserves a better-made film than this pleasant, sloppily assembled fairy tale.
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50Weirdly earnest and earnestly weird.
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50The director's breezy steadiness keeps the movie from hitting us over the head -- well, not too hard, anyway, no small feat since the steroid-juiced sentimentality of the ending may force some to flee before the outtakes unspool under the credits.
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42Like Mike has the synthetically wrapped pseudo-charm of a perfunctory ''Flubber'' sequel.
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40The 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.
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40I liked when they had the paint fights and the pillow fights.
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38A soulless jumble of ineptly assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for NBA properties.
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30A harmless, if ultimately inane, fantasy-comedy vehicle for youngsta-rapper Lil' Bow Wow, a 15-year-old who's already an alarmingly accomplished scene stealer.
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30The frightening myths about adoption that run through Like Mike make even its happiest endings a little bit creepy.
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20Like Mike is a slight and uninventive movie: Like the exalted Michael Jordan referred to in the title, many can aspire but none can equal. Even "Space Jam" was better than this.
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10There's no excuse to come within a hundred feet of a screen playing this monstrosity of a movie.
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10A valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the NBA.
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