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REBOUND DVD REVIEW
Rebound
(Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment)
| The Movie |
The Extras |
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| 3.5/10 |
3.5/10 |
Liam |
In Rebound, Martin Lawrence plays Roy McCormick, a rage-aholic college level basketball coach who is banned for life after his latest on-court tirade. However, since the rules of college basketball apparently say he can't be banned for life without being given to opportunity to redeem himself, he accepts a coaching position at the middle school in the town where he grew up. At first, he doesn't really care that the team he's coaching hasn't won a game in more than a decade. But, when he becomes a laughing stock on the sports talk show circuit and he begins to lose all the bling he's acquired through various endorsement deals he decides to step it up. He brings in a couple of ringers, pulls a couple of tricks out of his sleeve and begins to turn things around. Soon, his new team is competing for the championship and Coach Roy is on the verge of being reinstated at the college basketball level. But what will he do? Will he turn his back on his new team or will he realize that he's needed and stick it out for the long haul. Well, this is a kid's movie and if I have to tell you how it ends, I'd also have to kick you in the ass.
As a kid, I used to love kids sports movies. But now, I just hate them. Movies like this one and Kicking and Screaming with Will Ferrell are absolute bottom of the barrel entertainment. I'm sure for kids they are fine, but I just have such a hard time sitting through them without smashing my head against a brick wall. They are just so predictable and unfunny.
Special features on this DVD include any audio commentary by writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, an alternate ending, a storyboard gallery and the film's theatrical trailer. There's also a preview for The Sandlot 2, which is itself a vastly inferior sequel to a half-decent kids sports movie.
How a movie like this gets released theatrically is beyond me. Do people really find this type of stuff funny? Are our standards really that low that this actually passes for entertainment? Looking at a movie like this, where the main character seems only interested in money, I can't help but wonder why guy like Martin Lawrence doesn't take a lesson from his own character? Because if he made this movie for anything other than a paycheck I'd be pretty surprised.
Features
Full-Length Audio Commentary by Screenwriters Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, Storyboard Gallery, Theatrical Trailer
Video
Widescreen (1.85:1), Full Screen (1.33:1)
Audio
English 5.1 Dolby Surround, French Dolby Surround, Spanish Dolby Surround
Subtitles
English, Spanish, Closed-Captioned
Release Date
December 20, 2005
Rating
PG/G
Length
86 mins.
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