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The Comebacks (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 29
Fresh: 3
Rotten:26
Average Rating: 2.8/10
Consensus: Full of groin-centric humor and tired sports clichés, The Comebacks is poor even by parody movie standards.
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Oct 19, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $13,329,782
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Matthew Lawrence, Melora Hardin
Director: Tom Brady
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...has been infused with an increasingly desperate sensibility that's reflected in the film's almost total lack of genuine laughs...
06/18/08
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04/03/08
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.
02/16/08
Someone should tell these guys you can't score a touchdown throwing lateral passes.
12/03/07
Top Critic Saying the makers of this film did a half ass job is giving them half of an ass more credit than they deserve.
11/03/07
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.
11/01/07
[A] pretty much wit-free utterly uninspired takedown of the spunky-underdogs-beat-the-odds genre.
10/26/07
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.
10/26/07
The Comebacks is probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than Daddy Day Camp, Baby Geniuses 2, and BloodRayne.
10/24/07
Top Critic I wouldn't be surprised if the football player Tom Brady is actually a better filmmaker than the filmmaker Tom Brady.
10/23/07
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.
10/22/07
Top Critic Sports fans (including those with old head injuries) are likely to cheer. The rest of us may just go for the long pass.
10/22/07
Top Critic The dialogue in The Comebacks is bereft of lines that trigger even a snicker.
10/22/07
Top Critic A resoundingly unfunny sports-movie spoof that should have gone straight to DVD.
10/22/07
So egregiously awful that it not only gives a bad name to parody movies, it gives bad names to each of the individual letters used to form the words "parody movies."
10/21/07
One of those parody movies that presume that merely making reference to another film constitutes a joke.
10/20/07
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