Boat Trip (2002)

Director:

Mort Nathan

Writers (WGA):

Mort Nathan (written by) &
William Bigelow (written by)

Release Date:

21 March 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Singles Cruise. Double Trouble.

Plot:

Two straight men mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise.

Plot Keywords:

Man Pretending To Be Gay | Homosexuality | Box Office Flop | Cruise Ship | Banana

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Cuba Gooding Jr.	...	Jerry Robinson
Horatio Sanz	...	Nick Ragoni
Roselyn Sanchez	...	Gabriella
Vivica A. Fox	...	Felicia
Maurice Godin	...	Hector
Roger Moore	...	Lloyd Faversham
Lin Shaye	...	Sonya the Coach
Victoria Silvstedt	...	Inga
Ken Hudson Campbell	...	Tom (as Ken Campbell)
Zen Gesner	...	Ron
William Bumiller	...	Steven
Noah York	...	Perry
Richard Roundtree	...	Felicia's Dad
Bob Gunton	...	Boat Captain
Jennifer Gareis	...	Sheri

Also Known As:

Boat Trip (Germany)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexual content, language and some drug material.

Runtime:

94 min | USA:97 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English | Swedish | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-11 | Argentina:13 | Brazil:14 | Canada:14A | Germany:12 | Netherlands:AL | Norway:15 | Peru:14 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #38760) | USA:Unrated (unrated DVD version)

Filming Locations:

Bonn, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

ApolloMedia

Trivia:

Filmed entirely in Cologne, Germany and on a cruise ship out of Athens, Greece. The ship cruised the Mediterranean for ten days while filming and stopped in Alexandria, Istanbul and Rhodes. The island scenes were filmed on the isle of Hydra in Greece.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the bar Sanz's character refers to Roger Moore's character, Lloyd, as Roger.

Quotes:

[about his controlling fiancée]
Jerry Robinson: Now the only thing I have to decide for the rest of my life is if I want to be buried or cremated. Nope, I'm being buried next to Felicia... she told me this morning.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs West Side Story (1961)

Soundtrack:

Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

Too Incredible To Be Funny

BOAT TRIP is the kind of movie that has a good premise but remains under developed . A couple of horny young men sign up for a sex cruise but since they've annoyed the travel agent he gets his revenge by putting them on a gay cruise . Be honest there's all types of laugh out loud opportunities with this kind of plot but for some unknown reason laughs are few and far between

No I take that back because the reason isn't unknown at all and is very obvious - There's a lack of credibility involved . The two protagonists Jerry and Nick are told by the travel agent that there's three girls for every boy , a ratio that would make The Beach Boys envious . So they go down to the harbour along with a bunch of well toned young men , walk around the cruise ship brag to each other what they're gonna be doing to all those hot chicks , visit the bar which is full of hunky young men who are not wearing much and only realise it's a gay cruise when Lloyd Faversham tells them . Considering Jerry and Nick were expecting a ship to have a 75% population of women it's impossible to believe they wouldn't have noticed something was up ( No jokes please )as soon as they set foot upon the ship . I know it's only a film but even so there's a distinct lack of credibility involved

The gags themselves are unfunny and predictable and as soon as Nick asks : " Do you know where I can get off ? " you know that the punchline is going to be " yes try The Hole In One " . I couldn't help thinking that much of the potential humour was toned down because the producers didn't want to be accused of homophobia so we've got an entirely daft movie that both gay and straight people will dislike . Mind you no doubt the cast and production team enjoyed working on the movie . They spend several weeks filming on a cruise ship in the Med and they get paid for it ! Some people have all the luck unlike the audience for BOAT TRIP