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RATING: 1/5 Cast: David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Melora Hardin, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Nick Searcy, George Back, Noureen DeWulf, Jesse Garcia, Will Arnett, Jon Gries, Andy Dick, Frank Caliendo
Director: Tom Brady
Genre: Comedy
MPAA: rated PG-13 on appeal for crude and sexual content throughout and some drug material. New Rollbacks on Select Disney DVDs Now Only $11.97 Each at Walmart.com
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Nudity: None
Profanity: PG-13 equivalent; approx. 30 profanities
Sex: PG-13 equivalent; sexual humor, sexual dialogue, implied sex
Violence: PG equivalent; slapstick humor, sports violence
Other: PG-13 equivalent; drug material
{snippet amazon} does not exists! Coach Fields (David Koechner) has made a name for himself as a life-long loser. To resurrect his dead career Fields decides to give it one last chance and coach a college football team. Unfortunately his new team is a bunch of misfits. Call it punishment but spoofs always attract my attention. Perhaps one day I will learn. Date Movie, Epic Movie and Not Another Teen Movie were all painful to watch and The Comebacks is no exception. Maybe it’s because of Scary Movie, Airplane, Hot Shots!, Spaceballs and The Naked Gun that forces me to endure more from this consistently disappointing subgenre. Sadly, there is potential here that is never explored. It’s one thing to say you are going to do something and do it poorly. The Comebacks, while definitely poor, can’t even commit to its promise. While The Comebacks markets itself as a spoof of inspirational sports films, with exception to a few sequences, it rarely explores spoofing, and instead focusing its efforts on sexual gags. By the opening sequence it was very evident I was about to become mentally handicap. Comic actor David Koechner seems to have become a hit over night. You ask the actor and he’ll tell a different story, that the reality is he has been struggling in the business since the 90s. Up until he landed a supporting role in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) Koechner was fortunate enough to get a call back on a television episode. Since the success of Anchorman the comedian has landed supporting roles in Waiting…, The Dukes of Hazard, The 40 Year Old Virgin (Steve Carrel), Thank You for Smoking, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell), and televisions The Office (Steve Carrel). The Comebacks marks the comedian’s first starring effort; unfortunately for Koechner it won’t do for him what Anchorman did for Will Ferrell. Then again, Koechner isn’t your leading man—he serves best as the goofy sidekick of Will Ferrell/Steve Carrel. Complete Your Favorite Albums Now. $7.99 or Less. Download on iTunes now. Director-writer Tom Brady, and no not the Patriots Quarterback, has for reasons unknown attached his name to such projects as The Animal (Rob Scneider) and The Hot Chick (Rob Scneider), proclaimed by many as the worst film of the year. With The Comebacks Brady’s track record is officially tainted (not that it wasn’t after The Hot Chick). At what point does your family and friends tell you to stop; for the love of God please stop making films Tom Brady! You have no talent. Some say they make these goofy outings to make others laugh; Brady can’t even do that right. He can’t even make bad films bad enough to laugh at. Just stop. The Comebacks features one chuckle, 84-minutes of mind-dulling entertainment and numerous nods of disapproval. Even at 84-minutes (short for films these days) I couldn’t wait for this one to end; it felt overlong by the 10-minute point (and there’s no exaggeration there).
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