Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label real cancun

Jacking-off, to "The Real Cancun"

That it was released in theaters only five weeks later makes it a legitimate poster child for the burgeoning digital revolution of the early 21st century. As a sloppy assemblage of spoiled, attractive young party animals gather to do body shots, dance and make out like horny banhees and banshees, all hope for the future is tossed away like an empty bottle of Cuervo. Truth be told, I had planned to stay very far away from "The Real Cancun" based on the advertising, but a friend highly recommended it after attending a sneak preview. She was right. I saw "The Real Cancun" three times in the theater, bringing different friends every time. Most good movies have three or four moments that make you say "Wow." By my count, "The Real Cancun" has 24. (Michael Tully, “Films of the decade: ‘The Real Cancun,’ Salon, 15 Dec. 2009) Normally I avoid the theatre, but . . . Is this satire, or were you trying to sound like the alarmed dainty trying to make sense ...