Easter Sunday

Jo Koy’s vibrant spirit leaves a lasting impression.

This is pretty funny -- starts slow but finishes strong.

It’s clear that Jo Koy loves his relatives, and wants the world to know it. It’s just that his style would be better served within the more earnest confines of a traditional multi-cam sitcom.

One can’t help leaving with a smile. Food, family, a big karaoke scene… and a spotlight on an immigrant community underrepresented in Hollywood. There are worse ways to spend 96 minutes.

Koy nails the stand-up bits, taking over for the priest on Easter Sunday and delivering an amusing impromptu sermon. But, as a character, he’s about as believable as Easter in August.

Representation aside, "Easter Sunday" never rises past standard sitcom-level clichés and plotting. Its heart may be in the right place, but its execution is as wayward as releasing an Easter film in August.

The movie has a great sense of family culture & some good cameos that do actually bring the laughs but in the end of the day it feels like a sitcom made for a movie & takes you out of the entire experience

Instead of the charming, well-meaning mess of a family in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Easter Sunday is focused on an irredeemably dysfunctional family. It’s no wonder Jo wanted to skip this dinner.

Did this story live up to the quality we should have expected for the first ever major Filipino-centric Hollywood film? The answer is an emphatic no.

While Jo Koy remains a phenomenal comedian, this movie is far from his best work, and you’ll get many more laughs by watching one of his Netflix stand-up specials.