In 1993, “The Joy Luck Club” made Hollywood history, proving to a skeptical — and let’s face it, racist — industry that there was mainstream demand for a culturally sensitive Chinese American ensem…
In 1993, “The Joy Luck Club” made Hollywood history, proving to a skeptical — and let’s face it, racist — industry that there was mainstream demand for a culturally sensitive Chinese American ensemble drama. Three decades later, along comes “,” throwing sensitivity to the wind en route to obliterating any remaining barriers.
For sitcom-honed co-writers Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, the trick is to keep surprising audiences with just how far they’re willing to push any given scenario. Meanwhile, for the central foursome — which also includes “Everything Everywhere All at Once” star and nonbinary stand-up Sabrina Wu — the idea is to take each situation and juice it up even further with ad libs and alt lines.
An overachieving associate in an otherwise all-white law firm, Audrey — who was raised by white parents, played by David Denman and Annie Mumolo, and knows hardly anything of her Asian heritage — accepts an assignment to fly to Beijing and seal the deal with an important Chinese client. She invites Lolo along to serve as translator, disregarding the fact that her friend has a tendency to say and do outrageously inappropriate things in public.
At the end of the day, what matters is how funny it is, and if you strip away the alcohol-primed SXSW audience’s laugh-at-everything response, a lot of “Joy Ride’s” humor hinges on characters shouting insults or unapologetic ethnic stereotypes . Wu adds an element of physical comedy to the mix, functioning as the movie’s go-to scene-stealer, the way Melissa McCarthy did in “Bridesmaids,” or Awkwafina in “Crazy Rich Asians.
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