Overboard

Lazy, stupid, and unfunny, this gender-swapped remake of the 1980s screwball comedy seems to have been made without anyone caring at all. Worse, it manages to be insulting to both the characters and the audience. Garry Marshall's 1987 movie at least gave Goldie Hawn a funny role to play as nasty socialite Joanna; this Overboard unwisely switches the roles, making the usually hilarious Faris the put-upon working-class character and sapping her role of the potential for fun. Now she's basically unpleasantly frenzied -- not to mention highly unappealing because of her ongoing, extremely mean-spirited lies.

Derbez -- a huge star in Mexico looking to make his breakthrough in the United States -- is all pratfalls and frantic energy, and his "transformation" into a nice guy is extremely difficult to buy, as is the forced chemistry between him and Faris. It's embarrassing to think that cross-cultural audiences will be exposed to the worst of both countries in this awful movie. No one comes out looking good here, on either side of the camera. In one scene, the family watches their grandmother (Swoosie Kurtz) performing onstage in The Mikado, and one of the daughters comments "This is horrifying." That completely apt description applies to Overboard in its entirety.