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Rebound

EMAILPRINTTwentieth Century Fox Film Corp.

Rebound reviews
36
5.1 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 25 critic reviews
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Based on 15 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Comedy

Written by: Jon Lucas
Scott Moore
William Wolff (story)
Ed Decter & John J. Strauss (story)

Directed by: Steve Carr

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 1, 2005
DVD: December 20, 2005

Running Time: 89 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

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)

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

The average user rating for this movie is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 15 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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