Boat Trip

An enraged woman knocks a man in the head and sends him falling into a pool. Two rival bikini teams have a physical altercation, comedic and sexualized slapping.

Gratuitous nudity: women on a Swedish bikini team do topless jumping jacks. In a cruise ship dining room, ice sculptures of penises spurt water out their tips. Male nudity, exposed buttocks. A gag involving an erect penis in a swimsuit. Frequent, unrelenting sex talk, gags, and innuendo (phallic puns and double entendre especially). Jokes in which suntan lotion is confused for ejaculate. The "butch" coach of the Swedish bikini team tries to impress one of the lead characters by repeatedly shoving a baseball bat halfway down her throat. A woman, thinking the man she's talking to is gay, asks him the best way to perform oral sex; he asks her to show him what she does by using a banana, and she proceeds to graphically show and tell him.

Frequent profanity. "F--k" and variations. Incessant sexual innuendo, puns, and double entendre employed at every possible opportunity. One of the lead characters uses gay slurs like "homo" and "trouser pilots." "C--ksucker," "p---y," "a--hole," "bitch," "s--t."

Excessive drinking. Lead characters drink to excess, pass out in pools, wake up in strange beds, slur their speech, stumble, etc. Pot smoking. Cigar smoking.

Parents need to know that Boat Trip is a 2002 comedy in which Cuba Gooding Jr. and Horatio Sanz play two randy straight guys who mistakenly end up on a "gays only" cruise ship. This movie manages to portray every possible gay stereotype -- lisping, prancing, obsessively focused on having sex with heterosexual men -- while also finding any possible phallic-related gag, innuendo, or double entendre to employ for the duration of the movie. After being little more than a punch line for over an hour, the movie tries to force in a "we are all God's children" message that in no way redeems everything that went on before that moment. Sanz's character in particular reacts to interactions with gay men by acting grossed out and using terms like "homo" and "trouser pilots," and the movie doesn't bother trying to distinguish whether the character's homophobia is the punch line, or if being grossed out by homosexuality and gay culture is the punch line. Nearly all the women here suffer the same fate of stereotyping: when a Swedish bikini team ends up on board, they seem to be there to make the movie "less gay" and act bubbly as they engage in topless jumping jacks while Sanz and Gooding Jr. objectify them. In addition, there's frequent profanity, sight gags involving suntan lotion mistaken for ejaculate, gags involving oral sex with a baseball bat and a banana, frequent drunken behavior, and a scene with pot smoking. Families hoping for a comedy centered on LGBTQ culture should look elsewhere.

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