Bad Movie Beatdown: Going Overboard (REVIEW) 

This review was originally posted in July 2012, of which this is a re-edited version (upscaled to HD), and was the 100th episode of the show produced - and coincidentally, marks 100 videos in the Bad Movie Beatdown playlist, because I like symmetry like that. This version runs 2m 36s shorter than the original - this was originally released in two versions, one with cameos and one without (this is based on the former) - with the usual cuts for pacing and film clips, as well as one or two jokes that I don't feel have aged very well; re-cutting the film clips was especially challenging here because many scenes are in static extended shots, so there's quite a bit of fades here, and I've also slowed down footage or used still frames for sections where it played lengthily under narration. The cameos contain quite a few in-jokes, so don't worry if you don't get them (I'm sure I'll tell the stories elsewhere if asked in the comments). I guess this is to coincide with the UK release of Hotel Transylvania 3, which is this weekend... yeah, we'll say its to tie with that and not because of the 100 thing. Anyway, enjoy! EDIT: I did uncover some things about the film recently. It was created in the span of 3 months, having been written in 3 days and filmed in 8, on an $800,000 budget. It was very briefly theatrically released in one LA theater under the title of "The Unsinkable Shecky Moskowitz" (as I hinted in the review), and apparently also went by "Babes Ahoy" for a time. The film can also count another person who went onto greater success among the cast - Dan Povenmire, the co-creator of Phineas and Furb, is one of the members of Croaker's band.

The movie that Adam Sandler is ashamed to admit exists. Think about that statement for a minute.

Possibly the only bad Sandler film where the badness mostly isn't Sandler's fault.

Think about this for a second. This is the movie Adam Sandler is personally ashamed of. Grown Ups? He's OK with that. That's My Boy? He's OK with that. This movie? Personally ashamed of.

It's rather "hilarious" to hear an Adam Sandler character claim that joking about incest is gross and unfunny when years later he was involved with "That's My Boy", a film where, among many other gross and unfunny things, a sister got caught cheating on her fiance with her own brother.

half the cast was using sandpaper on their vocal cords while the other half was addicted to sucking helium.

All I can say is I wish I found your channel sooner.

Ironically, this wouldn't be the last time an Adam Sandler movie takes place on a cruise ship.

When I was 12 I was given the VHS for this film for Christmas... I couldn't even forgive enough to go to that aunt's funeral.

I'll give Sandler credit, at least he warned us about the movie from the word "go"

Billy Zane? The only Titanic villain I'd want this ship to run into would be the iceberg.

I have a weird feeling that if this movie ever came back into the mainstream media, it would probably have Adam Sandler re-enacting scenes for a sketch on Jimmy Fallon 🤔

I like to think that the terrorist assassins used the dictators secret flying time machine and landed in the exact coordinates of the cruise ship. It's about as stupid as the actual movie.

I was hoping that ship would run into the cruise ship from Jason takes Manhattan so Jason Voorhees could climb on board and kill everyone.

14:48 clearly shot in the corner of an empty room...high production values indeed! Not to mention the dire animation at 14:55

20:48 Makes Bloodrayne, Survival Island and Scorpion King 3 look like great career choices

When we first got a DVD player, it came with some free DVD's. This was one of them. I think I made it less than 10 mminutes.

This movie is great to watch with friends. So bad it's good legend status. Ranked among Neil Breen and Wiseau

11:46 Well the definition means greater than and at this point everything is better than Going Overboard

I'm a die hard Adam Sandler and even I hate this movie.

Lol I just noticed that between the pasty Miss Jamaica and Miss Australia is Miss Arkansas.... am I going crazy here?

I certainly hadn't forgotten this gem, thanks for reuploading it

Happy 100th episode.....according to the playlist.

15:24 At least his "MOMMIE" cry cracked me up

One of my least favourite films of all time. Also this film has the world’s worst Long Take in film history.

Billy Zane?! Why Bill? I'm guessing you wanted to get punished by Martin Sheen as a magician. Yup. Turned into sushi.

Sandler used to make some films I didn’t mind, like Happy Gilmore and Little Nicky before he dedicated himself to destroy comedy itself. Though in all fairness, recently, he’s been doing better, like in The Meyerowitz Stories. He’s even doing a Sadfe Bros movie. Excited for that.

You seem to have the personality of Mark Corrigan and a physical resemblence to Jez Osbourne.

Ah, 1989. The year that Cinema had almost little to no effort.

U know what Sandler needs, Sandler should become a dramatic actor.

So, Mat, does it feel awkward having Cinema Snob as one of the commentators now with that Channel Awesome mess?

The creator of Phineas and Ferb was in this travesty of a film! Think about that for once.

perhaps he watched the tape out of morbid curiosity

Where’s Jim carry, come on your funnier then Adam Sandler Jim.

So this whole movie is basically an excuse for softcore porn in the days before the internet, huh. I'd like to see a movie in which women in swimsuits not only have their skin revealed, but their true personalities as well. Perhaps it's about a series of women (and maybe even men) who go on vacation with themes of deception and hiding one's true self and the circumstances cause these people to stop decieving others for one reason or another. Does that sound like a good idea for a movie? Does that sort of movie exist?

