Lawrence coasts on star power, genially sending up his bad-boy persona.

| Jul 6, 2005

An underdog sports saga that skips nary a cliche on its nearly laughless journey.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 5, 2005

Don't misunderstand me. This isn't a very good picture by any stretch of the imagination. All I'm saying is that it isn't a bad one, Carr and Lawrence keeping things relatively bouncy and benignly innocuous...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 5, 2005

It's a ready cinematic babysitter for harried moms and dads who need some weekend downtime detox from the brood.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 5, 2005

... a dumb, cookie-cutter sports movie that knows nothing about sports and even less about comedy.

Full Review | Jul 5, 2005

A lazy, by-the-numbers vehicle.

| Jul 1, 2005

With the bounceless Rebound, Martin Lawrence has managed the feat of transforming from razor-tongue Bad Boys comic into a cuddly Bill Cosby clone.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 1, 2005

This is a stupid movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 1, 2005

Goes along pleasantly.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 1, 2005

Short on laughs, if supremely inoffensive, this sleepy nonentity of a movie finds Mr. Lawrence in his huggable teddy bear mode.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 1, 2005

Rebound starts off bad, then tapers off.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Jul 1, 2005

This movie feels like it was the product of some court-ordered community service.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 1, 2005

Rebound's reiteration of the Mighty Ducks paradigm of kiddie sports movies often feels tediously academic as it scrambles to touch all the generic bases.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 1, 2005

So paint by numbers it should probably come with a free brush, the movie offers no surprises.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 1, 2005

The thing with Rebound is: If you've seen the poster, if you've seen the trailer, if you've seen the commercial, you've seen the movie.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 1, 2005

It might as well be called refried, repeat, reworked, redone, redux, remade, regurgitated and however many other 're' terms you can come up with to describe a movie that can't be bothered to search for a single new idea.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 1, 2005

A reasonably fun family comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 1, 2005

Painless but dull throughout.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 1, 2005

Despite the lack of originality, the movie is affable enough, thanks to some canny casting.

Full Review | Jul 1, 2005

Rebound doesn't break new ground in the kids-reform- the-big- bad-guy formula. But it does offer a fun if familiar ride, thanks to Mr. Lawrence's deadpan comedic talents and some cute misfit kids.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 30, 2005