{"id":4115,"date":"2024-09-18T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=4115"},"modified":"2024-10-13T19:48:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:48:54","slug":"going-overboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/09\/18\/going-overboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Overboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Going Overboard<\/strong>\u00a0 (1989)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trimark\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 97 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (pervasive language and sexual references)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Valerie Breiman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Valerie Breiman and Adam Rifkin (uncredited)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Steven \u201cScooby\u201d Scott Smalley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematographer: Ron Jacobs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 12, 1989 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Adam Sandler, Tom Hodges, Burt Young, Scott LaRose, Liza Collins Zane, Adam Rifkin, Peter Berg, Valerie Breiman, Ricky Paull Goldin, Warren Selko, Steven Brill, Billy Zane, Allen Covert, Chris Bogard, Milton Berle, Billy Bob Thornton.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: N\/A<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: NO STARS!!!<\/p>\n

\u00a0Oh, it\u2019s true! The \u201ccomedy\u201d\u00a0Going Overboard<\/strong>\u00a0is every bit as bad as you\u2019ve heard, possibly worse. It probably never would have even seen the light of day had it not been for star Adam Sandler\u2019s post-SNL success in Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. It actually received a limited release in \u201989, but not in Philadelphia. It was nice of the distributor to spare the City of Brotherly Love the pain and indignity. I do remember it being released on home video circa summer \u201996 and having no desire to watch it. I wasn\u2019t even the least bit curious to see Sandler\u2019s debut. To coin a phrase I learned as a teen from a friend\u2019s father, I wouldn\u2019t have crossed the street to watch it. I should have stuck to my guns.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I don\u2019t know what possessed me to watch\u00a0Going Overboard<\/strong>. Can I plead temporary insanity? LOL! The truth is I occasionally like to watch a movie I know is bad so I can rip into it without mercy. I hit the mother lode with\u00a0Going Overboard<\/strong>. It\u2019s so bad, it\u2019s surreal. It\u2019s like one of those cheap, dirty-minded comedies that played on late night cable TV in the 80s. Sandler\u2019s character, who talks to the camera a lot during the movie, even admits it\u2019s a \u201cno-budget movie\u201d. Proof of his statement is crystal clear throughout the movie\u2019s 97 agonizing minutes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Who else but Adam Sandler would play a character named Shecky Moskowitz? He\u2019s a cruise ship waiter who dreams of being a stand-up comedian. He\u2019s the kind of doofus who gets no respect from anybody, least of all the ship\u2019s unfunny comedian Dickie Diamond (La Rose, Booty Call). How this obnoxious creep is so popular with everybody else is beyond comprehension. Shecky finally gets his chance to show his stuff when Dickie presumably falls off the ship and drowns. In actuality, he locks himself in his bathroom proving he\u2019s as big an idiot as everybody around him, possibly bigger.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Shecky\u2019s problem is a relatively major one, he\u2019s NOT funny. The audience, which includes Billy Bob Thornton (Bad Santa) in a brief early role, actually hates him. What this fellow needs is some sound advice and who better than Milton Berle (as himself) to teach Shecky how to be funny. King Neptune (Zane, Titanic) also shows up to give counsel. A stupid subplot has General Noriega (Young, the Rocky movies) sending a couple of his guys to kidnap Miss Australia (Zane, Tombstone) from the ship after she insults him by publicly saying he smells like old pizza. For whatever reason, the movie often cuts away to Miss Universe contestants responding to questions. Naturally, it\u2019s on Shecky to protect her.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Everybody involved with\u00a0Going Overboard<\/strong>\u00a0ought to be ashamed of their involvement in this turd of a \u201ccomedy\u201d. This includes everybody from Sandler to the guy that sweeps up at the end of the each day\u2019s shoot. It\u2019s a perfect example of a moron movie. It\u2019s made by morons for morons. Let me revise that last statement. It\u2019s badly<\/em> made by morons for morons. It\u2019s bad across the board. It\u2019s badly written, directed, acted, scored and shot. It\u2019s bad enough if a comedy simply isn\u2019t funny; it\u2019s worse when it begs you to laugh at it anyway. Going Overboard<\/strong>\u00a0is pathetic that way. The jokes are labored, forced and sometimes dragged out to unbearable lengths. Every feeble attempt at humor falls flat. It\u2019s a wonder Sandler continued to get work after this movie. Did SNL creator Lorne Michaels see it before he hired Sandler? My guess would be no since he hired him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Going Overboard<\/strong>\u00a0is terrible to the point where even Sandler\u2019s natural goofy, good-natured way doesn\u2019t make it any less painful. I don\u2019t think anybody or anything could have salvaged this sunken ship of a \u201ccomedy\u201d. La Rose is horrible; I wanted to kill his character with my bare hands. Young embarrasses himself with his stereotypical Latin American heavy. I did NOT need to see him sniffing his socks. That\u2019s just gross. Can somebody please explain why a comedy great like Berle felt compelled to appear in crappy movies in the latter part of career? I thought he hit bottom with the 1983 Jerry Lewis \u201ccomedy\u201d Cracking Up (aka Smorgasbord). Going Overboard<\/strong>\u00a0is lower than that. It falls right through the bottom into the abyss of awfulness.<\/p>\n

\u00a0First-time writer-director Valerie Breiman, an actress whose most prominent role is a supporting part in Casual Sex, clearly has no idea what she\u2019s doing.\u00a0Going Overboard<\/strong>\u00a0is one of the most sloppily-made movies I\u2019ve ever seen. And with all the hot babes walking around, there\u2019s not a single pair of naked boobs. You\u2019d think the makers would take advantage of the R-rating and throw in some nudity to appeal to teenage boys. I honestly don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on with this movie. It\u2019s so atrociously bad that I debated giving it a half-star rating for being a curiosity. HOWEVER, that would imply I recommend it on some level and I don\u2019t. On the contrary, I\u2019m warning you to avoid it all costs. There is absolutely NOTHING to see. It doesn\u2019t amuse; it just causes pain and misery. It should have been scuttled long before it left port.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Going Overboard\u00a0 (1989)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trimark\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 97 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (pervasive language and sexual references)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Valerie Breiman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Valerie Breiman and Adam Rifkin (uncredited)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Steven \u201cScooby\u201d Scott Smalley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematographer: Ron Jacobs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 12, 1989 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Adam Sandler, Tom Hodges, Burt Young, Scott LaRose, Liza Collins Zane, Adam Rifkin, Peter Berg, Valerie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies","category-this-sucks-so-bad"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Going-Overboard-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4884,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4115\/revisions\/4884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}