Boat Trip: Critic Reviews

Unless their names are Frasier and Niles Crane, no men can survive such a shipwreck as this one.

Boat Trip goes down faster than the Titanic and is far more deserving of its fate.

It's offensive to gays and straights and everyone else with a brain.

A trifling atrocity.

So much for subtlety, not to mention sensitivity to stereotypes.

A smutty, imbecilic farce.

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.

The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.

'Of course' is what the viewer's much-aggrieved brain will be shrieking after each and every predictable plot turn.

This is a movie made for nobody, about nothing.

The movie's offenses are too numerous to catalog.

Cuba Gooding Jr. is the kind of guy who does ten minutes of shtick every time the little light in the fridge comes on.

Cuba Gooding Jr. achieved fame by shouting 'Show me the money.' Obviously he was not acting.

Woefully unfunny.

Fairly cringe-inducing.

This movie is so bland, I can't even bring myself to completely trash it with a one-star spike.

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.

In a time of war, our troubled nation yearns for fat guys telling fag jokes and black men dancing. Hollywood answers the call.

Gags in the insipid sex comedy Boat Trip are both lame and crass, meaning you not only don't laugh but stifle groans.

In its frenetic, good-natured way, Boat Trip is a trip.

Like a bad TV sitcom, the cruise ship plucks a stranded Swedish sun-tanning team from the ocean to comply with Hollywood's current unofficial cleavage quotient.

It also has one of the most lame plots in the history of lame plots.

Only Cuba Gooding Jr., the Olivier of his generation, could pull off such a daring commentary on modern manners.

As painful as you imagine it is.

[Gooding's] performance here isn't as energetic as it is desperate.