(rated R, 100 mins.) “Love Boat” in 2000, in a tale of Jerry (Cuba Gooding Jr.) who has just been dumped by his girlfriend (Vivica A. Fox). Jerry and pal Nick (Horatio Sanz) decide to drown their sorrows on a cruise. This sounds fine until they find out it’s a gay cruise. Just as Jerry’s ready to jump ship, he falls for Gabriella (Roselyn Sanchez) a gorgeous dance instructor. How quick Jerry forgets he has a broken heart, eh? As Jerry wants her, so does an old queen (Roger Moore, yes, really) want Jerry. Things get crazy when the Swedish tanning team are on board run by a team coach (Lin Shaye of “Something About Mary”). The movie’s multi-layered stereotypical digs manage to stay credible (and I use the term loosely) by being silly and farfetched. Instead of being original in portraying gays (perhaps drawing from say, real life), this movie falls back on the typical been-there done-that techniques. This is a bad attempt at a Farrelly brothers flicks out to sea. It would have made for a better “Titanic”, and just sunk.
