Rebound

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.

Entertainment Weekly Scott Brown

The whole thing feels like a half-day of community service, which Lawrence walks through good-naturedly.

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.

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.

The Hollywood Reporter Luke Sader

Predictable yet passably entertaining.

Variety Joe Leydon

Scores a few chuckles while following a familiar game plan.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Village Voice Joshua Land

Surprisingly bearable family comedy.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

It's an abysmal movie.

Los Angeles Times Gene Seymour

If I were 6, I could enjoy Rebound without thinking about all the better movies made from its concept.

Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson

Rebound isn't funny.

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.

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.

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.

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The funny-looking kids steal every scene from Lawrence, simply by virtue of being funny-looking kids.

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

The movie and its star just aren't that funny.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Even by the debased standards of preachy sports movies aimed at kids, this is pabulum.

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

Bewilderingly bad.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

A dreary comedy in the same mold (as "The Bad News Bears," only moldier.

New York Post Kyle Smith

Starts off bad, then tapers off.

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?