Easter Sunday

Wanted so bad for this movie to be great. I typically love Comedies about Family. This was so bad! I was surprised, I expected more. There were a couple of small chuckles..no real belly laughs. The movie is more about Jo Koy's character than the Family. I also thought they would have more Lou Diamond Phillips in it. However,he had a small part. Tiffany Hadish has a small part in it and she was pretty funny..but could have been in it longer. It was great to see Tia Carrere, she did well with the few lines that she had. All in all a total miss. Which is ashamed because I have always like Jo Koy and thought he would bring it. Maybe next time, because he is talented.

Oh dear, this was a huge disappointment. Let me make it clear this is in no way a funny movie. Cheesy yes, but funny? Well there were a couple of funny moments but they were fleeting.

The 2 scenes that had Tiffany Haddish playing the cop and bouncing off Jo Koy, those were the fun bits. This movie did not make me LOL like what Jo Koy does when I watch his stand up either on his Netflix specials or the most special to me when I saw him life when he came to Australia that performance was really funny. It's probably a difficult thing to move over to comedy acting rather than stand up, even when your playing yourself. Maybe the script was too stifling for his natural comedic abilities. The movie had too much going on and tried too hard, some of the comedic acting was lame. I like the Filipino humour as I can related being the husband of a Filipina,. I hope his next attempt at a movie does a lot better and I hope he does make another movie. His first will be mostly forgotten and he could have dome so much better. Maybe he should have used his actual real mother and other family members in the movie rather than the actors.

I'm a HUGE Jo Koy fan and was really looking forward to his first feature film, but unfortunately it wasn't great. If you've never seen Jo's stand up act, you will likely enjoy this film a bit more since many of the jokes in the movie are recycled from his shows. The supporting cast was good, with a great cameo by Lou Diamond Phillips, but I only really chuckled a few times. The script was predictable, the story forced, and some of the jokes felt like they were added at the last minute to fill in time. 4 stars for the supporting cast and the few giggles, but I wanted at least one big belly laugh like I get watching Jo Koy perform his stand up.

I wish I liked this more.

I've known of Koy for about a decade, so when I saw him starring in a film loosely based on his life, I knew I had to check it out. Boy, this was just flat for me because it didn't make me laugh much at all. I love Eugene from Tacoma FD and Yang from Silicon Valley. I thought there'd be jokes a minute but no the exact opposite. I also didn't care for the fact they made Eugene's character so foolish. No one in real life would ever give that man a large sum of money. I thought the bad guys weren't that threatening excluding the firearms they possessed and seemed out of place in this movie. I guess I just expected a different film from the one we were given. Everyone was enjoyable hopefully any future projects will be better.

Someone mentioned it's an hour and a half sitcom, and it probably is but it provided a steady stream of chuckles, laughs, cringes, "hmmm???", "whaaattt???" and a window into a different culture as well as the west coast point of view (I'm East Coast). Plus it finishes off nicely. It's a good night out that will leave you with a smile on your face after you've left. Enjoy.