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Release Date: 17 February, 2004 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $13.48 You SAVE: $1.50! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
Boat Trip (R-Rated Edition) Reviews
poor Cuba, this movie wasn't good at all!
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.
CUBA GOODING HAS IT ALL
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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