Rotten
Hardly qualifies as a movie.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
The Real Cancun
No scripts. No actors. No rules. Anything can happen on spring break, and it did.
2003 · 1h 36m · R Documentary
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The Real Cancun
Overview
Sixteen American college students drink, flirt, fight and canoodle during their Spring Break vacation in Cancun, Mexico.
Director and cast
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34%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
John Patterson, L.A. Weekly
Fresh
... I found it fascinating.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Rotten
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.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
What good documentaries have that The Real Cancun sadly lacks is a good story.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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