Overbored over ‘Overboard’: Anna Faris can’t save soggy comedy remake

You know the comedy isn’t working in “Overboard” — and the actors also know it isn’t working — by looking at their hands.

As each line misses the mark, the leads seem to gesture with their extremities and shake their heads a little more violently, as if they can somehow physically will the soggy jokes to land. And when all comedy hope is gone, the filmmakers just throw another character off a boat for laughs.

“Overboard” is a remake of a 1987 film starring Goldie Hawn and directed by Garry Marshall, a movie that wasn’t anywhere near either Hollywood legend’s best projects. The new version is a weak facsimile of an already mediocre film.