The plot to Rebound has been done so many times. It's one of those films you know what will happen and when it will happen. You know in the end everything will work out after the main character has learned his lesson and decided to do the right thing.In this case, Martin Lawrence plays a superstar college basketball coach, Roy, who gets banned from the NCAA for killing a mascot, a bird. The only job he can get is at a junior high. The team he's coaching haven't won a game in years. After getting to know the kids and plus finding out if he can start winning he'll be let back in the NCAA, Coach Roy decides to take the job seriously. Of course, one of the kids has a hot mom he pursues. Like a kids movie like this even needs a love interest.So he takes a team that loses by over 100 and they start winning. He enjoys what he's doing. Then he gets the offer to back to college coaching. Of course, now he's this new guy and fame and money aren't everything. So unbelievable he turns down the job to continue to coach at a junior high. That's silly.FINAL VERDICT: Overdone script. Not that funny. I'd say this movie is only for kids into sports.

Rebound/2005/***Main Stars: Martin Lawrence Oren WilliamsBreckin MeyerMartin Lawrence definitely brought the laughs in this movie. There were other people that were funny but mainly Martin Lawrence was. This movie is all about basketball and barely anything else. Roy McCormick (Martin Lawrence) gets fired from coaching college basketball because of his maniacal temper tantrums. Now he has to coach 13 year old kids in a middle school. At first, it was bad for Roy but then he became more patient and better to the kids. It's difficult to explain why I liked this movie but it was just funny and I really was into it for some reason. Movie directed by Steve Carr.

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.

Yes, I know, in a world used to movies about sex, drugs senseless violence, and so on, this movie might seem lame. Of course, if that's what you prefer watching, you are probably not a part of the target audience for this movie. The movie is well made, with many amusing personalities, and good acting on the part of several of the kids. It is also a movie with a deeper meaning to it. Without giving away the plot, I could say that three is a lesson to learn from this; fame and riches does not make you happy, you need more substance in your life. And that no matter what, any child can succeed, if we only give them the guidance and support they need. Sure, the movie is predictable, and not typical for Martin Lawrence, but I sure enjoyed it.