Lots of promise, largely not delivered. Written by the woman behind "We Are Ladyparts", which was brilliant, but this isn't. It's like someone thought that they should do a toned-down version of Ladyparts, so it's still set in a British-Muslim family context, but it's less harsh about the constricting nature of that family life for those who don't fit in - here the young heroine isn't a lesbian, she just aspires to do martial arts and be a stuntwoman. So non-normative, but more in a silly way than a threatening one.
And it is mainly just silly. It's knockabout in a way that makes it seem like it was intended to be a kids' film, but with enough sexual content to make it inappropriate for that. Maybe there's an Asian martial arts movie genre that I am not familiar with, so I'm missing some of of the parody references. Some occasional funny bits, but mainly not all that funny.
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