| Mr. 3000 (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Charles Stone III
Actors: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Michael Rispoli, Brian J. White, Ian Anthony Dale
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 0
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 786936242829
ISBN: 0788858157
UPC: 786936242829
EAN: 9780788858154
Theatrical Release Date: September 17, 2004
Release Date: February 1, 2005
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Bernie Mac is perfectly cast in Mr. 3000, a feel-good baseball comedy that capitalizes on Mac's established comedy persona. He plays Stan Ross, veteran first-baseman for the struggling Milwaukee Brewers, who quit the team during a pennant race and, nine years later, discovers that he's actually three hits short of his 3,000 career-hit claim to fame. When he attempts a comeback to correct his record, his selfish past returns to haunt him, along with a former flame (Angela Bassett, who deserves better roles) who's covering Stan's return to baseball for ESPN. It's strictly formula, but the comedy is consistently entertaining, and director Charles Stone III proves that his 2002 sleeper hit Drumline was no fluke, injecting observant details into a very predictable plotline. Easily recommended, Mr. 3000 makes a good double-header with 1989's hit baseball comedy Major League. --Jeff Shannon
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A forty-seven year old ex-baseball star called Mr. 3000 realizes his stats weren't quite as high as he had thought and tries to make a come back to re
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 A beautiful story about a selfish man who grows up a little June 12, 2005
Kenji Fujishima (East Brunswick, NJ USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Call me a sap if you like, but I think MR. 3000 tells a beautiful story. Predictable? Maybe. Cliched? Possibly. And yet, it's so well-written and directed, so vividly acted, and so attentive to characters rather than to attending to carrying out a sports-movie formula, that I never FELT that the movie was musty or cliched. The whole thing feels fresh. It's also funny and, in the end, rather touching.
MR. 3000 is basically about a selfish man's comeuppance. After getting his 3000th hit, Stan Ross (Bernie Mac) decides to rest on his laurels and retire from baseball---even as his team, the Milwaukee Brewers, is in the midst of playoff contention. Nine years later, Ross finds out that he didn't have his 3000 hits after all; a counting error caused a few hits to count more than once, and he really had only 2997 when he retired. His pride having taken a beating, he decides to return to baseball to get his final three hits...and, in the process, grows up a little from the selfish man he was in the past.
It's a plot that doesn't sound all that fresh on paper. But there's no anticipating the depth that the screenwriters, director Charles Stone III, and Bernie Mac bring to the character of Stan Ross. Ross could have been made into a caricature of arrogance, a painfully funny stick figure of a character off of whom easy satirical points could have been scored. But the Ross of MR. 3000 is disarmingly likable in spite of his (hilarious) flaws, because you realize that, despite his me-first nature, he really does love the game of baseball, and understands how it works. It is with this understanding that he becomes a mentor of sorts to the new Brewers team he joins: a group of self-satisfied, self-absorbed players who seem to care little about the game itself (and their indifference is reflected in their cellar-dwelling status in their league). In one scene, Ross sees a faintly disturbing reflection of his old self in T-Rex (Brian J. White), and, as T-Rex is about to get into his car, Ross stops him and advises him on the virtues of becoming a forceful team leader, one who can encourage the highest level of play from the team. Ross has clearly seen enough to know what makes for a winning team, and that is what makes Ross an admirable character regardless of his inflated ego.
But, of course, at that point of the movie, you might be thinking that he's being a little hypocritical, telling a teammate to act like a team leader when he himself hasn't shown a great deal of similar unselfish attributes. It is precisely that kind of character complexity and nuance that makes MR. 3000 stand out from the usual standard sports-movie ilk, with its comic caricatures and by-the-numbers plots. The film doesn't take a mechanical approach to Stan Ross' change of heart. When Hit No. 3000 looms on the horizon for him, Ross decides to call for an extra team practice...only to blow it off himself in order to appear on Jay Leno. He still can't resist the lure of his own ego, even as he selflessly inspires his team to try to at least go down fighting.
Stan Ross is a character that has been sensitively written by its three credited writers (Eric Champnella, Keith Mitchell, and Howard Michael Gould), but of course it's up to the actor to bring a character to life, and Bernie Mac comes through with a performance that is better than anyone had a right to expect from a man whose first leading role this is. Whereas another actor might have gone for psychological depth in portraying Ross' selfishness, Mac makes it light and funny. But Mac does achieve some real moments of emotional gravitas, moments in which one can sense, looking at Mac's expressive face at certain moments, that Ross' anxiety and fear about losing his hard-fought legacy loom in his head. It's a charming, beautifully-shaded, marvelous performance, and for all the hype Jamie Foxx garnered for his Ray Charles interpretation in RAY, Bernie Mac's may actually be superior in its emotional impact. Seriously.
