The Real Cancun 2003

Critics score:
35 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Like the average spring breaker, I enjoyed every minute of it, but felt totally despicable the minute it was over. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: You could argue that The Real Cancun isn't worth shelling out seven bucks for when you can get the same thing on TV, and you would be right. But it sure beats Fear Factor: The Movie. Read more

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Real, all right. Real stupid. Real predictable. A real dud. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: ... I found it fascinating. Read more

Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: Purports to be reality TV's first major incursion into the movie world, but this isn't just loathsome cinema; it would be terrible television, too. Read more

Lawrence Van Gelder, New York Times: 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. Read more

Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Read more

Paul Brownfield, Los Angeles Times: The possibilities, endless as they may be, never explode into the realm of bacchanal. Read more

Houston Chronicle: Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Works, in its sleazy-chintzy- lively way, as a documentary version of the American Pie films with a character for everyone in the target demo to claim as his or her own. Read more

Gary Dowell, Dallas Morning News: Even with the wet T-shirt contests and faux drama, The Real Cancun doesn't deliver a whole lot. Read more

John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: 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. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: 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. Read more

Bob Campbell, Newark Star-Ledger: This is a youth comedy without humor, a porn Web site without porn and reality without a trace of the real. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: 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. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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. Read more

Heather Havrilesky, Salon.com: Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more

St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Hardly qualifies as a movie. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Those who sit through this mindlessness get the booby prize. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: Read more