Matialth
Good concept, poorly executed.
CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Clarissa Mora
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
tristanveronie
I'd rather die than ever watch this movie ever again. It gave me a migraine. I'll never laugh at anything Adam Sandler ever says again for the rest of my life. I couldn't even finish watching this atrocious movie because I literally felt ill. I am not kidding.Do not ever watch this movie under any circumstances. If you're looking for a "so bad it's good" movie, look somewhere else. There are no redeeming factors about it at all. This movie saps the energy from you, to the point where you can't even muster up the motivation to cringe. Do not watch it. I'm begging you.Although, if you do happen to locate a copy of the film (if you can even call it one. I'm pretty sure the only thing that ran through the camera to record this monstrosity was a roll of toilet paper), be sure to purchase it and get rid of it, so that no one will ever have to view it ever again.
fokkogol
I chose this movie, because I wanted to see a movie that is in the IMDb bottom 100. I'm not a big Adam Sandler fan, but nevertheless I was hoping that it couldn't be that bad as the 1.9 rating it's receiving.Boy, was I wrong. I think even 1.9 is too much. It was so bad, that I couldn't watch the whole movie in one piece. I saw it in two pieces, and still found it difficult to keep watching.The only reason I gave this movie 1 star is because there is a rock song in the movie that wasn't so bad (although very bad play-backed), otherwise there is no reason to give this movie a star at all.If you want to see a movie from the IMDb bottom 100, have a try, but otherwise please stay away from it. Otherwise it's want to make you going overboard!
thesar-2
Adam's warning in the beginning of Going Overboard on not to expect anything good or any budget should actually be a disclaimer for all his movies.Actually, that's just my personal opinion on how I really cannot stand Adam Sandler. Sure, there are many – millions? – that do adore him and more power to them. And I could easily suggest they watch this movie to prove my point on how incredibly untalented, unfunny and dumb this lucky sob is. But…in Sandler's defense (GULP,) anyone could have a shaky start such as this one. So, while this disaster of a film isn't really proof of much…it is a hint of what his movies will eventually become.I came home one night from work nearly two months ago – yeah, it's taken me awhile to finally write this – and all I wanted to do was watch an incredibly bad movie to laugh at and not with. Normally, I wouldn't select a Sandler film – they're typically so bad, my mouth is agape more than anything else, but when I learned of both the viewer rating on this (which is currently at 1.9/10 stars) and that it was his first film, I had to see it.This movie disgusted me more than made me laugh. Still, to this day, it's like sh|t is still on my clothes that I cannot discard and I am powerless to that awful smell. I am not kidding: this movie is that bad.It didn't help that the movie started off with the vilest of cartoon intros. If I was able to post pictures in this review, I would provide you with proof of how insane, repulsive and gross they are. And I am not talking about potty humor or body parts. I am speaking of poorly drawn cartoons of Sandler's dumb facial expressions.Had the rest of the movie continued as an animated feature with that cartoon caricature of Sandler, I surely would've turned off the movie. Well, I should've anyways, because it didn't get better.Yeah, the budget seemed like it was at near zero and Sandler, himself, warns us of there being no money, but the lack of any talent from anyone behind the camera, in front of it or even holding it is more disturbing to me than the money fronted to make this happen.Basically, and I am giving the plot too much credit with that word, Adam's jealous of another "funny man" on a cruise ship and spends most of the movie daydreaming his way into the spotlight.Nothing works here. Not a single line, not a single "joke," not a single frame. I would say the movie was written by preteen boys with their horny minds, but even they would find this movie in offensively bad taste.Sure, I despise Sandler's work. This wasn't going to change my mind one way or another. But, nothing, NOTHING, could've prepared me for this train wreck of absolute garbage.* * * Final thoughts: #1 this movie came out in 1989…in the SUMMER season. Why couldn't this have pushed his future career overboard?? #2, it *did* have a budget. Of $200,000. If you dare, and I highly recommend you don't, please, PLEASE, tell me where any of that was spent. #3, this doesn't even fit in the "so bad, it's good" category. You can watch any of the most recent Sandler movies for that category. Say, the past two decades worth of this films.
Anders Twetman
This is one of the most unfunny, uninspired pieces of garbage I have ever seen. Stand up comedy is rarely funny unless the comedian really knows what he is doing. This film contains two of them, and they definitely o not know what they are doing. One is unfunny and offensive and the other (Adam Sandler) is just plain unfunny. Except for the worthless stand up comedy, Sandler also spends quite a lot of time talking directly to the camera, whining about this and that, which I guess is supposed to be some kind of fourth wall joke, but it is extremely annoying.Oh, and don't forget the bikini girls with 80's hair who are there as some kind of filler material when there is nothing unfunny or annoying to see. I like pretty girls in bikinis just as much as the next guy, but I really dislike it when they are put in a film without having any sort of purpose. Fill your film with worthwhile substance and let me look at bikini girls in my own time thank you very much.
