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9 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Movie For It's Audience Jan 04, 2006
By Dorrie Wheeler
The Martin Lawrence movie Rebound is now available on DVD. Martin stars as Coach Roy McCormick, a college basketball coach who is obviously feeling himself a little too much. Photoshoots and hanging on Cadillac Escalades are more important than coaching it appears. When Coach Roy is banned from the NCBA he is left without a college coaching position. His attorney, portrayed by Breckin Meyer, explains to the NCBA that they have to give Coach Roy another chance before they enact a lifetime ban.
Wendy Raquel Robinson (The Steve Harvey Show), stars in the film as the mother of young boy who doesn't have his father in his life. Coach Roy soon finds himself back at his alma mater, Mt. Vernon Jr. High coaching a group of misfit basketball players. The kids are quirky and memorable. Rebound is a funny, family friendly film even if it is a little predictable at time. It's a rather tame film for Martin. Tom Arnold makes a cameo in the film, and Megan Mullally stars as the films principal. The film was directed by Steve Carr who directed the family friendly films Daddy Day Care and Dr. Doolittle 2. It's almost like a basketball version of The Bad News Bears. Although, the movie wasn't a huge commercial success I wouldn't be suprised if there was a sequel.
I give this movie five stars because like "Herbie Fully Loaded," and several other pre-teen movies released this past year, this movie is an excellent movie for "that audience." If you are over 30 and don't have kids, you may not enjoy this movie as much as if you had kids because this isn't like a lot of the other Martin Lawrence movies.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Not Martin Finest But a Great First Rate Effort Jul 02, 2005
By Rosa
"Bookworm"
While this movie has the same formula as movies I seen in the past. Somehow Martin Lawrence sells this movie. He plays a Loudmouth coach who's kick off the team. Must get his act together to get his old job back. While the team He's forced to coach a team that couldn't catch a cold. But under his expertise he refines them.It has plenty a laughs and Wendy Raquel Robinson is great in this movie. Don't let the critics sway you! Go see for yourself.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Hands Down! No Comparison! Easily Martin's best movie Apr 13, 2006
By Navy Bean
"Navy Bean"
I like how they didn't try to overwrite this. The movie flowed organically ... the situations were real-life and the performances were dead-on of how people really talk in movies. Another glimpse into the incredible range of Martin Lawrence. I think we should all be as impressed as possible. The writers did the audience a favor by not defying our expectations and keeping this digestible to all by keeping it as even-keeled and reaction-proof as possible. Not every movie can do that!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 "...the Smelters apparently abandoning their usual strategy of getting scored on and, instead, choosing to score themselves." Jul 17, 2006
By H. Bala
"Me Too Can Read"
Coach Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) is a successful but highly controversial college basketball coach, seemingly more concerned in raking in endorsement deals. When he lets his fiery temper get the better of him and he inadvertently kills a team mascot, he is banned from coaching at the college level for one year. A loophole does allow him to be reinstated if, after one year, he's proven he can properly behave himself. But when no high-profile school comes calling, Coach Roy reluctantly settles for his old middle school of Mount Vernon, who has on its Smelters roster a pretty lame group of non-players. Now, Coach Roy must do some soul-searching, get over his huge ego, do some in-school recruiting, and somehow lead his hapless team into at least not losing by triple digits.
Rebound follows the well-trodden formula layed out by The Bad News Bears, The Mighty Ducks, and even the recent Kicking and Screaming, about a band of preadolescent misfits rising above their own inadequacies and being led by an initially disinclined coach. Martin Lawrence excels in this warm-hearted, feel-good family comedy. At first being all about the bling, he is taught life lessons by the children he takes under his wing and, in the course of the film, becomes a better person. See? Formula.
What makes the whole thing also work is the better than good supporting cast. Of particular note is Patrick Warburton as Roy's over the top nemesis Coach Burgess of the middle school Vikings hoops team. Good choices are also made in casting Horatio Sanz as Roy's cherubic assistant coach and Megan Mullally as Principal Walsh. Last but not least, the kids are all endearing and easy to root for. Kudos go to the two girls who play the knowledgeable high school sports reporters; they greatly enliven the proceedings. So, we get family fun, traditional values, some excellent coaching techniques, and a lesson in cohesive teamwork. Not too shabby for a Martin Lawrence flick. Three and a half stars.
By the way, that broken-down, not quite yellow anymore school bus rocks.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
SOME LAUGHS BUT NOTHING ORIGINAL Apr 05, 2006
By Tim Janson
Rebound isn't a horrible movie. There are some laughs but you've seen it all before...a down on his luck coach takes over a group of misfit players who no one else wants to coach and turns them into winners....Let's see, Bad News Bears, Mighty Ducks, Little Giants...yes it's the same plot with different faces and this time the sport is basketball. Roy McCormick (martin Lawrence) is a big time college basketball coach whose tempter tantrums get him banned. The only job he can find in coaching is returning to his old middle school to coach a team of losers who haven't won a game in years. McCormick's agent Tim Fink (Breckin Meyer) believes it will be a good PR move for him to help get his old job back. At first McCormick is all ego and merely shows up. His team consists only of five players playing stereotypical roles...there's the one good player Keith, the fat kid Fuzzy, etc... Keith's mother Jeanie tears into McCormick and right away we know that the two will become romantically involved later. McCormick recruits two more players, the super tall but uncoordinated Wes, and the tough as nails girl nicknamed Big Mac. Tragically, the actress who played Big Mac, Tara Correa was shot and killed in a gang related shooting in 2005.
Well you know the story...McCormick finally gets the kids to play as a team and eventually leads them into the playoffs. Now middle schools in my area don't have playoffs in basketball or state championships but who am I to tread on poetic license. They beat their rivals who are coached by another stereotype role, the coach who yells a lot and wants to win at all costs. Fortunately the coach is played by Patrick Warburton who brings a dash of humor to every role he plays and makes the part watchable. Horatio Sanz of SNL co-stars as the teams original witless coach who gets girls to show up for games with free Pizza in kind of a creepy way. There's a few laughs here but it's so predictable that everyone knows what's going to happen next. 2 ½ stars.
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