Catherine Zeta Jones admits defeat in The Rebound(2009), as she wholeheartedly claims she is old. With two kids, a husband, home and oversized car, Jones plays Sandy a sporty brunette obsessed with the NBA. As she swaps sports stuff on-line, Sandy comes across a video on her home computer revealing her husband as a cheater. In the change of a scene, she is divorced and off to Manhattan, kids and all, and meets a young man Aaron, who babysits her rugrats while she dates unsuccessfully. With a hate for men, Sandy attends self defence class to attack men like her husband, until as per usual and to indeed follow rom-com formula, she ends up in the arms of Aaron, lying to her friends. Justin Bartha who plays Aaron, popular from The Hangover(2009), is a timid coffee shop worker, still living with his parents and reading Harry Potter. Bartha's shyness is needed here juxtaposed with Sandy's fiery personality and the horrible middle aged fatigued dates she used to prefer. His quiet humour calms her, as they quarrel over their age difference throughout.
However, this film lacks substance in the sense that, eye candy is in short supply, Zeta Jones seems to be trying to hard and Bartha somewhat belongs in a different film. As interesting as the storyline may seem, it is bleak at times, lacking the charisma most rom-coms have these days. So I'd recommend it but only when there is nothing else to watch, and you need to fill a space in time. Then, it will seem great.
*Rating- 5/10
The Rebound is available on YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1_cPnshVjk
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