Rebound
Metascore
36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 25 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 25
  3. Negative: 9 out of 25
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  1. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    63
    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.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Brown
    58
    The whole thing feels like a half-day of community service, which Lawrence walks through good-naturedly.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Luke Sader
    50
    Predictable yet passably entertaining.
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    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.
  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    Even without surprises, or drama, or clever dialogue, or even a single scene of any merit, Rebound goes along pleasantly.
  6. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    50
    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.
  7. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marc Savlov
    50
    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.
  8. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    50
    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.
  9. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    50
    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.
  10. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    50
    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.
  11. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Joshua Land
    50
    Surprisingly bearable family comedy.
  12. Variety
    Reviewed by: Joe Leydon
    50
    Scores a few chuckles while following a familiar game plan.
  13. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: William Arnold
    42
    It's an abysmal movie.
  14. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Luke Y. Thompson
    40
    Rebound isn't funny.
  15. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Gene Seymour
    40
    If I were 6, I could enjoy Rebound without thinking about all the better movies made from its concept.
  16. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    40
    Short on laughs, if supremely inoffensive, this sleepy nonentity of a movie finds Mr. Lawrence in his huggable teddy bear mode.
  17. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Connie Ogle
    38
    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.
  18. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    38
    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.
  19. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    Even by the debased standards of preachy sports movies aimed at kids, this is pabulum.
  20. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    The movie and its star just aren't that funny.
  21. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    30
    The funny-looking kids steal every scene from Lawrence, simply by virtue of being funny-looking kids.
  22. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    25
    Bewilderingly bad.
  23. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    25
    A dreary comedy in the same mold (as "The Bad News Bears," only moldier.
  24. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    12
    Starts off bad, then tapers off.
  25. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Ann Hornaday
    10
    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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