The Comebacks (Unrated)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 29, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: 20Th Century Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | David Koechner | |
Performer: | Carl Weathers, Matthew Lawrence & Melora Hardin | |
Directed by | Tom Brady | |
Screenwriting by | Ed Yeager & Joey Gutierrez | |
Composition by | Christopher Lennertz | |
Story by | John Aboud, Michael Colton, Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson | |
Produced by | Peter Abrams, Andrew Panay & Robert L. Levy |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/5 --
[A] pretty much wit-free utterly uninspired takedown of the spunky-underdogs-beat-the-odds genre.
Jam! Movies
Rating: .5/4 --
The dialogue in The Comebacks is bereft of lines that trigger even a snicker.
Globe and Mail
Rating: F --
The Comebacks is probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than Daddy Day Camp, Baby Geniuses 2, and BloodRayne.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1/4 --
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.
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
Rating: 4/5 --
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.
Filmcritic.com
Someone should tell these guys you can't score a touchdown throwing lateral passes.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 1.5/5 --
it really tries too hard and has too many jokes that just fall flat
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7M Pictures
Product Description:
A satire in the vein of EPIC MOVIE and DATE MOVIE, THE COMEBACKS, directed by Tom Brady (THE HOT CHICK), tackles the conventions of the inspirational sports movie with jock-like gusto. Led by washed-up coach Lambeau Fields (David Koechner), the losers of the title attempt to become a winning football team, while referencing a dizzying array of athletic-oriented films from Hollywood history, ranging from ROCKY to RADIO--the latter shamelessly parodied by a hapless, mentally challenged character named iPod (Jermaine Williams).
Gleefully goofy in its send-ups of sports movies, THE COMEBACKS revels in broad slapstick humor that perfectly suits Koechner, who is perhaps best known as the obnoxious Todd Packer on the TV series THE OFFICE. (Koechner's fellow OFFICE mate Melora Hardin is also present, though the show's downbeat, quirky humor is notably M.I.A.) Other actors in the mostly unknown cast include real-life former football star Carl Weathers (the ROCKY films and, of course, ACTION JACKSON) and Matthew Lawrence, the brother of Joey Lawrence, who plays a quarterback with distinctly non-macho tendencies. Boasting comedic moments as subtle as the school bus that plows into a character during one scene, THE COMEBACKS doesn't pretend to be sophisticated--it happily indulges in its lowbrow status, making for an enjoyably guilty pleasure.
Gleefully goofy in its send-ups of sports movies, THE COMEBACKS revels in broad slapstick humor that perfectly suits Koechner, who is perhaps best known as the obnoxious Todd Packer on the TV series THE OFFICE. (Koechner's fellow OFFICE mate Melora Hardin is also present, though the show's downbeat, quirky humor is notably M.I.A.) Other actors in the mostly unknown cast include real-life former football star Carl Weathers (the ROCKY films and, of course, ACTION JACKSON) and Matthew Lawrence, the brother of Joey Lawrence, who plays a quarterback with distinctly non-macho tendencies. Boasting comedic moments as subtle as the school bus that plows into a character during one scene, THE COMEBACKS doesn't pretend to be sophisticated--it happily indulges in its lowbrow status, making for an enjoyably guilty pleasure.