
A must see - Brilliant!

On the face of it the premise and content of this film looks to have all the makings of a Farrelly Bros. film. Sadly, within minutes of the opening scenes you realise that this is EXACTLY what a Farrelly Bros. film would be like, if all humour were sucked out of it leaving a dry shrivelled hulk.
The basic premise of "Boat Trip" is that two overtly heterosexual men (Cuba Gooding Jnr and Horatio Sanz) find themselves inexplicably (the reason might as well be inexplicable since it has no grounds in realism whatsoever) on a "gay sea cruise". Somehow, despite appearing to be reasonably intelligent individuals, neither of them spot that this is the case until they are TOLD they are on a gay cruise by a woefully miscast Roger Moore, who for his part fills out the "aging gay lech" stereotype.
In this film homosexuals and homosexuality is played out as if it was some kind of disease that the male leads are trying to avoid. Cuba mugs and shreaks to camera for the entire duration of the film whilst his "fat sidekick" Sanz simply apes the standard bigoted homophobe character whilst getting into amusing scrapes. Except they're not amusing. Add a Puerto Richan gay man with predictably over-hammed camp/foreign accent, transvestites, YMCA lookalikes and you have a film that looks and feels like what a Benny Hill movie would look like if it had ever taken itself seriously.
A Swedish tanning team (??) led by Victoria Silverstedt (and, predictably enough, run by a faux-German drill instructor-esque butch woman) joins the film early on, completely gratuitously to allow Sanz to demonstrate his hyper-heterosexuality. If this wasn't laughable enough, somehow the audience is supposed to believe that Silverstedt is attracted to lechy Sanz. Any rational minded person would find themselves struggling to understand where this "tanning team" fits into the film. The problem is they don't, they simply exist as a masterbatory outlet for the films target audience - 13 year old boys.
It's difficult to put into words just how bad this movie is. The humour is crass, predictable and never hits the mark. Cuba overacts to camera so often and so dramatically that you begin to wonder whether he is so out of place on a gay cruise as you are led to believe. The entire film is at best seriously offensive to anyone with a modicum of intelligence and modern-day understanding of sexual orientation and at worst a meritless farce of epic proportions.
Review ID: 10000000008909906

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