Lack of good storyline.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

In a world where Adam Sandler doesn't need to be funny because he has become the comedy: this forgettable mess exists. I won't rip on Adam Sandler because we all know him well enough to just accept the bad movies, but this movie is so mundane and uninteresting that it's hard to even consider it inoffensive. Read the synopsis that IMDb has for this movie, don't watch it, the actual images and sounds that come from the TV don't add anything to the experience other than maybe a few cheap laughs and a whole lot of filler. There is no way you could possibly consider this a well thought out piece of cinema, I would recommend it to anyone over the age of 5000 (nobody who is alive)

You know that one movie that your favorite actors made that is just kind of…well…so bad it makes you want to cut onions just to cover up the fact that you are crying? This is that movie for Adam Sandler fans. I do not know if it would be easier to talk about what is wrong with this movie or what they did right, but since I am a negative guy to begin with, let's get started.Adam Sandler's acting is borderline horrendous, and I don't mind bad acting, but for some reason it just annoys me with this movie. He keeps talking directly to the camera, turning it into one of those (The main character knows this is a movie, movies), which I think is an ineffective comedy tactic. The terrorists in the movie were equally annoying and disappointing, and the rushed plot comes to an abrupt ending with no real storyline in the middle or conclusion. It is like opening a beer, then cutting to someone throwing a bottle away. What happened to all of the good stuff in the middle?

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.

Saw this movie several years ago on DVD. It's Adam Sandler's real break into the movies. It's absolutely nothing like his movies today. This movie goes way beyond the term "cheesy"! It's terrible acting and low budget. A few things were slapstick funny, but overall, this movie is better off left on the shelf! I'm almost willing to bet that Adam Sandler wishes he could buy up all the copies so no one else could watch it! Kind of like making a home comedy movie when you were 10...and then watching it when you're 30...only it's not as cute cause you weren't the one making the movie!! I don't live in my mom's basement and I don't sit around all day critiquing movies. I promise, it's an hour and a half of your life you'll never get back!