Boat Trip (2003)

7% of critics liked it
(87 reviews)
43% of users liked it
(69,239 ratings)

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… More 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. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Rating, Runtime: R, 1 hr. 34 min.
Directed By: Mort Nathan
Written By: William Bigelow, Mort Nathan
Genres: Comedy

In Theaters: Mar 21, 2003 Wide
On DVD: Sep 30, 2003
Studio: Artisan Entertainment

Critic Reviews

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
Cuba Gooding Jr. is the kind of guy who does ten minutes of shtick every time the little light in the fridge comes on.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
This is a tasteless and tacky farce laced with cheap homophobic jokes and cringe-inducing stereotypes ...
Dennis Lim, Village Voice
The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
This movie is so bland, I can't even bring myself to completely trash it with a one-star spike.
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle
Flouncing and preening, [Gooding] works hard to sell the movie's penile, puerile jokes, his strain so evident that it borders on sad.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Gags in the insipid sex comedy Boat Trip are both lame and crass, meaning you not only don't laugh but stifle groans.
Mark Halverson, Sacramento News & Review
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.
Mark Dinning, Empire Magazine
It also has one of the most lame plots in the history of lame plots.
Martin Scribbs, Low IQ Canadian
Only Cuba Gooding Jr., the Olivier of his generation, could pull off such a daring commentary on modern manners.
Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
As painful as you imagine it is.
Staci Layne Wilson, Fantastica Daily
I hope that, like Alive being shown on airplanes, Boat Trip is never shown on cruise ships. If it is, we might have several men overboard. Or at the very least, a mutiny.
Geoff Carter, Las Vegas Weekly
[Gooding's] performance here isn't as energetic as it is desperate.
Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena
Esta comédia poderia até funcionar como um esquete do Saturday Night Live (o que combinaria até mesmo com o elenco), mas, como um longa de 94 minutos de duração, é irregular, cansativa e pouco original.
Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix
Boat Trip goes bottoms up early.
Nick Rogers, State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
No one comes off worse than Cuba Gooding, Jr., whom the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences could sue for defamation had the movie's advertisements put 'Academy Award winner' before his name.
Matt Easterbrook, Matt's Movie Reviews
Apart from my disappointment that Roger Moore didn't use any funny Bond-related lines (let's face it, "license to drill" or "for your eyes only" would have been hilarious coming out of his mouth), the movie more than exceeded my expectations.
Oz, eFilmCritic.com
If Boat Trip were a skin disease, you'd have whatever limb it was found on amputated at the base.
Dan Lybarger, Nitrate Online
A lot of movies aim for the lowest common denominator. Boat Trip is merely low.
Steve Rhodes, Internet Reviews
Poor Cuba Gooding Jr. After his surprising and deserving Oscar win in Jerry Maguire, his career has gone absolutely nowhere.
Eric D. Snider, EricDSnider.com
The real issue is that it is not funny.

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Featured Audience Ratings

Dead A

Movie for gays :|
danny d

horrible, cuba, what happened to your career?
Luke B

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.
Sanjaya &

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...
Dillon L

By far one of the worst movies I've ever seen. 'Boat Trip' is charmless, immature, offensive, full of unfair stereotypes and low on laughs.
Deb S

Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a guy going through relationship problems and Horatio Sanz is his obnoxious, oversexed best pal who is trying to go away on a singles cruise hoping to get laid. They end up insulting their travel agent (cameo by Will Farrell) who sends them on a gay cruise out of… More
Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a guy going through relationship problems and Horatio Sanz is his obnoxious, oversexed best pal who is trying to go away on a singles cruise hoping to get laid. They end up insulting their travel agent (cameo by Will Farrell) who sends them on a gay cruise out of spite. Gorgeous Puerto Rican Beauty Roselyn Sanchez and the Swedish Sun Tanning Bikini team provide the much needed eye-candy to keep the interest of the males viewing. Roger Moore plays the British sophisticate interested in having Sanz take a bite of his sausage.His protrayal as an ancient "queen" is hilarious. Don't expect much in the way of story-line-- yes, it may be a bit stupid, vulgar, crude and corny at times, but stupid can be funny as well. What do you expect? It is a comedy so feel free to laugh out loud! It's a good movie to rent with your buddies if you like sunbathing, gay jokes, sexual innuendos and a risqué banana scene with Roselyn Sanchez showing Cuba how she can play, lick, nibble and kiss the lucky banana.
Marion R

Somebody please stop Cuba Gooding Jr. from making these movies, what happened to Cuba from A Few Good Men and Jerry Maguire. Just bad.
Leo L

Funny!