Alleged "comedy" about two straight men--Jerry (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Nick (Horatio Sanz)--who mistakenly get stuck on a gay cruise. Naturally all the gay men are blatantly offensive stereotypes--sex-obsessed, feminine, lisping and (of course) they all love drag. About a half hour in they run into a all-female Swedish sun tanning team (don't ask) so we can have juvenile sexist sex jokes and show women in tiny bikinis. A few offensive lesbian jokes are thrown in too.
As a gay man I found this horribly offensive and not even remotely funny. A certain ice sculpture shown made me want to throw something heavy at the TV. I'm sick and tired of all gay men being shown as lisping, feminine people. To make things worse the film throws in a few short lines about how great gay people are--then goes right back to comic gay-bashing. And, worst of all, we have the very unfunny Will Ferrell do a cameo.
The film has a few OK things--Roger Moore plays a gay man very well, the soundtrack is good and the overreaction of Gooding and Sanz when they find they're on the wrong cruise is somewhat amusing.
The acting doesn't really help. Gooding overacts constantly--he got annoying real quick (can we take back that Oscar he got?); Sanz is obnoxious and unfunny; Roselyn Sanchez has a few good moments and Vicica A. Fox pops up briefly doing OK.
This film was a HUGE bomb at the box office (for good reason) and is just a stupid piece of garbage. Everybody connected with this should be embarrassed. I really wish I could rate this lower than 1.
As a gay man I found this horribly offensive and not even remotely funny. A certain ice sculpture shown made me want to throw something heavy at the TV. I'm sick and tired of all gay men being shown as lisping, feminine people. To make things worse the film throws in a few short lines about how great gay people are--then goes right back to comic gay-bashing. And, worst of all, we have the very unfunny Will Ferrell do a cameo.
The film has a few OK things--Roger Moore plays a gay man very well, the soundtrack is good and the overreaction of Gooding and Sanz when they find they're on the wrong cruise is somewhat amusing.
The acting doesn't really help. Gooding overacts constantly--he got annoying real quick (can we take back that Oscar he got?); Sanz is obnoxious and unfunny; Roselyn Sanchez has a few good moments and Vicica A. Fox pops up briefly doing OK.
This film was a HUGE bomb at the box office (for good reason) and is just a stupid piece of garbage. Everybody connected with this should be embarrassed. I really wish I could rate this lower than 1.