The spoof genre, which has lacked creativity and humor for some time already, gets spat upon yet again by hacks with no talent. No point, no fun, no originality; just a few cheap bucks for the film makers.

It takes more than just referencing some recent movies and giving characters double-meaning names to be satire; to make people laugh. Any clod can pick up a cam-corder, and have some bad-acting buddies in cheap costumes imitate somebody. Since the genre being targeted this time is inspirational sports movies, there are a few lame references thrown out to movies of that type: the jokes are so weak the characters actually have to emphasize the references in various ways, to get you to laugh hysterically. It doesn't work.

That's not comedy. However, the same old worn out sophomoric "jokes" ripped off from a middle school washroom (done even more blandly than usual) are all here. If that's not enough, there's a running "gag" of a bus running somebody over. So funny, right? Also, one pathetically poor scene does more product placement than Michael Bay; again with the same unfunny results. A musical bit flops miserably. Pity Carl Weathers, once Apollo Creed in the Rocky series, now stuck with roles in swill like this.

Lousy beyond words. Watching a snail run the marathon would be less tedious than watching this film is. Probably a lot funnier, too.

Lambeau Fields (David Koechner) is the worst coach in the world across many disciples. He accepts a coaching job at Heartland State University. His supportive friend Freddie Wiseman (Carl Weathers) coaches the Lone Star State Unbeatables. Barb (Melora Hardin) is his long suffering wife. His rebellious daughter Michelle (Brooke Nevin) takes the playboy black wide receiver Trotter (Jackie Long) as her new boyfriend. He recruits baseball pitcher Lance Truman (Matthew Lawrence) as his quarterback and Bend-it-like-Beckham Jizminder Featherfoot (Noureen DeWulf) as the new kicker.

The jokes are very broad. It's one of those modern spoof movies. At least, it has Koechner but even he gets tiresome after awhile. It is spoofing too many things. The references are too scattered. It's all over the place. There are so many characters that they don't get to develop. This comes in a long line of bad spoof movies. It's not the worst one but it's not much better either.

The Comebacks (2007): Dir: Tom Brady / Cast: David Koechner, Carl Weathers, Matthew Lawrence, Brooke Nevin, Melora Hardin: When asked to make better films, this is not the ideal comeback sought after by film fans. Idea regards those whom are seen as not good enough but are destine for victory. Unfortunately this film isn't good enough and it isn't destine for anything other than a dusty shelf life. Director Tom Brady goes after sports films with funny opening background footage but from there it is all down hill. David Koechner plays this terrible coach who struggles in balancing work and family. Koechner is a funny guy but picked the wrong film to be presented as a lead. The ending is so predictable that it might have been funnier had the coach continued to fail. Carl Weathers narrates and appears later in the film to prove that his career has come down to this. Matthew Lawrence plays the son of a drag queen. That shouldn't bother him near as much as the story he is involved in. Brooke Nevin plays the coach's daughter and her bra resembles footballs therefore Lawrence will be able to fondle them (excuse me),fumble them. Melora Hardin is also featured as Koechner's wife and the role is about as broad as a deflated football. Making fun of sports films is a plus with reasonable production but when it is as boring as those films then a comeback is out of the question. Score: 5 / 10