Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

I do not know any baseball stars up close, so I have no idea if they are all assholes like Stan Ross. Bernie Mac does a great impression of the player that even the team mascot hates. Well, I wouldn't undo his zipper either.He burned all his bridges and finds he is three hits away from the magic 3000 club. Now, he has to come back, and he finds it wasn't as easy as he thought. He will eat a lot of crow before all is said and done.Angela Bassett comes into the picture, and Stan starts being nicer and helping out his young teammates.All sports movies end the same way - the big play at th last second to win the pennant. The big play came, and a big man emerged.

People always ask me why I can't see movies as just entertainment and why I feel the need to place everyone under examination, like I'm trying to magnify every little aspect. Why can't I just enjoy the movie? They misrepresent me and forget when I review a film, I'm putting down my thoughts and this is my opinion; I try and extend mine past simple, fragmented remarks. I'm using this as the introduction to my review of Charles Stone III's Mr. 3000 because I can see every point at which I'm about to make being refuted with the statement, "it's entertaining, who cares?" This is where the average moviegoer and myself see ourselves at odds.Mr. 3000 will be found entertaining by baseball fans, fans of sports films, and those looking for light-hearted comedy that can't be burdened to think much. There is nothing wrong with that at all. It concerns Stan Ross, an unbelievably arrogant, self-centered baseball player who gets his three-thousandth hit right at the beginning of the film. He is so arrogant and self-centered that he goes into the crowd and snatches the ball from a kid's hand. In the locker-room after the game, giving a post-game interview, Ross announces that he will quit mid-season, leaving his team hanging. He got three-thousand hits; what more does he have to do? Nine years later, however, an error is discovered after Ross is about to be entered into the Baseball Hall of Fame, leaving him with two-thousand nine hundred and seven hits and not three-thousand. He decides that even at forty-seven, he should return to his old team - the Milwaukee Brewers, who are now struggling in fifth place - and hit the ball three more times to be an official member of the three-thousand club.Stan Ross is played by Bernie Mac, an actor who oozes likability and wry humor when he needs to. Because of this, seeing him play a cantankerous, unnecessarily arrogant ballplayer is disheartening, and this persona becomes such a drag that by the time the inevitable plot-points ring true and we're left with a corny ending, we still couldn't bother to side with this man - at least I couldn't. When we focus on a character who has been disrespectful and disgustingly narcissistic for more than half of the film and at the end the film makes us try and side with him, as he slowly begins to realize the pain and lonesomeness that comes with being so brazenly self-indulgent, I can't be bothered to have sympathy for the man. Narcissism is single-handedly the trait in people I despise the most, and even when Ross is clearly being sincere near the end, I saw nothing but smarmy behavior and false kindness in him.It's no secret that baseball players can be the most self-indulgent athletes around. I frequently attend minor league games and see stuck-up attitudes abound - and that's a single-A division. There is indisputable truth to the Stan Ross character in baseball circles, but do people really want to watch a film about a sickeningly arrogant ballplayer? Considering Mr. 3000's lukewarm box office receipts, I'm guessing not entirely.Besides its irredeemable character and the predictable sentimentality that endures, Mr. 3000 is a perfectly watchable film. For one, it features some of the slickest editing I've seen in a baseball picture, especially during the scenes on the diamond, which become briskly paced and somewhat tense when Ross is up to bat. Not to mention, Paul Sorvino gets a bold moment to shine, and the scene when the players are talking about the "sounds" of baseball from years past is wholesome and kindly nostalgic. Now if only the film's title character could possess traits closer to the latter than the ones he holds onto now, which are nearly stomach-turning.Starring: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, and Paul Sorvino. Directed by: Charles Stone III.

Stan Ross (Bernie Mac) is Mr. 3000, an arrogant, cocky, selfish baseball superstar that wants nothing more than to be enshrined in the baseball hall of fame. After getting his 3000th hit, Ross unceremoniously quits the team in the middle of the season, thinking his place in history is assured. But after nine years he still has not been voted into the hall of fame, furthermore a statistical correction brings his hit total down to 2997. Ross finds this unacceptable and comes out of retirement at age 47 to reclaim his 3 lost hits.The movie has potential but spends so much time establishing Ross as an arrogant jackass that it becomes almost impossible to sympathize or root for the character in his quest for greatness. For a movie that is supposed to be a comedy, the jokes are few and far between, and they aren't especially memorable when they do show up. The whole plot of the movie is ripe for comedic payoff but the movie never really delivers. About an hour into the film it seems as if Ross is heading in a direction that the audience can get behind, hoping the protagonist will turn over a new leaf and become worthy of a spot in the hall of fame, but then he backslides and becomes a jerk again.To be effective as a comedy there needs to be humor, which is lacking in the film. To be a feel good movie, you need to be able to root for Ross, which you can't do for almost the entire film because he is portrayed as such a self-centered egomaniac. The film is trying to be both but sadly doesn't succeed in either case. Establishing Ross a a jerk early would have been effective and easily done with a minimum of time and energy, instead the movie dug a deep, dark hole for the hero that he couldn't quite climb out of.

"Mr. 3000" is a one joke movie taken to the extreme. Everyone gets the plot plan. He's selfish, he needs three hits to reach the 3000 hit plateau, and there is going to be friction with his team. Unfortunately that is exactly what happens, and nothing more. Sorely missing is a subplot of some kind, with some interesting characters. There is absolutely no support for Bernie Mac in this movie. The other players grab-ass among themselves. The manager sits in stoic silence. Even Angela Bassett comes across as an afterthought. Mildly amusing at best, redundant and uninspired at worst, "Mr, 3000" was disappointing and a missed opportunity. - MERK