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List Price: $9.98 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • NTSC In Theaters : 1989 |
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Going Overboard description At the beginning of this no-budget cheapie, Adam Sandler tells us this is a "loosely thrown together story" built around free access to a cruise ship and "a lot of good-looking women." So they get an A for truth in advertising. Sandler (very green in his first feature film) plays Shecky Moskowitz, a cruise ship waiter with dreams of being a standup comedian. At one point, General Manuel Noriega sends some goons to take over the ship. And there's a lot of voluptuous women hanging around in bikinis. So much for the plot. Sold as a wacky sex comedy, Going Overboard is more of a funny-nose-and-glasses movie, desperately trying anything for a laugh. Sandler's trademark being-funny-by-being-unfunny hadn't started to click yet. Only Billy Zane (as a sort of long-suffering-Jewish-grandmother-ish King Neptune) and Adam Rifkin (as a self-absorbed, mossy-toothed heavy metal star) seem to have any comic timing. A number of the supporting cast would go on to play roles in other, better Adam Sandler movies. Look fast for Billy Bob Thornton(!), appearing here as "Dave the heckler." --Geof Miller |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Good God this was like a horrible roadside accident ... |
| ... it is so horrible you can't take your eyes away. Adam Sandler displays not an iota of the charm and skill that has defined his later career. I could only wonder what he thought about this abomination as he was making it. The only saving grace is that it is so bad that it almost is entertaining for that fact alone. If you can sit through Plan 9 from Outer Space you may wish to move up to the big leagues of bad movies and try this one. | |
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