Rebound
—Overview
—Photos
—About this Film pdf
—Spiritual Connections
Coach Roy (Martin Lawrence) finds himself banned from college basketball when he throws one tantrum too many (a la Bobby Knight). The standard reclamation project is the Mount Vernon Junior High School Smelters, with its hapless team and low expectations. Don’t expect much difference from The Mighty Ducks but laughs and heartwarming moments abound.
Depending on what you want your kid to learn, Rebound could be the movie for you. In the process of learning more about himself, each member of the six person team of Smelters receives some positive encouragement from Coach Roy. For the overly confident, self-focused leader, Roy dispenses the ‘I-was-just-like-you-but-here’s-how-I-had-to-change� speech that comes at a time when Roy himself seems to need the lesson again as well. For the stressed out kid, Roy inspires a confidence that belies the situation. For the shy, tall, and uncoordinated giant, Roy reminds him that everyone wants to be loved and basketball can provide him that (and it does!)
Some of the humor, and the religious interjection into the movie, comes when Coach Roy pays a flamboyant preacher-type to come and pray for the team. Not for a lack of spirit, the preacher prays that if the team can’t win well by itself, that God allow the legs of the other team’s best players to be broken. Obviously, the caricature is meant to be a spoof of what is quite ridiculous: the adult inclination to put God one team or another, and to blow the ability for children to repeat out of proportion. Some will discount this as commentary because it is done for laughs—but how many of you, preparing to step on the field, prayed with a team where God was clearly only for your team? The truth is that this sentiment carries off the sports field and into our churches—God doesn’t take sides, He loves everybody!
In the other prayer, Coach Roy yells at the heavens when the bus has a flat tire, because he doesn’t know how to change it. He moans that ‘you are trying to ruin me’—his focus is still on himself at this point, as he seeks to be reinstated into ‘real’ coaching. The answer to his prayer comes from his team—they come off the bus to fix the tire themselves. Filled with humor, the illustration of prayer being answered by people who hear the prayer and see the need is well put here. Rather than some ‘supernatural/miracle’ action, the flat tire is fixed by people who are present at the place of need and have the ability to fix it. Just another lesson to take note of in this standard for sports nuts.
So to wrap up, I’m not going to sell Rebound as a great movie—but the laughs are worth it, and so are the moments of inspiration.
—Overview
—Photos
—About this Film pdf
—Spiritual Connections
—Photos
—About this Film pdf
—Spiritual Connections
Coach Roy (Martin Lawrence) finds himself banned from college basketball when he throws one tantrum too many (a la Bobby Knight). The standard reclamation project is the Mount Vernon Junior High School Smelters, with its hapless team and low expectations. Don’t expect much difference from The Mighty Ducks but laughs and heartwarming moments abound.
Depending on what you want your kid to learn, Rebound could be the movie for you. In the process of learning more about himself, each member of the six person team of Smelters receives some positive encouragement from Coach Roy. For the overly confident, self-focused leader, Roy dispenses the ‘I-was-just-like-you-but-here’s-how-I-had-to-change� speech that comes at a time when Roy himself seems to need the lesson again as well. For the stressed out kid, Roy inspires a confidence that belies the situation. For the shy, tall, and uncoordinated giant, Roy reminds him that everyone wants to be loved and basketball can provide him that (and it does!)
Some of the humor, and the religious interjection into the movie, comes when Coach Roy pays a flamboyant preacher-type to come and pray for the team. Not for a lack of spirit, the preacher prays that if the team can’t win well by itself, that God allow the legs of the other team’s best players to be broken. Obviously, the caricature is meant to be a spoof of what is quite ridiculous: the adult inclination to put God one team or another, and to blow the ability for children to repeat out of proportion. Some will discount this as commentary because it is done for laughs—but how many of you, preparing to step on the field, prayed with a team where God was clearly only for your team? The truth is that this sentiment carries off the sports field and into our churches—God doesn’t take sides, He loves everybody!In the other prayer, Coach Roy yells at the heavens when the bus has a flat tire, because he doesn’t know how to change it. He moans that ‘you are trying to ruin me’—his focus is still on himself at this point, as he seeks to be reinstated into ‘real’ coaching. The answer to his prayer comes from his team—they come off the bus to fix the tire themselves. Filled with humor, the illustration of prayer being answered by people who hear the prayer and see the need is well put here. Rather than some ‘supernatural/miracle’ action, the flat tire is fixed by people who are present at the place of need and have the ability to fix it. Just another lesson to take note of in this standard for sports nuts.So to wrap up, I’m not going to sell Rebound as a great movie—but the laughs are worth it, and so are the moments of inspiration.
—Overview
—Photos
—About this Film pdf
—Spiritual Connections
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