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The Real Cancun Photos

(on stage, left to right, top to bottom) Jeremy, Roxanne, Alan, Sarah, Jorell, Paul, Matt, Dave, Amber, Heidi, Sky, Nicole, and Fletch all dance it up at a Mardi Gras theme party.

(left to right) Laura and Roxanne discuss current events and boy trouble in New Line Cinema's reality drama The Real Cancun.

(left to right) Laura, Casey, Jeremy, and Amber in front of the camera and sound men in New Line Cinema's reality drama The Real Cancun.

(left to right) Alan and Laura hit the beach bar after a swim in New Line Cinema's reality drama The Real Cancun.

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Movie Info

The annual debauchery of college students during spring break is examined in this documentary, which focuses on 16 young Americans as they travel to Cancun, Mexico, where they indulge in voluminous consumption of sex and booze. Over the course of 11 days, the students -- including such archetypes as a ladies' man, a party girl and a virgin -- are followed by cameras as they drink profusely and attempt to hook up with as many members of the opposite sex as circumstances allow.

Rating:

R (Strong Nudity|Partying|Language|Strong Sexuality)
Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Rick de Oliveira
Producer:

Mary-Ellis Bunim, Jonathan Murray
Release Date (Theaters):

Apr 25, 2003 wide
Release Date (Streaming):

Dec 1, 2020
Box Office (Gross USA):

$3.7M
Runtime:

1h 36m
Production Co:

New Line Cinema
Sound Mix:

Surround

Cast & Crew

Benjamin "Fletch" Fletcher
Self

Roxanne Frilot
Self

Nicole Frilot
Self

Brittany Brown-Hart
Self

David Ingber
Self

Jeremy Jazwinski
Self

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Critic Reviews for The Real Cancun

All Critics (90) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (59)

Terrible, explicit movie -- beware!

December 29, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
"Girls Gone Wild" meets "The Real Wold" in miniature, with Snoop Dogg's seal of approval.

June 27, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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May 10, 2003 | Rating: B-

Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
Hardly qualifies as a movie.

May 9, 2003 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Peter Howell
Toronto Star
Sadly, even lovers of cheesy dance music will find it hard to ignore The Real Cancun's flaws.

May 2, 2003 | Full Review…

Heather Havrilesky
Salon.com
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April 29, 2003 | Rating: D

Nell Minow
Movie Mom
The Real Cancun promises things they don't show on television and doesn't really deliver.

February 7, 2020 | Rating: D | Full Review…

Joel Siegel
Good Morning America
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December 6, 2005 | Rating: 0.5/5 | Full Review…

Film Threat
True exploitation filmmaking. Watching it is getting fleeced.

July 6, 2004 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…

Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
It's not quite the end of civilization as we know it, but it's not a good sign.

January 4, 2004 | Rating: 2/5

Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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.

October 7, 2003 | Rating: F | Full Review…

David Foucher
EDGE Boston
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.

September 7, 2003 | Rating: 0/4 | Full Review…

Mark Dujsik
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Audience Reviews for The Real Cancun

Sep 10, 2008

For some reason I actually wanted to watch this when it first came out. Now that I have watched it, I am glad I missed out on it for as long as I did. Should have kept it that way. 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.

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