The Comebacks 2007

Critics score:
9 / 100

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J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Someone should tell these guys you can't score a touchdown throwing lateral passes. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: 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. Read more

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

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: 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. Read more

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more

Gene Seymour, Newsday: Keep your head down, your expectations low and, maybe, good things will happen. We repeat: Maybe. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Each scene exists solely to check a sports-movie cliche off the list; nothing builds. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: The dialogue in The Comebacks is bereft of lines that trigger even a snicker. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: Sports fans (including those with old head injuries) are likely to cheer. The rest of us may just go for the long pass. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: An exceptionally lame genre parody that plumbs depths of ineptitude heretofore charted only by the marginally less abysmal Date Movie. Read more