Joy Ride movie review

MOVIE TITLE: Joy Ride

This raunchy road trip is now playing in theaters.

RATING: R

LENGTH: 1 hour 35 minutes

MOVIE REVIEW MOM GRADE: F

IN A NUTSHELL:

The story follows 4 Chinese-American friends as they bond and discover the truth of what it means to know and love who you are, while they travel through China in search of one of their birth mothers.

The film was directed by Adele Lim. She also helped write the screenplay with Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, and Teresa Hsiao.

On a personal note, I’ve been to China many times and love it there! I took two of my sons with me when I went on my first speaking tour. We all fell in love with the people and culture. One of them even married a lovely woman from Hong Kong and now I have an adorable grandson with Chinese in his blood!

THINGS I LIKED:

I’m so happy to see Ashley Park in a feature film! I love her in the popular sitcom Emily in Paris. She’s so talented and beautiful.
Other cast members include Debbie Fan, Kenneth Liu, Annie Mumolo, David Denman, and more.
There is a sweet storyline about one of the characters going to find her birth mother, yet also recognizing that her adoptive parents are amazing.
It’s fun to go to China in the movie! It’s a beautiful country filled with rich culture, delicious food, and gentle people.

THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:

The girls are SO crude and vulgar. Why do feminists think the only way to show they are liberated is to be crass and foul?
One of the girls states about the Chinese people that “People around here can tell Chinese-Chinese from American-Chinese.” That’s so true because Chinese-Chinese people don’t wear loud, obnoxious colors for the most part or wear Hipster-American clothing. Chinese people are much more reserved and respectful.
Characters in the movie slam white people, Americans, Chinese, Christians, and other things.
Honestly, this felt like a rated X movie, so I stopped watching it long before it ended. It’s soooo raunchy and filled with slutty tramps who respect nothing.

TIPS FOR PARENTS:

This sex-obsessed movie is not appropriate for kids.
Lots of profanity and SO many F-bombs. The first word we hear in the movie is an F-bomb. The first word we hear a young child say is an F-bomb. It’s supposed to be so funny, but it’s certainly not clever.
Young girls flip the bird SO many times.
We see sexualized artwork that features male genitalia.
Young women talk about sex and genitalia many, many, many times.
Mandarin is spoken a lot, mostly with subtitles that have to be read.
Lots of alcohol.
A bunch of young women do cocaine and hide bags of it in their bodies.
We see several people going at it in a variety of ways.