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.
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: Comedies
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
Strip away the glittery facade and turn down the music, and what's left is very little substance.
For some of us there is a certain anthropological appeal to the mating rituals (not to mention the actual mating) on display here.
I don't want to say that The Real Cancun, is boring, but I fell asleep on my arm during the last 45 minutes and chewed it off rather than wake myself up.
This is a youth comedy without humor, a porn Web site without porn and reality without a trace of the real.
Reality Land is a village built on lowest common denominators -- the cheapest, the dumbest, the wildest -- that Bunim and Murray well know often leads to the most fun.
Surprisingly dull, a tired rehash of those cheesy spring-break movies from the 1980s.
If you let yourself be immersed in its irrelevance, it actually has some enticing moments, which to some moviegoers might be the nipple-pierced twins' incestuous striptease.
It's fascinating stuff to watch, as well as enlightening (especially if you're a parent paying for college tuition).
Like the average spring breaker, I enjoyed every minute of it, but felt totally despicable the minute it was over.
A 90-minute confessathon minus the bleeped-out cuss words and pixelated breasts.
Though it does deliver naked breasts and binge drinking, "Cancun" also spins a surprisingly funny tale. Seriously.
Delivers what it's intended audience wants in large doses...boobs, booze, and hooking up.
RW vet and director Rick De Oliveira's well-placed music and snappy cuts stir up plenty of action, once again proving that edited reality is often stranger -- and funnier -- that fiction.
The need for writers who can create character and excitement remains unthreatened by efforts to dredge drama from dullards by saturating their environment with cameras and microphones.
It actually works as a sometimes funny, occasionally scandalous, but mostly involving narrative.
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