Boat Trip (2002) Movie Review

So this is what an Academy award winning actor does as a follow-up to a movie that saw him team up with some snow-bound mutts.

In “Boat Trip”, Cuba Gooding Jr. and SNL’s Horatio Sanz star as Jerry and Nick. The duo decides to take a cruise after Jerry suffers a horrendous break-up from long-time girlfriend, Felicia (Vivica A. Fox). The guys expect half-naked women and all the booze they can drink but end up on a homosexual cruise ship instead. When they realize their error, Jerry ends up getting drunk and falls into the ship’s pool where he is rescued by “female” ship dance instructor Gabriella (Roselyn Sanchez). As for Nick, he ends up shooting down the helicopter of Swedish Sun-Tanning Team headed by Inga, played by model and former Playmate of the Year, Victoria Silvstedt.

“Boat Trip” is one of those comedies that takes a 30 second joke and tries to make a 90 minute movie out of it. They never work and it’s no wonder when the original joke isn’t even funny. It is sad to see an award winning actor like Gooding Jr would stoop this low for a paycheck. Even with beautiful co-stars like Silvstedt, Sanchez and Fox, you would at least think that the male audience the film is targeted at would be entranced. But with hardly any jokes and worse gags then in “Porky’s” or even worse “Jocks”, the film has nothing to keep the pretty sights from disappearing.

Other than the obvious eye-candy, the only stand-out in this film was the gay-turn of former James Bond, Roger Moore. The veteran actor plays a whimsical rich-playboy who kind of fancies Sanz’s Nick. Moore was quite funny but he is utterly lost in this drivel.

I snickered some during the film but I had to catch myself and realize I was laughing at the film instead of with it. The film was so bad it almost needed a “laugh-track”.