...has been infused with an increasingly desperate sensibility that's reflected in the film's almost total lack of genuine laughs...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 18, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 16, 2008

Someone should tell these guys you can't score a touchdown throwing lateral passes.

Full Review | Dec 3, 2007

Saying the makers of this film did a half ass job is giving them half of an ass more credit than they deserve.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 3, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Nov 1, 2007

[A] pretty much wit-free utterly uninspired takedown of the spunky-underdogs-beat-the-odds genre.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2007

...desperately unfunny...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 26, 2007

The Comebacks is probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than Daddy Day Camp, Baby Geniuses 2, and BloodRayne.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Oct 24, 2007

Crude sports spoof too dumbed-down to be funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 24, 2007

I wouldn't be surprised if the football player Tom Brady is actually a better filmmaker than the filmmaker Tom Brady.

Full Review | Original Score: D+ | Oct 23, 2007

May not change your life, but it will be funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 23, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 22, 2007

Sports fans (including those with old head injuries) are likely to cheer. The rest of us may just go for the long pass.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 22, 2007

The dialogue in The Comebacks is bereft of lines that trigger even a snicker.

Full Review | Original Score: .5/4 | Oct 22, 2007

A resoundingly unfunny sports-movie spoof that should have gone straight to DVD.

Full Review | Oct 22, 2007

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."

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 21, 2007

As painful as it sounds.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 20, 2007

One of those parody movies that presume that merely making reference to another film constitutes a joke.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 20, 2007

The Comebacks displays nothing remotely clever or effective; rather, it will make you question whether in fact you ever found David Koechner funny in all those Will Ferrell comedies.

Full Review | Oct 20, 2007