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Summary: It is what it is....
Review: Ok,ok,ok! This movie will never end up winning a grand award anywhere-HOWEVER! If you want to see a movie with some gorgeous girls(Playboy's Victoria Silvstedt!!)this flick has them. Well, there are loads of perky gay boys, too of course! It's a silly movie(Ex-James Bond, Roger Moore as a queeny man!? That alone was worth the movie ticket!)that takes you away to the Carribbean, at least. I thought it was fun to watch because it lifted my spirits for about 2 hours. It's totally unrealistic, but HEY! That's why we go to the movies!! As long as you don't take life or this movie too seriously, you'll enjoy it! Alllll Aboard!
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Summary: CUBA GOODING HAS IT ALL
Review: I have seen most of the gross out comdedies, and most of them have a few good laughs, but are pretty poor movies.Boat Trip has a great lead in Cuba Gooding and the laughs keep coming. The theatre was very full at my showing, and people were howling with laughter throughout the show. This movie died after a few weeks and I'm not sure why. It starts out with the comedy on the homophobic side, but really changes when the gay people in the movie were part of the joke, and not the butt of the joke. Cuba Gooding has been the victim of being in too many bad movies. He is a real good actor in comedy or drama. I really thought this film was very funny, but I guess I'm in the minority. Check it out for yourself. I think it has more laughs than say Bringing Down the House.
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Summary: This movie was great!
Review: I believe that this movie was one of the funniest I have seen in a long time. After leaving the theater I wanted to watch it again. I am waiting for it to come out on DVD/VHS. I have several gay friends and they all thought it was hilarious, too. I have give everyone in it a round of applause. It's about time someone makes a movie involving the gay community as a comedy not a tragedy. Once again I give this movie 5 stars for making me laugh.
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Summary: The plot sunk way before the end!
Review: This is the worst movie ever! How can I prove that to you? Well, I LOVE the movie "Showgirls"! Two buddies, Nick and Jerry think they've got on a singles cruise ship, but what they got on was a gay man's single cruise. The plot is easier to read through than air. It can't even hold up it's plot. For example: half way through, the gay man thing got old so they placed dozens of women on the GAY MAN'S ONLY ship. It's truely an insult to hetrosexuals (myself) and mostly to homosexuals. Avoid this!
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Summary: Comedy anyone?
Review: Had a few really good laughs. Good movie to watch if you in a mood to watch a believe-able comedy. Bottom line (lol) 3 stars not 4 or 3.5 but only 3.
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Summary: poor Cuba, this movie wasn't good at all!
Review: The previews made this movie look like it could be decent. Boat Trip stars Cuba Gooding, Jr, an Academy Award winning actor (Best Supporting Actor, Jerry Maguire ). With Cuba in a leading role, I had hopes that he would have chosen a good movie to be in. I was wrong. A local review of this movie gave it only one star. At the box office, Boat Trip only made three million dollars in the opening weekend. There is a reason for that. The movie is not that good. The premise is that Cuba is dumped by his girlfriend as he proposes marriage (she says no and tells him there is another man). After six months he is still so despondent that he sits and stares at the screensaver on his computer (ex girlfriend). His friend (played by Horatio Sanz from SNL) decides that they can meet women by going on a cruise. On the way to the travel agent Horatio is cut off in the parking lot. Horatio curses out the guy, but he turns out to be the travel agent. As punishment, Horatio and Cuba are booked on a cruise....a gay cruise. As a premise, this has some potential to be funny. It is in the execution that the movie fails to deliver. I will be upfront and say that the movie did have funny moments. Quite a few of them at times. Unfortunately, the humor was more in how shocking it was rather than in the joke. I did laugh and I did find some things funny. At the same time, I was realizing that the movie wasn't that good. There was a moment, where Horatio (the more homophobic of the pair) realizes that gay men are people too and that he may be gay. It felt heavy handed and out of place with the rest of the movie. The scene was probably only there to show how not anti-gay the movie is. The movie also undermined that scene later on in the actions of Horatio towards a woman from the Swedish Bikini team (not worth mentioning how they got on the cruise). Ultimately the movie was forgettable. Am I mad that I saw it? No. Do I want to see it again? No.
