The Real Cancun (2003)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 88
Fresh: 31 | Rotten: 57
The footage is predictable and rather tame, and most of the people are uninteresting.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 16
The footage is predictable and rather tame, and most of the people are uninteresting.
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Average Rating: 2.2/5
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Following the style of the reality-based programming on the FOX network, The Real Cancun is a feature-length effort to capture R-rated footage of a group of upper middle-class college students on spring break in Cancun, Mexico. Made by the Bunim/Murray production team (responsible for MTV's The Real World) and released in the vulgar wake of Jackass: The Movie, this 90-minute movie features 16 conventionally attractive 18- to 23-year-olds coming from different colleges across the country and
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All Critics (103) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (58) | DVD (19)
Hardly qualifies as a movie.
Top Critic... I found it fascinating.
This is the kind of fare that would be at home on late night cable, where its repetitiveness and mindlessness might offer channel surfers a cure for insomnia.
What good documentaries have that The Real Cancun sadly lacks is a good story.
There's a case to be made for The Real Cancun as a document of the mating dance as well as an unintentionally poignant film about the brevity of youth.
Terrible, explicit movie -- beware!
True exploitation filmmaking. Watching it is getting fleeced.
It's not quite the end of civilization as we know it, but it's not a good sign.
As if we needed feature length versions of MTV's "The Real World," served up this weekend is two hours of Cancun hysteria. Is it real? Yup - real dumb.
It's a document of the decline of Western civilization, and no, it's not because everyone in it drinks, has sex, and parties but because when asked if someone could film it, they said yes.
Perversely, disturbingly entertaining, and as much of a glimpse into the dark depths of human nature as a Dostoevsky novel.
With a strangely irritating editorial sensibility, the filmmakers work desperately at juicing up a narrative, but mostly meet with failure.
Never has the word "real" been used in a more liberal way, because this reality movie seems to have a tighter script than American Pie - or at least one cloned from it.
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This has no real story at all except a bunch of teens getting drunk and acting like skanks (and I include the boys in that too, no sexism here!). Maybe I am just too darn old and showing it, but I could barely tell one from the other, they were all so tedious and interchangable. It is of no surprise to me at all that none of these people went on to bigger things.