Released last: May 2012
Why I watched it: Guilty pleasure. So sue me. Haha!
For the record, I both love Piolo Pascual and Angelica Panganiban in these kinds of roles. Piolo is truly dashing and talented, while Angelica is genuinely charming and sexy.
But my gad, the story was soooo paper-thin and absurd, even by local romcom standards! The way it mixed romance with comedy was just awkward. Separately, the comic aspects of the plot were actually laughable and the romantic twists were indeed swoon-worthy. But when put together, it just seemed too ridiculous, even for a kind of movie that is meant to have a certain degree of ridiculousness.
You know this is true when the part where Angelica was drooling over Piolo’s armpits was the entertainment peak of the movie.
Critical Reception: B by the Cinema Evaluation Board
I’d rate it around: 61%. There was chemistry somehow, but too bad, the story didn’t really deliver.
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As I did in 2011, I am listing down the movies I watch for 2012, along with my comment about each viewing experience. These movie pseudo-review/commentaries are hardly scientific. There might be days that I might be more tolerant of crappy movies and so I might find myself going easy on the critique. More so, my "critiques" are hardly theoretical because I admit I have not taken any proper film critiquing classes, haha! I most usually lash out "in the moment". I try to be as objective as possible, but know that we all have our own different tastes when it comes to films.
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