After watching thevery first scenein the Red Band trailer for the upcoming comedyJoy Ride, chances are you’ll start thinking that July can’t come soon enough. The story centers around a group of best friends who decide to go on a trip toChinain order to learn more about the culture and find one of the girls’ long-lost mother. However, nothing goes according to plan, and they end up going in an adventure filled with parties, drugs, and K-pop stars.
The opening scene sets the tone for the whole trailer and reveals a tiny Chinese girl uttering the F-word to a racist kid. This makes it clear that the story will be a no-BS kind of adventure that focuses on thefound familytropes, and has no time to school audiences on why they shouldn’t be dicks to immigrants and descendants. That said, it’s wheels up to China for acomedythat certainly will look a lot different that the ones we’re used to seeing.
Joy RideWill Bring Around Some Unapologetic Fun
TheRed Band trailerearns its status by revealing that a good part of the girls’ adventure will be a cocaine-induced craze, as well as an inadvertent mule story in which they are forced to hide drugs everywhere to escape the Chinese police. And if you know what a “mule” is, you know where those drugs are going. If the trailer is any indication,Joy Ridewill turn unapologetic up to eleven and deliver aGirls TripandBooksmarton steroids — which makes us all the more eager to check it out.
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Who Is in The Cast ofJoy Ride?
Joy RidefeaturesEverything Everywhere All At OncestarStephanie Hsu, as well asAshley Park(Emily in Paris),Sherry Cola(Good Trouble), andSabrina Wu, who makes the transition fromDoogie Kamealoha, M.D.staff writer to actor. The cast also featuresRonny Chieng(Crazy Rich Asians),Lori Tan Chinn(Awkwafina is Nora From Queens),David Denman(Greenland),Annie Mumolo(Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar),Desmond Chiam(The Falcon and the Winter Soldier),Alexander Hodge(Insecure), andChris Pang(Crazy Rich Asians).
The comedy is directed byAdele Lim, who makes her feature film directing debut after penning the scripts of high-profile titles like Academy Awards-nominatedCrazy Rich AsiansandRaya and the Last Dragon. The screenplay is co-written byCherry Chevapravatdumrong(Family Guy) andTeresa Hsiao(Awkwafina is Nora From Queens).
Joy Ridepremieres in theaters on July 7. you may watch the red band trailer below:
Check out the official synopsis here:
From the producers of ‘Neighbors’ and the co-screenwriter of ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ JOY RIDE stars Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Oscar® nominee Stephanie Hsu, and Sabrina Wu. The hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure. When Audrey’s (Ashley Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Sherry Cola), her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat (Stephanie Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye (Sabrina Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin. Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.
