Rebound

Excellent Movie For It's Audience
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...

SOME LAUGHS BUT NOTHING ORIGINAL
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...

Not Martin Finest But a Great First Rate Effort
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.

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