Jerry seems to have it all and is about to propose to his girlfriend of years. But when she says no and that she has found another man and that she is dumping him he spirals into despair and depression. For six months he pines over what could have been and was lost. His best friend Nick who has trouble with the ladies has come up with a foolproof plan to succeed and that is to take a cruise. He has been told that cruises are great places to pick up lonely girls and he wants to take Jerry with him in hopes of cheering him and also to get him over his lost girlfriend. But when they offend a travel agent, the travel agent gets back at them by booking them on a cruise of gay men. When they arrive on the cruise they are so unobservant that it takes them hours to figure out it is a gay cruise and by that time it is too late as the ship has gone out to sea. They instantly go into panic and freak out about what they are going to do. Both of them end up getting drunk and when Jerry almost drowns a beautiful woman named Gabriela who is a choreographer of dance on the cruise rescues him. So now Jerry is faced with a dilemma he really likes this girl but she thinks he is gay, so what is he to do. So he comes up with a plan and that’s is to pretend he is gay in hopes that he will be able to get closer to the woman then be able to tell her he was really straight, but things never seem to work out how he plans them as all chaos breaks loose.

Sometimes you have to look at a movie and wonder what the actor was thinking when he agreed to do the movie. Cuba Gooding Jr. will probably regret doing this movie five years down the road. The movie exhausts every known gay clique from every single movie and TV show ever made. So much at times it becomes a monotonous trudge through the cliques rather than a comedy. I was disappointed for the first half of the movie of the cliques and the unfunny premises that have been done before and done better. But then right in the middle of the movie it takes a sharp 180 and actually begins to become funny as it become more goofy and less about knocking the gay community. Some of the goofy moments in the latter part of the movie are quite clever and even almost make up for the first half that was dismal. This is a movie that could have pulled off with a better script and maybe different actors. This movie proved it had a lot of potential but wasted it by getting to caught up in cliques. The gay community is already highly protesting this movie and rightfully so but in the end it did redeem itself even making the comments that I think it may have been forced to make and that it is ok to be gay.
3 stars out of 5