Tag: The Hangover
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Will There Ever Be a ‘23 Jump Street’?
It’s been over ten years since Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill first went undercover as high schoolers trying to bust a drug ring in the R-rated comedy hit 21 Jump Street. Unsurprisingly, the duo returned for a sequel in 2014, along with directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who have since exploded with projects such…
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‘Joyride’: The Main Characters, Ranked by Likability
Joy Ride, directed by Adele Kim, joins the ranks of thrilling and wild friends’ trip movies The Hangover and Girl’s Trip. In the movie, friends, Lolo (Sherry Cola), Audrey (Ashley Park), and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), travel to China for Audrey’s business trip. Along the way, they meet up with Aubrey’s old friend, Kat (Stephanie Hsu),…
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The return of rude: Hollywood brings back the raunchy comedy
After a dearth of R-rated big screen hijinks, the industry bets again on films like No Hard Feelings and Joy Ride to lure crowdsJoy Ride, in theaters this Friday, is not for the modest. The R-rated road trip movie, from the director Adele Lim (Crazy Rich Asians), follows four friends, played by Ashley Park, Sabrina…
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‘Joy Ride’ Review: A Delightful and Irreverent Girls’ Trip Full of Laughs and Raunchiness
Adele Lim’s new girls’ trip film, Joy Ride, is destined to join the ranks of iconic comedy movies like The Hangover and Bridesmaids. Complete with crude humor, raunchy sex scenes, and full-frontal, this movie is definitely not for everyone but it dives deeper than movies of its ilk while also not shying away from the…
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Adele Lim’s R-Rated Comedy ‘Joy Ride’ Was Originally Called ‘Joy F— Club’
The working title for Adele Lim’s new comedy “Joy Ride” was “Joy Fuck Club.”It’s a profane callback to “The Joy Luck Club,” a multigenerational family saga that broke ground. But if “Joy Ride” builds on the legacy set by that landmark 1993 film in that nearly all of its cast is Asian, the similarities between…
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‘Joy Ride’: Adele Lim on Her SXSW Directorial Debut and Telling a Story About Messy, Thirsty Friends ‘On Our Terms’
When Teresa Hsiao (“Family Guy”), Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (“Family Guy”) and Adele Lim (“Crazy Rich Asians”) set out to write “Joy Ride,” the aim was to develop a story that they wished they could have had seen in their twenties.“Joy Ride” sees Lim transition from writer to director in this “Girls Trip” meets “The Hangover” ride…
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Ed Helms Says ‘The Hangover’ Created a ‘Tornado of Fame,‘ Anxiety and Turmoil: ‘I Was Spinning Out and Panicking’
Ed Helms was a familiar face from “The Daily Show” and “The Office” when he landed a role in “The Hangover” alongside Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis. The 2009 comedy blockbuster launched a trilogy and, as Helms said on a recent episode of the “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” podcast, created a “tornado of fame”…
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The Best Comedy Movies Of 2022, Ranked
In recent years, the major Hollywood studios have been taking fewer chances on straight-up comedies, which is a bit of a bummer. The days of movies like “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Superbad,” “Bridesmaids,” and “The Hangover” making bank at the box office are behind us, and many comedies have been relegated to streaming services…
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‘Vacation Friends’ Review: Lightweight Comedy Earns Guffaws with Familiar Mix of Raunch and Sentiment
Just as it’s easy to imagine “The Hangover” being transformed, with relatively minor script tinkering, into a deadly serious film noir, one can envision an early draft of “Vacation Friends” serving as the blueprint for a paranoid thriller about vacationers who discover much too late that their new acquaintances are aggressively chummy for all the…
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Zach Galifianakis Shares His Two ‘SNL’ Sketch Pitches for Britney Spears That Flopped
Back in 2000 during his early years as a comic, Zach Galifianakis had a brief stint as a writer on “Saturday Night Live.” It was short-lived, and more like a two-week trial run. But apparently, two weeks was all it took for “The Hangover” star and “Between Two Ferns” host to come up with some…