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Summary: Terrible, offensive, poorly-done!
Review: Gay people in this movie might as well have been wallpaper. They were just a backdrop upon which the heterosexual love story could be pushed along. They did have one token gay person of color, a gay Latino firefighter. However, while Cuba Gooding Jr. is chasing two women of color, for the most part, in this film gayness is basically equated with whiteness. Gay people of color should be especially offended by this movie. The movie did have a pat "be nice to gay people; they can be your friends too" message. But that wasn't enough. Even outside of the homophobia and erasure of gays of color, the movie was just awful, awful, awful. It was choppy. There were jokes that did not make sense. It was repetitive. It was predictible. And too, it was just in poor taste.
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Summary: Laugh Out Laoud Comedy
Review: In My Big Fat Greek Wedding, you had a movie that had both Greeks and non- Greeks screaming with laughter at the same parts, with the Greeks chuckling at a few "Inside Jokes" placed in there. This movie is similar. The theater was filled to capapcity with a mixed straight/gay crowd and hardly 5 min. went by without the audience bursting into laughter and occaisionaly applause, punctuated with a few outbursts of laughter from gay members of the audience at some of the inside jabs. This movie has been accused of being filled with unflattering stereotypes that are insulting, of course the people saying that are humorless straight critics with nothing better to do than to try to look for things insulting to the "Others" who need to be protected from things like humor. In truth this is a hilarious laugh out loud comedy with the rather simple plot of, "Boy (Cuba Gooding Jr.) gets dumped by beautiful yet icy girlfriend, played by Vivika A Fox. Boys semi-obnoxious beer guzzling friend tells him they're going on a cruise to meet women, after insulting the travel agent they wind up on a gay cruise, hilarity ensues. Throw in a gorgeous woman dance instructor on the ship that catches Cuba's eye, a rescue of the Sweedish bikini-Suntanning team and more hardbodies than you see in an average Gay Pride march and there is something for everybody in this film. Add to that a mixture of funny scenes and some great one liners (My favorite being when the obnoxious friend, at the buffet says to Cuba "Do I look like a gay guy?" and another customer at the buffet saying rather bitchily "An out of shape one, but it's ok, we have those too). And you have a movie that is a perfect Saturday night comedy. Look for Roger Moore as a former British Army Comando on vacation in a suprisingly funny role. If you want to relax, laugh and have something to recomend to your friends, straight or gay, Grab some Popcorn and buy a ticket for Boat Trip.
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Summary: Absolutely hilarious
Review: 'Boat Trip' is the ultimate gay film for straight people. It's a wonderfully witty and irresistable comedy about two straight men (Cuba Gooding Jr. and Horatio Sanz) who take a Caribbean cruise, hoping to get lucky, only to discover that they were accidentally booked on an all-gay cruise instead. When Jerry (Gooding Jr.) falls for the dance instructor on the cruise, he must put on a charade and pretend to be gay. Nick (Sanz), on the other hand, falls in love with a Swedish model when her suntanning team is rescued and brought aboard the ship. Being gay, the first question on my mind about 'Boat Trip' was: Will the movie be offensive? The basic plot alone is like nitro glycerin for the easily offended, but, while `Boat Trip' doesn't travel lightly on its subject, it does move carefully. The film is a silly exercise in hetero panic, and is not, for one frame of film, mean-spirited in any shape or form. The film wants to be funny, not hateful, and understands that trafficking in stereotypes can be dangerous business, so it picks its targets cautiously. Some obvious stereotypes aside, soon enough it is clearly established that the most sensible characters in the entire film are the homosexual ones, thus negating any call to arms against the film. Cuba Gooding Jr. is charming, and Horatio Sanz is hilarious. Roselyn Sanchez is wonderful as the dance instructor, and Vivica A. Fox is a nice addition as Jerry's ex-girlfriend, who has come on the cruise to win him back. Lin Shaye is HILARIOUS as the overprotective couch of the suntanning team, and former playmate Victoria Silvstedt is perfect as Nick's Swedish love interest. Roger Moore and Richard Roundtree are a surprise addition to the superb cast. This is definitely not a critic's film. While the critics seem to hate this movie, the audience was laughing out loud and most of them seemed to be pleased by film's end. If anything, 'Boat Trip' is good for a few laughs on a boring Saturday night. It's a crowd-pleasing film, and a pure pleasure to watch. I absolutely adored it. Marvelous!!!!
