Critic Reviews
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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.
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| 50 |
Film Threat
It’s mostly eighty-four minutes of puns, double entendres, and Freudian slips.
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| 42 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Adhering to few solid comedic principles, The Comebacks swings wildly between lame movie references and slapstick, slightly less lame funny names (such as Aseel Tare, the running back who couldn't possibly be injured) and Airplane!-style spoof, and a few mildly amusing stabs at irony.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
You'll be goaded throughout The Comebacks to think of "Bend It Like Beckham," "Remember the Titans," "Rudy," "Hoosiers," "Field of Dreams" and their ilk. What you also think about is how much this stuff worked better in "Airplane!" or "Blazing Saddles."
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| 40 |
The Hollywood Reporter
Koechner tries hard, but ultimately scores few laughs except for when, like Ferrell, he bares his comically less than toned, fleshy body.
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| 30 |
Variety
An exceptionally lame genre parody that plumbs depths of ineptitude heretofore charted only by the marginally less abysmal "Date Movie."
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Luke Y. Thompson
Isn’t as obnoxiously awful as, say, "Epic Movie"; it’s simply not funny in the least.
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| 30 |
The New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
The movie’s low aspirations are depressing because its best gags are agreeably demented.
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| 30 |
Chicago Reader
Someone should tell these guys you can't score a touchdown throwing lateral passes.
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| 25 |
TV Guide
We're treated to endless scenes of women getting slammed, thrown and clothes lined, while men's genitals are grabbed, groped, stroked and tasered. It's all just as painful as it sounds.
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| 20 |
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
It’s too bad the filmmakers didn’t have a longer view of film history, though; maybe their jokes would have been more interesting if they’d been aimed at, say, "Somebody Up There Likes Me" or "The Pride of the Yankees."
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| 12 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
At the end of The Comebacks, Coach is offered job with a college basketball team called The Sequels - a joke perhaps, but all too horrifying a prospect after watching this dull fumble.
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Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirschling
Probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than "Daddy Day Camp," "Baby Geniuses 2," and "BloodRayne."
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