Yes they're back. Like two saggy bags of pizza dough on top of chopsticks pipe-stem (aka ultra-straight-leg) jeans are back. They looked crappy before and, surprisingly enough, look just as unflattering now.
The backlash was about a decade of baggy-butt jeans that culminated in drooping-crack-revealing denim designs. Other than being a boon for the underwear manufacturers who were suddenly vaulted into unusual exposure (thus the miraculous materialization of colors and patterns) there's little to be happy about. In fact there's much to be depressed about: most women will hate the way their jeans fit, and most men will be stuck having to lie about how they think they fit.
Fashion 1: The Rest of Us -1