2023 · comedy
Joy Ride (2023)
Directed by Adele Lim1h 34m2023
When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo, her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat, her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.
Our read: Joy Ride (2023) (2023) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
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