92YTribeca (Venue Partner)
200 Hudson St
212.601.1000
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realcancun
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Thursday Feb 11, 2010 (8pm)
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$12.00
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Part of the series Hammer to Nail Presents Misunderstood Gems: 2000-2009.
Seemingly inspired by the breakout success of Jackass: The Movie, the producers of the long-running MTV reality show The Real World decided to test out their formula in a multiplex environment with this jaw-dropping spectacle of American youth gone preposterously idiotic. The fact that The Real Cancun was shot in only ten days during March of 2003, concurrent with our country's invasion of Iraq, makes it one of the more unintentionally brilliant statements of hypocrisy of the decade. That it was released in theaters only five weeks later makes it a legitimate poster child for the burgeoning digital revolution of the early 21st century. As a sloppy assemblage of spoiled, attractive young party animals gather to do body shots, dance and make out like horny banhees and banshees, all hope for the future is tossed away like an empty bottle of Cuervo. In spite of itself, it's a genuine Misunderstood Gem.
Director: Rick De Oliveira. 96 min. 2003.
