The need for likability becomes a liability in the end. The salaciousness of what happens to these messy, flawed, horny, hungover, all-too human twentysomethings plays better than the sentimentality that takes over that last third or so, which quickly goes from sweet to saccharine on its way to the inevitable equivalent of a group hug. There’s a spark to how Park’s high-strung Type A personality clashes up against Cola’s chaos energy how the mutual bestie-envy between Cola and Hsu’s characters creates beaucoup frenemy chemistry and how Wu’s constant switching between murmuring, monotonous weirdness and inappropriate outbursts lets them play the wild card against everyone.Įdi Patterson Explains Why Judy Is the Most Gangster of ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ It helps that she’s assembled a mostly female ensemble - Wu is nonbinary - that genuinely click, and complement each other’s comic strengths. The co-writer of Crazy Rich Asians, Lim has said she wanted to make something that was both an old-school comedy she’d wished she had in her twenties and represented her rapport with close friends now (“we hang out all the time and it’s just dick jokes”). Virtually everything - surprise! - and Joy Ride takes great pleasure in putting its core four through the ringer, when the group itself isn’t leaving destruction, debauchery, and physically injured basketball stars in their wake. But so does staging a highly gymnastic threesome for maximum belly laughs. Representation still matters to the makers of Joy Ride. It’s not the only factor, however, and the movie is less interested in breaking new ground than leaving its footprints on a well-trod road.
The fact that the quartet tearing their way through Beijing and the rural provinces of China are Asian-American is a key factor, and Lim, her co-writers Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, and the cast all lean into the cross-cultural currencies, specifics and yes, slings and arrows of prejudice that are part of their experiences.
It’s also out to prove that you can make something novel without reducing it to being a novelty. Sex, drugs, profanity, penises, puke, poop, the use of “party” as a verb - Joy Ride embraces these reliable gross-out- comedy standbys with a gleeful sense of gusto. Let’s just say that the film’s R rating isn’t the only thing that’s hard here. Perhaps there will be a tribute to the joys of a vigorous “Devil’s Triangle” (also known as “the Eiffel Tower”).
You might get a close-up of a very extreme tattoo, inked in an extremely painful place to have one.
Raunch-coms live or die by their ability to make you go “Oh my god!” or “EWe don’t want to spoil anything for viewers, so let’s say that there could be bags of coke that explode inside bodily orifices, at which point much horniness may ensue.
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