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

| Dec 3, 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.

| 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.

| Original Score: F | Oct 24, 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.

| 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.

| 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

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

As dumb spoofs go, The Comebacks isn't bad. It takes almost every sports movie of the last five years (Field of Dreams, too) and blends them into a single slapdash comedy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 20, 2007

An exceptionally lame genre parody that plumbs depths of ineptitude heretofore charted only by the marginally less abysmal Date Movie.

Full Review | Oct 19, 2007

Keep your head down, your expectations low and, maybe, good things will happen. We repeat: Maybe.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/4 | Oct 19, 2007