Cabin Boy Critic Reviews

Contains about enough laugh-out-loud sight gags and non sequiturs to justify what it demands of a viewer's time and money.Read the full review

Chris Elliott is appallingly bad as the title character. Although his role cries out for an over-the- top performance, Elliott's grating personae cancels out any positive contributions he can offer in that area.Read the full review

As a condescening moron who natters on non-stop in this simplistic comedy, Elliott doesn't just wear out his welcome, he nukes it. [14 Jan 1994]Read the full review

Few comedies have worked this hard to make everyone on screen look this dumb.Read the full review

The problem is that it doesn't find a lot of laughs in much of anything, referential or otherwise. [7 Jan 1994]Read the full review

All this is bizarre without being funny. [7 Jan 1994, p.C12]Read the full review

Obnoxious, snide and pointless , this ill-fated spoof carries the bonus of being as crude and gamy as the hold of an old fishing barge.Read the full review