Wednesday, May 02, 2018
Overboard
Anna Faris & Eugenio Derbez star in a role reversal remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell romantic comedy but with a telenovela twist. The struggling single mother of 3 girls working 2 jobs takes advantage of a millionaire playboy with amnesia in order to recoup time & money she had lost due to his arrogance & rudeness. This version parallels the original film premise & is genre predictable. Faris & Derbez are genuinely funny but there doesn’t seem to be any real romantic spark between them. Slow readers may wonder if the jokes are funnier in Spanish than as translated for the limited subtitles. It is classic “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”. At the end of the film & during the credits, look for clips from the key players.
Alien gives it 3 “Speedy Gonzalez” stars out of 4.
Anna Faris & Eugenio Derbez star in a role reversal remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell romantic comedy but with a telenovela twist. The struggling single mother of 3 girls working 2 jobs takes advantage of a millionaire playboy with amnesia in order to recoup time & money she had lost due to his arrogance & rudeness. This version parallels the original film premise & is genre predictable. Faris & Derbez are genuinely funny but there doesn’t seem to be any real romantic spark between them. Slow readers may wonder if the jokes are funnier in Spanish than as translated for the limited subtitles. It is classic “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”. At the end of the film & during the credits, look for clips from the key players.
Alien gives it 3 “Speedy Gonzalez” stars out of 4.
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