SnoopyStyle
Coach Roy (Martin Lawrence) was a great college basketball coach, but distractions have cause his career to crash. When he accidentally kills the bird mascot, it's the last straw, and he is banned from from coaching. However a rule forces them to accept him back if he can keep out of trouble for the rest of the year. They just won't let him coach in their league, so he returns to his junior high after the kids fake an offer.Is it stupid? Yes it is. Is it unreal? Yes it is. The setup is a really pathetic attempt at 'Bad News Bears', 'Mighty Ducks', or 'Hardball'. The viewer does have to forget about the poor start. Once it gets past that, it's a simple underdog sports movie. Coach Roy is an angry unlikeable apathetic selfish character at the start. But he predictably learns to be a good person coaching the kids. Martin Lawrence is not particularly funny especially as Preacher Don. In fact, I rather him not try to be that loud mouth guy since he can't swear anyways. As a post note, it's very sad the girl on the team got killed by gangs at such a young age. She has the best storyline along with the tall kid.
edwagreen
Removed as a coach from national basketball, Martin Lawrence returns to his middle school to teach a bunch of social misfits. Along the way he finds love and understanding of the kids. By the end, he gives up an opportunity to return to the big leagues to work with these kids instead. Naturally, they win a championship.Sounds familiar? Even the gags here are familiar.Lawrence attempts to be funny but the material he is given is difficult to work with.More use should have been made with the kids. O yes, his love interest is a teacher in the school whose son is on the team.Lawrence is made to be like Anne Bancroft performing miracles along the way. I will admit that it's always good to build a child's self-esteem. Any new ways to do this? Highly predictable film with clichés abounding.
eXtreme23
Coach Roy (Lawrence) once was college basketball's top mastermind. But when his temper raises the limits he is banned from college basketball, his only coaching offer comes from a junior high school. This was his old junior high school, where he played a lot of basketball and won many state championships. The Smelters is what the team is called, and they never won a single basketball game ever, but with Coach Roy's help, they're sure that it will change.I'm getting kind of sick of these children/sport movies. The team is terrible but with the help of they're coach it will change. We just had "Kicking & Screaming" spring of 2005. I felt that it was a pretty decent movie, which I prefer over this. But these type of movies have to stop. They maybe pretty good family films, but most of them are predictable. What I did like about this one was that Coach Roy didn't have to do anything to get his team to the finals, it's that the team worked as a team and they got themselves to the top. Usually in these kinds of movies, the coach makes them better, but if you watch how Coach Roy performs his task as a coach, he knows what to do. I actually feel that Martin Lawrence is getting tierd of the movies he's doing. His roles were pretty good in the last decade, but I don't know about now.Rebound can be a good movie, but there are other sport movies that I prefer to watch before this. Such as "The Big Green", " Little Giants" and others. I did laugh a few scenes in this movie, it's pretty funny and it could be a decent movie. 6/10.
Diand
College basketball coach Roy McCormick is almost banned for life due to his aggressive behavior, but as his agent finds a clause in the rules that he must have another chance first, he ends up training a middle school team, the Mount Vernon Junior High School Smelters. As those movies go, after a few confrontations everyone works together to become champions. Add a love interest for the coach and some diversity in the characters of the team.One of the more funny scenes involves shy Wes and over-assertive Big Mac (this time not meant as a product placement I hope) ending up in a romance. Another thing well done is the way the coach instructs his team. Like in Coach Carter he takes time to learn the middle school team about passing, communication and rebounding. Martin Lawrence tries hard but lacks the comedy skills Eddie Murphy has. He even plays more than one character like Murphy did in Coming to America.Most Hollywood movies only get a bad treatment just because they are made in Hollywood. But Rebound gives those Hollywood-haters exactly the ammo they wish, as it is the kind of formulaic movie that has not a shred of intelligent writing, storytelling, directing or acting to be fond of (and being a kid's movie is not an excuse for that). The story has been told so many times that Rebound is boring to the extreme, as there is total predictability.
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