Rebound

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Rebound

PG,

2005,

1h 23m,

Kids & Family/

Comedy

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15%

89 Reviews

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38%

50,000+ Ratings

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38%

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Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) is a college basketball coach more famous for his temper than for his coaching ability. After one of his rages gets him banned from the sport, Roy takes a job coaching basketball at a middle school in an attempt to repair his reputation. Amazingly, what Roy began as a show of rehabilitation begins to genuinely change him, and he learns to care for his team. His relationship with local mom Jeanie (Wendy Raquel Robinson) is a good influence as well.

Critics Consensus

Rebound ought to entertain its target audience, but there's nothing here for those who've seen The Bad News Bears or its countless derivatives.

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Joshua Land

Village Voice

Jul 6, 2005

Lawrence coasts on star power, genially sending up his bad-boy persona.

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Sara Michelle Fetters

MovieFreak.com

Jul 5, 2005

2.5/4

Don't misunderstand me. This isn't a very good picture by any stretch of the imagination. All I'm saying is that it isn't a bad one, Carr and Lawrence keeping things relatively bouncy and benignly innocuous...

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Daniel Fienberg

Zap2it.com

Jul 5, 2005

1.5/4

An underdog sports saga that skips nary a cliche on its nearly laughless journey.

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

Nov 18, 2019

A lazy, half-hearted attempt at comedy that gets the award for being the most predictable film of 2005.

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Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Apr 16, 2009

D

Even the teenaged misfit audiences to whom "Rebound" is targeted will lose patience with the film's uninspired gags and lazy writing.

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Ethan Alter

Film Journal International

Mar 1, 2007

An adequate video babysitter, but kids and parents alike would have a better time simply rewatching The Bad News Bears.

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Ron W

Feb 11, 2018

It's not at all an original concept, but this rag tag group provides enough joy to make it worth a watch

Draco W

Sep 2, 2017

Martin Lawrence is funny in this movie it was some what good a good comedy I like how they play basketball now if you like sports then here we go!

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Ron G

Jun 17, 2017

Rebound is a Steve Carr film about a famous College Basketball coach who gets fired for his hot temper after bad calls on his team. He starts to coach a terrible Middle School basketball team and tries to help them improve. I have seen a few Steve Carr films like Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Daddy Day Care, Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, and this movie Rebound. Daddy Day Care being the worst. Never ever planning on seeing Movie 43. You know what they all have in common? They all suck. Rebound is a basketball feel-good movie. I usually enjoy basketball movies even when they are bashed by critics. That's probably because I am a big basketball guy and I even play basketball. This one is just stupid and only has a few laughs. It has that cliche when one of the main guy characters flirts with the main mom and hates him back. This movie had a few good characters like Martin Lawrence's character Coach Rick or something. That kid on the basketball team with the Allen Iverson hair is a cool character. The main mom is an alright character as well. The rest of the characters are just dumb. The ending was a little sucky for a sports movie. Overall, I'd say Rebound (2005) was an AIR-BALL! HEUGHHEUGH! Okay, fine! I'll leave.

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Leia P

Feb 13, 2010

A charming sports comedy for all ages. (First viewing - Summer 2005 in theaters)

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Synopsis

Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) is a college basketball coach more famous for his temper than for his coaching ability. After one of his rages gets him banned from the sport, Roy takes a job coaching basketball at a middle school in an attempt to repair his reputation. Amazingly, what Roy began as a show of rehabilitation begins to genuinely change him, and he learns to care for his team. His relationship with local mom Jeanie (Wendy Raquel Robinson) is a good influence as well.

Director: Steve Carr
Producer: Robert Simonds
Screenwriter: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Robert Simonds Productions
Rating: PG (Thematic Elements|Mild Language)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 1, 2005, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $16.8M
Runtime: 1h 23m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)

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