Boat Trip 2002

Critics score:
7 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: There has been some concern that Boat Trip, the new Cuba Gooding Jr.-Horatio Sanz comedy, might be harmful to gay men. This is not entirely true. Boat Trip is bad for everybody. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Boat Trip isn't all that funny, but it's consistent, at least, in its relentless pursuit of idiocy. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is a tasteless and tacky farce laced with cheap homophobic jokes and cringe-inducing stereotypes ... Read more

Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Boat Trip goes down faster than the Titanic and is far more deserving of its fate. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Cuba Gooding Jr. is the kind of guy who does ten minutes of shtick every time the little light in the fridge comes on. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: In its frenetic, good-natured way, Boat Trip is a trip. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Unless their names are Frasier and Niles Crane, no men can survive such a shipwreck as this one. Read more

Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: In a week when travesties like the Gwyneth Paltrow stewardess movie remind us that almost nobody in Hollywood remembers what the hell a comedy is, Boat Trip's skill and modest ambition inspire nostalgic reverence. Read more

Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News: 'Of course' is what the viewer's much-aggrieved brain will be shrieking after each and every predictable plot turn. Read more

Dan Fienberg, L.A. Weekly: A floundering combination of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This is a movie made for nobody, about nothing. Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: In a time of war, our troubled nation yearns for fat guys telling fag jokes and black men dancing. Hollywood answers the call. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Flouncing and preening, [Gooding] works hard to sell the movie's penile, puerile jokes, his strain so evident that it borders on sad. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: This movie is so bland, I can't even bring myself to completely trash it with a one-star spike. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: A trifling atrocity. Read more

Dennis Lim, Village Voice: The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: So much for subtlety, not to mention sensitivity to stereotypes. Read more