Boat Trip (C or 2/4 stars)
2 straight men mistakenly end up on a gay cruise in 'Boat Trip', a comedy directed by Mort Nathan. Nick and Jerry (Horatio Sanz & Cuba Gooding Jr.) are good friends who have had bad luck in the romance department. To find some available women, they look into a 'singles' cruise to get their blood flowing. Unfortunately for them, they have an altercation with a travel agent (Will Ferrell), who then intentionally books them on a gay cruise as brutal punishment. Very slowly, but quite surely, they realize their fate & some humorous predicaments begin to surface. Now knowing their sticky situation, they fire a flare gun into the air with hopes that a 'straight' ship will rescue them. Shallow - but funny - if you think about it.
Shallower, yet funnier still, the flare hits a helicopter full of a Swedish bikini team, causing it to plummet to the ocean. The team of gorgeous women survive and is taken aboard. Coach Sonya (the always funny Lin Shaye) doesn't want them mingling with any men on board, whether they're gay or straight. In another funny scene, Nick wakes up in bed with a man (they don't sleep together), but he's terrified that he's 'turned gay'.
How could they miss the banner on the gangplank which all but introduces their vessel as a gay cruise liner? But more importantly, how could the dance instructor, Gabriella (a sultry Roselyn Sanchez), not realize that Jerry could be straight? What happens when Jerry's ex, Felicia (Vivica A. Fox), catches up with him and realizes he's on a gay cruise? How does she react to his apparent infatuation with Gabriella? Once she realizes he's straight (and out for her, romantically), how does Gabriella react?
Fine acting won't be found here (shame on you, Cuba). But Roger Moore has some fun playing the antithesis of his 007 character. Amid the often-tasteless, raunchy, stereotypical bursts of comedy is a learning lesson, as well. Laughable, but the lesson is: Gay men are not toxic. All of them don't prance around in drag. They're not SO much different than straight men. 'Hetero' and 'homo' can get along. Straight jocks, and the like, need to get over the stereotypes. In closing, 'Boat Trip' is far from good, but it is silly, funny, and may be beneficial to some. It's the kind of movie you'll probably laugh at in a theater, but not at home on DVD.
Shallower, yet funnier still, the flare hits a helicopter full of a Swedish bikini team, causing it to plummet to the ocean. The team of gorgeous women survive and is taken aboard. Coach Sonya (the always funny Lin Shaye) doesn't want them mingling with any men on board, whether they're gay or straight. In another funny scene, Nick wakes up in bed with a man (they don't sleep together), but he's terrified that he's 'turned gay'.
How could they miss the banner on the gangplank which all but introduces their vessel as a gay cruise liner? But more importantly, how could the dance instructor, Gabriella (a sultry Roselyn Sanchez), not realize that Jerry could be straight? What happens when Jerry's ex, Felicia (Vivica A. Fox), catches up with him and realizes he's on a gay cruise? How does she react to his apparent infatuation with Gabriella? Once she realizes he's straight (and out for her, romantically), how does Gabriella react?
Fine acting won't be found here (shame on you, Cuba). But Roger Moore has some fun playing the antithesis of his 007 character. Amid the often-tasteless, raunchy, stereotypical bursts of comedy is a learning lesson, as well. Laughable, but the lesson is: Gay men are not toxic. All of them don't prance around in drag. They're not SO much different than straight men. 'Hetero' and 'homo' can get along. Straight jocks, and the like, need to get over the stereotypes. In closing, 'Boat Trip' is far from good, but it is silly, funny, and may be beneficial to some. It's the kind of movie you'll probably laugh at in a theater, but not at home on DVD.