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Hsu and Cola balance the mania well against Park's straight woman sincerity, but it's Wu, a rising star on the standup scene, who serves as Joy Ride's surprise MVP. Content collapsed. A lot you've seen before but with just enough rude freshness to keep from feeling like a complete retread.

If you enjoy comedies with a solid storyline as well, offering more than just cheap slapstick comedy, then director Adele Lim's 2023 movie "Joy Ride" certainly is well-worth taking 95 minutes to sit down and watch. My rating of "Joy Ride" lands on a seven out of ten stars.

Parents need to know that Joy Ride is a crude, hilarious road movie with strong language, sexual humor, drinking, and drugs.

Production began by October, with Desmond Chiam, Alexander Hodge, and Chris Pang joining the cast. Filming occurred in Vancouver. On October 7, a lewd playground serving as a set for the film was spotted in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. Hsu used a body double for the scene involving her character's tattoo.

Joy Ride (known as Road Kill in the UK and Roadkill in Australia) is a 2001 American thriller film directed by John Dahl and written by Clay Tarver and J. J. Abrams.

Near the end, when the police opened the door of the truck that had crashed into the house, we can see Charlotte in the back, tied up and gagged. Later we see her in the ambulance with Venna.

Rusty Nail is a main antagonist in the Joy Ride movies. He is an enigmatic, serial killing truck driver who stalks, tortures and kills his victims for those who have wronged him.

Ted Levine, who voices Rusty in Joy Ride also portrayed agent Tanner in The Fast and The Furious, Paul Walker who played the protagonist Lewis is also Brian in the franchise, and one of Tanner's employees.

When Audrey's business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the help of Lolo, her childhood best friend, Kat, a college friend, and Deadeye, Lolo's eccentric cousin. Their epic, no-holds-barred experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are.

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While Deadeye is referred to as 'she/her' throughout Joy Ride, the last scene sees the character undergo a physical transformation and take on 'they/them' pronouns, which Wu says was “intentional and canon”. “Deadeye is, for sure, non-binary. When I played them, I thought of them as non-binary.

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In "Joy Ride", two brothers (Zhan & Walker) get involved with a big rig driver over the CB radio while on the open road. They set him up as a practical joke and unleash all hell on themselves as the unseen subject of their prank, known only as "Rusty Nail", turns out to be a maniacal killer.

Joy Ride was inspired by real-life incidents.

And yet, you'll be surprised to learn that the cast didn't go to Asia. In fact, production designer Michael Norman Wong and cinematographer Paul Yee built and shot Seoul, South Korea and Beijing right in Vancouver.

“Joy Ride,” an R-rated comedy about a Chinese business trip gone wrong, released to 2,820 theaters in July and loved by 91% of critics, earned only $12.9 million and was one of the highest-rated box office failures of 2023.

- Rated R for strong and crude sexual content, language throughout, drug content and brief graphic nudity.

Although Ted Levine provides Rusty Nail's voice, he actually wasn't brought in until post-production, and, physically, Rusty Nail is played by the hulking actor Matthew Kimbrough. Three different versions of the ending were shot.

In all three endings the following occurs: Lewis gets into the truck and plows it into Rusty Nail. As he is walking away from the truck, Rusty Nail grabs him from underneath and tries to pull him back. Fuller runs to the front to stop the police from entering Room 18, but they hold him down and bust in anyways.