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Genre :

Comedy

Release Date :

July 01, 2005

MPAA Rating :

PG

Director :

Steve Carr

Starring :

Martin Lawrence, Patrick Warburton, Megan Mullally, Breckin Meyer, Oren Williams, Steven C. Parker, Steven Anthony Lawrence

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.    Readers  Be the 1st!

3 of 5

“..turns out to be not as bad as you might expect..”
by Frank Swietek [One Guy's Opinion]
2 of 4

“..too familiar, too derivative, too formulaic and too predictable..”
by Wade Major [Boxoffice Magazine]
1.5 of 4

“..there's not a frame of "Rebound" that's fresh..”
by Kevin C. Johnson [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
2 of 5

“..still pretty hopeless comedy-wise..”
by [E! Online]
“..predictable yet passably entertaining..”
by Luke Sader [The Hollywood Reporter]
1 of 4

“..neither original nor funny..”
by Sarah Chauncey [Reel]
2 of 5

“..it's overbearing, overly simplistic and just plain dull...”
by Christy Lemire [Denver Rocky Mountain News]
1.5 of 5

“..it's just quite forgettable..”
by Eric Lurio [Greenwich Village Gazette]
1.5 of 4

“..it's cookie-cutter, photocopy and all those other words that indicate mindless reproduction...”
by Daniel Neman [Richmond Times-Dispatch]
1.5 of 4

“..It bounces, but just barely..”
by Barbara Vancheri [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
“..goes so far as to feature a brash, tough-as-nails tomboy ringer..”
by Nathan Rabin [The Onion A.V. Club]
1.5 of 4

“..give the run-of-the-mill Rebound a miss..”
by Kit Bowen [Hollywood]
2 of 5

“..as cheap-looking as a basic-cable movie and even less original...”
by Stan Urankar [Sun Newspapers of Cleveland]
“..a sports comedy so by-the-numbers that you don't really have to watch it..”
by Scott Foundas [L.A. Weekly]
1 of 4

“..a misbegotten mix of crude jokes, ludicrous fantasies and bland sentimentality...”
by Michael Wilmington [Chicago Tribune]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by [The Movie Chicks]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by Scott Brown [Entertainment Weekly]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by Jeff Farance [The Daytona Beach News-Journal]
3.5 of 5
Reviewed by Nancy Churnin [The Dallas Morning News]
3 of 5
Reviewed by Carol Cling [Las Vegas Review-Journal]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Sara M. Fetters [MovieFreak]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Tom Meek [The Boston Phoenix]
2.5 of 5
Reviewed by Vince Leo [Qwipster's Movie Reviews]
2.5 of 5
Reviewed by Marc Savlov [Austin Chronicle]
2.5 of 4
Reviewed by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Pete Croatto [Filmcritic]
2 of 5
Reviewed by Scott Craven [The Arizona Republic]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Ed Blank [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
2 of 4
Reviewed by Paul Doro [The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Jeff Vice [Deseret News, Salt Lake City]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Nick Schager [Slant Magazine]
1.5 of 5
Reviewed by Lew Irwin [ShowBIZ Data]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Daniel Fienberg [Zap2it]
1 of 4
Reviewed by Michael Hardy [Houston Chronicle]
Reviewed by Vickie [Moviepie]

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