“White Men Can’t Jump” (**1/2 out of four) was a respectable remake of the 1992 classic about two basketball players (Jack Harlow and Sinqua Walls) who team up to start hustling locally and in big-league tournaments to earn extra cash but have to overcome their differences, both on and off the court, to be a winning team. Director Calmatic infuses this with enough bounce and fizz to make it overall worthwhile, even if it’s not a slam-dunk like the original. Both Walls and Harlow are likeable enough but Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, and (especially) Rosie Perez are sorely missed at times.

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