The Real Cancun
New Line Cinema | Release Date: April 25, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
34
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
4
Negative:
12
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
VarietyScott Foundas
Unabashedly tasteless, wholly trashy and, also, hugely entertaining. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
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 full review
70
Los Angeles TimesPaul Brownfield
The result is surprisingly genial, even innocent -- a movie without a screenplay that echoes countless coming-of-age-at-the-beach movies, except maybe "Weekend at Bernie's." Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
It's just a camcorder soap opera of packaged hormonal fervor -- ''The Real World'' with extra tequila body shots. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Not so much a documentary as it is a bald-faced party movie. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
It's not much, but it isn't awful, either, provided you're interested in this sort of thing to begin with. Read full review
63
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
An uncensored, often hilarious vision of spring break madness that is so perfectly positioned on the big screen, the only question you can ask its creators is, "What took you so long?" Read full review
63
New York PostMegan Lehmann
It actually works as a sometimes funny, occasionally scandalous, but mostly involving narrative. Read full review
60
Village VoiceDennis Lim
There are worse crimes being perpetrated in Hollywood than The Real Cancún--an exploitation fantasy no more booby-besotted than a "Porky's" or "American Pie" installment, and certainly no more unreal. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverBill Gallo
If, having seen "Jackass" half a dozen times, you now yearn to watch a pair of identical twins from Texas Tech cavort in the wet T-shirt contest or hear mobs of drunken undergraduates screaming for more margaritas, here's your flick. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineAngel Cohn
Undeniably entertaining. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDavid Hiltbrand
The film is an accelerated version of MTV's perennial reality series, "The Real World," only with more drinking and more sex. The results, however, are the same. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
A colossal disappointment. Not because it's superficial and shallow –- those characteristics pretty much go with the territory –- but because it's boring. Read full review
38
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
The only question is how many levels of meaning can be plumbed from the phrase "Let's party!" Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Those who sit through this mindlessness get the booby prize. Read full review
30
Washington PostTeresa Wiltz
A 90-minute confessathon minus the bleeped-out cuss words and pixelated breasts. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyJohn Patterson
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 full review
20
The New York TimesLawrence Van Gelder
All its 89 minutes of fast cuts, swooping overhead shots, sun, surf, song, sunburn and sex cannot obscure the extent of its shallowness. Read full review
12
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
The Real Cancun is no crime; at worst, it's a kind of staged tribute to "Porky's" done by amateur actors. Read full review
10
Chicago ReaderStaff (Not credited)
Two of MTV's stupidest programs, "The Real World" and "Spring Break," have been rolled into one staggeringly dumb feature film. Read full review
10
Film ThreatKevin Carr
It is films like this that make me think that if Mexico suddenly went to war with a superpower, and the Cancun area was nuked into oblivion during a spring break weekend, that the world might actually be a better place. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
Shoddy craftsmanship and uninteresting subjects (it's amazing how tedious some conversations can be when there's no one to put words in the subjects' mouths) sink this spring-break movie faster than an outbreak of Leginnaires’ disease on a vacation cruise liner. Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Save for the diminished allure of drunk, naked hotties, there's nothing of worth in The Real Cancun. Read full review
0
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
This movie thrusts you so close to these intoxicated idiots that you practically have to wipe off secondhand tequila, sweat and spit stains afterward. Read full review
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