Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

I'm still unsure why this documentary was made. If I were a Catholic prayer-warrior I would use this movie to prove how gays are just shallow, selfish, sodomites with a lost direction in life. Everything about the movie seemed so empty. The character's feelings were empty, the interactions were empty. After about 30 minutes this movie just proved to be a step-and-repeat about loneliness and disappointment.Does anyone make any lasting friendships on these boats? They portrayed everyone as just heartless and cold, only smiling when they find a body to hug close to them for the night.If this is the standard for gay cruises, count me out! I was very interested in gay cruises, but it appears from this movie I wouldn't make many lasting memories...as my memory of this movie is quickly fading.On the plus side, this movie makes me very thankful for my own gay life. I do believe I'm having way more fun than those poor souls.

How can you have any type of expectation from a gang bang trip? How can you search for a soul mate in a place made for sex? Why the need to dress up like a bunch of 5 year old on Halloween night? How can you think like a teenager in your 30's? This baffled me like crazy. Really unexpected discussions between grown people. Actually psychological undeveloped grown people.

It was interesting to know the backstories of a few passengers, but everything else is boring. The scant costumes in every scene, the used condoms all over the deck, the public display of fallatio; it all presented evidence of stereotypes that we try to contradict in the gay community. It was easy to see their attempt to present a ship full of supposed eye candy, but the melodramatic flamboyance was a major turn off. If you're going to create a gay cruise documentary, change the music, and include more variety in the interviews. I began to fall asleep attempting to give this movie a chance, and I don't often fall asleep during new movies.

It's hard to watch a bunch of guys in elaborate party drag walking down a narrow, brightly lit cruise ship's corridor underscored by a sad, Debussy-like piano soundtrack.There is a lot of this almost clinical detachment about what is being observed. Enough so that activities--which were probably a lot of fun for most of the participants--look sad and lonely, not to mention surreal.I have mixed feelings about this film. The detachment is the point of view. I think it masquerades as objective, but really, it's pretty judgmental. The slow-motion camera lingers on guys who are north of 60 decked out in feathers, or leather harnesses. You see every nook and cranny in their well-worn faces; any joy the guys are feeling gets scrubbed out. Is it fair? Sure. Does it tell a story? Yes. Is it interesting, and fun to watch? Not for me.The film centers on five guys from Europe and the Middle East, so, points for that. But. One guy is in a wheelchair, and another lives in Dubai. One guy is Palestinian now living in Belgium. The film seems to suggest that their life challenges are equivalent, at least from the perspective of being gay and fitting into the gay community. So it's hard not to feel that the filmmakers see their queerness as yet another handicap.If you're a Stonewall-era veteran like me, you may find this film pretty rough going. And for young gay guys--well, it might make them feel like voting Republican.