Avis Metacritic

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Like 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.

A valueless kiddie paean to pro basketball underwritten by the NBA.