Boat Trip (2002)

Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.

Director:

Mort Nathan

Writers:

Mort Nathan, William Bigelow

Stars:

Cuba Gooding Jr., Horatio Sanz, Roselyn Sanchez

1 win & 8 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Cuba Gooding Jr.	...	Jerry Robinson
Horatio Sanz	...	Nick Ragoni
Roselyn Sanchez	...	Gabriella
Vivica A. Fox	...	Felicia
Maurice Godin	...	Hector
Roger Moore	...	Lloyd Faversham
Lin Shaye	...	Sonya the Coach
Victoria Silvstedt	...	Inga
Ken Hudson Campbell	...	Tom (as Ken Campbell)
Zen Gesner	...	Ron
William Bumiller	...	Steven
Noah York	...	Perry
Richard Roundtree	...	Felicia's Dad
Bob Gunton	...	Boat Captain
Jennifer Gareis	...	Sheri

Storyline

Jerry and Nick are two best buddies whose love lives have hit rock bottom, Jerry's especially, having just vomited all over his fiancée on a hot air balloon trip prior to proposing to her. To escape their troubles and find women, they book a trip on-board a cruiseliner, unaware the travel agent has just played a horrid trick on them in retaliation for Nick offending his secret gay lover. And that's the trick; it's a gay cruiseliner for gay men to meet and mingle. Slowly but surely, the two main characters begin to realize this and in turn get into a lot of humorous predicaments.

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Plot Keywords:

gay | hot air balloon | rejecting a marriage proposal | vomiting on someone | talking to a dog | 

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Taglines:

Singles Cruise. Double Trouble.

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexual content, language and some drug material

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [United States]

Country:

USA Germany

Language:

English Swedish Spanish

Release Date:

21 March 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Krstarenje

Filming Locations:

Magic Media Company, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$3,700,000, 23 March 2003

Gross USA:

$8,600,126

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$15,020,293

Company Credits

Production Co:

Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA), International West Pictures (IWP), ApolloMedia Distribution

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min 97 min (unrated)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sir Roger Moore did this movie for the money, and for a free vacation.

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Goofs

When Felicia is out on the balcony showing off to the man detailing her BMW she is out on a balcony on the top floor. In the next shot the windows behind her changed and we can see stairs in the room she walks into.

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Quotes

Lloyd Faversham: Would you like a bite of my sausage?
[bites sausage]
Lloyd Faversham: In England, we call them "bangers".

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Connections

Referenced in Saturday Night Live: Bernie Mac/Good Charlotte (2003)

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Soundtracks

Sunset and Roses
Written by Diane Stewart
Performed by Didi Stewart
Courtesy of Barbara Jordan / Heavy Hitters

User Reviews

Might entertain the teenage boys it is aimed at but really nobody else

When Jerry vomits onto his girlfriend when trying to be romantic, he finds himself dumped and depressed. Weeks turn into months and his best friend Nick decides to help him out of his funk by getting them onto a cruise together. However a fight in the travel agents see them being "accidentally" booked onto a gay cruise. Unfortunately for them they only realise this after they have set sail. With no land in immediate sight, things look bleak but both Jerry and Nick find more opportunities than they had expected.

If there is a warning noise in comedies (ie a cinematic fire alarm) then surely it must be any film that has the main character dancing alone in their flat to a James Brown song. So when this film opened with that I immediately got on edge – a feeling that didn't change for the rest of the film. With a foundation of homophobia, bikini wearing models and loud humour this is very much a comedy that aims at a teenage market and probably does enough to satisfy them if not anyone else. The gags are obvious and simplistic and are unlikely to appeal to anyone who doesn't think that cum jokes are the height of humour, homosexual men are 99% clichés and that large breasts are the most important thing in a woman. I don't really think these things so I only laughed once the whole time – and even that was cut short as a good joke immediately turned into crudity. Without laughs the story is exposed for the predictable, puerile mess that it is.

The cast don't help the material and seem to just accept the level that it is at. Goding Jr mostly mugs his way through it and to his credit at least puts his all into it – a "lesser" actor would have shied away from some of his scenes but Cuba seemingly has no shame. The one good thing to say about him is that he does have an easy chemistry with Sanchez, although that may be more to do with the fact that she is sexy and natural and is easily the best thing in the whole film. Sanz is a typical "fat funny guy" but I use the word "funny" with reservations as he is nothing special. Fox may get a hard time from Boondocks but films like this hardly help her case – she is poor in a small role. Moore puts his heart into his role but at times he does himself no favours and pushed it too far. Why people like Gunton, Silvstedt and Roundtree bothered is beyond me.

Overall a very basic comedy that has very, very few laughs and will probably only appeal to the male teenage market that it is squarely aimed at. The stereotypes are flying, the crudity and homophobia is rampant and the only thing missing is entertainment value. Sanchez dominates with a sexy and natural performance but that is mainly down to just how very average everyone else is.