Ako Legal Wife
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If movies were to be compared with roller coaster rides, Ako Legal Wife would have to be a Caterpillar – an enjoyable up and down ride with no big loops and vomit-inducing drops. That seems to be the template of a good Philippine comedy-movie lately with films like American Adobo and Jologs, the Movie. Granted, Legal Wife and the movies I mentioned were hilarious as hell, but there’s just no plot to string the story together. No conflicts, no climaxes, nothing much to hit heart. They’re not even what you can call a “feel good movie”.
What’s wrong with our writers today? Tito, Vic and Joey were able to pull of more dramatic comedies during their time. I mean, writers of Legal Wife and American Adobo are already there with a genuinely fun idea and an interesting concept but why can’t they push themselves just a little further to come up with an ending that hits hard? They’ve already come up with ridiculous scenarios and impossible situations for their movies but regrettably, without that climax and ending, the whole thing is forgettable.
By the way, as all of you have known by now, Zsa Zsa Padilla won Best Actress and Marvin Agustin won Best Actor in the recently concluded Metro Manila Film Festival. I could take Zsa Zsa’s winning but Marvin Agustin? Remember I just did a review for Kutob? Marvin was the killer – the predictable, over-acting psychopath. Come on, in Hollywood, the actors that get psycho roles are those that have what they call “screen presence”. Think Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Bacon, Ralph Fienes and Robin Willams. They induce fear even if they’re asleep.
In Kutob, the character Marvin Agustin plays kills Bing Loyzaga. That’s when we realize that the movie is fiction. We know that in real-life Bing Loyzaga’s villainous on-screen presence can eat up any actor’s aura just by batting an eye-lash.
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If movies were to be compared with roller coaster rides, Ako Legal Wife would have to be a Caterpillar – an enjoyable up and down ride with no big loops and vomit-inducing drops. That seems to be the template of a good Philippine comedy-movie lately with films like American Adobo and Jologs, the Movie. Granted, Legal Wife and the movies I mentioned were hilarious as hell, but there’s just no plot to string the story together. No conflicts, no climaxes, nothing much to hit heart. They’re not even what you can call a “feel good movie”.
What’s wrong with our writers today? Tito, Vic and Joey were able to pull of more dramatic comedies during their time. I mean, writers of Legal Wife and American Adobo are already there with a genuinely fun idea and an interesting concept but why can’t they push themselves just a little further to come up with an ending that hits hard? They’ve already come up with ridiculous scenarios and impossible situations for their movies but regrettably, without that climax and ending, the whole thing is forgettable.
By the way, as all of you have known by now, Zsa Zsa Padilla won Best Actress and Marvin Agustin won Best Actor in the recently concluded Metro Manila Film Festival. I could take Zsa Zsa’s winning but Marvin Agustin? Remember I just did a review for Kutob? Marvin was the killer – the predictable, over-acting psychopath. Come on, in Hollywood, the actors that get psycho roles are those that have what they call “screen presence”. Think Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Bacon, Ralph Fienes and Robin Willams. They induce fear even if they’re asleep.
In Kutob, the character Marvin Agustin plays kills Bing Loyzaga. That’s when we realize that the movie is fiction. We know that in real-life Bing Loyzaga’s villainous on-screen presence can eat up any actor’s aura just by batting an eye-lash.
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