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Glover has written between 15 and 20 books. The company publishes his books and also is the production company for his movies, What Is It? and It is Fine. In the late 1980s, Glover started his company, Volcanic Eruptions.
#CRISPIN GLOVER LIKE MIKE MOVIE#
He has acted in such movies as Back to the Future, Epic Movie (where he did a parody of the Willy Wonka played by Johnny Depp) and the Open Season series as Fifi. "Like Mike" never really lets the rap star take his best shots - as a singer and dancer.Lil' Bow Wow as Calvin, a 13-year-old orphan who winds up playing for an NBA team thanks to a pair of donated sneakers with the initials "M.J." inscribed inside.Crispin Hellion Glover (born April 20, 1964) is an American actor. Like Mike (100 minutes at area theaters) is rated PG for brief mild language. But the frightening myths about adoption that run through "Like Mike" make even its happiest endings a little bit creepy. It should come as no surprise when Calvin ultimately finds his "Fresh Prince" and that he and his friends embark on a wonderful new life. But despite its moments of comedy and some nice chemistry between Bow Wow and co-star Morris Chestnut as the Knight who reluctantly mentors Calvin, there's something troubling about a movie that depicts would-be parents trolling an adoption center like so many Kmart shoppers. "Like Mike" features its share of inside-basketball jokes, especially some witty segments featuring real-life NBA players like Allen Iverson and Jason Kidd. When Calvin unexpectedly gets to see a Knights game in person, and even more unexpectedly is given the chance to show his new moves during halftime, the team's manager (Eugene Levy) sees a gold mine: The Knights sign Calvin and find a terrific new marketing gimmick: "He's lean, he's mean, he's 13." Convinced that his new shoes once belonged to Michael Jordan, Calvin begins to undergo a startling makeover: The kid who couldn't shoot straight is suddenly flying through the air just like his idol.
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Not only are they a perfect fit, but the initials "M.J." are inscribed inside. But the closest they get to a real game is when they're forced to sell candy outside the Staples Center by the latter-day Fagin who runs their group home with sadistic despotism (the villain is played with slithery malevolence by Crispin Glover).Ĭalvin's life of misery - he desperately longs for a family, preferably one like Will Smith's on "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" - is interrupted one day when he tries on a pair of donated sneakers. 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.
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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.