Could be the title of a Seagal movie!

The shirt part is pretty obviously not a continuity error, but on purpose. Like, VERY obviously not an error.

16:55 Ms Jamaica 😂😂😂

0:20 I assume this is referring to the projector review on Top Cat the Movie. A review which was great BTW

What did Top Cat ever do to Welshman?

I really liked Adam’s comedy tape in my teens. Laughed and laughed so much... one day I found it in an old box of mine and said, “This was so funny back in the day, I gotta show my friends at work!” Was allowed to play any kind of music where I worked (head/porn shop;)... played it for a friend who was much younger than me... After a few minutes we both looked at each other and he said, “WHAT THE FUCK IS SO FUNNY ABOUT *THIS* “ Then we both laughed at how horrible it was. Just a lame story of my Sandler Experience ;)

I'm surprised you didn't cut the cameos altogether. Not only are they dated, but Channel Awesome is effectively dead anyway.

20:59 ok I know that this nitpicking but why does Neptune have a Shepard's crook instead of a trident

Nice Video!

So we don’t see shit like jack and Jill, in are so called lives.

I can't help but be reminded of Spaceballs when the two guys appeared in the events recorded on the tape.

Also the guy who played Dickie clearly didn't want to be in this film.

Peter Berg was also in Wes Cravens Shocker the same year.

That was great !

Why does Shecky's last name sound like Fivel's last name from an American Tail?

Do you mean Billy Bob by Billy Bob Thornton

Snob @17:59!!!!!

I miss welshy's reviews....

I feel honored to be the 666th person to like this video, it feels invocative of the hell it must have been watching this mad-libbed fever dream of a film.

Can you look at a Dinosaur Movie call Baby Secret of the Lost Legend??????

Always found it a fun coincidence that BMB number 1, Pluto Nash, and number 100 both have Burt Young in them

**Patiently waiting for this 100th BMB Episode to get to 100 likes**

Can you look at a Shark Movie call Creature????

Guess there’s a Adam review trend going on here

13:43 I watched this on Tubi once with the volume muted and Mathew buck is completely wrong Shecky isn’t being a suck up of any kind what he’s asking for is honorable dickie is the one who is completely wrong 😑!

This movie cost 200,000?!

11:07 I think she was drunk during filming.

20:15 and yet not even close for deadpool

@0:18 thank you, it was grossing me out,

Never got the hate you get for Equilibrium. God that was a shit film. I sat through it wishing George Orwell would rise from the dead to either sue the writer or beat him senseless. Preferably both.

I’ve heard he’s NOT a nice guy in real life. Huge egomaniac, although he is good to his friends, for better or worse.

Why is the Jamaica beauty queen a white girl? Unlikely

"Hi" "What the hell do you mean by that?" The only funny part in this shit show.

This is the presentation style and sound quality at which you've arrived after doing one hundred of these videos? I shudder to think how OTT shouty yet inaudible your first video must have been. Do you record your voiceovers in the bathroom? That would explain the major comb filtering problems.

Alex HAS to review this now.

I think the 4th break wall is trying to be like John Hughes films. You know? 16 candles and Ferris Bueller day off? And i guess they wanted to make a Naked gun/ Top secret kind of film but they didn't have the budget nor the good taste not the timing to make it. It's shot like a Porno. The dialogue and jokes are like porno. And the end result is a cheap looking film that is slow, random, cringe and sexist as fuck.

Sandler's first film here. It's painfully unfunny and it's bad. As somebody who has actually liked some of Sandlers movies, it's sad that the 20 years since Going Overboard had many more misses than hits.

This was a hell of an benchmark for you and such a shitty movie to work with.

I love Adam Sandler, of the 21 films I seen of his going from 1995 to 2015 I like to love all of them. But this movie is just garbage

Dicky would not age well in 2021. He'd be cancelled so quick.

Don't you just love how Shecky is annoyed by the comedian's use of incest jokes, yet just 23 years later Sandler would make a film featuring jokes about incest, not to mention pedophilia? Not only does this guy have no class, he's a hypocrite. Lovely combination.

I actually Liked this movie. I mean Adam Sandler carries alot energy in this film. It really brings me back to his earlier performances (like in airheads) when he cared more about having fun and less about being annoyed with the film he was in starring in. I didn't feel that way during pixels mind u which I still believe was a great movie. Of course this movie was clearly made on the cheap but I feel that only adds to the charm. It's like the creative team behind this film just wanted to make a bloody movie not win any awards or fatten their wallets. Not to say there's anything wrong with that sort of motivation it's just refreshing to see someone who made a movie to have fun and tell a story.

Whelshy hit the gym plz..

A bad movie is fun!!!!

After seeing this I'm surprised that Adam Sandler did make some good movies(and many bad ones) despite this disastrous beginning.

He doesn't talk to the camera. He talks to the audience through the camera

Why not Fred the movie

I actually like this movie a lot

I have to say that Adam Sandler is my least favorite comedian.

Huh. Billy Zane as Neptune! That's brilliant. Ugh. Honestly I have no idea why Sandler had a career at all. He's not funny, and none of his movies were ever worth anything.

this movie is fun asf because of how bad it is