Lisa and I finished off our marathon of movie going by going to the early viewing of Rebound starring Martin Lawrence as a prima donna college basketball coach. The basics of the story is that "Coach Roy" is a jerk who ends up getting kicked out of the NCAA (or NCBA as the movie calls it) due to his temper. In a move his agent frames as great PR Coach Roy goes back to the middle school where he learned the game to coach a group of misfit kids.
As is the case with every movie that is about a coach looking for redemption and a group of misfit kids playing the sport there is a standard recipie that is followed with Rebound.
- Find Team of Misfits
- Add Bitter Coach
- Team helps Coach find Love of Game again
- Coach transforms team into a winner
- Team wins big game against rich "perfect" team that previously taunted misfits
- Coach finds love with parent of one of his players
- Everyone lives happilly ever after
Rebound is really no different than any other movie of it's type and as such it is a decent movie to take the kids too. It is good clean fun in a serial format parents will be all too familiar with but still has some good values in it. While not a classic like "The Bad News Bears" (nor will Rebound ever be remade) it's still an alright movie.
RATING4