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Kelley L. Carter, Detroit Free Press: Mr. 3000 is devoid of easy-to-do buffoonery, allowing the characters to have some layers. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Clear and formulaic from the onset is Ross' path to self-discovery. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Director Charles Stone III and writers Eric Champnella, Keith Mitchell and Howard Michael Gould have reconfigured a sports movie plot to bring to it depth as well as laughter, and, better yet, made it unpredictable. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Even the weakest baseball films absorb some of the charm of the game. Mr. 3000 does that, and throws in a lot of Bernie Mac laughs in the bargain. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Mr. 3000 is not a great movie, but it's affectionate. It reveals the cuddly side of Mac. It reimagines midlife romance with the warmth of a Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn movie, if without its wit. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Bernie Mac knocks it out of the park as an arrogant former superstar in Mr. 3000, a surprisingly edgy comedy that presents perhaps Hollywood's least flattering portrait ever of Major League Baseball. Read more
Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: It's no Bull Durham, but it certainly gives Major League a run for its money. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Slumps under the weight of product endorsements and a misguided romantic subplot. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Mac displays the same rough charm that we see on his TV show and in his supporting roles. Read more
Bob Townsend, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Bernie Mac makes this slight sports comedy worth watching, taking the laughs well into the bottom of the ninth. Read more
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: A genuinely likable film about a guy who's pretty unlikable. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: A halfway entertaining movie. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: There are no big surprises, but Mac and director Charles Stone III hit all the right dramatic notes, and Angela Bassett is reliably smart and sexy as Mac's love interest. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: A comedy with bite. Read more
Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: The story has all the honest spontaneity of a postgame interview. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: For a movie with such a big number in its title, Mr. 3000 never amounts to much. Read more
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Squanders Mac's natural gift of salty gruffness by shoehorning him into a dull, heartwarming cinematic lesson on humility and the joys of teamwork. Read more
Bruce Diones, New Yorker: This fuzzy baseball story about a conceited player (Bernie Mac) who comes out of retirement to fix his record (he's three hits short of the magic three thousand) is a major letdown. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Comes up a few laughs short of being something worth leaving the house for. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: [Mac] gives surprising wisdom and heart -- along with the laughs -- to what could have been just another generic baseball comedy. Read more
Anita Gates, New York Times: In creating the breathtakingly arrogant baseball player Stan Ross, Bernie Mac gives moviegoers a character they love to hate, then a newly humbled character they can root for. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Bernie Mac gives a funny and kind of touching performance as a man who attains greatness once and then has to do it again. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: An uncompromisingly grown-up comedy that any willing adult can see in any multiplex in the country. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A baseball film that has its heart in the right place but struggles to generate laughs. Read more
Brad Wheeler, Globe and Mail: If the role of Ross was not written for Mac, it was certainly tailored for him. Just as a champion athlete carries a team on his back, Mac carries the film. Read more
Malene Arpe, Toronto Star: An intermittently charming remake of the 1992 Tom Selleck yarn Mr. Baseball. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Bernie Mac plays a baseball-star version of his corrosive TV-show persona in Mr. 3000, a comedy that's essentially an extended ad for ESPN. Ironically, though, the insertion of real-life media provides the film's few laughs. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Bassett and Mac deserve better vehicles for their charm and talent. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: A sports movie that lacks any suspense or dramatic tension about what transpires on the field, and Mac plays such a self-absorbed jerk through most of the film that rooting interest is minimal. Read more
Sara Gebhardt, Washington Post: The script is much like a nine-inning sitcom that uses an obvious formula to tell a familiar story while garnering cheap laughs. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Although the writing and direction are flabby, the drama contrived and the romance utterly unbelievable. Read more