 The Martin Lawrence comedy Rebound is also set to compete this weekend, but analysts don't expect it to gross more than $10 million. The film invokes most of the conventions of sports movies, featuring a basketball team composed of losers being molded by a bombastic coach. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times calls it "fun enough in a sweet but predictable way," adding: "We wait complacently until the last second of the last minute of the final game of the season, confident that no matter how grim the situation looks, the underdog tradition of sports movies will be upheld." Some critics are not so charitable. Kyle Smith writes in the New York Post: "Rebound starts off bad, then tapers off." Stephen Holden in the New York Times agrees. He comments, "At times the movie ... seems so bored with itself that it dozes off while still on its feet." Similarly, Gene Seymour begins his review in Newsday by remarking: "I should be 6 years old right now. That way, I could enjoy Rebound without thinking about all the better movies made from its concept. The time spent watching the movie would pass quickly." Stephen Whitty of Newhouse News Service took his seven-year-old along to see the movie, and he gave it an enthusiastic review. "[He] liked the slapstick fights and the occasional bathroom jokes and didn't think too much about the rest of it," he wrote. |
