Overboard

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                                                     *photo from variety.com*

     To round out the triple feature there is the remake of "Overboard", the remake of a 1987 one of the same name. This time around the gender roles have switched.
    Kate (Anna Faris), is a single mother of three girls and is working two jobs to make ends meet. This is all while trying to become a nurse. On the opposite side there is Leo (Eugenino Derbez) a rich heir with no responsibilities. The two first meet, when she is cleaning the carpet of his yacht. When she refuses to get him the fruit he asks for, he throws her cleaning equipment off the yacht, resulting in her being fired. Later that night, Leo accidentally falls off his  yacht and losses his memory. Kate sees this on the news and fakes being his wife to use him for more income, while she takes time to take her final exam to become a nurse.
     I think, probably the biggest positive out of the whole film, is the chemistry between Anna Faris and Eugenino Derbez. It, in a little way, makes you want them to be together at the end.
   Another positive for this films is this happens to be an improvement over his first film "Meet Dave".
   Getting into the negatives, even with the original, the plot in general is something that I have always had issues with. Being able to steal someone for that length of time and no one really knowing about it. Plus, as movies go this way, they are supposed to be falling in love, just a bit hard to believe.
   Finally, in terms of comedy, I believe that the jokes did not really land, and it was unfortunately that way through the entire film. When this happens it makes comedies harder to watch.
   In the end, there was good intentions with this film. I feel like though, the best I can say for it is that is as good as the original. That is not something that should be said about a remake of any movie.
GRADE:C-

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