The Comebacks (2007)

I think over a thousand years from now, the people of that time will look back at the history of spoof films, we will find an overabundance of parody films from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009, and perhaps most of humanity will look at that decade as the poorest excuses for Parody films.However, in the event that the internet still exists in the future, I hope some people find this review to help them sift through the mountains of waste in the Spoof film genre, and one of those rare few movies would be "The Comebacks".The Comebacks stars David Koechner (Perhaps most remembered from Anchorman) as Coach Lambeau Fields, a man whose history of poor coaching have earned him the title of "Worst Coach", causing some of the major blunders in sports history (I'm glad Bill Buckner wasn't spared from a joke). After years of failure, an old coach buddy, Freddie Wiseman (Played by none other than Carl Weathers) tells him of a sports team in desperate need of a coach.Well, it wouldn't be a movie without this plot point being fulfilled, now would it? Coach Fields takes up the team for hopefully his first real chance at coaching a winning team. Everything after this becomes parody fodder shortly thereafter.With Parody films, it is hard to judge the movie, considering how much of the parodies and jokes you end up giving away in the review. This movie suffers from that, so I'll do the best I can from here.The movie plays on a lot of tried and true clichés from sports movies, some in situation (An oddly disturbing yet hilarious scene from a character Aceel Tare, whose name gets mispronounced as ACL Tear, provides the "Best player getting injured" Cliché), or in reference (A football team is called "Friday Night Lights") and for the most part, it becomes hit and miss.However, the problem with most parody films is simply this: Some gags are drawn out to death. One gag in the movie is that a team is called "The Trojans", and they reference Condoms (Product Placement at its finest) and Coach Fields then makes a remark obviously making sex talk about the team. The joke was the team and its name, no need to make intercourse jokes after, it becomes 15 seconds too long and boring, then its called a bad joke.There is also a lot of filler in this movie, none to make the story work, just to make it nearly an hour and a half so you felt like you watched a movie and not an episode of MadTV starring the actors who couldn't cut it.However, despite all its negatives, it does have its funny parts, the problem is that they aren't fast enough or strong enough to work. This movie would have worked at an hour, just by cutting out all the filler, all the overstretched jokes and probably a minute and a half of the musical number (Oh, I didn't mention the cast sings "Don't Stop Believin" by Journey because it's a staple of sport films, or that the writers ran out of ideas).Is it funnier than most parody movies? Yes. Is it the greatest parody movie? Not by a long shot. Watch it on TV. It doesn't hurt like "Meet The Spartans" or "Epic Movie" (Which both rank a "1" and "3" from me, respectively) but there could have been a lot worse about it.5/10

Sometimes, things should just not be made. And while the set-up seemed good enough, it proceeds to only make the audience gasp in horror. But the problem is, its not another Saw film. Its just so bad you wish you were receiving punishment from Jason Voorhees.I lost track of how many sports movies and spoofs it incorporated into the film. And generally, it flopped in its attempts. True, telling his team they should fail every subject to be true players was somewhat funny at first, but that grew tiring to watch. That and the joke about "Radio" and "IPod".Overall, I can't stand to watch this film again. Even Trantasia is worth more than this. "D-"

When I first saw the previews for this movie on TV I thought that this could be a funny movie. I was wrong. All though I am not totally against movies that make fun of others. Some are actually funny such as the first scary movie. This was one of many that have been made as of late that are not. The humor in this film was anything but funny and was rather dull.I feel the one of the biggest problems is that they poked fun at to many movies such as Varsity Blues, Friday Night Lights, Stick it, etc. And if you are anything like me you try to pick out each movie instead of paying attention to whats going on in this one. Even the adult humor in this movie was dry. Do yourself a favor and save you money and time and rent don't rent this movie

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.