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As the opening voice-over establishes that point, in due time, the viewer is most assuredly convinced the line could apply equally as well to this loser of a project. There is one Hollywood corner that rears its (more-often-than-not) ugly head, and it has 1980’s Airplane to thank (mostly). Would that the plethora of these recent parodic spoofs/satires pay homage to the clever machinations of that Zucker brothers film. That was when otherwise serious actors were not really trying too hard to BE funny and weren’t overly relying on unfunny references to the male genitalia when creative material ran thin and your cameos weren’t limited to wispy has-beens like Dennis Rodman and, yes, Andy Dick. The intent is clear: to spoof the inspirational sports film. If there has been a film as such, it was almost quite possibly referenced. Certainly, if you’re a fan of these movies, you’ll pick up on most of them as some bleed profusely from the plot out of necessity and others appear to be lumped in for no good reason at all, other than to just have something to do in order to get the film to be at least 80 minutes long. Obviously penned on the back of a Natural Light container late one Friday night at any frat house party in America, the story features Coach Lambeau Fields (already uncreative and unfunny) as the pathetic, ultra-loser coach who falls out of the profession, only to be urged back into it by his friend Freddie Wiseman (Carl Weathers). His task is to lead a sappy and directionless college football team to a major college bowl: you guessed it- the Toilet Bowl. Strewn among the debris of this wreck of a show are the spoofs and the funniest are early and too few in number. There is a reference to the theme of the sexy (mostly non-talented) tennis player (a la Ana Kournikova, but, here, Maria Sharapova) vs. the supremely talented and physically superior player (unforgettably represented by Serena Williams). The result of this humorous sequence is mostly what you’ve thought anyway about this issue in women’s tennis, but it hasn’t been visually handed to you quite like this. Noticeably, this spoof wasn’t in reference to the inspirational sports film and to me, it was the funniest snippet. That’s the level of disjointedness here; at one point, the cast is thrown into an inexplicable Journey spoof, complete on-stage and lip-synching to “Don’t Stop Believing.” Someone needs to explain this to me beyond the obvious message of the song’s titular lyric. Halfway through, I found myself counting my teeth with the tip of my tongue, clicking my big toenail against the inside stitching of my tennis shoe and wondering when the last time was that I clipped it…you know, the kind of thing you do when you succumb to this kind of cinematic debacle. You should find like activities to bide your time and money and save yourself from The Comebacks.
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i felt a similar way watching War of the Worlds.
son….you shall pay for that one. i’ll give you one week to rescind your misstatement.
I will give The Comebacks credit for one thing: a vaguely creative title that does not give away the fact that it’s a spoof. Unlike a whole series of movies with the word “Movie” in the title (Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie, Not Another Teen Movie), at least the title The Comebacks doesn’t wink and snigger and say, “It’s a spoof, get it?”
Thanks, by the way, for the review. I might actually have been tempted to see this one without knowing it was another idiotic collection of film references attempting to be funny.
I would agree with you on the nuance with the title, which, not only being a good point, indicates the overall recent lack of vision with the genre.
And thank you for reading my review!