The Comebacks
While the good doctor Watson the fourth may tell me that seasonal affective disorder comes in the January or February winter doldrums, I have always held that, for the cinematic investigator, late September and early October seem to be the prime months for that black ailment to strike. With unchronicled matters like “The Hunting Party” and “The Game Plan” laying in mental notes before me, Friday last felt like time to move on to something more risky. So it was that I found myself ensconced in a theater seat for David Koechner’s latest effort.
Koechner fans are a breed that has yet to be classified, but I suspect they’re out there. After his efforts in “Run, Ronnie, Run!”, “The Naked Trucker and T-bones Show,” and “Anchorman,” among others, I can sense the threads of a cult forming that will rival Moriarty’s hidden web in London. Of course, “The Comebacks” is a sly move to dispell any such rumors . . .
After a slam-bang, parody-filled preview looking a lot better than the recent “Date Movie” or “Epic Movie” trend, suspicions ran high that “The Comebacks” might be taking us back to the territory of “Airplane!” or at least early “Scarey Movie” installments. Taking on sports movies is a natural, and sports comedies have been doing pretty well of late. But “The Comebacks” could be observed to have too many scenes that seemed to cry out “Insert joke here,” moving the plot along but not really evoking laughter.
The cast included more than a few folks that one would have wished a better movie on, but this certainly wasn’t it.
What Great-grandfather Sherlock might have said:
“I shall stay over here.”
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