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 cruise-liner, 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 cruise-liner 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:

Rude, crude and partially nude.

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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:

$3,815,075, 23 March 2003, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$8,586,376, 4 May 2003

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$5,872,571, 7 November 2003

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

Will Ferrell and Artie Lange were supposed to kiss in their scene, but Lange refused to do it.

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Goofs

When Jerry and Nick enter their cabin from the hallway, they have passed by the first set of cabins at the end of the hallway. Hector enters their room from the opposite direction, demonstrating that they are in a cabin with cabins on each side. The cabin map on the door of their cabin shows them to be in an end cabin on the other side of the hallway.

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Quotes

[after Nick insults him]
Lloyd Faversham: [flirtatiously] How do you know I love to be humiliated.

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Connections

Referenced in Saturday Night Live: The Best of Tracy Morgan (2004)

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Soundtracks

Stand by Your Man
Written by Billy Sherrill and Tammy Wynette
Performed by Me First and The Gimme Gimmes
Courtesy of Fat Wreck Chords

User Reviews

Not great, but still quite entertaining

I stumbled on this movie by pure accident and I had absolutely no idea what kind of movie it was before I saw it. As I didn't recognize the name of that movie, I guessed that it would be really bad flop, but the movie turned out to be a pleasant surprise.

The movie is not a masterpiece, but I found it quite entertaining, relaxed and maybe even hilarious. And I guess it is really hard to make a comedy that people would consider a masterpiece. I will definitely show this film to my friends and I think this film can be enjoyed more than once. It is somewhat clumsy film, but mostly in a positive way.

The movie had a lot of silly jokes based on different kind of stereotypes like swedes and gays, but I think it worked quite well. And in my opinion none of the stereotypes was done in offending way and all of the characters were likable - even the promiscuous, but a bit "blond" Swedish woman and her strict coach. At least as a gay I didn't find the movie homophobic or the gay stereotypes offensive at all, unlike some comments.

I think that the movie could have been a bit better if it wouldn't have had that explicit "I guess gays might be OK" phrase and the stereotypes had been a bit nastier. And with a bit better directing the movie could have had better fluidity.

But I can recommend the movie even though it wasn't flawless. I especially liked the performance of Cuba Gooding Jr. But some straight guys might find the movie boring or maybe a bit embarrassing even though the movie has some relatively good looking women and the main characters are straight. And of course not all people like this kind of comedies with adolescent and a bit tasteless humour.