The Comebacks (2007)

User Rating:

3.5/10   

Director:

Tom Brady

Writers (WGA):

Ed Yeager (screenplay) &
Joey Gutierrez (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

19 October 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Sport

Tagline:

Keep your eye on the ball.

Plot:

A comedy that spoofs the inspirational sports movies, The Comebacks tells the story of an out-of-luck coach, Lambeau Fields, who 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"!

Plot Keywords:

Coach | Football | Championship | Failure | Spoof

US TV Schedule:

Mon. July 13	1:30 PM	HBO
Fri. July 17	4:30 PM	HBO

Cast

David Koechner	...	Lambeau "Coach" Fields
Carl Weathers	...	Freddie Wiseman
Melora Hardin	...	Barb Fields
Matthew Lawrence	...	Lance Truman
Brooke Nevin	...	Michelle Fields
Nick Searcy	...	Mr. Truman
George Back	...	Buddy Boy
Noureen DeWulf	...	Jizminder Featherfoot
Jesse Garcia	...	Jorge Juanson
Jackie Long	...	Trotter
Robert Ri'chard	...	Aseel Tare
Martin Spanjers	...	Randy Randinger
Jermaine Williams	...	IPod
Finesse Mitchell	...	Titans Coach
Will Arnett	...	Mailman

Also Known As:

Sports Movie (UK) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 on appeal for crude and sexual content throughout and some drug material

Runtime:

USA:84 min | Germany:88 min | 107 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:R (original rating) | USA:PG-13 (re-rating on appeal) | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-11 | Germany:12 | New Zealand:R13 | Australia:MA | Netherlands:12 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

California State University - 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, California, USA

Company:

Fox Atomic

Trivia:

Not screened for critics.

Quotes:

Lambeau "Coach" Fields: Yeah, this is great. Middle of Podunk, nowhere. How am I gonna find an All-American quarterback?
God: If you build it, he will come. If you build it, he will come...
Lambeau "Coach" Fields: Who will come?
God: Your father. Your dead father.
Lambeau "Coach" Fields: My father's not dead. I just spoke with him this morning.
God: You got to be shittin' me. Is this 314 Bentley road?
Lambeau "Coach" Fields: No this is 314 Bentley drive.
God: That damn Google Maps. Anyway, the quarterback you're looking for is on the baseball field.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Rocky (1976)

Soundtrack:

A Night in Jail So Hott

not spectacular, but certainly funny

I cannot say that this is a well constructed film. The plot isn't even that impressive, at all. but what can't be denied is that this film is funny. I don't know about hilarious, but i certainly laughed a lot in it. And i was not the only one in the whole theatre doing so. So, while some people are writing massive articles slamming this film, remember, it is not meant to be an epic masterpiece or spectacular film. it is meant to be stupid and funny, and it certainly was that. It certainly suffered from lazy script writing, but no one was trying for an Oscar here. This is a pretty funny film, and the laughs in it cannot be denied. To close this argument we only need the name of one character. Ipod.

N.B. this film should not be compared to Dodgeball, they are not in the same league