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Its glee is infectious, but it peters out long before the movies over.
This is a nervy gambit particularly in conjunction with a twist involving Audreys reluctant search for her birth mother.
(The script, by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, feels sharper than the overall movie.)
But while Park is a charismatic lead, the movie never seems comfortable clowning on her characters cultural disconnection.
Maybe whats holdingJoy Rideback is that theres a sense of responsibility accompanying its R-rated high jinks.
ButJoy Rides problem is that it never really manages to cut loose.
