For those of you still stinging from the Patriots' loss in the Super Bowl, you will find little solace in this sports movie parody. Unintelligent, rapid-fire jokes about films from "Bend it Like Beckam" to "Remember the Titans" are initially of minor interest as you play "guess which movie," but none land with any particularly inspired humor. It is sadly similar to all the other recent movie parody films like "Epic Movie" and "Date Movie," where the writers hope more references equal more comedy. They do not.
David Koechner ("Talladega Nights") stars as Lambeau Fields, the new coach of a small college's football team. They are a ragtag group of misfits where the big guys are surprisingly weak, the star brings a limo to practice, and every stereotype is used in an attempt for comic relief. The coach's daughter, Brooke (from the straight-to-video "I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer") is a gymnast who acts out to displease her father. Can the new coach turn the team around before the locals turn on him and his home life falls to pieces?
The humor is the lowest brow possible. The problem is the film is bereft of laughs, other than the occasional smirk. There is a string of gay jokes a mile long probably the most I've ever seen in a movie which fail to hit any humorous target. Many of the sex jokes are simply recycled from other comedies.
The movie is almost painful to watch, as the director and most of the actors have no comic timing. Despite the film being directed by someone named Tom Brady whose only other directorial entry is the mildly amusing "The Hot Chick" "The Comebacks" will neither help you forget the big game nor allow you to laugh your pain away.
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, and some drug material
