"The Comebacks" does for inspirational sports movies what "Scary Movie" did for, well, scary movies. David Koechner plays Coach Lambeau Fields, a lifetime coach of various sports who has the distinction of never coaching a winning team. He has given up on coaching and is working at a horse track when his old friend, Freddie Wiseman (Carl Weathers) approaches him with an opportunity to pick up his clipboard one more time as the coach of "The Comebacks", a lowly ranked college football team. Coach Fields takes the job and just about every inspirational sports movie is lampooned over the course of the next hour or so. Although most of the spoofs/references are played out through the story of "The Comebacks", they add the device of using a Sportscenter type show to squeeze a few more in. For once, this type of shoe-horning in movie references actually makes some sense and works. Overall, the movie is pretty funny. There is plenty of crude sexual humor, usually in the form of obvious double entendres. There is also a subplot set up early in the film about the coach's daughter (Brooke Nevins) being a world-class gymnast that is quicky abandoned. For a movie that did very poorly at the box office (and even worse with critics), I was pleasantly surprised. It is stupid, crude comedy, but it had enough laughs to keep me watching.Grade: C
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