The summer blockbuster comedy was once a given, with movies like Wedding Crashers, Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder, The Hangover, Bridesmaids and Girls Trip as classic examples. But a comedy that was can get a packed movie theater laughing throughout has been a dying breed in recent years (without Robert Downey Jr. or Minions making the jokes). Enter Joy Ride, a raunchy comedy that has a strong case to be one of the funniest movies of the year.
Directed and written by Adele Lim, alongside Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, Joy Ride follows four Asian-American friends — Audrey (Ashley Park), Lolo (Sherry Cola), Kat (Stephanie Hsu) and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu) — who travel to China and go looking for Audrey's birth mother. Needless to say, things don't quite go as planned, but each mishap is an absolute riot for the audience.
