BOAT TRIP

US, 2002, 91 minutes, Colour.
Cuba Gooding Jr, Horatio Sans, Roselyn Sanchez, Vivica A. Fox, Maurice Gldin, Roger Moore, Lynn Shaye.
Directed by Mort and Nathan.

The media kit for Boat Trip describes it first as 'funny', then twice as 'hilarious' and, finally, as 'hysterical'. I thought they were exaggerating wildly when they said 'funny'.

Two sex-obsessed friends go on a cruise. Because they have clashed with their travel agent, he books them on an exclusively gay voyage. Half the film looks like gay-bashing, the other half is a mixture of high camp hijinks and jokes and of homophobics learning to understand. But the whole thing is really relentlessly heterosexual.

Cuba Gooding mugs like mad and gets to do a flamboyant drag queen act. Roger Moore turns up as a wealthy ex-army queen. Farcical but not funny. (A sardonic reviewer friend joked before he saw it that there was a misprint - it should have read Boat Tripe. Alas, he was prophetic.)