Boat Trip
Boat Trip
R | 01 October 2002 (USA)
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Two guys whose love lives are a wreck look forward to finding ladies on the high seas. Unfortunately, they've mistakenly been booked on a gay cruise.

Reviews
Diagonaldi Very well executed
GazerRise Fantastic!
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction
itxtroy First I saw the Bollywood movie DOSTANA about this type of Gay related comedy, I liked that alot! then after searching for some best comedy movies about vacation, I found this one. While watching this movie, I REALLY LAUGHED A LOT!! And after finished watching the whole 1hr 37mins film, I can say that I've watched the BEST gay comedy movie EVER!!
FlashCallahan Jerry and Nick are two friends whose love lives have become non-existent. To escape their troubles and find love, they book a trip on board a cruise- liner, unaware the travel agent has just played a trick on them in retaliation for Nick offending his secret gay lover. It's a cruise-liner for gay men to meet and mingle. Slowly but surely, the two main characters begin to realise that they have been duped.....What is it with Cuba Gooding Jr's. agent? has he had come kind of vendetta against him? Because since As Good As It Gets (Ironic Title), his filmography has fallen quicker than an apple from the tree.This is pretty much the lowest denominator in humour, making a comedy about sexual orientation and the fear factor ignorant heterosexuals feel when a gay person is in their vicinity.So instead of doing what any person with common would do, tell the Captain that there has been some terrible mistake, and try to enjoy the holiday as best as they can, they decide to act like they are in some kind of Die Hard situation.Oh look, that man just looked at me in a funny way, i'm going to run away, isn't that hilarious!! Oh guess what, i'm going to pretend that i'm gay to this beautiful woman, because deception is the height of romance!!How my sides split.And then to top it all off, we have everyone's favourite eyebrow raising Brit in the form of Sir Roger Moore, slumming it as the ships biggest queen.Ironically, he keeps a straight face throughout, or maybe, like Cuba's character, the writers deceived him as to what he was appearing in.Or maybe he wanted to be paid to go on a holiday.I really hope the latter is true.It's pretty terrible, the laughs never happen, but it's just, and I mean just worth seeing to see just how embarrassed Cuba looks.That's Academy Award winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
Steve Pulaski Watching Boat Trip, I couldn't help but remember the 1991 John Singleton masterpiece Boyz N the Hood which started a much younger, and much better, Cuba Gooding Jr. In that film he was affectionate, passionate, and soft-spoken. In this, he's pathetic, under-developed, and is out to get the cheapest laughs with his bumbling sidekick Horatio Sanz.Apparently, upon the release of this film homosexuals were outraged by the film's content and stereotypes. Being heterosexual in this film, obviously, nothing offended me, but this whole film is one big giant homophobic piece of film. In one scene, Sanz's character actually tells his friend that he is worried about befriending gays like it's some sort of sin to be friends with a homosexual. I love this way this film treats humans like they're inhumane.The plot: Jerry (Gooding Jr.) is recently dumped by his girlfriend (Fox), and his buddy Nick (Sanz) hates seeming him depressed. So, Nick wants to take him on this cruise with all the women a guy can imagine, sort of like a getaway from modern day life. After upsetting one of the employees at the travel agency (Lange), a close friend of the employee (Ferrell) books them on a gay-cruise for revenge.Upon arrival to this cruise, Jerry and Nick are the densest people out there if they can't tell this is a gay cruise. You'd think with all the men, some in assless-chaps and some dressed for role playing, they'd find something is up right before boarding. Also, there is a big banner stating this is a gay cruise. Not to mention, when they get on board it takes them a good five minutes before they realize it's not what they think it is. They keep trying to make lame excuses why they see men walking around in black leather and chains (another HUGE stereotype) almost like deep-down they know it is a gay cruise, but can't admit to the audience.The men find out, panic like hell, and then go out and about trying to find entertainment. Jerry finds a choreographer named Gabriella (Sanchez) who he falls in love with. The thing is, she can't trust a straight man because of how many times she's been hurt. So now Jerry wants to pretend to be gay so she can open up to her. But Jerry's homosexuality is sometimes purely fake, and isn't this women supposed to be a choreographer? Can't she spot a straight man when she sees one? Lucky for Nick, The Swedish Tan Team was picked up on the boat and now he is kept interested in a strangely obtrusive sub-plot that lacks purpose, laughs, or anything resembling comedy.Boat Trip is loathsome and absolutely not funny. It offends gays, it offends straights, it offends comedy, and it offends pretty much everyone and everything else. The difference between this and an episode of South Park is at least South Park has a sort of sunny disposition to it. It's a lot more entertaining than this for one thing, but it also has a certain art of comedy and an art of writing that was completely ignored in this film.I am positive that no filmmaker or any cast or crew-member waltzes on set one day saying "we're going to make a horrible, horrible film." But with Boat Trip, my jaw would drop if they said "we are going to make a very funny film." Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr, Horatio Sanz, Vivica A. Fox, and Roselyn Sanchez.
Nick Damian Saw this on TV...I was about to rent it, but well...I'm glad that I didn't.I would have to cross the city, because there are no video rental stores in my neighbourhood and yeah...that sucks.Anyway...with movies like this, it's no wonder the gay and straight population will never really gel.This does nothing more than make fun of gay people and straight people. It certainly doesn't bring them together and make it more tolerable.This was retarded overall - with a few mild chuckles and that's about it.As I was too lazy to get up and change the channel or look for the remote control, I kept this on...while there could be worse, there could also be far better.