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LAUGHING STOCK David Koechner in The Comebacks, an alleged comedy that should have been benched
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Release Date: Oct 19, 2007; Rated: PG-13; Length: 91 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Sports; With: David Koechner and Carl Weathers

In the three years I've been reviewing B-fare for EW, I've seen horrors, but The Comebacks is probably the worst movie that's sludged across my professional eyeballs — worse than Daddy Day Camp, Baby Geniuses 2, and BloodRayne. Setting his leading-man career back by 100 yards, Anchorman's David Koechner plays the coach of a loser gridiron gang in a painfully dumb and laughless send-up of sports-movie clichés that highlights only how atrocious everybody here is at sending up sports-movie clichés. F


Posted Oct 24, 2007
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