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Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 10 Critics What's this?

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 29 Ratings

  • Starring: Chris Elliott
  • Summary: An obnoxious finishing school snob (Elliott) en route to his father's hotel in Hawaii accidentally boards a fishing boat called the "Filthy Whore," with four grizzled, stinking fisherman.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Negative: 7 out of 10
  1. Reviewed by: David Mills
    60
    Contains about enough laugh-out-loud sight gags and non sequiturs to justify what it demands of a viewer's time and money.
  2. 38
    As a condescening moron who natters on non-stop in this simplistic comedy, Elliott doesn't just wear out his welcome, he nukes it. [14 Jan 1994]
  3. Few comedies have worked this hard to make everyone on screen look this dumb.
  4. Reviewed by: Chris Willman
    30
    The problem is that it doesn't find a lot of laughs in much of anything, referential or otherwise. [7 Jan 1994]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 19
  3. Negative: 5 out of 19
  1. UrkoboldU
    10
    I struggle not to use all caps, as that is my fashion, but this movie is profoundly moving and appeals to me on a level that few films do. Everyone should watch it, although most will wish they hadn't. It's that good. Expand
  2. BobH.
    8
    Unless you understand the concept of the Paperboy2000 you won't get the drift of Chris Elliot movies.
  3. SteveJ.
    8
    "Cabin Boy" is a coming of age romp through the perils of 19th century travelogues. I enjoyed it, yessir, I enjoyed it.
  4. PrestonF.
    0
    Humor, like pornography is impossible to define, but I know it when I see it. This movie meets the classic definition of pornography: "a creative activity of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire." Except it doesn't stimulate any desires at all, except perhaps that of self-loathing and self-immolation for subjecting one-self to this multimedia abortion. There's 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back... I hate to break it to all the fan-boys in this section, but the emperor has no humor. Expand

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