That stark difference comes to a head when Audrey brings Lolo on an important business trip to Beijing, where Audrey must secure a big deal in order to make partner at her firm. Theirs was a friendship of convenience, in its way, but also genuinely loving and protective. As a baby, Audrey was adopted from China by white parent her only connection to her Chinese roots has come through her oldest and best friend, Lolo ( Sherry Cola), the only other Asian kid in town.
Ashley Park plays Audrey, a striving lawyer living in her hometown, a quaint and largely white exurb of Seattle.
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Light and wild as the movie often is, there is serious matter at its core. That is an at least partially understandable choice. Bridesmaids certainly has sappy moments towards the end, but Joy Ride's last 20 or so minutes are almost straight drama the movie all too willingly cedes its anarchic pep to the demands of sentiment. The film never quite commits to its bit, perhaps based on the assumption that comedy these days must be tempered with niceness and lesson-learning. While it contains plenty of good jokes smartly delivered by talented actors, Joy Ride suffers from a conflict of self. Which doesn’t, unfortunately, mean that the movie is as composed and confident as its forebears. It’s as if Joy Ride, from director Adele Lim and writers Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, is the happy Zillenial child of those two blockbusters, a processing and reworking that stands proudly in its own present day. It’s probably been long enough since the releases of The Hangover (in 2009) and Bridesmaids (in 2011) that we can call the new film Joy Ride (in theaters July 7) an homage rather than a flagrant ripoff.
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