Joy Ride

It's _Crazy Rich Asians_ meets _The Hangover_. I'm not really a fan of either of those, so I'm not entirely surprised that this didn't click with me. The movie is at its best when it's making fun of the cultural differences between characters. However, more often than not, this movie will fall back on the same old lowest common denominator tropes that makes most studio comedies so boring. Most of this consists of wacky situations where things go cRaAaAaAaAaZy, lame raunchy jokes for 40 year olds, pop culture references that already feel dated, men being objectified to an obnoxious degree and a **lot** of painful, cringy dialogue.The story is more of an excuse to string all the bits together, there's not a lot of cohesion to it. There's an attempt to give the movie some weight at the very end, but because it doesn't really put in the work during the first two acts, it doesn't land. Again, I'm not the target demographic, but I wasn't the primary target for _Turning Red_ or _Beef_ either, and I ended up really liking both of those. This is just lazy and formulaic by comparison. 3.5/10

Like an Asian Bridesmaid. Laugh out loud funny and crass.