Who’s in it: Martin Lawrence, Patrick Warburton
What it’s about: Hothead college basketball coach Roy McCormick (Lawrence) is in trouble. His team isn’t winning, he’s become a talk-show joke, he flings a ball at the mascot of a rival team, and his career is gone. But if he can prove himself while on probation, he will be reinstated, so he goes to coach the losing 13-year-olds at Mt. Vernon Middle School.
Worth watching? (star)(star)
” ‘Rebound’ is almost the same movie as ‘Coach Carter,’ played for ‘Bad News Bears’/ ‘Mighty Ducks’/’Mean Green’/’Kicking and Screaming’ laughs. It’s so close, it could be a parody, pointing out how worn out the formula was before ‘Carter’ ever hit theaters. … The team in this ‘Carter’ clone is the Smelters, not the Oilers. The school is disadvantaged but not impoverished. And [Martin] Lawrence is no Samuel L. Jackson.”
