Boat Trip is a 2003 romantic comedy

Romantic Comedy

Romantic Comedy can refer to* Romantic Comedy , a 1979 play written by Bernard Slade* Romantic Comedy , a 1983 film adapted from the play and starring Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen...

 directed by Mort Nathan

Mort Nathan

Mort Nathan is an American television producer, screenwriter and film director. Nathan was one of the co-producers and head writers of the classic comedy show the Golden Girls He also has been a respected script doctor on Hollywood films.-External links:...

 and starring Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Cuba M. Gooding, Jr. is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Rod Tidwell in Cameron Crowe's 1996 film Jerry Maguire, and his critically acclaimed performance as Tré Styles in John Singleton's 1991 film Boyz n the Hood.-Early life:Gooding was born...

, Horatio Sanz

Horatio Sanz

Horatio Sanz is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998-2006. Sanz most recently starred alongside his former SNL castmate Chris Parnell in the Comedy Central series Big Lake.-Early life:Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in...

, Vivica A. Fox

Vivica A. Fox

Vivica Anjanetta Fox is an American actress and television producer. She is best known for her roles in the films Independence Day, Set It Off, Soul Food, Why Do Fools Fall In Love,Kill Bill and Juwanna Mann....

, Roselyn Sanchez

Roselyn Sanchez

Roselyn Sánchez is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, model, actress, producer and writer of film and television.-Early life:...

 and Roger Moore

Roger Moore

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.

Plot

Jerry (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Nick (Horatio Sanz

Horatio Sanz

Horatio Sanz is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998-2006. Sanz most recently starred alongside his former SNL castmate Chris Parnell in the Comedy Central series Big Lake.-Early life:Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in...

) are two best buddies whose love lives have hit rock bottom.

After Nick runs into a friend who has married a beautiful, younger girl he met on a singles cruise, he decides to take a similar cruise with Jerry. Things do not go as planned though, after a vengeful travel agent books them on a cruise for gay men.

During their trip, they come to learn that gay men are less objectionable than they first assumed. However, Jerry falls in love with the cruise's dance instructor Gabriella (Roselyn Sanchez

Roselyn Sanchez

Roselyn Sánchez is a Puerto Rican singer-songwriter, model, actress, producer and writer of film and television.-Early life:...

) and in order to win her over, he pretends to be gay so he can get closer to her. Meanwhile, Nick blossoms a romance with a bikini model named Inga (Victoria Silvstedt

Victoria Silvstedt

Karen Victoria Silvstedt is a Swedish celebrity model, actress, singer, and television personality.-Background:Born in Skelleftehamn, Silvstedt was raised in a family of five in Bollnäs, having one older sister and one younger brother...

) but after an accidental affair with her mean, sex-obsessed coach Sonya (Lin Shaye

Lin Shaye

Linda "Lin" Shaye is an American film, theatre and television actress.-Early life:Born in Detroit, Michigan, Shaye is the daughter of Dorothy , a homemaker, and Max Mendle Shaye, a painter and supermarket owner. Her brother is film executive Robert Shaye...

), Nick must fend off Sonya who has fallen in love with him as well.

In the end, Jerry wins Gabriella while Nick loses out on Inga but sees a potential relationship with her sister instead. However, he is then reunited with Sonya, much to his disgust and irritation, and Sonya's happiness and arousal.

Cast

Cast
Cast overview, first billed only:
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

Reception

This film was panned by the critics on its initial release and performed poorly in theaters. It currently holds a score of 7% on Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes

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, and a score of 18 on Metacritic

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, indicating overwhelming dislike by critics. Chris Rock

Chris Rock

Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted in the US as the 5th greatest stand-up comedian of all time by Comedy Central...

 made jokes about Gooding during the 2005 Oscars telecast for starring in this movie after receiving an Oscar. Many viewed the film as homophobic; a reviewer for The Advocate

The Advocate

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wrote that the film was too terrible to protest about. On the show Ebert and Roeper, Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 said the film "was so bad in so many different ways, not only does it offend gays, it offends everyone else." His co-host Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper

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 also said "If the ship hit an iceberg, I would have been rooting for the iceberg." Overall, it was nominated for 2 Razzie Awards for Gooding as Worst Actor and for Mort Nathan

Mort Nathan

Mort Nathan is an American television producer, screenwriter and film director. Nathan was one of the co-producers and head writers of the classic comedy show the Golden Girls He also has been a respected script doctor on Hollywood films.-External links:...

 as Worst Director, but did not win any.

Box office performance

In its opening weekend, the film opened at #10 and grossed $3,815,075 in 1715 theatres in the United States

United States

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 and Canada

Canada

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. In total it had a worldwide gross of $15,020,293.