For a movie called Easter Sunday, this has about as much to do with Easter as my big toe. Also, and perhaps incidentally, I saw this at the theater and there was a trailer for a SUPER gay film called Bros. This made me chuckle since a movie called Easter Sunday is probably drawing in a mixed audience including a fairly conservative crowd. The trailer was most definitely not conservative. Thinking the tiny crowd behind me might be having their virgin eyes and ears assaulted was funnier than anything in this actual movie we saw.

Easter Sunday stars real-life stand-up Jo Coy as struggling fictional stand-up trying to land a network pilot while dealing with his teenage son and upcoming Easter Sunday with the extended family. And wackiness ensues, lies are told, family squabbles are settled, a small-time gangster gets involved, and so does Lou Diamond Philips (as himself). And if you are asking who Lou Diamond Phillips is, I’m not surprised.

I’m not familiar with Jo Coy as a stand-up so perhaps his fans will get more out of this than me. Or perhaps a Filipino-American will since this is very focused on his Filipino family. Or maybe it’s just a lukewarm comedy with the occasionally smile line but not much really going for it.

It was… I mean… it wasn’t really terrible or anything but it also was kind of just passing the time in the theater, waiting for the credits to roll. Seriously below average but not an offensively bad film. And… umm… yeah. Hi, Lou Diamond Phillips…. I guess.

Score: 69