Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo, Sakal, Kalokah

Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo

Judy Ann Santos, Ryan Agoncillo, Gina pareno

Directed by Jose Javier Reyes

Good thing we have this movie for the festival. Something nice and something good that would surely not put your money to waste.

Juday  started this year with a bang with her movie with Piolo Pascual (Dont Give Up on Us) , and she ended the year as well for Star Cinema with this movie together with her real life sweetheart Ryan Agoncillo. (i used 5 withs in this sentence, whoa!)

The movie is great. But of course it is far from perfect, I just think that it is better among the rest. It doesn't require too much. Very light, you just have to go through with them. You are outside watching their lives, laugh, cry and actually share some basic emotions with them. Simple narratives. You wouldn't be exhausted by too much conflicts. No demons, no giant frogs, no killers, no ghosts, no space shuttles, no fairies and most importantly… no half-filipino half chinese!

Joey Reyes's style is very much visible on this one. His screenplay and his script has that signature mark of spunk and reality. You would actually laugh because the narratives does happen in reality. 

Gina Pareno is superb on this one. She really deserves to get the award. It is certainly her year. After Kubrador, this follow-up is definitely a great move. She is an actress and undeniably a good one. She is the only actress i could imagine that could do justice for the role. Soliman Cruz, a great actor, was actually underused on this movie. His character has so much and he  shouldve been given  more speaking parts. Gloria Diaz is also perfect.

 Juday got her first best actress trophy for this movie for MMFF. She got an acting award before for her Movie Sabel and supporting actress award for Mano Po 2. There are no competent actress either to get that as well for this festival. She deserves it, by default! heheheh… Let's just wait how she would fair with the other award giving bodies for this year. Maricel Soriano for Inang Yaya would surely sweep it so she better enjoy what she has right now.

Ryan Agoncillo is monotonous in this film, but I very much like him. I prefer Ryan getting the best actor trophy instead of Cesar. His acting is actually a revelation. It is monotonous, but he is so natural and was very much in character. His acting is actually much bearable than Montano's theatrical piece.

I am actually fine with almost everything. The punchlines are great and the actors are good in delivery and timing. For Star Cinema, pls not try to include almost everything in your trailers. All of the good parts were actually shown in your trailers that we are actually left with no surprises or anything new in watching the film. For direk Joey, the movie could survive without you dividing it to three parts. Na carried away ka lang siguro sa Karma na hinati mo rin sa tatlo.

We've seen this story before. So nothing original. I happened to watch the Aiko-Aga movie years or ages ago also directed by Joey Reyes. It also deals with Marriage and two oppossing families. Boots Anson Roa vs. Ronaldo Valdez plus Agot Isidro as Aga's socialite sister. But it doesnt matter. This movie goes through the same story but it has been adjusted to suit this time that we are actually living in.