This movie had some laughs here and there, but didn't really deliver on its promise. After the opening scene, I was hoping I would be getting a raunchy, anti-pc, R-rated comedy on the level of a Wedding Crashers or The Hangover. Unfortunately, it did not reach those heights. Joy Ride felt too derivative, like a mash-up of two or three other comedies. The situations in this movie didn't seem very outrageous because they were too familar and predictable. There is a musical sequence that the writers probably thought would have the audiences' jaws on the floor, but it's just a reworking of the WAP song. As it is, there were still moments I enjoyed, and some genuine emotion involving a birth parents subplot, but it felt like it could have been so much more with a few extra rewrites.
Review of Joy Ride
