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I
didn't expect much from "Boat Trip" and I didn't get
much either, but for an extremely trashy, low-brow comedy, I had a
pretty good time.
Cuba
Gooding, Jr. plays a guy who proposes to his longtime girlfriend (Vivica
A. Fox), and ends up both throwing up on her (since he proposes
on a hot-air balloon and he has motion sickness) and finding out
she's leaving him for some shallow jerk. Six months later,
he's still broken up over losing her, so his best buddy (Horatio
Sanz) tries to cheer him up by proposing they go on a singles
cruise, which is supposedly swarming with beautiful single women.
They book a trip with a travel agent ("Howard Stern's"
Artie Lange), who turns out to be the guy who Sanz cursed out
after he stole his parking space. To get them back, the
agent signs them up for a gay cruise. And you can
pretty much take it from there.
This
movie reminded me of a cheap, low-budget late night sex comedy,
like "The Bikini Carwash Company" (yes, as if I'm
the only guy who saw that movie). If they still had the
show, this kind of movie would be playing on USA's "Up All
Night." It's filled with nothing but cheap sex gags and
whenever it has the chance, it bombards you with gratuitous
shots of women in bikinis. I know what you're thinking.
This is a movie about a gay cruise. Where do the
women in bikinis fit in? Well, there's a little subplot
involving a Swedish bikini team being rescued and
boarding onto the ship, and Sanz posing as gay to his
advantage, so the girls will feel secure as he rubs them down with
lotion. Now you get it?
Of
course, I still don't understand how Cuba Gooding, Jr. got
involved. Though he keeps a smile throughout most of the
film, he must've lost a bet if he went from doing "Men
of Honor" and other dramatic films to doing an amateurish sex
comedy. Even "Snow Dogs" looks professional
compared to "BT." I've seen tons and
tons of low-budget films, but this is the first one I've seen
where the boom microphone appears in the shot 90 percent of the time!
You don't have to be a film scholar to spot the flaws here!
Horatio
Sanz is always amusing to watch, as I feel he's one of the few new
SNL cast members who can actually make me crack up. He may
not be very well-suited to carry on a lead role, but his comic
energy makes up for it. Even former 007 star Roger
Moore makes a few amusing appearances as a gay yuppie. And
"Rush Hour 2" hottie Roselyn Sanchez graces the screen
with her beautiful face and smokin' body.
On an
artistic level, I can attack this movie from all directions!
The plot is predictable, every single joke is
predictable. Yet it works as a guilty pleasure, and I did
receive some big laughs. I would better suggest you
wait 'til the film's on DVD to check it out, as it may not be
worth the price of a ticket, but it'll be worth a look on a lonely
night.
-- Matt
( 2 out of 4 pops )
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