{"id":35550,"date":"2022-08-04T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-review-of-jo-koys-easter-sunday\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T18:55:20","slug":"a-review-of-jo-koys-easter-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/a-review-of-jo-koys-easter-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review of Jo Koy’s Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jo Koy as Joe Valencia in Easter Sunday<\/em>.<\/figcaption>
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It’s a rare thing these days for a studio comedy to get a theatrical release without a blockbuster intellectual property to back them up. that makes Easter Sunday<\/em> feel like an event in some respects\u2014certainly as a landmark of Filipino representation in mainstream American culture, but especially right now as a title that Universal Pictures thought was better suited for the communal theatrical experience than the couch-bound comfort of a streaming service. All that’s needed to make the experience complete is for the movie to be funny.<\/p>\n

Easter Sunday<\/em><\/span> is not very funny.<\/p>\n

To be fair, the premise has promise. Comedian Jo Koy plays Joe Valencia, a fictionalized version of himself who’s trying to make his way from stand-up to sitcom acting. After an audition goes awry when the casting director asks him to perform with an accent, Joe enlists his agent (director and Broken Lizard alum Jay Chandrasekhar) to try and salvage his chances of getting the role. However, their constant contact quickly becomes an obstacle between Joe and his teenage son Junior (Brandon Wardell), and eventually a major complication as he joins his extended family’s Easter Sunday celebration.<\/p>\n