Jerry is a man who seems to have it all and to top it off he's about to propose to his girlfriend of years. But when she says no and that, in fact, she's found another man, he begins a spiral into the deepest despair. For six months he pines over what could have been and becomes such a pain in the ass that his best friend (Nick, who has trouble with the ladies himself) suggests the two snap out of their funk by taking a cruise. He has been told that cruises are great places to pick up lonely gals and it all looks like the perfect tonic for the both of them. In the process of booking the trip, they manage to offend a travel agent who decides to exact his revenge by booking them on a gay cruise.

Amid all the excitement and confusion of getting settled on the cruiser, they fail to notice the nature of the voyage, before it's too late to bail out. When it finally dawns on them exactly what they have signed on for, they pretty much freak out and immediately set about getting drunk. Due to his intoxicated state, Jerry nearly drowns but he is saved by a beautiful woman named Gabriela - who happens to be the cruise's choreography director. Naturally Jerry is right away cast into a quandary, he really likes this girl but she thinks he is gay. He soon concocts a plan whereby he will pretend to be gay in hopes that he will be able to get closer to the woman, and then when the moment is right reveal his true colors. What insues however is chaos, and unfortunately not nearly enough comedy.

Boat Trip is one of those instances when you really have to ask yourself what an actor was thinking when he decided to do the film. Cuba Gooding Jr. will probably regret doing this movie for the rest of his career. The movie exhausts every known gay cliche from every single movie and TV show ever made. Boat Trip just becomes offensive in it's underestimation of the audiences intelligence. Not only has this mistaken identity schtick been done before and much better, but the sit com writing level makes the first half of the film nye on unbearable. Surprisingly however, about half way through the film does a 180 and actually begins to become funny. The trite gay jokes dry up and it just starts getting so goofy (thanks in part to SNL's Horatio Sans) that the ship almost rights itself. So much so that I had to wonder if it wouldn't have been an effective comedy had it been better scripted and maybe cast differently. The gay community is already up in arms over their depiction in the film and rightfully so. I do have to admit that the film nearly recovered toward the end, and even redeems itself by making the equally cliche point that it's okay to be gay.

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