Mr. 3000

December 10, 2004

Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 104 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Bernie Mac lives in house with 3 kids that belong to his sister and they get into wacky adventures that involve the white meat coming out��.what? It might be the wrong show but it’s shonuff the Right Mac? So, buy a drink and a dog, grab a seat and enjoy the game. Play Ball!!!

Mr. 3000

In this outing Bernie plays Stanley �Mr. 3000′ Ross a retired self-centered baseball player that walked out on the sport and his team in the middle of a pennant race just as he hit his 3000 th base hit. Confident that his personal performance was going to be enough to get him to Cooperstown , he never looked back. Here it is 9 years later and although he is a successful entrepreneur with a chain of Mr. 3000 businesses he is still no closer to the hall now, than he was the day he walked out. Frustrated at being overlooked he plans to have his jersey retired to get back in the spotlight and thanks to low ticket sales for a floundering Brewers team, the owner (Chris Noth) agrees. Writers start to look into his claim and discover that 3 of his 3000 hits had been counted twice and took them away leaving him with only 2997. So, with his nickname and hopes to join the greats in NY on the line, he comes back to baseball.

The story comes together like a knuckleball (shaky at first but you know it’s going to cross the plate), we see the way it’s headed right off the bat but even though you know where the pitch is coming, you still want to stand in there and swing away. That pretty much sums up this movie in a peanut shell. With a decent support ing cast of Angela (smoking body) Bassett as Mo, the love interest. Brian J. White as T-Rex the hotshot rookie and Paul Sorvino as Gus the Manager, along with the pre-req wacky team mates you get to see a decent story and have a few solid laughs for a couple of hours. And, you get to see a sausage try and take a leak, not too shabby.

I went into this movie with about as much positive expectation as a trip to the DMV but it turns it out that it wasn’t bad at all. Baseball movies can be hit or miss and although it wasn’t quite a grand slam, it was a solid solo shot that just manages to clear the wall, but as we know from growing up watching the game; It still counts.

Posted by J.C. Edwards | Filed Under 4 Stars, Amaury Nolasco, Angela Bassett, Bernie Mac, Chris Noth, Comedy, Evan Jones, PG-13, Theatrical