Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 30
Full of groin-centric humor and tired sports clichés, The Comebacks is poor even by parody movie standards.
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 10
Full of groin-centric humor and tired sports clichés, The Comebacks is poor even by parody movie standards.
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The producers of Wedding Crashers are back with the comedy The Comebacks. Spoofing countless inspirational sports movies, the film stars David Koechner (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy) as Lambeau Fields, a football coach who suffers from a streak of bad luck that has become the stuff of legend. As a last resort, he takes a job coaching a college football team populated with some of the least desirable players imaginable. He must pull this ragtag crew together in order to salvage his
Oct 19, 2007 Wide
Jan 29, 2008
$13.3M
Fox Atomic
All Critics (36) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (33) | DVD (8)
Someone should tell these guys you can't score a touchdown throwing lateral passes.
The Comebacks is probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than Daddy Day Camp, Baby Geniuses 2, and BloodRayne.
There is no I in "team," but there are three in "idiotic." And idiotic more or less describes the appeal of The Comebacks, a so-stupid-it's-funny spoof of inspirational sports dramas.
Sports fans (including those with old head injuries) are likely to cheer. The rest of us may just go for the long pass.
The dialogue in The Comebacks is bereft of lines that trigger even a snicker.
One of those parody movies that presume that merely making reference to another film constitutes a joke.
...has been infused with an increasingly desperate sensibility that's reflected in the film's almost total lack of genuine laughs...
How many times do we have to say it? Reminding a viewer they saw a movie like Invincible or Radio isn't funny in itself. You actually have to write a joke.
for those who would rather step on a tack than sit through another Miracle, this film is a long overdue revival to the spoof genre.
This film shows us a lot of balls but fails to present any of its own.
This is the kind of regressive retardation that makes the Scary Movie franchise feel like early Woody Allen...
Saying the makers of this film did a half ass job is giving them half of an ass more credit than they deserve.
Throwing one sex joke after another does not a funny movie make.Just look at "The Comebacks," which is supposed to be a spoof of inspirational sports movies but instead is a parade of mostly lame sexual humor.
[A] pretty much wit-free utterly uninspired takedown of the spunky-underdogs-beat-the-odds genre.
The fact that The Comebacks makes fun of another sports parody, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, doesn't make it a good movie, but it does say something about the pilfering, postmodern, post-ironic age of cinema we live in.
...desperately unfunny...
Crude sports spoof too dumbed-down to be funny.
I wouldn't be surprised if the football player Tom Brady is actually a better filmmaker than the filmmaker Tom Brady.
May not change your life, but it will be funny.
It is probably one of the funniest spoof movies out there, but when it comes down to it, it's still the same thing over and over again!
January 11, 2010Super Reviewer
Another crap spoof, and another crap football flick. This is just as bad as delta farce, alittle better but not much. It looks pretty naff and the comedy is nowhere to be found. The cast is D-list and there really isn't anything to recommend here haha maybe if you like American football.
October 25, 2007Super Reviewer
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