'Overboard': A Gender-Flipped Remake Stays Afloat
Critic Scott Tobias says the updated Anna Faris/Eugenio Derbez take on the 1987 comedy is "not a particularly funny film, but it's big-hearted and sincere, with fine chemistry between the two leads."
At first glance, the remake of Overboard sounds like the product of a wayward pitch meeting.
Given Anna Faris' status as Goldie Hawn's heir apparent — a modern-day Lucille Ball with an up-for-anything mania and a gift for the low arts of slapstick and pulling faces — it would make sense to cast her in a spruced-up version of Hawn's popular 1987 fish-out-of-water comedy. Yet that film's gender dynamics of the original film might seem, say, a little old-fashioned 30
