Afterward, its shown he's become a Bully Turned Buddy. Heel–Face Turn: Ox at the end, when Calvin manages to convince him that Bittleman doesn't really care about the orphans, which leads him to turn on Bittleman and help Calvin make it to the game.Heartwarming Orphan: Calvin is this mostly but the same would apply to Reg and Murph.Education Mama: Sister Theresa plays this role, with her emphasis that Calvin does his homework, even before his team even plays an NBA game.Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Neither Calvin nor any of the other characters of this film make an appearance in the sequel.Children Raise You: What becomes of Calvin and Murph getting adopted by Tracy.The Bully: Ox (and his gang) is this and, later on, Bittleman's dragon.Brand X: Despite the fact that NBA Entertainment co-produced Like Mike, several real-world NBA teams are depicted as opponents in the game scenes and the film is set in Los Angeles, instead of using the Lakers or Clippers, we get the in-universe Los Angeles Knights.Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Stan Bittleman, who acts like a nice cool guy but is really a scheming egomaniac who will do anything he can to screw people and kids over.Big Brother Instinct: Calvin plays an older sibling role to Murph.Big Bad: Bittleman turns out to be one.Calvin ends the contest with a dunk after bouncing the ball off the backboard and Calvin joins the team.Ī standalone sequel, titled, Like Mike 2: Streetball was released in 2006. Calvin's ticket number is called and he goes one on one with Tracy. Later, in a thrift shop donation box, Calvin finds a pair of sneakers with the initials "MJ" and decides they were once Michael Jordan's shoes.Īt the Knights basketball game, the team's star player Tracy Reynolds ( Morris Chestnut) prepares for a halftime contest. On one night of chocolate sales, Calvin meets the Knights' Coach Wagner ( Robert Forster), who is impressed with his knowledge about basketball and his honesty about the chocolate that he offers him tickets to the next game. By night, they sell chocolate for an awkward director, Stan Bittleman ( Crispin Glover), after every home game of an NBA, the Los Angeles Knights.
Being the youngest, Murph has the closest relationship with Calvin.
Like Mike is a 2002 comedy-fantasy film, directed by John Schultz and written by Michael Elliot, that centers around a boy named Calvin Cambridge (Lil Bow Wow), who gets basketball talents after finding a pair of Michael Jordan's old shoes.Ĭalvin and his best friends, Murph (Jonathan Lipnicki) and Reg Stevens ( Brenda Song) live in an orphanage.
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