The Comebacks (2007)

Simply A Masterpiece

It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) is the worst coach in the world across many disciples. He accepts a coaching job at Heartland State University. His supportive friend Freddie Wiseman (Carl Weathers) coaches the Lone Star State Unbeatables. Barb (Melora Hardin) is his long suffering wife. His rebellious daughter Michelle (Brooke Nevin) takes the playboy black wide receiver Trotter (Jackie Long) as her new boyfriend. He recruits baseball pitcher Lance Truman (Matthew Lawrence) as his quarterback and Bend-it-like-Beckham Jizminder Featherfoot (Noureen DeWulf) as the new kicker.The jokes are very broad. It's one of those modern spoof movies. At least, it has Koechner but even he gets tiresome after awhile. It is spoofing too many things. The references are too scattered. It's all over the place. There are so many characters that they don't get to develop. This comes in a long line of bad spoof movies. It's not the worst one but it's not much better either.

This movie shows how sick our society has gotten...There are WAY too many penile references...why?? is this really necessary to make a funny spoof movie?? i think not..grow some morality people..i don't understand why some filmmakers feel as if they need to sell out to sex, drugs, violence, language, etc... a really good film doesn't need to do this...take a look at some of the classic films, even airplane, now that was a funny movie and yes there were some unsavory references, but it wasn't too much of one thing... 'the comebacks' tho was intolerable and even painful to sit thru...i didn't make it past 15 minutes...o and the rating of pg-13...whoever decided that a 13 year old should watch this needs to have their head examined...i would NEVER want my 13 year old to hear and see such disgusting things...so sad that our society thinks this is OK and funny... :(

Recap: Coach Fields is the worst coach in history, having lost in all sports imaginable. Now, through a friend, he gets a final opportunity with a small college football team, The Comebacks. A truly miserable team, can they come around with their new miserable coach? Comments: A movie spoofing as many sport movies and sports or sport related events as it possibly can. So, many, if not all, jokes are cheap and sometimes embarrassingly low. But that doesn't mean that they aren't funny. Or that it should be looked down upon by default. To write a good parody is actually quite difficult and often needs the story to balance on a thin edge.The Comebacks is by far not the best parody movie, but is was surprisingly good, and in my opinion much better than the current rating of 3.6. Sure, the movie fell of that thin ledge at times, mostly to too low and cheap jokes or points just made on sex. But mostly it was just wacky, crazy jokes on other movies. To fully appreciate that you need to have seen most of that movies, you need an open mind and the right mind set. It is silly, but silly doesn't need to mean bad if you haven't decided that it is beforehand.I enjoyed it. Sure, I'm sick home from work and quite bored, but for those times movies like The Comebacks are perfect. It is not for a date or maybe even not for an evening with friends. This is a movie when you tired and need to kill some time. That it does splendidly.6/10

As you know, movies such as Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet The Spartans, etc. are coming out and doing well in the box office for like a week and then they fall off the grid. Why? Well the answer is simple...the movie is freaking retarded. I mean come on, a movie based on spoofs from another movie would sound like it might produce a few laughs, but I think many agree that we laughed at first and then never watched them again. They could just never click because the writers are probably some drunk college kids who said one night after taking a massive hit from their bong, "DUDE!! I GOT IT!! LETS, LIKE, MAKE A MOVIE...OFF ANOTHER MOVIE!!!" and then voilà, we have crap on the screen yet again.This movie is no different. Except for the fact that when I laughed, my laugher's were meaningful. I laughed for a least 30 seconds and not just a quick giggle. This movie did pretty well on its spoofs but at many times it was just so unrealistic that it really downed the potential this movie may have had. Some of the timing didn't match, and you know I could go on forever but I'll just stop and say if you really have nothing else better to do, then maybe just give this a watch and laugh a little and then move on with your life. A rental may suffice but don't buy it.