Beautiful people in Cancun: a winning formula

If purchasing the "Real World Uncensored" or "Girls Gone Wild" tapes is something you've either done or are seriously considering, then "The Real Cancun" is definitely a film you'd be interested in. The film, produced by Mary Ellis Bunim and John Murray of "Real World" and "Road Rules" fame, takes 16 supposedly real college students down to Cancun for a week and lets us watch as they make complete fools of themselves, usually in as little clothing as possible. It's all the fun of "Real World: Las Vegas" with none of the pesky blurring or bleeping.\nThere's some question regarding if this film is really "real," in the sense that these 16 people aren't actors and that all the footage really was taped as a reality TV program. Personally, I think this film looks far too slick to be anything but a staged faux-reality show, but you can believe what you want.\nThe real problem with "The Real Cancun" is that it's a painfully bad reality TV cash-in film, with no real plot, no real story and no real motivations besides watching college students get completely hammered and play the fools. Everyone is gorgeous, no one's BAC drops below .08 at any given time and everyone, even the nice southern boy, winds up committing collective acts of debauchery that are simultaneously incredibly stupid and deeply unimpressive.\nThe trick is that it would be far more enjoyable to actually be doing these things than it is to watch other people do them, particularly if viewers don't really care what happens to these "characters." "Real World" and "Road Rules" at least provide a season for viewers to learn something about the people and their attitudes, giving something of a connection or level of understanding as to their actions. "Real Cancun" aspires simply to be cheesy soft-core porn.\n"Real Cancun" is a pathetic, derivative film that wouldn't even be worth the time if for the drunk and desperate looking for something that requires no brain activity. Instead, skip the film and go to a party for real, instead of watching this pseudo-reality garbage.