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

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.

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

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