Going Overboard
At the beginning of this no-budget cheapie, Adam Sandler tells us this  is a "loosely thrown together story" built around free access to a cruise ship and "a lot of good-looking women."  So they get an A for truth in advertising.  Sandler (very green in his first feature film) plays Shecky Moskowitz, a cruise ship waiter with dreams of being a standup comedian. At one point, General Manuel Noriega sends some goons to take over the ship. And there's a lot of voluptuous women hanging around in bikinis.  So much for the plot.  Sold as a wacky sex comedy,Going Overboardis more of a funny-nose-and-glasses movie, desperately trying anything for a laugh. Sandler's trademark being-funny-by-being-unfunny hadn't started to click yet.  Only Billy Zane (as a sort of long-suffering-Jewish-grandmother-ish King Neptune) and Adam Rifkin (as a self-absorbed, mossy-toothed heavy metal star) seem to have any comic timing.  A number of the supporting cast would go on to play roles in other, better Adam Sandler movies.  Look fast for Billy Bob Thornton(!), appearing here as "Dave the heckler."--Geof Miller