‘Cancun’ doesn’t even do ‘The Real World’ justice

“The Real Cancun” has the least intelligent premise of the century. “Let’s get actors to pretend they’re on a reality show and then say they’re not actors,” the big-wig movie executives tittered. Throw in a helping of gratuitous nudity and Snoop Dogg, and you have the gist of this film.

The characters were picked to live in a Cancun beach house for a week, and it was mandatory for them to party every night.

There is so much painfully predictable drama that there is no possible way that this film is as real as the producers claim.

The intelligence of the teen and college-aged audience was highly underestimated if Mary- Ellis Bunim and Jonathon Murray thought that “The Real Cancun” would appeal to the majority of 16 to 24 year-olds.

Alan and Jorell are the only slightly amusing characters but even they have their moments when it was obvious they were acting.

Alan was the virgin/ good boy character who the group corrupts by the end of the week. Why the producers thought the audience would buy the fact that they crammed four months of drama into a week, even if it is spring break, is beyond me. Jorell is the unlucky in love guy and can basically be found tagging around with whatever pair will put up with him.

Matt and Jeremy, who wore matching bandanas around their foreheads at the Snoop Dogg concert, was pathetic. I suppose they played the male “hotties” of the house, but aside from being the two worst out of a terrible group of actors they looked extremely foolish.

The women fared no better than the men in “The Real Cancun.” Roxanne and Nicole are identical twins who entered a wet T- shirt contest and proceeded to get naked and grind on each other. Laura is the “I was wild back home” girl who falls for Jeremy and gets her heart broken. There are too many love triangles followed by hook-ups and rebuffs that I couldn’t have kept up with them even if I was interested.

This movie possibly could have been salvageable if it had been shown on the small screen. However, reality gurus Bunim and Murray wanted to up the ante and they came up with the trashiest B-rated movie of the year.

Rating: 1 1/2 stars