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Summary: Miserable 'Boat Trip' sinks faster than Titanic
Review: As the Oscars approach, along comes a warning to future winners: Choose your future projects with care. Otherwise, you could end up in the same boat as Cuba Gooding Jr., who collected the 1996 best supporting actor Oscar for "Jerry Maguire" and has since collected one scathing review after another for his work in such misbegotten comedies as "Rat Race," "Chill Factor" and "Snow Dogs." Now, Gooding Jr. has added "Boat Trip to his resume, perhaps in the hopes of making his fans examine the artistic merits of "Rat Race," "Chill Factor" and "Snow Dogs." After "Trip," just about anything looks worthwhile. A cheap, ineptly made farce, "Trip" looks almost identical to the reliable old clunkers Comedy Central trots out every time the network needs to fill a two-hour gap. Have you ever run afoul of "Once Upon A Crime," "Who's Harry Crumb?" or "Illegally Yours"? In fact, the attempted risque humor in "Trip" is so hopelessly out of date it might have been written 25 years ago as a vehicle for Ryan O'Neal. Here's the premise: Gooding Jr., with popping eyes and dangling jaw working overtime, plays victim of heartbreak Jerry, who is conned by his flabby, loudmouthed buddy Nick (Horatio Sanz) into going on a cruise to meet gorgeous, available women. But then - wait for it - the two guys get stuck on an all-gay cruise and (I quote directly from the press materials here) "wacky hijinks undoubtebly ensue." How wacky? Glad you asked! Nick gets accosted at a breakfast buffet by a senior citizen (a startlingly unstable-looking Roger Moore, sporting a head of hair nature never intended him to have) who lasciviously licks a sausage and notes, "In England, we call them 'bangers'." Jerry tries to convice hot-blooded dance instructor Gabriella (Roselyn Sanchez) he's a disco queen by donning a gold lame bikini, plastic peacock feathers and five pounds of silver eyeshadow and shaking his groove thing to "I'm Coming Out" in a scene that belongs at the bottom of "The Birdcage." And, when the gay stereotypes threaten to run thin, there's a surprise visit from "the Swedish sun-tanning team," a dozen blonde beauties who say "jah! jah!" frequently and allow a drooling Nick to oil them up. When the team members say their nighly prayers, it sounds like this: "Now we are laying down to sleep, our hot, tight bodies the Lord will keep." Perhaps it sounds better in Swedish. And let's not overlook the frigid coach of the suntanning team, who warms up after Nick accidentally slides into her bed. "Who's that knocking at my drawer?" she asks. Plenty of cheescake and beefcake are served up, although after you've seen Jerry vomit on his fiancee, tumble into a pool four times and express his excitement over Gabriella's banana-eating skills, no one will have much of an apetite. After a whole hour of homophobia gags, including Nick and Jerry being spooked by a Spanish drag queen and some phallic ice sculptures, "Trip" unexpectedly makes a plea for tolerance, as Nick realizes that once you get to know them, homosexuals can be really great guys. This moment of enlightenment is is accompanied by syrup-coated violins, just to ensure the audience knows this is not supposed to be a joke. Consciousness is raised, while comedy - and Gooding Jr.'s stock - plummet to new lows. Anybody got a torpedo handy?
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