Easter Sunday
A man returns home for an Easter celebration with his riotous, bickering, eating, drinking, laughing, loving family, in this love letter to the Filipino-American community.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Comedy
- Stars: Jo Koy, Tia Carrere, Eugene Cordero, Brandon Wardell, Jimmy O. Yang, Tiffany Haddish, Lou Diamond Phillips, Asif Ali, Eva Noblezada, Michael Weaver, Dustin Ybarra, Gavin Matts
- Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Comments
- zacharyohlrich - 22 June 2023
Horrible move
All the funny parts were in the trailer. This is a typical boomer movie, and not in the funny way. The main character is a dead beat dad who is never around because he is working and him and his son take a wacky road trip to see the dad's family, where the whole time the dad keeps joking about how addicted his son is to his phone, when the son is literally not on his phone once the whole movie, while the dad can't go two seconds without being on it, it's the typical boomer standard, and by the end of the movie the son is gaslight that he is actually in the wrong for being mad that his dad is a dick, and is forced to apologize for being mad at him. - Van_Ev - 31 October 2022
I like Jokoy but not this movie
We watch the movie to support Jo Koy and the whole crew. The storyline disappoints and felt no substance. The display of the Filipino culture is VERY narrow and I must say, surface level. As someone who is born and raised in the Philippines, I wasn't really able to relate much to the portrayal of a Filipino family. I like Jo Koy's comedy. His acting? Not so much. The Filipino experience in the movie is reduced to the filipino terms such as lola, kuya, halo-halo, karaoke, and Manny Pacquiao. I'm not even gonna say about how we felt regarding the jokes about Jesus and His Father (inside a supposed church) and the broken Santo Nino image where her mom's money was hidden? - donvyt - 28 August 2022
Painful to watch
Sadly this movie does not contribute anything new to how Filipinos are perceived but merely reinforces tired stereotypes, Jokoy's brand of toilet humor, and outdated tropes. It can be painful to watch.
If you've been a Filipino for a significant portion of your existence, then there aren't any jokes here that you haven't yet heard. And those that are new, at least to a few, are few and far between.
We have all seen this movie - just not in this precise form. Take a few jokes here, a few lines there, some plot lines from old family comedies, some Thanksgiving dinner family feuds from very old stories, etc. Except this time, all the characters, and the actors playing them are Filipinos. Did we really need this movie?
It's surprising that this movie even got made; when Batwoman was shelved and people WANT to see that movie. And we all know about Morbius. So the ultimate question on every thinking Filipino's mind is, "Why?"
