Well, it could be funny. Different characters in a different story with more wit and insight might have done the trick. But 'Boat Trip' requires its heroes to be so unobservant that it takes them hours to even figure out it's a gay cruise. And then they go into heterosexual panic mode, until the profoundly conventional screenplay supplies the only possible outcome: The sidekick discovers that he's gay, and the hero discovers a sexy woman on board and falls in love with her.

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Her name is Gabriela (Roselyn Sanchez), and despite the fact that she's the choreographer on a gay cruise, she knows so little about gay men that she falls for Jerry's strategy: He will pretend to be gay, so that he can get close to her and then dramatically unveil his identity, or something. Uh, huh. Even Hector, the cross-dressing queen in the next stateroom, knows a straight when he sees one: 'You want to convince people you are gay, and you don't know the words to 'I Will Survive'?' The gays protesting the movie say it deals in stereotypes. So it does, but then again, so does the annual gay parade, and so do many gay nightclubs, where role-playing is part of the scene. Yes, there are transvestites and leather guys and muscle boys on the cruise, but there are also more conventional types, like Nick's poker-playing buddies. The one ray of wit in the entire film is provided by Roger Moore, as a homosexual man who calmly wanders through the plot dispensing sanity, as when, at the bar, he listens to the music and sighs, 'Why do they always play Liza?' One of the movie's problems is a disconnect between various levels of reality. Some of the scenes play as if they are intended to be realistic. Then Jerry or Nick go into hysterics of overacting. Then Jerry attempts to signal a helicopter to rescue him, and shoots it down with a flare gun. Then it turns out to be carrying the Swedish Sun-Tanning Team, on its way to the Hawaiian Tropics finals. Then Jerry asks Gabriela to describe her oral sex technique, which she does so with the accuracy and detail of a porn film, and then Jerry--but that pathetic moment you will have to witness for yourself. Or maybe you will not.

Note: The credit cookies weren't very funny, either, but at least they kept me in the theater long enough to notice the credits for the film's Greek Support Team.

Boat Trip is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Mort Nathan in his feature film directorial debut and starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz, Vivica A. Fox, Roselyn Sánchez and Roger Moore. The film was released in the United States on March 21, 2003.

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Plot[edit]

Jerry (Gooding) and Nick (Sanz) are two close friends whose love lives have hit rock bottom. Jerry's girlfriend Felicia (Fox) has turned down his marriage proposal after vomiting all over her during a hot air balloon ride during the proposal. After Nick runs into a friend who is getting married to a beautiful, younger girl he met on a singles cruise, he decides to take a similar cruise with Jerry.

While on their way to the travel agency, they get into a verbal altercation with a gay man who works at the agency they plan to book the cruise through. The manager (Ferrell) attempts to patch things up by handling their booking personally. To Jerry and Nick, the situation appears to be handled well and they leave, not expecting anything to go wrong. After they leave, it is revealed that the agent and manager, both men, are actually gay lovers, and that they have been booked on a cruise for gay men.

During their trip, they come to learn that gay men are less objectionable than they first assumed. However, Jerry falls in love with the cruise's dance instructor Gabriella and in order to win her over, he pretends to be gay so he can get closer to her. Meanwhile, Nick blossoms a romance with a bikini model named Inga. After an accidental affair with her mean, sex-obsessed coach Sonya, Nick must fend her off, after she has fallen in love with him as well.

In the end, Jerry wins Gabriella while Nick loses out on Inga but sees a potential relationship with her sister instead. However, he is then unwittingly (and unwillingly) reunited with Sonya; much to his disgust and her instant arousal upon seeing him.

Cast[edit]

• Cuba Gooding Jr. as Jerry Robinson
• Horatio Sanz as Nick Ragoni
• Roselyn Sánchez as Gabriella
• Vivica A. Fox as Felicia
• Maurice Godin as Hector
• Roger Moore as Lloyd Faversham
• Lin Shaye as Coach Sonya
• Victoria Silvstedt as Inga
• Ken Campbell as Tom
• Zen Gesner as Ron
• William Bumiller as Steven
• Noah York as Perry
• Thomas Lennon as Pastor
• Richard Roundtree as Felicia's Dad
• Bob Gunton as Boat Captain
• Jennifer Gareis as Sheri
• Will Ferrell as Michael, Brian's boyfriend
• Artie Lange as Brian
• Jamie Ferrell as Bridget

Release[edit]

Boat Trip was released in the UK on October 4, 2002,^[2] and in the US and Canada on March 21, 2003, where the film opened at #10 and grossed $3,815,075 in 1715 theatres. In total, it had a worldwide gross of $15,020,293.^[1] It was released on DVD in the US on September 30, 2003.^[3]

Reception[edit]

This film was universally critically panned by the critics on its initial release and performed poorly in theatres.^[4]Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 7% of 89 surveyed critics gave it a positive review; the average rating was 2.55/10. The site's consensus reads: 'Boat Trip is a lame, juvenile farce that's heavy on stereotypes and desperate antics but short on brains and laughs.'^[5]Metacritic rated it 18/100 based on 28 reviews,^[6] indicating overwhelming dislike by critics.

Chris Rock made jokes about Gooding during the 2005 Oscars telecast for starring in this movie after receiving an Academy Award.^[7] Many viewed the film as homophobic although a reviewer for The Advocate wrote that the film was too terrible to protest.^[8] On the show Ebert and Roeper, Roger Ebert said the film 'was so bad in so many different ways, not only does it offend gays, it offends everyone else.' His co-host Richard Roeper said, 'If the ship hit an iceberg, I would have been rooting for the iceberg.'^{[episode needed]}

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Overall, it was nominated for two Razzie Awards for Gooding as Worst Actor and for Mort Nathan as Worst Director, but 'lost' both awards to Gigli.^[9] At the 2003 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, the film received five nominations: Worst Picture, Worst Actor for Gooding, Worst Supporting Actor for Moore, Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy, and Worst On-Screen Couple for Gooding and anyone forced to co-star with him. Its only win was for Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy.^[10]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abc'Boat Trip'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2009-02-19.
2. ^'Boat Trip'. Total Film. 2002-10-04. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
3. ^Nutt, Shannon (2003-09-25). 'Boat Trip'. DVD Talk. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
4. ^DiOrio, Carl (2003-03-23). ''House' hold word at the B.O.'Variety. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
5. ^'Boat Trip (2003)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 2019-07-18.
6. ^'Boat Trip, The reviews at Metacritic.com'. metacritic.com. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
7. ^Hanashiro, Robert (2005-02-28). 'Host Chris Rock comes out firing'. USA Today. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
8. ^'And the Gay Razzie Goes To...'The Advocate. 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
9. ^Wilson, John (2007). The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying the Best of Hollywoods Worst. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN978-0-446-51008-0.
10. ^'Past Winners Database'. The Envelope at LA Times. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

External links[edit]

• Boat Trip on IMDb
• Boat Trip at AllMovie