Please don't spend money on this.

Let's be realistic.

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I heard a lot bad things I heard about this movie, so I avoided it for a long time.What a mistake that was.I should have known not to listen to other peoples opinions on anything.They are rarely right.Not to mention that I have been a Chris Elliot fan for as long as I can remember.I understand why people don't like this movie.It's because they don't understand comedy.That's something I have been dealing with since I was a small child and it looks like that will never change.I can't help people who laugh at low level comedy but I can point out why they are wrong.The average American has trouble seeing anything as funny if it's not about a dumb fat guy and his hot, bitchy wife.Maybe that's because that's what their real life is, I don't know.But I do know this movie is hilarious.The only reason I didn't give it ten stars is because of all the material Chris rehashed from Get A Life.I know it's fairly common for people to do that but that doesn't make it cool.What surprised me most is that it's really a sort of spoof of the old Sinbad movies.There are crazy monster fights and a shark man(played by Russ Tamblyn!).Not having seen those movies could make some humor deficient people not like this one.Plus, this is David Letterman's only movie appearance ever and it's text book Dave.This is a must see for fans of true comedy.If you enjoy Bill Murray films you probably won't get it.

Chris Elliott plays a spoilt little rich kid who after finishing Fancy Boy school, will go on to run his fathers business.After being thrown out by his Limo driver, Elliott takes a wrong turn and ends up on a boat with a bunch of sea dogs who cannot stand rich people.And things go pretty crazy, and almost too Tim Burton....Its a random movie, full of plot holes, quite a bad script, a bad performance from Elliott, but never ever boring, Cabin Boy wreaked of Burton, and he may as well had directed it, because despite being involved in the production, the director doesn't seem to have an original idea in his head.The sets are fantastic, cheap looking, but so bonkers that they just seem to fit in, and the crew of the boat are great too.But that's where all the good stuff ends. Despite it being totally bonkers, its fairly predictable stuff, and you can see how its going to end from a mile off.But its never boring, and its worth watching the once, even to remind you of the disastrous year Letterman hosted the Oscars, and featuring his scene from this movie in it heavily...

The best thing about this movie is that it doesn't allege some things it doesn't have, or bigger than it already owns. I loved it, and it's crazy since I'm not a Chris Elliott's fan at all. It's solid simple fun. The naive atmosphere worked perfectly. The idiot gags looked smart. Sometimes it's the most cynical kids' fantasy. Sometimes it's a close spoof of (Jason and The Argonauts - 1963) ! and all the time it's some fine comics. Surprisingly (Melora Walters) looked super cute and for the first time sexy. The sailors' team delivered so right performance. Nothing was over the top, or goofy in a bad way. All the elements harmonized to make the jest good. It even managed to be a story about a boy turning into a man. This kind of comedies used to be twisted, disgusting, poor, or easy, whatever. But Cabin Boy isn't any of that. It's joyful, yet in loyally childish way; which could be the secret of it indeed. Unlike so many jests, this will live long.

Back in 1994, Chris Elliot was one of the many SNL stars who was known for his cheeky comedy sketches alongside the many stars of the SNL over the years for about 3-4 years afterwards. This tale was trying to be Chris Elliot's "Deuce Bigalow" or "Wayne's World," but Elliot never really had any great reoccurring characters in SNL.The tale is of Elliot's character, Nathanial Mayweather, who completes his education as a sass-mouthed, fancy boy only to find that he is stranded in the real world outside of the upper-class. He seeks a trip to Hawaii after getting kicked out of his ride home (for sass-mouthing the driver). The only transportation around in a fisherman's boar that has 4 drunken sailors onboard who try to treat him horribly so that they can fish in peace. Hijinx ensue, though, after he rescues a world record-hopeful swimmer who doesn't want to be saved, and a bunch of weird "monsters" on the "Hawaii" island. He learns that life with friends is better than someone-else's dreams for him, and returns to the crew of fishermen and the girl.So that's it...you now know what happens. No need to rent it. I got a little bored of the characters and their joking around. There were no real characters to get attached to...that was the main problem. There were occasionally funny lines in the movie (The pipes...are clean! and David Letterman's "Do you wanna buy a monkey, little girl?") and, more importantly, the movie was co-produced by Tim Burton, who does amazing touches with animation and realism of outside characters (the siren on the front of the boat, the clouds in the storm, the quirky fish title sequence, the little characters mixed with the real-sized ones). That and the cameos by well-known talk show comedians David Letterman and Andy Richter have their own appeal to watch this film.Ultimately, I gave the movie a 5, though, because it wasn't an important film for comedy's sake, just different. Another story to throw along with the Austin Powers collection and Deuce Bigalows. Check it out to find your own funny stuff in the film, though. It has its moments.