Like Mike
Like Mike is the story of an older orphan called Littleton Bowery, or as he's known to his friends, L'il Bow Wow. The deck is stacked against Bow Wow. Not only is he the only Jew in a Catholic orphanage, but he's the personal courier for strange packages for the head of the orphanage, played by Crispin Glover who relishes his role with a coked up glee. To make matters worse because of his age, Bow Wow is an unlikely candidate for adoption, which is expressed beautifully in the film's first rap musical moment, "I'm So Alone (remix)" After the musical moment, where Bow Wow struts the streets of Chicago with an entourage of underage prostitues, he runs into his nemesis of the film, Scott, an aryan orphan that has his own Nazi-esque possee. After a West Side story-esque fight scene that leaves Bow Wow and Johnathon Lipniki bloodied, they find a mysterious pair of shoes on a powerline. Using Lipniki's hyper intelligence (he's a genius created by a test tube baby program, rejected by his scientist masters because of his non-compliance on military issues), they remove the shoes and give them to Bow Wow.

The next day they return to the orphanage and start to play an inpromptu game basket ball. During the game, Bow Wow discovers that the shoes give him the power of Michael Jordan, and before we know it, he's stuffing the net with his balls. As coincidence would have it, a talent scout for the NBA sees Bow Wow's mad skillz and hires him on the spot.

The rest of the film follows Bow Wow's career in the NBA. We watch his rise and ultimate fall, as we learn of the strange side effects of the mysterios shoes that Bow Wow wears. Although I shouldn't spoilt the ending, it involves a musical number, Lil Bow Wow the size of the moon, mass production of the shoes for a local mafioso and a surprise camoe by Danny Glover, playing Crispin's brother. I recommend Like Mike to everyone.