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- Director: Tom Brady
- Release Date: October 19, 2007
- Starring: David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Nick Searcy
- Rating: PG-13
- Distributor: Fox Atomic
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The Comebacks is an American film comedy. The plot spoofs recent sports related films such as Blue Crush, Bend It Like Beckham and We Are Marshall.
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Critical and Box Office Response
"The Comebacks received extremely negative reviews from critics. The film scored a 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, an overall rating of 56 on Metacritic.The box office gross for the U.S. totaled $13,349,927 and $137,589 abroad for a total worldwide of $13,487,516.
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The Comebacks Reviews
- Variety: The Comebacks Review
- "The hit-to-miss ratio is deplorably pathetic during the fusillade of gags attempted in "The Comebacks," an exceptionally lame genre parody that plumbs depths of ineptitude heretofore charted only by the marginally less abysmal "Date Movie.""
- The A.V. Club: The Comebacks Review (Grade: C-)
- "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."
- The Los Angeles Times: The Comebacks Falls Short
- "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." Keep your head down, your expectations low and, maybe, good things will happen. We repeat: Maybe.
- The Hollywood Reporter: The Comebacks Review
- "Like too many of its predecessors in the parody-film genre, including the recent "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie," this would-be satire directed by Tom Brady features a procession of familiar and not-so-familiar scenes from its inspirations modified with the lamest of gags."
- TV Guide: The Comebacks Review (1/4)
- "Though funny in small doses, RON BURGANDY co-star David Koechner's thin comedic talents aren't enough to carry this tiresome spoof of popular sports movies, from the forgotten RADIO and FREEDOM to the popular INVINCIBLE, REMEMBER THE TITANS and FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS."
- The Austin Chronicle: The Comebacks Review (1/4)
- "The film, like so many other adolescent subcomedies of its kind — Date Movie, Scary Movie, Swedish Existential Arthouse Movie, etc. — is so far from novel it almost makes you think there must be some philosophical basis for such blatantly commerce-motivated referentiality."
- Canoe -- Jam! Movies: The Comebacks is uninspired
- "Take The Comebacks, the pretty much wit-free utterly uninspired takedown of the spunky-underdogs-beat-the-odds genre that opened yesterday without advanced screenings for critics or the public."
- EFilmCritic.com: The Comebacks Review (1/4)
- "Toss in a teeth-grinding non sequitur musical number set to Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'," a couple of bus-speeding-through-the-frame-and-striking-a-character gags, various moments of Koechner with a strange flop-sweat look on his face as though he knows he's in the middle of a career-ending turkey, not one, but two jokes about the Duke University lacrosse team, and voila! You have one of the worst excuses for a mainstream comedy to be found this year."
- StarTribune.com: The Comebacks Review (1/4)
- "Scattershot movie satire isn't a particularly challenging game to play, but "The Comebacks" fumbles the ball like a cross-eyed quarterback."
- Variety: The Comebacks Review
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