Movie Preview: Comic Jo Koy brings the Filipino-American giggles to “Easter Sunday”

Posted on May 5, 2022 by Roger Moore

Tiffany Haddish and Tia Carrere also star in this Koy-engineered August release. They say Lou Diamond Phillips is also in it.

Not getting a “Fabulous Filipino Brothers” indie/working class and funny vibe from this.

More upscale and contrived, as in seriously studio processed — but there are a couple of chuckles in this trailer — OK, one, the Manny Pacquiao joke.

August 3, we’ll know if they’re saving the best laughs for the paying audience.

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Movie Critic, formerly with McClatchy-Tribune News Service, Orlando Sentinel, published in Spin Magazine, The World and now published here, Orlando Magazine, Autoweek Magazine
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