David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Jun 18, 2008 1/4

...has been infused with an increasingly desperate sensibility that's reflected in the film's almost total lack of genuine laughs...

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Blake French Filmcritic.com Feb 16, 2008 4/5

for those who would rather step on a tack than sit through another Miracle, this film is a long overdue revival to the spoof genre.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Dec 3, 2007

Someone should tell these guys you can't score a touchdown throwing lateral passes.

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Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs Nov 3, 2007 1.5/4

Saying the makers of this film did a half ass job is giving them half of an ass more credit than they deserve.

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Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Nov 1, 2007 1/4

Throwing one sex joke after another does not a funny movie make.Just look at "The Comebacks," which is supposed to be a spoof of inspirational sports movies but instead is a parade of mostly lame sexual humor.

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Jim Slotek Jam! Movies Oct 26, 2007 1/5

[A] pretty much wit-free utterly uninspired takedown of the spunky-underdogs-beat-the-odds genre.

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Josh Rosenblatt Austin Chronicle Oct 26, 2007 1/5

The fact that The Comebacks makes fun of another sports parody, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, doesn't make it a good movie, but it does say something about the pilfering, postmodern, post-ironic age of cinema we live in.

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Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Oct 26, 2007 1/5

...desperately unfunny...

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Gregory Kirschling Entertainment Weekly Oct 24, 2007 F

The Comebacks is probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs -- worse than Daddy Day Camp, Baby Geniuses 2, and BloodRayne.

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Sandie Angulo Chen Common Sense Media Oct 24, 2007 1/4

Crude sports spoof too dumbed-down to be funny.

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Eric D. Snider EricDSnider.com Oct 23, 2007 D+

I wouldn't be surprised if the football player Tom Brady is actually a better filmmaker than the filmmaker Tom Brady.

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Stina Chyn Film Threat Oct 23, 2007 2.5/5

May not change your life, but it will be funny.

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John Monaghan Detroit Free Press Oct 22, 2007 2/4

There is no I in "team," but there are three in "idiotic." And idiotic more or less describes the appeal of The Comebacks, a so-stupid-it's-funny spoof of inspirational sports dramas.

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Bruce DeMara Toronto Star Oct 22, 2007 1.5/4

Sports fans (including those with old head injuries) are likely to cheer. The rest of us may just go for the long pass.

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Jennie Punter Globe and Mail Oct 22, 2007 .5/4

The dialogue in The Comebacks is bereft of lines that trigger even a snicker.

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Ethan Alter Film Journal International Oct 22, 2007

A resoundingly unfunny sports-movie spoof that should have gone straight to DVD.

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Peter Sobczynski eFilmCritic.com Oct 21, 2007 1/5

So egregiously awful that it not only gives a bad name to parody movies, it gives bad names to each of the individual letters used to form the words "parody movies."

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Ken Fox TV Guide Oct 20, 2007 1/4

As painful as it sounds.

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Matt Zoller Seitz New York Times Oct 20, 2007 1/5

One of those parody movies that presume that merely making reference to another film constitutes a joke.

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Luke Y. Thompson L.A. Weekly Oct 20, 2007

The Comebacks displays nothing remotely clever or effective; rather, it will make you question whether in fact you ever found David Koechner funny in all those Will Ferrell comedies.

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