Okay, I don't know where to start.
The short review: It sucks.
The longer review: I can't remember when was the last time I watched a movie with my girlfriend and wanted to simply walk out and have my movie ticket refunded.
This movie was TERRIBLE. The sickest reason was its deliberate use of advertisements. Paid obviously. For example, near the start of the movie, we see the PLDT ads. Something about PLDT DSL internet café, and it's not just displayed, the actors shamefully plugs the product. Even to the point of giving fliers to "customers" WITHIN THE story of the movie.
Come on. Another shameful ad was when Vic had his shirt stained by her daughter (I assure you this was uncalled for and had no effect whatsoever in the storyline, if there is any). Thankfully, there is Ariel, and we see Ruby putting the shirt in an Ariel-filled water basin and exclaiming that Ariel is magic or something. This took about 5 minutes.
Again, that sucks! Come on now. There's also Xtreme magic sing ad etc etc. I know this is about money, but that is so damn annoying. I'm sure I'm not the only one complaining as the couple on the other row was also complaining.
Then, let's go to the so called "plot" or storyline. This movie had absolutely no sense whatsoever. The very first scene we get to see a Starwars-wannabe fight scene between creatures we do not know. It takes a long time and the only point of this scene is to let the audience see "Butiki", an alien who can shape shift to look like anyone. The scene wasn't even cool at all! Then, we have Ina Magenta turning to Allan K. Who thought of that stupid storyline??? It's because Ina Magenta wanted to look beautiful then somehow it backfired. And all fairies were laughing at her because she looks stupid. Now the story goes that Ina says that she shouldn't have been so conscious of her looks.
That's stupid! The fairies were laughing at her because she looks stupid, and then she says she shouldn't have been conscious of her looks? What was that? Logic got lost somewhere. Hello? And the other storyline was Vic womanizing, greedy and strict with his children. This conflict was resolved when Butiki posed as Vic and then his children didn't even notice and was even happy with Butiki. Okay, that made sense. Except for the fact that Butiki was robotic throughout and I have no idea why the children or the wife didn't suspect a thing.
The final scenes showed even further why it sucked. Suddenly the Kabisote family were fighting Satana and her snakes. And that's it. They won. La la la.
And regarding their ad in the paper, where you see a digital monster that looks like Shrek? It had like, 2 minutes of theater time, and the only significant thing it did was dance like a homosexual and that's it. Remove that scene with Joey De Leon and no one would have noticed. It's not funny at all.
If this is the movie that grosses 100M+ in the cinemas, then I guess it's the same logic why Erap won the presidency and FPJ would have won had he not been cheated.
This kind of movie absolutely sickens me and this is the very reason why I seldom watch Filipino movies. It's painful to watch. I was cringing in my seat lots of times and I assure you it's not diarrhea.
If you want to know why the local movie industry is dying, go watch this film. Just prepare a basin by your side in case your stomach can't take it.
The short review: It sucks.
The longer review: I can't remember when was the last time I watched a movie with my girlfriend and wanted to simply walk out and have my movie ticket refunded.
This movie was TERRIBLE. The sickest reason was its deliberate use of advertisements. Paid obviously. For example, near the start of the movie, we see the PLDT ads. Something about PLDT DSL internet café, and it's not just displayed, the actors shamefully plugs the product. Even to the point of giving fliers to "customers" WITHIN THE story of the movie.
Come on. Another shameful ad was when Vic had his shirt stained by her daughter (I assure you this was uncalled for and had no effect whatsoever in the storyline, if there is any). Thankfully, there is Ariel, and we see Ruby putting the shirt in an Ariel-filled water basin and exclaiming that Ariel is magic or something. This took about 5 minutes.
Again, that sucks! Come on now. There's also Xtreme magic sing ad etc etc. I know this is about money, but that is so damn annoying. I'm sure I'm not the only one complaining as the couple on the other row was also complaining.
Then, let's go to the so called "plot" or storyline. This movie had absolutely no sense whatsoever. The very first scene we get to see a Starwars-wannabe fight scene between creatures we do not know. It takes a long time and the only point of this scene is to let the audience see "Butiki", an alien who can shape shift to look like anyone. The scene wasn't even cool at all! Then, we have Ina Magenta turning to Allan K. Who thought of that stupid storyline??? It's because Ina Magenta wanted to look beautiful then somehow it backfired. And all fairies were laughing at her because she looks stupid. Now the story goes that Ina says that she shouldn't have been so conscious of her looks.
That's stupid! The fairies were laughing at her because she looks stupid, and then she says she shouldn't have been conscious of her looks? What was that? Logic got lost somewhere. Hello? And the other storyline was Vic womanizing, greedy and strict with his children. This conflict was resolved when Butiki posed as Vic and then his children didn't even notice and was even happy with Butiki. Okay, that made sense. Except for the fact that Butiki was robotic throughout and I have no idea why the children or the wife didn't suspect a thing.
The final scenes showed even further why it sucked. Suddenly the Kabisote family were fighting Satana and her snakes. And that's it. They won. La la la.
And regarding their ad in the paper, where you see a digital monster that looks like Shrek? It had like, 2 minutes of theater time, and the only significant thing it did was dance like a homosexual and that's it. Remove that scene with Joey De Leon and no one would have noticed. It's not funny at all.
If this is the movie that grosses 100M+ in the cinemas, then I guess it's the same logic why Erap won the presidency and FPJ would have won had he not been cheated.
This kind of movie absolutely sickens me and this is the very reason why I seldom watch Filipino movies. It's painful to watch. I was cringing in my seat lots of times and I assure you it's not diarrhea.
If you want to know why the local movie industry is dying, go watch this film. Just prepare a basin by your side in case your stomach can't take it.