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Rebound
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

Rebound reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 36 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
2.3 out of 10
based on 25 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG for mild language and thematic elements

Starring Martin Lawrence, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Breckin Meyer, Horatio Sanz, Oren Williams, Patrick Warburton, Megan Mullally, and Eddy Martin

Coach Roy (Lawrence) once was college basketball's top mastermind. But when his temper runs amok and he is banned from college ball, his only coaching offer comes from a junior high school. As Roy's coaching magic takes his new team to the winning side he finds something long thought lost: his love of the game. (20th Century Fox)


GENRE(S): Comedy  
WRITTEN BY: Jon Lucas
Scott Moore
William Wolff (story)
Ed Decter & John J. Strauss (story)
 
DIRECTED BY: Steve Carr  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 20, 2005 
Video: December 20, 2005 
Theatrical: July 1, 2005 
RUNNING TIME: 89 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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63
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Rebound is about as unmotivated as Coach Roy, doing nothing to distinguish itself from any other movie ever made about winless teams that learn to stop losing.
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58
Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown
The whole thing feels like a half-day of community service, which Lawrence walks through good-naturedly.
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50
LA Weekly Scott Foundas
Rebound is a sports comedy so by-the-numbers that you don't really have to watch it -- you can just check in on it every once in a while between trips to the concession stand and the bathroom.
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50
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
It'd be tempting to accuse Rebound of neutering Lawrence, but the sad fact is that Martin Lawrence doesn't have a whole lot of comic genius to betray.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Luke Sader
Predictable yet passably entertaining.
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50
Variety Joe Leydon
Scores a few chuckles while following a familiar game plan.
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
I can't recommend the movie, except to younger viewers, but I don't dislike it. It's "Coach Carter" Lite, and it does what it does.
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50
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Director Carr, who helmed the similarly predictable "Daddy Day Care," keeps things moving, both on and off the court, with the sort of light, sweet humor you're not likely to find in too many other summer movies.
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50
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Rebound is determinedly lightweight fare that shamelessly resorts to every crowd-pleasing cliche it can think of to wring sympathy and laughs from its audience. To say it succeeds is not meant as a compliment.
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50
Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
It's just another bland, junior-high-basketball riff on "The Bad News Bears" formula, one that takes every single dramatic cue from the underdog sports-movie playbook.
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50
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Even without surprises, or drama, or clever dialogue, or even a single scene of any merit, Rebound goes along pleasantly.
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50
Village Voice Joshua Land
Surprisingly bearable family comedy.
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42
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
It's an abysmal movie.
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40
Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour
If I were 6, I could enjoy Rebound without thinking about all the better movies made from its concept.
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40
Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Rebound isn't funny.
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40
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Short on laughs, if supremely inoffensive, this sleepy nonentity of a movie finds Mr. Lawrence in his huggable teddy bear mode.
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38
USA Today Claudia Puig
The players fall into recognizable stereotypes: the big and clumsy kid, the real talent who's also a showoff, the buffoon, the gross-out guy. But no one is more formulaic than the coach. He starts out smug with the kids and ends up smitten.
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38
Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Viewing the new Martin Lawrence kiddie movie is more enjoyable than watching my dog eat a desiccated toad carcass he pried off the road, but only marginally so.
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30
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The funny-looking kids steal every scene from Lawrence, simply by virtue of being funny-looking kids.
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30
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
The movie and its star just aren't that funny.
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30
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Even by the debased standards of preachy sports movies aimed at kids, this is pabulum.
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25
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Bewilderingly bad.
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25
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
A dreary comedy in the same mold (as "The Bad News Bears," only moldier.
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12
New York Post Kyle Smith
Starts off bad, then tapers off.
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10
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Why -- when there are so many funnier, smarter, more gifted performers who can't get arrested in Hollywood -- why, for the love of all that's good and holy, does Martin Lawrence get to keep making movies?
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 2.3 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Juwawn D. gave it a0:
I want to puke after watching this crapola. Horrid.

Coal X gave it a1:
I went to see the movie with my younger brother, we both became physically ill. And I had to leave the theater before I passed out.

Movie Viewer gave it a1:
Predictable & boring - dry humor at best. Younger children may like it though.

charles i. gave it a1:
I love the movies ok charles say so.

Scott S. gave it a10:
I didn't like it, but my kid really did.

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