Boat Trip
Motion Picture Corporation of America (MPCA) | Release Date: March 21, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
18
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
4
Negative:
22
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75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Ray Conlogue
If this rings distant Laurel-and-Hardy, or even Crosby-and-Hope bells, it's on purpose. Gooding's and Sanz's performances are almost a tribute to vaudeville-influenced two-guy comedy. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Boat Trip is happily a no-holds-barred, all-out farce in which zany complications escalate rapidly and continually. Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Relentless in its crudity, so indiscriminate in its pursuit of tasteless laughs, so pure in its determination to offend, one almost has to admire it. It's even funny. Sometimes. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Has an agreeable air of anything-goes vulgarity, which is so transcendentally idiotic that it's impossible to tell whether the film is a brilliant, deadpan parody of raunchy lowbrow farces from the '70s and '80s, or one of the stupidest, most regressive films ever made. Or, more likely, it's a little of both. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Even 007 is a big old queen. Yes, Roger Moore's on board as a lusty codger, who, unlike the rest of us, can't get enough of Sanz. Read full review
40
Film ThreatClint Morris
Similar to one of those smutty 80s comedies, Boat Trip is a Farrelly brothers like gross-out with a homophobic entwine. Read full review
38
USA TodayMike Clark
The only thing a movie this unrefined needs is a vaudevillian in baggy pants and someone hawking peanuts in the aisle. Read full review
38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Fairly cringe-inducing, full of witless double-entendres and the requisite "gags" involving bodily fluids. Read full review
33
Seattle Post-IntelligencerEllen A. Kim
Doesn't even fall in the lowbrow-but-entertaining comedy category. It's unabashedly dumb and pathetically offensive. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
If this garbage sounds like your kind of thing, and the folks who jump up and talk back to the screen are your kind of people, then, sweetheart, you and this movie deserve each other. Read full review
25
Chicago TribunePatrick Z. McGavin
Technically it does not qualify as one of the worst American-made movies ever. It only feels that way. The movie's offenses are too numerous to catalog. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Not that the film is so horrendously offensive -- it's almost, and I hesitate to say this, too stupid to provoke insult -- but it's juvenile enough to suck a few IQ points out of any audience member with a brain cell. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
An unfunny fish-out-of-water comedy. Read full review
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
This boatload of clichés is strenuously unfunny. Read full review
25
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Cuba Gooding Jr. can just return his "Jerry Maguire" Oscar right now. He has no excuse for making Boat Trip, a perniciously unfunny comedy. Read full review
20
SalonCharles Taylor
It is a testament to our national determination that Nathan is not stymied by his almost complete lack of talent, his slipshod timing or his crude comic sensibility. Read full review
20
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Cuba Gooding Jr. is the kind of guy who does ten minutes of shtick every time the little light in the fridge comes on, and for years I've been waiting for him to just go away. If this dud comedy is any indication of the scripts he's getting, I may not have to wait much longer. Read full review
20
L.A. WeeklyDaniel Fienberg
Cuba Gooding Jr.'s unrelenting energy can be galvanic in good films, but in lesser efforts it reeks of frenzied futility. Read full review
20
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
It's hard to imagine who would find this funny. Read full review
16
Portland OregonianChris Hewitt
It's a lame, gender-mixed, mistaken-identity, cross-dressing comedy: "Some Like It Tepid," if you will. Read full review
12
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Not that the film is outrageous. That would be asking too much. It is dim-witted, unfunny, too shallow to be offensive. Read full review
10
Washington PostRita Kempley
A smutty, imbecilic farce. Read full review
10
VarietyDavid Rooney
Washout. Lacking the mojo even to be offensive in its stereotypical view of gays and women, this excruciating cocktail of sitcom plotting and gross-out humor makes a clunky cheesefest like "The Love Boat" look like breezy, sophisticated fun. Read full review
10
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
If Boat Trip were screened on a cruise ship, most of the passengers would be dog-paddling back to shore. Read full review
0
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Had the ghost of Paul Lynde swanned by in a caftan-clad cameo, you couldn't find a more outdated, miscalculated collection of stale, queen-size stereotypes than those trotted out on this ship of fools. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarrit Ingman
There are bad movies, and there’s Boat Trip, a puerile comedy so appalling and unfunny, it’s like contracting the Norwalk virus at sea. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
This comedy is harmless, too, when measured against the vast array of harms that the world has to offer. It's also stupid, strident, witless, pitifully inept and bad for what ails you.
0
Village VoiceDennis Lim
The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame. Read full review
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