Movie Review for The Comebacks

Summary: This spoof comedy follows an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!

                         Reviews of The Comebacks
By Josh Rosenblatt of Austin Chronicle (7/0)
            The fact that The Comebacks makes fun of another sports parody, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,...

By Wesley Morris of Boston Globe (7/0)
            An impressive number of (the gags) stick.

By Geoff Berkshire of Chicago Tribune (7/0)
            Sports spoof fumbles, fouls, strikes out and deserves a penalty.

By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            Preview and images.

By Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (7/0)
            Composed entirely of gags you might have come up with your friends on a lazy Saturday afternoon d...

By Brian Orndorf of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            One of the worst excuses for a mainstream comedy to be found this year...a loathsome filmgoing ex...

                         Reviews of The Comebacks
By Peter Sobczynski of eFilmCritic.com (7/0)
            So egregiously awful that it not only gives a bad name to parody movies, it gives bad names to ea...

By Gregory Kirschling of Entertainment Weekly (7/0)
            ...The Comebacks is probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs.....

By Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (7/0)
            I wouldn't be surprised if the football player Tom Brady is actually a better filmmaker than the ...

By Ethan Alter of Film Journal International (7/0)
            A resoundingly unfunny sports-movie spoof that should have gone straight to DVD.

By Kevin Carr of Film School Rejects (7/0)
            Does it surprise anyone in America that a film like The Comebacks sucks?

By Stina Chyn of Film Threat (7/0)
            May not change your life, but it will be funny.

                         Reviews of The Comebacks
By Jennie Punter of Globe and Mail (7/0)
            The dialogue in The Comebacks is bereft of lines that trigger even a snicker.

By Stax of IGN Movies (7/0)
            There are a few fleeting moments where you may find yourself chuckling, but it's more out of pity...

By Jim Slotek of Jam! Movies (7/0)
            [A] pretty much wit-free utterly uninspired takedown of the spunky-underdogs-beat-the-odds genre.

By Luke Y. Thompson of L.A. Weekly (7/0)
            The Comebacks displays nothing remotely clever or effective; rather, it will make you question wh...

By Colin Covert of Minneapolis Star Tribune (7/0)
            Each scene exists solely to check a sports-movie cliche off the list; nothing builds.

By Matt Zoller Seitz of New York Times (7/0)
            ...ultimately tedious...

                         Reviews of The Comebacks
By Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (7/0)
            Throwing one sex joke after another does not a funny movie make.Just look at "The Comebacks," whi...

By Jim Lane of Sacramento News & Review (7/0)
            ...desperately unfunny...

By Scott Nash of Three Movie Buffs (7/0)
            Saying the makers of this film did a half ass job is giving them half of an ass more credit than ...

By Bruce Demara of Toronto Star (7/0)
            Sports fans (including those with old head injuries) are likely to cheer. The rest of us may just...

By Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide (7/0)
            As painful as it sounds.

By Joe Leydon of Variety (7/0)
            An exceptionally lame genre parody that plumbs depths of ineptitude heretofore charted only by th...

                         Reviews of The Comebacks
By Frank Ochieng of World Voice News (7/0)
            Let's face it, folks...we need another repetitive spoof movie like a piglet needs dirty fingernai...

By John Monaghan of Detroit Free Press (3/4) No reference
            There is no I in "team," but there are three in "idiotic." And idiotic more or less describes the...

By Gene Seymour of Newsday (3/4) No reference
            Keep your head down, your expectations low and, maybe, good things will happen. We repeat: Maybe.

By Rob Humanick of Projection Booth (3/4) No reference
            Its attempts at instilling wit into its purportedly retarded humor generally fall flat.

Movie Distributors
20th Century Fox Distribution

Production Companies
Tapestry Films

Movie Studios
Fox Atomic