REVIEW: A road trip through China goes haywire for four Asian-American pals in Adele Lim’s off-the-rails addition to gross-out comedies.
The salaciousness of what happens to these messy, flawed, horny, hungover, all-too human twentysomethings plays better than the sentimentality that takes over that last third or so, which quickly goes from sweet to saccharine on its way to the inevitable equivalent of a group hug. The need for likability becomes a liability in the end.
Still,understands how to get down and dirty, and that the healing power of raunch-coms lies in making the transgressive seem relatable, and vise versa. The fact that this genre was a sandbox that once seemed off limits to the talented people now playing in it adds an extra thrill as well. If it’s the start of a beautiful, ongoing working relationship between Lim and these four, we’ll take it. Let a thousand foul-mouthed, massage-gun-abusing, middle-finger-flying flowers bloom.
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