Jul 1, 2005 8:35 am US/Central
Rebound
Richard Roeper: "Skip It"
(CBS)
There's only one new movie opening this weekend in Chicago: "Rebound," a basketball comedy starring Martin Lawrence. We're going to get about a dozen sports movies in 2005, and there's no possible way any of them can be any worse than "Rebound."
With his face strangely bloated, Martin Lawrence looks lost and confused in "Rebound," a movie that knows nothing about basketball, coaching, kids – or comedy.
Not for a second do we believe that Lawrence is one of the premiere college coaches in the country.
The script works itself into contortions in order to send Lawrence to his old junior high, where he has to coach a group of loveable misfits who have never won a game, and in fact, have never scored a basket. Gee, think he'll whip them into shape and learn some valuable lessons about his life?
This movie is so shameless that we even get the old gotta-be-in-two-places-at-one-time-dilemma. On the day of Lawrence's reinstatement hearing, the boys are playing for the state championship.
Betcha he goes to one appointment, but then has second thoughts and races to the second, more important, event!
"Rebound" is rated PG and it stinks. Skip It. For a sports movie that's about a thousand times better, check out Russell Crowe's amazing performance in "Cinderella Man," a great All-American story for this 4th of July weekend.
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