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Is Joy Ride worth watching? ›

Fresh takes, classic gags, and excellent performances from its leads elevate an occasionally clunky and very packed script into something well worth watching.

When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their epic, no-holds-barred 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.

Joy Ride / Film synopsis

Why is 'Joy Ride' rated R? “Joy Ride” is rated R for strong and crude sexual content, language throughout, drug content and brief graphic nudity, according to the Classification and Ratings Administration. That means anyone under 17 needs to see the movie with a parent or adult guardian.

32 million USD

Joy Ride / Budget

Is Joy Ride based on a true story? No, Joy Ride is a work of fiction. However, it draws inspiration from real-life events and urban legends.

Joy Ride (2023) is a raunchy and crude road comedy film directed by Adele Lim and starring Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, and Sabrina Wu. The film follows four friends -- Audrey (Park), Lolo (Cola), Deadeye (Wu), and Kat (Hsu) -- as they travel across Asia in search of one of their birth mothers.

It was released in the United States on October 5, 2001, and in the UK under the title Road Kill on April 26, 2002, and in Australia as Roadkill. The alternate titles were because of the negative connotations of “joy rides” as stealing cars rather than fun roadtrips.

There is a lot of drinking and drugs in the first half of the movie. Overall I would say that it's probably best left for 16+ unless your kid is super mature about sex and you're okay with them watching and hearing the things in this movie.

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The cast was announced between August and October of the same year, and filming took place in British Columbia throughout the latter month. Joy Ride had its world premiere at SXSW on March 17, 2023, and was released in the United States on July 7, 2023, by Lionsgate Films.

Is Joy Ride 2 a good movie? ›

Reel Film Reviews gives a mixed review: "A slight cut above its direct-to-video horror brethren, Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead nevertheless suffers from many of the same problems that one tends to associate with low-budget efforts of this ilk – including scarcely-developed characters, derivative storytelling, and a sporadic ...

Ted Levine, who voices Rusty in Joy Ride also portrayed agent Tanner in The Fast and The Furious, Paul Walker who played the protagonist Lewis is also Brian in the franchise, and one of Tanner's employees.

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The 2023 comedy Joy Ride includes a surprise cameo from former NBA star Baron Davis, and here is how he factors into the story and compares to himself in real life.

Summaries. Follows four Asian 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.

If you want some intense love story, Ao Haru Ride or its English name Blue Spring Ride is the right choice. Story move fast and our heart simultaneously beating with the character. I hope it will be season 2 which is will be the final season I guess.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 74% of 116 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "A well-constructed B-movie thriller, Joy Ride keeps up the necessary level of tension and chills.

In fact, despite the MPAA rating for this movie, which says that JOY RIDE received an R-rating because of violence, terror and language, some of the movie's language contains crude sexual references.

Along for the Ride doesn't reinvent the genre but it is a pleasant sit for romantics. There's a sense of warmth, humor, and likability to the movie that won me over.