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"Rebound" a brutal "comedy" |
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Written by LAUREN JANIK
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Friday, 01 July 2005 |
Holiday weekends, such as the Fourth of July, are usually a chance for movies to pull in big cash. Key word: usually. Opening night, "Rebound" premiered to a crowd of four people. Two of which being myself, and a friend who accepted a bribe of an overpriced bag of Sour Patch Kids and a large popcorn to accompany me.
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“Rebound” |
 Entertainment
 Art
Directed by Steve Carr
Written by William Wolff and Ed Decter
Starring Martin Lawrence, Breckin Meyer and Wendy Raquel Robinson
Rated PG for mild language and thematic elements.
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The premise of the movie is simple…a little too simple. Coach Roy (Lawrence) is a big headed college basketball coach with enough wins under his belt to deem himself invincible. This all changes after his temper gets the best of him and, amidst his tantrum, he kills the team mascot. Suddenly finding himself unemployed, his agent (Meyer) encourages him to take a job coaching at his former middle school, a job which Roy reluctantly accepts. The team is horribly predictable and predictably horrible. The group of rag-tag youngsters fills out the normal “help we suck and are in dire need of a real coach” roster. There’s the all-star, the nerd, the klutz, the tall, goofy kid and of course the tomboy. There is also a child with an incessant vomiting problem. What a great addition to the line up.
The rest, as they say, is history. The underdogs suddenly start winning and the hard-ass coach suddenly starts getting soft. He even wins a date with the star player’s mother, Jeanie (Robinson), who he has been trying to score with the entire movie.
So what exactly made this movie different from any other like it? Absolutely nothing. Even 10 minutes onscreen from both Horatio Sanz and Megan Mullally weren’t enough to warrant this film a place in the genre of “comedy”. (Although I did laugh once at Sanz but I think I was remembering a skit on "Saturday Night Live.") I lost interest after about the first 10 minutes and the predictability of it made the rest of the film completely unnecessary. Perhaps some would say I’m being a little harsh, after all, it’s a kids' movie right? Well I can honestly say, I went in with a grade school mentality, which is nothing new for me, and was still unimpressed. I could think of more entertaining ways of spending 90 minutes, like waiting in line at the DMV. Powered by AkoComment 2.0! |
