‘Joy Ride’ Review: Adele Lim’s Asian ‘Girls Trip’ Gives Four Women of Color a Chance to Cut Loose
variety.comPeter Debruge Chief Film Critic 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 “Joy Ride,” throwing sensitivity to the wind en route to obliterating any remaining barriers.
Like “Girls Trip” with an all-Asian-American cast, the Seth Rogen-produced, hard-R road movie follows small-town besties Audrey (Ashley Park) and Lolo (Sherry Cola) to Beijing, where they tackle everything from taboo tattoos to a devil’s threesome with all the gusto you’d hope or expect from “Crazy Rich Asians” co-writer Adele Lim’s directorial debut.
Frankly, it should be no shock that Asian American comics can be every bit as filthy and wrong as their white-guy counterparts.
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