Director Tom Brady (not to be confused with the NFL quarterback) has crafted quite possibly the worst movie with some of the most memorable lines in a comedy. “The Comebacks” is terrible. It is part of the new “spoof” movies that don’t even try to be slightly serious.

Dave Koechner plays Coach Lambeau Fields, a second-rate coach and a third-rate man. He is talked into taking a job coaching Heartland State University’s football team by his friend Freddie Wiseman (Carl Weathers). Fields assembles a rag-tag group of players, which spoofs everyone from Vince Papale in “Invincible” to Rudy Ruettiger in “Rudy.” The movie follows their run to the college playoffs.

While clearly everything is done with a very tongue-in-cheek feel, the movie is not too funny. It is over the top but doesn’t seem to have any heart to it. Its direction seems more indicative of a series of “Saturday Night Live” sketches or something off of “Mad TV.”

The plot barely connects each scene together. Koechner, a veteran of spoofs and raunchy comedies, seems very out of his depth as the main star of the movie. Matthew Lawrence, who has been off the map since “Blossom” in the 1990s, randomly has a role as the quarterback of the team. He manages OK with what little he is given.

The movie was never meant to win awards, except for some Razzies, but it’s sad to think that someone actually thought this would be worth making. There are some good moments in the film, such as when former NFL greats Lawrence Taylor and Michael Irvin are restricted from joining the team because Fields claims that they don’t look any good. Weathers is comedic gold in the movie as well.

But movies such as “The Comebacks” show that the spoof genre might need to be retooled a bit before another total bomb like this is released.

Rating: 1 out of 5