South Korea is a country where most high school students cram for exams, rather than take part in athletics. But that doesn’t mean students and teachers alike don’t get excited about high school sports. Busan Jungang High School is a school whose basketball team has seen better days. The principal would prefer to disband the team entirely, but he is persuaded by the rest of the staff to appoint Yang-hyun, a school alumni and former player, as coach to try to field a minimally competitive team. Yang-hyun’s first task is to find enough players to fill out all five positions. With the best local talent already recruited to play for schools in other parts of the country, he has no choice but to get creative.

Review

1. The REBOUND is a romantic comedy, that follows the story of Sandy (Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones – Chicago, The Mask of Zorro series, Entrapment, Traffic) as a happily contented wife and mother – that one day comes across a revealing video on her computer of her husband having an affair with another woman. She leaves the family home and takes her two children to start afresh in New York – looking for work within her favourite pastime (sports statistics) – and living in an apartment above a coffee shop.

   At the same time, Aram (Justin Bartha) – who works in the coffee shop, is just getting over his new french bride dumping him – as soon as she’s achieved her “green card” status.

   Sandy and Aram lives get more and more interwoven when she needs a baby sitter and they gradually get closer and closer.

   Her friends want Sandy to start dating again – and Aram’s parents want him to make more of himself – all claiming that they are both on the rebound … but, there is much more going on …

   Adequately directed by Bart Freundlich, and very well acted by the Main leads – this story moves along well and is one of the better chick flicks out there – and, as always, it stands or falls on the chemistry of the main actors (which works in this case) – and as usual all the best one-liners come from the two children

   “Sometimes you need to travel the world – to discover what you really needed all along was right here at home ”

   I would say that for it class and genre, that this would be a successful movie and is recommended as a romantic comedy

2. Justin Bartha finally bags a lead role and what’s better than teaming up with the ever green Catherine Zeta Jones Douglas. A decent drama comedy and romance with unexpected dialogs – reflection of reality is a bit scary. You don’t get a lot of movies like this one these days. Every time you see something close to reality, you get grossed out or end up calling it “weird” and the romantic parts from this movie is nicely done as well. With a wide range of cast including ART GARFUNKEL have all done a great job. Highly recommended! I’m very happy for talented Justin Bartha as I’ve been waiting to see him in movies that offer him good roles and more screen time.
3. This is one of the best romantic comedies I have seen in years. I went to see this with a friend of mine who’s in his upper thirties and I’m in my mid twenties and we both laughed so hard. There’s none of the commercial, fake feel some romantic comedies have, or the ones that try to be funny and are not, this is a daring romantic comedy, really in tune with our times that breaks with some stereotypes.

   Great acting, both by the adults and the kids (you can’t help falling in love with Justin Bartha and this is some of the best performances I’ve seen from Catherine Zeta Jones, like a million times better than Intolerable Cruelty), interesting storyline, nice imagery of New York City and a movie I want to see again!

   I hope it gets a wide release soon.