The Real Cancun
The Real Cancun
R | 23 April 2003 (USA)
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Sixteen American college students drink, flirt, fight and canoodle during their Spring Break vacation in Cancun, Mexico.

Reviews
GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
classicsoncall I guess when you're in your early twenties and a college student, you're not giving much thought to the potential repercussions your actions might take in the years to come. Just like anything else that makes it into cyberspace or the internet, the principal players in this travesty will be living it down for a long time to come. Virtually all the other reviews I've read on this board are uniformly critical of this film, if that's what you can call it, and even those who find some guilty pleasure in it seem to keep it appropriately at arm's length. At least the picture gained some semblance of notoriety when it garnered a Stinker Award for the worst on-screen group in 2003 when it was released. To be quite honest, and I'm almost embarrassed to admit it, the only reason I watched it is because a cousin of mine appears in the flick, and I won't reveal his name here unless I'm forced to. Oh alright, here's a hint - his nickname describes a popular musical genre. That's all you're going to get from me.
Christopher Smith I don't think there has been another movie in history that has been released and forgotten about as quickly as THE REAL CANCUN. I myself had completely forgotten about it until recently. Shot and released between March and April 2003, THE REAL CANCUN was an attempt by reality TV producers Mary Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray to bring their successful "Real World" formula to big screen. Luckily, they failed. The Real Cancun was completely avoided, making only $5 million worldwide despite being billed as the first "realiy" movie. Exploitave, disgusting, and idiotic beyond belief, it remains the worst production ever put out by a major studio. I'd say New Line Cinema should be ashamed of themselves, but seeing as they've done their best to bury it, it seems they've learned their lesson. The only reason anyone should check out THE REAL CANCUN is to see what Laura Ramsey was like before becoming a mainstream Hollywood actress. As of this writing, there has yet to be another "reality" movie. 0/10
movieman_kev MTV is the epitome of narcissistic superficial artificial slack-jawed mentality that has changed the direction in the youth of American culture for the worse. And the film is quite possibly the nadir of said stupidity. In it a group of young blank twenty-somethings slither their war through spring break in Cancun sharing a beach house (a la "Real World). How these rocket scientists can share a house when they don't even share a braincell among them is a mystery for the ages. One of them is a sober geek who never drank so much of the "reality" movie is based on getting him wasted. All of this is accompanied by mostly flavor of the week crappy music that again is like MTV. Horrible.My Grade: F
jaim_i Let me tell you one thing, at first i was excited cause MTV gonna do a movie of THE REAL CANCUN, and for the people that went there,(like me), that was a fiasco. I was excited cause all my friends when i arrive from there, was asking me about CANCUN, when they saw this movie they dont even believe me a word of what i said. This thing was a waste of money, and a waste of time cause isnt that "real" as i was expected tha this movie gonna be. That was like an episode of the real world, and i dont want to saw that, i want to see what i have done there i just want to live again all those moment in cancun, but all i get was guys getting drunk, women figthing for men, and none of reality. A typical episode of the series REAL WORLD.