Synopsis
A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee.
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Cast
- Anna FarisKate Sullivan
- Eugenio DerbezLeonardo Montenegro
- Eva LongoriaTheresa
- John HannahColin
- Swoosie KurtzGrace
- Mel RodriguezBobby
- Josh SegarraJason
- Hannah NordbergEmily Sullivan
- Alyvia Alyn LindOlivia Sullivan
- Payton LepinskiMolly Sullivan
- 68
TheWrap
Even as a welcome offering to audiences from a broad variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds, Overboard ultimately feels like one of the dinners that Kate assigns Leo to cook for his newfound family — a good effort with a few new surprises to spice up a familiar dish, but nothing special enough to truly transform it into more than a routine meal. - 58
IndieWire
Hammy jokes fall flat and that bloated run time sags in the middle, weighing down would-be snappy humor. It should all pop, but Overboard settles for a low crackle. - 50
Philadelphia Daily News
It all adds up to a bicultural comedy that is good-natured if not especially or consistently well-written. The movie takes too long to get moving, stays a tad too long, and efforts to retrofit the movie as a vehicle for Derbez come at the expense of Faris, a talented comedian who has very little to do here. - 50
The New York Times
None of the proceedings are sidesplittingly funny, but they grow increasingly sweet-natured. The most remarkable aspect of this movie is its perhaps unwitting gentleness. - 50
The A.V. Club
The way the script pulls its punches is less offensive than simply toothless, giving Overboard the feel of a film written by a focus group, or maybe a script-writing robot programmed with the latest demographic trends. - 50
Boston Globe
It’s an inane, absurd, fitfully amusing time-waster that ranks low on the believability scale and somewhere in the middle as mindless entertainment. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
First-time directors Bob Fisher and Rob Greenberg start off with a movie so dull it threatens to vanish from the viewer's memory before it's even finished. Things get better midway through, with the directors' screenplay finally playing to the talents of at least one of its stars, Derbez. - 48
IGN
The cast does the best they can to save the weak material, and it’s interesting to see how the filmmakers are trying to make this off-putting concept work. But it's not funny enough, or even weird enough, to get away with it.