Overboard

So I was actually impressed with what they did with this film. Overboard is a remake of a mediocre 1987 film that starred Goldie Hawn and her real life life partner, Kurt Russell. I think it’s the first and possibly only film they did together, and it was a good idea, especially with Gary Marshal as the director. Very Entertaining,

But not so entertaining that it should be remade 31 years later, but this is the start of what makes this 2018 adaption so good, They do not have to follow gold.

The basic premise of the film is about a blue collar worker who gets ripped off by a rich jerk who thinks that money makes them better than everyone else, so when the rich jerk gets a lost of memory, the blue collar worker seeks revenge by claiming that the two are married with children and forcing the rich jerk to work for a living. The process turns out to be very helpful for the blue collar worker who’s a single parent and everyone in the family grows to love the rich jerk outside of the original revenge plot.

The differences in plot between the two films as far as plot is very little. Mexican superstar (I’m guessing simple because I know who he is because I seen a lot of his Mexican based films), Eugenio Derbez (who looks amazing for a 56 year old man) Plays the Rich Jerk, Leonardo, the son of a billionaire who never worked a day in his life. In my opinion he does a better job at rich jerk than Goldie Hawn, who seems like too nice of a person to be a suck up bitch who treats people like shit versus Derbez who was far more believable as a man who comes from such a different world from the working class that he cannot relate.

Meanwhile, Anna Faris (Who looks like a Goldie Hawn-type, ironically and I’m sure purposely) plays Kate, a struggling single mother of three children who works two jobs while trying top get through nursing school. She needed some help but all she got was grief and her walking papers from the rich jerk so when the time to seek revenge happen she took it. In comparison, I feel Kurt Russell did it better, simply because he’s more of a charismatic actor making his performance as a man taking advantage of someone with amnesia more amusing. Anna Faris’ character was more about clearing up the fact that the film was a bout a lower class worker getting revenge on a rich jerk by using this person to ease up the large amount of work a single parent needs to do.

The gender switch off turned out to be a great balance that help the 2017 adaption be worth doing. Making the film slightly better is the adaption of Eva Longoria who play’s Theresa, Kate’s best friend. Though the 1987 film has a counterpart, the character is not as developed as Theresa and does nothing to move along the plot like Theresa does, and because of this she adds some additional laughs (Along with Mel Rodriguez who plays her trying badly to loose weight, Seahawks loving husband).

Also, the three girls being used as Kate’s children had more individual personalities than the 4 boys playing Russell’s kids in the first film. The four boys were all hilarious together but the tree girls were more enjoyable as three different characters.

This 2018 remake just overall adds a little more to the depth of the story being told and it really helps to make this movie worth being made. It does take a lot from the 1987 and makes it seem less original, but it is a remake so, it will never be original, but it does take the same Kool Aide that poors in a fresh made batch.

Just don’t see it in Spanish of you don’t speak the language, I made that mistake with another Derbez movie made for Americans. It’s mostly in English, but you may miss some good jokes if you don’t know how they speak it in Mexico.