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The Comebacks
Movie

The Comebacks

2007 • Unknown

Woke Score
3.4
out of 10

Plot

Out-of-luck coach Lambeau Fields takes a rag-tag bunch of college misfits and drives them towards the football championships. In the process, this life-long loser discovers that he is a winner after all by redeeming himself, saving his relationship with his family and friends, and finding that there is indeed, no "I" in "team"!

Overall Series Review

The Comebacks is a 2007 parody film that mercilessly spoofs the tropes of inspirational sports movies. The plot follows loser coach Lambeau Fields as he attempts personal and professional redemption by coaching a rag-tag college football team of misfits. The central arc is a traditional one, focusing on the coach redeeming himself, saving his marriage, and finding self-worth through perseverance. The humor relies heavily on crude gags, sexual innuendo, and the promotion of a grossly pagan worldview that actively mocks morality and admirable characters. The team is intentionally diverse, featuring a collection of stock comedic stereotypes whose characteristics—including race, disability, and gender—are used as setup for gags, not as platforms for political lecture. The low scores in Identity Politics and Oikophobia reflect the film's focus on base-level shock humor rather than ideological critique. The higher scores in LGBTQ+ and Anti-Theism are a direct result of the film's pervasive use of sexual vulgarity, strong homosexual references, and explicit endorsement of moral relativism and a party culture (drugs, alcohol, academic failure) as an intentional, satirical contrast to the sincerity of the films it parodies.

Categorical Breakdown

Identity Politics2/10

The film’s diversity is deployed strictly for stereotypical comedic effect; characters are a mishmash of types (such as an Indian female kicker and a character faking a Latin background) whose immutable characteristics are used as gag fodder, not to lecture on intersectional hierarchy. The core narrative follows the redemption of a white male, which runs counter to the vilification of whiteness.

Oikophobia1/10

The narrative is focused on an extremely traditional Western arc: a man's personal and professional redemption, the restoration of his family, and success in an American sport. The film's satire targets the clichés of *inspirational* sports movies, not a core rejection or hatred of Western institutions or ancestors.

Feminism3/10

The male lead is initially a bumbling loser, but the plot is explicitly about his redemption and successfully saving his relationship with his wife and daughter. The female kicker's presence is a parody of a sports trope, and she is not a perfect 'Mary Sue.' The movie's generally crude and sexual tone is not, however, overtly anti-natalist or a promotion of a 'Girl Boss' ideology.

LGBTQ+5/10

The movie includes explicit homosexual references, a 'lesbian kiss,' and features a quarterback whose father is a cross-dresser, using these elements for shock humor. The movie centers alternative sexualities for comedic effect and has humor focused on 'mixed up' gender concepts, though this is for gross-out laughs and not an ideological promotion of queer theory.

Anti-Theism6/10

The film is heavily anti-normative, actively promoting a 'grossly very strong pagan worldview' where the coach encourages players to embrace drugs, alcohol, and academic failure. It mocks objective truth and higher moral law, with the narrative goal being success through 'questionable morals' and mocking admirable characters from inspirational films like *Rudy* and *Radio*.