Easter Sunday

So I am not filipino, but my wife is from the Philippines. So when she seen the trailer for this movie we decided we would rent it when it came out to stream/rent. What a mistake. The only partially funny stuff is in the trailer. The rest of the movie is beyond boring and all over the place.

Most of the jokes feel forced and make you cringe. The humor is pretty shallow and really seems to make fun of filipino culture and paint it in a bad light rather then show how great filipino culture can be.

Everyone in the movie (even non-filipinos) seem to act like nasty idiots to everyone. It felt like the lead actor (who I read is a comedian) basically took his jokes and tried to make them into a movie. It just doesn't work. This feels more like something you may see on TV instead. I can see why ticket sales were low.

While they movie had one amazing cameo, even this persons cameo felt forced and boring. I regret renting the movie for free. Couldn't pay me to watch it again. To note it was so slow we stopped watching after 45 minutes. Again, if my filipino wife finds it boring... you know its bad.

I did check out the actors comedy online and I'd say his comedy is at least funny, where as this movie is not. Not to mention the movie has endless swearing in it. This whole movie is just an insult to filipino culture and makes everyone look shallow and nuts.

I love Jo Koy. His stand up is very funny. His storytelling is great. His tales of family and growing up and achieving success as a Filipino-American are very endearing. This movie contains many of the best elements of his storytelling and it is fun to see him playing a version of himself. His family is very memorable if you have seen his stand up. This film's stand up moments are the best. The Church scene is best part of the movie. The weakness is that the movie has been sanitized for family viewing. It is the Filipino version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Heartfelt. Warm and funny. Not the best but good.

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.

Felt sloshing around in the first half. Too many stories going on. I kinda didn't know what the movie was about. Second half and third act were better. The movie is about bringing family together and people finding themselves. It succeeded and will bring tears of joy to your eyes.

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.