This film is not perfect, but I really enjoyed watching it. Sure; it is offensive, crude, weak, etc in places, and that drags it down in the final analysis, but buried amongst the crap was a good idea and some really funny one liners and situations.
Obviously, if you voted for Pat Buchanan you won't like it (for maybe precisely the same reasons Horatio Sanz's character freaked out at first - too scared to look inside and at least consider that you might be gay (like all true reactionaries BTW)), but Boat Trip reminded me a lot of Saving Silverman, another funny ass film that got unfairly savaged. Consider the cast - any excuse to get Horatio Sanz, Cuba Gooding (an underrated comic actor - see Rat Race), Artie from Howard Stern, Will Farrell, Lin Shaye and the fat dude from Herman's Head together to curse and be lewd and crude HAS to be worth at least a couple stars...(and don't forget Roger Moore preceding David Suchet in the remake of The Inlaws as serious-British-actor-doing-a-great-job-at-playing-a-flamer) The Afternoon Specialish attempts at overcoming prejudice and looking within yourself blah blah blah were ham handed and corny, but hey - most gay bashers don't understand complex thought and seeing a big fat funny regular guy literally scratch his head and say "gosh, I always thought I HAD to hate gays...." before learning how to live and let live might actually have convinced someone out in Montana or Nebraska that they DON'T need to beat the tar out of some nelly guy to figure that out for themselves and who knows - it might have saved some innocent guy from being the next Matthew Shepard? So in that context, was sitting through a partially bad movie and laughing your ass off at a couple of dick and sperm jokes really that much of a price to pay? I didn't think so.
Obviously, if you voted for Pat Buchanan you won't like it (for maybe precisely the same reasons Horatio Sanz's character freaked out at first - too scared to look inside and at least consider that you might be gay (like all true reactionaries BTW)), but Boat Trip reminded me a lot of Saving Silverman, another funny ass film that got unfairly savaged. Consider the cast - any excuse to get Horatio Sanz, Cuba Gooding (an underrated comic actor - see Rat Race), Artie from Howard Stern, Will Farrell, Lin Shaye and the fat dude from Herman's Head together to curse and be lewd and crude HAS to be worth at least a couple stars...(and don't forget Roger Moore preceding David Suchet in the remake of The Inlaws as serious-British-actor-doing-a-great-job-at-playing-a-flamer) The Afternoon Specialish attempts at overcoming prejudice and looking within yourself blah blah blah were ham handed and corny, but hey - most gay bashers don't understand complex thought and seeing a big fat funny regular guy literally scratch his head and say "gosh, I always thought I HAD to hate gays...." before learning how to live and let live might actually have convinced someone out in Montana or Nebraska that they DON'T need to beat the tar out of some nelly guy to figure that out for themselves and who knows - it might have saved some innocent guy from being the next Matthew Shepard? So in that context, was sitting through a partially bad movie and laughing your ass off at a couple of dick and sperm jokes really that much of a price to pay? I didn't think so.