Oh boy, here we go again. Another movie is coming out using the highly popularized Scary Movie formula. The idea of creating a movie based off spoofs of other movies seems to be a good idea on paper but doesn’t always translate to a successful movie. Just look at Date Movie. Also the idea of a movie spoofing other movies seems to be getting worn out. The Scary Movie series has become less and less interesting but still manages to get some laughs. Date Movie was an absolute atrocity and should give the customers who went and saw it back their money. And the latest in the line of spoof movies, Epic Movie, wasn’t that much better. However, The Comebacks offers some(by some I mean a little tiny bit) hope for this struggling genre.
The Comebacks is a movie of spoofs of sports movies however it also offers a resemblance of a storyline. Some movies that are mocked in The Comebacks are Rocky, Remember the Titans, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, and Invincible among many other sports movies. The movie centers around Coach Lambeau Fields, played by David Koechner, and his pursuit of removing the loser label that he’s had for years after being known as the worst coach in the history of sports. He attempts to redeem himself by taking one last shot as a coach. However the team turns out to be a bunch of misfits who don’t know the difference between a football and a lemon. As the team improves using Coach Fields unorthodox approaches (the spoofs), Fields starts to realize that he isn’t a loser.
I’m actually pretty excited for this movie to come out. Although I will be a little cautious since it is using the overused Scary Movie formula, there will be some changes since it is from different producers. You may have heard of a movie they previously produced called Wedding Crashers. Yes the one with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. So let’s just say they are already off to a good start (depending on how much you liked Wedding Crashers).
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