Jungle Skipper
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I just got in from previewing Martin Lawrence's new film Rebound. It's a kids sports movie, about a bad boy college basketball coach who gets in trouble with the college associations and is threatened to be "banned for life" from college basketball....unless he can find a job and show he can keep his cool...or something like that..never really understood why it all happens. So he goes inexplicably ends up coaching the basketball team at his former middle school.
So that's the setup for the film..sounds like a real winner, huh? I assume the director (who also brought you Daddy Day Care and Dr. Dolittle 2) had good intentions when making this picture, but it turns into a ridiculous vehicle for Lawrence's humor. The plot is forced and moves along at an unbelievable pace, time passed with generic sports montage moments.
All in all Rebound is nothing new, another mediocre sports movie. A somewhat big named actor, a bunch of familiar looking kids (some of which must be 30 years old by now, seems like they've been playing kids in sports movies for years now) and the miraculous improvement in the way they play the game.
To put it bluntly, there's a reason this movie was pushed back from a late march release and placed on the same weekend as War of the Worlds...that's all I need to say really. If you want to take the kids to the cinema, check out something else like Madagascar (2.5 stars), Kicking and Screaming (2.5 stars) or Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (3.5 stars) and for the older crowd, there's always Batman Begins (4 stars) or as much as I didn't care for it, War of the Worlds (2.5 stars, at least it had some high points).
I give Rebound 2 out of 5 stars. Nothing special.
Jungle Josh
So that's the setup for the film..sounds like a real winner, huh? I assume the director (who also brought you Daddy Day Care and Dr. Dolittle 2) had good intentions when making this picture, but it turns into a ridiculous vehicle for Lawrence's humor. The plot is forced and moves along at an unbelievable pace, time passed with generic sports montage moments.
All in all Rebound is nothing new, another mediocre sports movie. A somewhat big named actor, a bunch of familiar looking kids (some of which must be 30 years old by now, seems like they've been playing kids in sports movies for years now) and the miraculous improvement in the way they play the game.
To put it bluntly, there's a reason this movie was pushed back from a late march release and placed on the same weekend as War of the Worlds...that's all I need to say really. If you want to take the kids to the cinema, check out something else like Madagascar (2.5 stars), Kicking and Screaming (2.5 stars) or Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (3.5 stars) and for the older crowd, there's always Batman Begins (4 stars) or as much as I didn't care for it, War of the Worlds (2.5 stars, at least it had some high points).
I give Rebound 2 out of 5 stars. Nothing special.
Jungle Josh
I probably wouldn't have seen it anyway, considering I don't like Martin Lawrence. 
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