Director Charles Stone III keeps everything light, fresh and above all honest; this movie, which could easily have given into Hollywood-style bathos, never becomes overly sentimental with its change-of-heart story. Instead, it is emotionally convincing every step of the way. Stone---as well as the script, of course---also shows an awareness of the realities of the game of baseball today: how pro athletes can sometimes be less than serious about the game they're playing, how baseball owners can sometimes be concerned only about drawing in crowds, how sensitive media members can be when a player treats them less than respectfully, etc. You can see how a focused player like Stan Ross could be considered a refreshing and even uplifting presence in the midst of such cynicism. Thankfully, the movie itself never becomes merely cynical: even as it takes some sharp jabs at baseball as it is run today, there is always that faint recognition of truth that makes for an enriching movie.
By the end of MR. 3000, the movie inevitably comes down to a last-ditch effort in the bottom of the 9th inning in a tie game. And eventually Stan Ross gets redemption---but not the kind of redemption he necessarily expects. It's perhaps not as surprising an ending as the filmmakers clearly want it to be; still, it is a beautifully fitting ending, one that puts a capper on a surprisingly better-than-average sports movie. Call me sentimental, but I found MR. 3000 touching. Recommended.
ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAV March 6, 2009
DOT (Tuskegee, Alabama)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mr. 3000 is one of--if not--my all-time fav movies. I have seen almost all of Bernie's movies and have most of them in my DVD collection. But, Mr. 3000 is just simply the best!!! Honestly, I can watch the movie over and over and over again...In addition to Bernie being the world's greatest comedian, he is also an amazing actor. My favorite part in the entire movie is when Mo (Angela Bassett, who is also one of my fav actresses) visits Stan at his home...Marvin Gaye's "Lets Get It On" starts playing and Mo and Stan start dancing. The man is so talented!!! I'm not sure if many people know but Bernie could dance AND sing. And, what I like most about him--in the movie and off screen--is that he is "real"...and ol' school. "They" don't make them like Bernie anymore. He was one of the "coolest" cats I've ever seen (celebrity or otherwise)!!! In the movie, I like the fact that Mr. 3000 changed his selfish ways and learned from the mistakes that he made when he was younger. Obviously, I loved the way that the movie ended...Angela and Bernie were so beautiful together!!! It has been seven months since Bernie passed away. I still miss the MAC-MAN oh so much!!!
Mr. 3000 (Full Screen Edition) February 4, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stan Ross was a baseball superstar who turned his back on the game years ago when he finally hit 3,000 hits. Years later, he's now a successful, self-made entrepreneur whose many businesses revolve around his title: Mr. 3000. But a clerical error has proven that Stan is just short three hits of his spectacular hit record. Now, with time on his side and the potential to be inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Stan must return back to the game and get back his title. But things have changed with age, and as Stan finds out, it's not too easy to get back into the game when he hasn't played for years, and he's nearing 50. Bernie Mac is wonderful here. "Mr. 3000" is cool fantasy movie, with a great sense of humor. Entertaining.
Beauty peice of garb September 18, 2004
Kyle (Canada up in dis)
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
O boy, this movie pwned some noobs. The boom mic made a guest appearance TWICE, which was awesome. Dane Cook haulled some serious arse, but this movie sucked. But in a good way, because they through everything into it. If youve never been Mac'ed, dont see this movie.
 Whatever, it's solid February 6, 2005
DukeOfEarl (Phoenix, AZ United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not a movie that will take your breath away or make your guts hurt from laughter, but it did the job for me. Bernie Mac plays it small here, but he still does the best he can with a one-dimensional character. All Stan Ross(Mac) cares about is his record, making it into the baseball Hall of Fame, and himself, himself, himself. Mac was an easy choice to play a loud, cocky character like this.
There are a few chuckles here and there in the movie, but nothing to make you burst out laughing. Some things were tired, the swearing in front of kids, the obligatory love interest with the obligatory songs of Marvin Gaye and such every love scene. The baseball action is tailored towards the movie, rather than viewing it as a live game, but it worked really well showing Ross' mishaps on Sportscenter rather than straight in the movie. Things always seem to be funnier on Sportscenter recaps with Stuart Scott commentating.
Yeah, some of it may be cliched, but it threw me off how Ross went from feeling the "team" spirit to flaunting himself and his greatness again, before making a "sacrifice" at the end. The end was surprising to me, some may see it coming, but it wasn't necessarily the usual kind of ending to movies like this. I love how he got his first 3,000th hit, and if you think about it, they actually made good use of his sparse hits after the comeback. The 2,998th one was classic, and one of the high-points in this movie.
The movie is actually better than those pitiful trailers made it out to be, in case you're worried. I couln't get over how awkward Mac looks in a baseball uni, but by the end of the flick, he more than embodies the character(and the uni)! Not a must-see, but definitely a timeworthy-see. In the end, it entertained me, kept me interested, and sat well with me after it was all over, it gets a four.
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