Easter Sunday

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
  • LokyraMac - 19 December 2022
    Fun & Funny
    This was a fun comedy, crammed full of jokes and gags. If you come to this from Jo Koy's standup, it's delightful. It's basically turning his standup routines into a movie, even including a scene featuring him holding a microphone and delivering jokes to a group of people.

    I'm not mad.

    The subplots get a bit tangled, but not to an unenjoyable point. The slightly overwhelming, yet still hilarious and much-loved part, is that every named character gets in on delivering the jokes and gags. It made me so happy.

    Regardless of connection or familiarity with Filipino or Filipino American culture, most anyone will enjoy and appreciate the family shenanigans and bs that many of us deal with. (Aunties gonna auntie.)

    The cameos are spectacular, and the joyful nods, winks, and straight jabs at cultural assumptions bring much hilarity.

    I would also like to take a moment to say, Jo Koy is badass and fabulous for fighting for a theatrical release for this movie. Representation freaking matters, and having this many amazing Filipino and Filipino American actors on the big screen (including the ones who people assumed were Mexican) was tremendous.
  • life-in-a-vacuum-sucks - 11 September 2022
    Pretty Terrible
    Like many other reviewers, I would have to say this movie is terrible, boring, and full of tropes and jokes that have been done a dozen times. Cameos and appearances don't add any value, and attempts at heartwarming scenes are transparent.

    I know it's a comedy, but situations portrayed are far fetched and don't deliver humor.

    It would be be compared to a half-baked, bomb comparable to any b-movie, with the only draw being a name and unfettered Filipino pride.

    Every character is flat, insulting, and poorly thought-out. I'm not sure why each character is jerk, but that's the feeling.

    I have enjoyed Jo's standup, but this was a waste of time and really missed the mark. Even from a Filipino perspective, there's nothing about this movie that would be enjoyable.