Synopsis
Out-of-luck coach Lambeau Fields takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!
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Cast
- Carl WeathersFreddie Wiseman/Narrator
- David KoechnerLambeau "Coach" Fields
- Melora HardinBarb Fields
- Matthew LawrenceLance Truman
- Brooke NevinMichelle Fields
- Nick SearcyMr. Truman
- Robert Ri'chardAseel Tare
- George BackBuddy Boy
- Noureen DeWulfJasminder Featherfoot
- Jesse GarciaJorge Juanson
Recommendations
- 63
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. - 50
Film Threat
It’s mostly eighty-four minutes of puns, double entendres, and Freudian slips. - 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." - 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. - 30
Variety
An exceptionally lame genre parody that plumbs depths of ineptitude heretofore charted only by the marginally less abysmal "Date Movie." - 30
L.A. Weekly
Isn’t as obnoxiously awful as, say, "Epic Movie"; it’s simply not funny in the least. - 30
The New York Times
The movie’s low aspirations are depressing because its best gags are agreeably demented. - 25
TV Guide Magazine
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.
