Metascore
18 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 28 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 28
  2. Negative: 22 out of 28
  1. 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.
  2. Boat Trip is happily a no-holds-barred, all-out farce in which zany complications escalate rapidly and continually.
  3. 50
    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.
  4. 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.
  5. 50
    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.
  6. Reviewed by: Clint Morris
    40
    Similar to one of those smutty 80s comedies, Boat Trip is a Farrelly brothers like gross-out with a homophobic entwine.
  7. 38
    Fairly cringe-inducing, full of witless double-entendres and the requisite "gags" involving bodily fluids.
  8. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    38
    The only thing a movie this unrefined needs is a vaudevillian in baggy pants and someone hawking peanuts in the aisle.
  9. Doesn't even fall in the lowbrow-but-entertaining comedy category. It's unabashedly dumb and pathetically offensive.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. This boatload of clichés is strenuously unfunny.
  13. 25
    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.
  14. Cuba Gooding Jr. can just return his "Jerry Maguire" Oscar right now. He has no excuse for making Boat Trip, a perniciously unfunny comedy.
  15. Reviewed by: Carla Meyer
    25
    An unfunny fish-out-of-water comedy.
  16. 20
    It's hard to imagine who would find this funny.
  17. 20
    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.
  18. 20
    Cuba Gooding Jr.'s unrelenting energy can be galvanic in good films, but in lesser efforts it reeks of frenzied futility.
  19. 20
    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.
  20. It's a lame, gender-mixed, mistaken-identity, cross-dressing comedy: "Some Like It Tepid," if you will.
  21. 12
    Not that the film is outrageous. That would be asking too much. It is dim-witted, unfunny, too shallow to be offensive.
  22. 10
    If Boat Trip were screened on a cruise ship, most of the passengers would be dog-paddling back to shore.
  23. Reviewed by: David Rooney
    10
    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.
  24. 10
    A smutty, imbecilic farce.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 0
    The movie improves immeasurably if you visualize a looming iceberg in the corner of the frame.
  28. 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.
User Score

Mixed or average reviews- based on 24 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
  2. Negative: 7 out of 18
  1. This movie's hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's kinda weird but whatever. It's funny. I have nothing else to say. Full Review »
  2. Boat trip feels so much like a farrely brothers gross out, but you got to keep remembering that even those guys would craft a more well made sex comedy such as "there's something about Mary Full Review »
  3. BrianN.
    0
    Cuba Gooding Jr. deserves to be stripped of his Oscar for this incompetent mess.