Festival Movie Review - 'Man Overboard'

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From: getthebigpicture.net

Man Overboard

Starring Matthew Kaminsky, Mel Fair, Floyd Van Buskirk, and Jeffry Stein
Directed by Oliver Robins
Not Rated

Man Overboard is a comedy seemingly about a lot of things – family, business, money, friends, and questioning all of them – but ultimately, when you step away from the film, it’s one idea that sticks with you: There’s a reward in doing the right thing when the wrong thing might be the easier option.

It is a comedy with a moral, and sometimes those movies fall on their faces. A comedy is supposed to make you laugh, first and foremost, and if it fails to do that, it doesn’t much matter what else the movie has going for it.

Where a lot of movies in this genre make their biggest mistake is in focusing on just the jokes. When these jokes can’t be strung together by substance, not only aren’t people laughing because the humor is so forced, but they also aren’t enjoying anything else about tonight’s feature presentation.

In the case of Man Overboard, writers Ashley Scott Meyers and Nathan Ives have clearly based their movie about the circumstances of believable characters. That takes the pressure off getting a laugh every minute or two and developing a real story, and any laugh is better in context.

We meet C.J. Mason (Matthew Kamisnky), who runs his own used boat dealership. He does well enough to provide for his family, but he’d obviously like to give them more. C.J. feels the sing of sluggish business and the expectations of his father-in-law, who constantly pushes C.J.’s buttons.

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