Boat Trip

2003

Boat Trip

Critics Consensus

Boat Trip is a lame, juvenile farce that's heavy on stereotypes and desperate antics but short on brains and laughs.

7%

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Reviews Counted: 89

35%
liked it

Audience Score

User Ratings: 71,071

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Average Rating: N/A
Reviews Count: 0
Fresh: 0
Rotten: 0

Average Rating: 2.7/5

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Movie Info

Two guys looking for a respite from their bumpy romantic lives find themselves in the midst of a very confusing situation in this broad comedy. Jerry (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is a guy who thinks he's found the love of his life in Felicia (Vivica A. Fox), his beautiful longtime girlfriend. Jerry decides to propose to Felicia, and arranges for a hot-air balloon ride in order to create the ideal setting to pop the question. However, Felicia not only turns him down, she announces that she's leaving him for another man. Jerry sinks into a deep depression, until his best friend Nick (Horatio Sanz), who has been having his own romantic problems, suggests they take a vacation cruise on an ocean liner, forgetting their troubles while they make time with bikini-clad babes. Jerry is game, but after an angry misunderstanding with a travel agent, Nick and Jerry discover they've been booked on a tour specifically for gay men. Jerry and Nick are forced to pose as lovers to ward off the indefatigable advances of aging playboy Lloyd (Roger Moore), which cramps their style when the ship's captain rescues a boatload of buxom Swedish swimsuit models. Jerry's spirits rise when he meets Gabriella (Roselyn Sanchez), a beautiful dancer who is part of the ship's entertainment staff. Jerry, however, now has to walk a fine line between maintaining his cover and convincing Gabriella that despite outward appearances, he's not gay. Boat Trip was the first feature film from director Mort Nathan, best known for his work as a writer for television.

Rating:

R (for strong sexual content, language and some drug material)
Genre:

Comedy
Directed By:

Mort Nathan
Written By:

Mort Nathan, William Bigelow
In Theaters:

Mar 21, 2003 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Sep 30, 2003
Box Office:

$8,525,095
Runtime:

96 minutes
Studio:

Artisan Entertainment

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Cast

Cuba Gooding Jr.
as Jerry

Horatio Sanz
as Nick

Roselyn Sanchez
as Gabriella

Vivica A. Fox
as Felicia

Maurice Godin
as Hector

Roger Moore
as Lloyd

Lin Shaye
as Sonya

Victoria Silvstedt
as Inga

Ken Hudson Campbell
as Tom

Zen Gesner
as Ron

William Bumiller
as Steven

Noah York
as Perry

Richard Roundtree
as Felicia's Dad

Bob Gunton
as Captain

Jennifer Gareis
as Sheri

Artie Lange
as Brian

Steven M. Porter
as Marshall

Li Hagman
as Pia

Jerry Collins
as Larry

Will Ferrell
as Brian's Boyfriend (uncredited)

Phillip Krevoy
as Man on Deck

Eddie Driscoll
as Robbie

Steve Hudson
as Contestant

Andrew Whelan
as Bachelor

Brian Pollack
as Bachelor

Norman Krevoy
as Grandpa

Cecile Krevoy
as Grandma

Glenn D. Feig
as Man at Railing

Mert Rich
as Lloyd's Date

Donte Calarco
as Massage Client

Thomas Lennon
as The Minister

Brad Krevoy
as Pilot

Christoph Quest
as Inga's Dad

Wieslawa Weselowska
as Inga's Mother

Martin Richert
as Masseuse

Roger Mussenden
as S&M Guy

Norbert Heisterkamp
as Andre

Jami Ferrell
as Bridgit

Clara May Beasley
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Margo Castor
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Evangelia Geovanekou
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Katharina Maassen
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Sandra Martellotta
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Barbara Matziris
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Diana Pink
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Michelle Ruben
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Jennifer Stehr
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Katie Vigers
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Anja Weber
as Swedish Suntanning Team Member

Sterling Rice
as Hawaiian Tropic Team Member

Cheryl Connell
as Hawaiian Tropic Team Member

Bjorg Lovstad
as Hawaiian Tropic Team Member

Linda Mitchell
as Hawaiian Tropic Team Member

Nofit Shevach
as Hawaiian Tropic Team Member

Tatjana Tutan
as Hawaiian Tropic Team Member

Veroniqa Wallens
as Hawaiian Tropic Team Member

Erica Johnson
as Hawaiian Tropic Team Member

Jack Baldwin
as Hydra Tourist

John Baldwin
as Hydra Tourist

Shawn Scott
as Hydra Tourist

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Critic Reviews for Boat Trip

All Critics (89) | Top Critics (26) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (83) | DVD (6)

Cuba Gooding Jr. is the kind of guy who does ten minutes of shtick every time the little light in the fridge comes on.

Mar 5, 2007 | Full Review…

J. R. Jones
Chicago Reader
Top Critic
This is a tasteless and tacky farce laced with cheap homophobic jokes and cringe-inducing stereotypes ...

Mar 31, 2003

Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
Top Critic
The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.

Mar 25, 2003

Dennis Lim
Village Voice
Top Critic
This movie is so bland, I can't even bring myself to completely trash it with a one-star spike.

Mar 21, 2003 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Peter Howell
Toronto Star
Top Critic
Flouncing and preening, [Gooding] works hard to sell the movie's penile, puerile jokes, his strain so evident that it borders on sad.

Mar 21, 2003 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle
Top Critic
Boat Trip isn't all that funny, but it's consistent, at least, in its relentless pursuit of idiocy.

Mar 21, 2003 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Connie Ogle
Miami Herald
Top Critic
Stereotyping, iffy humor in dated, unfunny comedy.

Jul 18, 2017 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Brian Costello
Common Sense Media
Like a bad TV sitcom, the cruise ship plucks a stranded Swedish sun-tanning team from the ocean to comply with Hollywood's current unofficial cleavage quotient.

Aug 7, 2008 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
It also has one of the most lame plots in the history of lame plots.

Dec 30, 2006 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Mark Dinning
Empire Magazine
Only Cuba Gooding Jr., the Olivier of his generation, could pull off such a daring commentary on modern manners.

Jul 18, 2004

Martin Scribbs
Low IQ Canadian
As painful as you imagine it is.

Dec 4, 2003 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…

Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
[Gooding's] performance here isn't as energetic as it is desperate.

Sep 11, 2003 | Rating: 0/4

Geoff Carter
Las Vegas Weekly

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Audience Reviews for Boat Trip

Movie for gays :|

Dead Angel

Super Reviewer

horrible, cuba, what happened to your career?

danny d

Super Reviewer

Had almost forgotten about this little travesty. It seems to think it is breaking new ground by telling us how normal gay people are. After making loads of gay jokes of course, which only a minute percent of are funny. Gooding Jr, should have his Oscar taken away.

Luke Baldock

Super Reviewer

Is this a movie played by an Oscar winner? I see it like an amateur actor just trying to have fun at all. Nothing better from this movie...

Sanjaya 丘耀文

Super Reviewer

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