Went for eleven straight years without a drink. What happened? Turned twelve.While it's not the most ingenious piece of comedy ever contrived, it doesn't deserve the thrashing it's gotten on IMDb. If the prudes could get off their high horses long enough, they'd see that this movie is funny! Perhaps it's an acquired taste, but vulgar humour can be hilarious if you allow it to be. But we are a fickle and very led society, sometimes unable to enjoy things for what they are - the key word there is enjoy. At some point I hope the pickles come out of the butts and people remember how to laugh again because with the number of negative reviews by uptight individuals, it seems our forgot-about-fun society has a long way to go.

I think over a thousand years from now, the people of that time will look back at the history of spoof films, we will find an overabundance of parody films from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009, and perhaps most of humanity will look at that decade as the poorest excuses for Parody films.However, in the event that the internet still exists in the future, I hope some people find this review to help them sift through the mountains of waste in the Spoof film genre, and one of those rare few movies would be "The Comebacks".The Comebacks stars David Koechner (Perhaps most remembered from Anchorman) as Coach Lambeau Fields, a man whose history of poor coaching have earned him the title of "Worst Coach", causing some of the major blunders in sports history (I'm glad Bill Buckner wasn't spared from a joke). After years of failure, an old coach buddy, Freddie Wiseman (Played by none other than Carl Weathers) tells him of a sports team in desperate need of a coach.Well, it wouldn't be a movie without this plot point being fulfilled, now would it? Coach Fields takes up the team for hopefully his first real chance at coaching a winning team. Everything after this becomes parody fodder shortly thereafter.With Parody films, it is hard to judge the movie, considering how much of the parodies and jokes you end up giving away in the review. This movie suffers from that, so I'll do the best I can from here.The movie plays on a lot of tried and true clichés from sports movies, some in situation (An oddly disturbing yet hilarious scene from a character Aceel Tare, whose name gets mispronounced as ACL Tear, provides the "Best player getting injured" Cliché), or in reference (A football team is called "Friday Night Lights") and for the most part, it becomes hit and miss.However, the problem with most parody films is simply this: Some gags are drawn out to death. One gag in the movie is that a team is called "The Trojans", and they reference Condoms (Product Placement at its finest) and Coach Fields then makes a remark obviously making sex talk about the team. The joke was the team and its name, no need to make intercourse jokes after, it becomes 15 seconds too long and boring, then its called a bad joke.There is also a lot of filler in this movie, none to make the story work, just to make it nearly an hour and a half so you felt like you watched a movie and not an episode of MadTV starring the actors who couldn't cut it.However, despite all its negatives, it does have its funny parts, the problem is that they aren't fast enough or strong enough to work. This movie would have worked at an hour, just by cutting out all the filler, all the overstretched jokes and probably a minute and a half of the musical number (Oh, I didn't mention the cast sings "Don't Stop Believin" by Journey because it's a staple of sport films, or that the writers ran out of ideas).Is it funnier than most parody movies? Yes. Is it the greatest parody movie? Not by a long shot. Watch it on TV. It doesn't hurt like "Meet The Spartans" or "Epic Movie" (Which both rank a "1" and "3" from me, respectively) but there could have been a lot worse about it.5/10

Im sorry to myself, you know why. I feel pained from the viewing of this movie. I went to the theater with some friends to see this movie, and still did not give it the satisfaction of watching it in entirety ( i left with about 20 minutes left... hoping to god it might make me at least comfortable for a moment. ) most movies now, even this bad ones... when i watch them, there may be a small part in the movie where I feel some joy at times because of maybe a quirky joke or a good line... this movie on the other hand made me feel uncomfortable and mad at myself the whole time, especially since i wasted money on it. It was poorly written, poorly directed, poorly shot, and definitely poorly acted...please, for the good of humanity, do not see this movie, even if your some guy who wants to say he has seen like every movie ever... just don't...

With so many horrible spoof movies, this is sadly a breath of fresh air to the genre. Compared to classics like Airplane or the Naked Gun, this is awful, but compared to recent spoof movies like Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie, this is very clever and original. Don't get me wrong, though, this was not a good movie in any way. I laughed a few times, and there are a few inspired gags, but any pop culture reference falls flat on it's face, as does most jokes in the movie.Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) was a bad coach in the past, but now he's brought back to teach college football, and this time he'll do a good job. His wife (Melora Hardin) is feeling distant from him and his daughter is dating a football big shot to spite her father. Spoofs of various recent movies come into play, as do a lot of sight gags and nonstop stupidity.The best parts of the movie are the gags not relying on reference to recent movies. Spoofs of Radio, Rocky, Dodgeball, Friday Night Lights, Invincible and many other sports movies are not funny in the least. It's mainly the smaller gags that get a few laughs, like a bizarre crotch scratching scene, or a chewing tobacco spitting joke. These little throwaway giggles cannot carry the movie, and by the end, it's hard to watch. The last 20 minutes are grueling to sit through.The characters are surprisingly developed for a sports spoof movie, however, I'm sure the characters were built on clichés from the genre. Nonetheless, they're not too bad. David Koechner can pull lead actor in a movie off. Too bad they gave him so much crummy material to work with. Matthew Lawerence has fine comedic timing in a not always so comedic role as a ballet dancing football player with a cross dressing father. Carl Weathers rounds off the cast, once again playing in a sub-par sports movie (Not the Rocky movies...Happy Gilmore!) Overall, this is a goofy comedy. At times, it's funny, but more often than not, it's just very annoying and predictable.My rating: * 1/2 out of ****. 90 mins. PG-13 for language, sexual humor and drug humor.