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If you ever woke up one morning with the inclination to be entertained
by a film boldly filled with sexual innuendo and jokes of every
sexual orientation, see the lighthearted Boat Trip. Academy Award
winner Cuba Gooding Jr. has taken a slight departure from the “Jerry
Maguire”s and “Men of Honor”s of his respectable and conservative
film repertoire (excluding the random Snow Dogs) to play a lovesick
puppy who flees on a singles vacation cruise with his tale between
his legs after his girlfriend, a bitchy Vivica Fox, breaks his heart.
The twist and foundation of the plot is that the singles cruise
he and his best friend join is hilariously a cruise for the rainbow
team, or in more politically correct terms, men who have sex with
men.
Following the adventures of Jerry and his best friend Nick as they
are traumatized by phallic ice sculptures and pursuing sugar daddies,
one played by an aging Roger Moore (known as 007 to most of us)
is pretty funny. Horatio Sanz, of “Saturday Night Live”, steals
the show as Nick, with his bumbling sexual escapades and epiphanies.
The best thing about the work is that it will appeal to both gay
men and heterosexual men alike. While insider gay jokes abound,
the men who have sex with women are thrown little crumbs of their
own by Jerry’s love interest plot, made interesting by the beautiful
Roselyn Sanchez of Rush Hour 2. Not to say that women don’t have
a place of expression in this movie - well we don’t really, but
it is fun anyway to laugh at the antics of men, heterosexual or
otherwise.
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