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The Real Cancun (2003)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:30
Rotten:56
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: The footage is predictable and rather tame, and most of the people are uninteresting.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] Strong sexuality/nudity, language and partying
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Television
Theatrical Release:Apr 25, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $3,713,002
Synopsis: NO SCRIPTS. NO ACTORS. NO RULES. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN ON SPRING BREAK, AND IT DID. It's fun and sexy, unscripted and uncensored, but more than anything, it's The Real Cancun. Each year,... NO SCRIPTS. NO ACTORS. NO RULES. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN ON SPRING BREAK, AND IT DID. It's fun and sexy, unscripted and uncensored, but more than anything, it's The Real Cancun. Each year, over 40,000 college students travel to Cancun, Mexico for Spring Break. But this year, for the first time, sixteen people will come together for eight days in a beachfront Cancun villa for the ultimate Spring Break vacation. Bonds will be forged, romances sparked, friendships tested and hearts broken, all amidst a backdrop of non-stop partying. The cast includes: * Alan, 19, from Texas, the archetypal "good boy" who's not used to getting attention from the ladies and has never had a drink in his life * Casey, 25, an aspiring model from Miami (think Jeff Spicoli from Fast Times at Ridgemont High) who has never held a steady job and, with his "anything goes" attitude, views life in general as one long Spring Break * Roxanne and Nicole, 19, fun-loving twins from Texas, one a little bit wilder than the other * Heidi and David, 18, fresh-faced and innocent best friends who have always flirted with one another but never actually hooked up * Jeremy, 22, from Arizona, a self-professed "ladie's man" who has been training all his life for Spring Break * Jorell, 21, and Paul, 20, lifelong friends from Los Angeles who have never before been out of the United States and are prepared to have the time of their lives in Cancun New Line Cinema presents The Real Cancun, the first reality feature film. Sixteen everyday people chosen during open auditions at college campuses across the United States were willing to immerse themselves and indulge in the Spring Break revelry of Cancun, with the understanding they would be followed 24 hours a day by six camera crews. [More]
Director: Rick de Oliveira
Director: Rick de Oliveira
Producer: Mary-Ellis Bunim, Jonathan Murray, Jamie Schultz, Rick de Oliveira
Studio: New Line Cinema
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Reviews for The Real Cancun
As Forrest Gump once intoned, stupid is as stupid does. Stupid does it up big in The Real Cancun.
Whether you see it as a more-raunchy The Real World or a toned-down Girls Gone Wild, the reality of this reality movie is it's nothing we haven't seen before.
The quick cuts, swooping aerial shots, and images of wet T-shirt contests don’t change what this is – a bunch of self indulgent 20-year-olds massaging their egos on camera.
...scene after scene of flirt, tease, posture, preen, rebuff. I've seen animal shows on Discovery that present their subject material with less clinical detachment.
While some may find the film off-putting like the other TV reality shows, the film itself is quite appealing and funny and should make a boatload of money from individuals who want to venture into someone else’s world.
No matter how 'real' things appear, scenarios and story arcs are relentlessly imposed upon the partay-cipants so as to finesse a narrative as crudely overdetermined and howlingly predictable as any studio-manufactured fiction.
More closely resembling a "Girls Gone Wild" video than a work of traditional cinema, "The Real Cancun" delivers a unique brand of glossy sex appeal, thanks to a fairly developed array of variously sordid characters.
An exploitative piece of low-ball, high profit movie making that's not as titillating as some might be expecting and not very good beyond all of that.
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