Fantastica

I have created an account just to give this review. If you want to waste your time and money, watch this. This movie bombards you with lots of big starts and cameos that doesn't even help the storyline. Worse is it made the plot a mess supported with cringy jokes that will make you jump up on your seat. Not exaggerating but as a Filipino, I feel agitated since it was showcased in the MMFF just to present lazy writing in order that quickly milk out shallow individuals who love to see big actors banded together to create an incompetent, boring, and confusing movie (mixed with drama, comedy, fantasy, love, etc. Which intensifies its incoherence)

Unless you live in Philippines, you may not know the name of Vice Ganda - but he is practically an institution in that country. He appears on the daily show 'Showtime' and has his own late-night talk show. In recent years, it has also been a Christmas ritual to see the Vice Ganda Christmas movie. These are always low-budget light hearted comedies with a fair degree of slapstick. Ideal family fare. So what went wrong with Fantastica? Just about everything. A wafer-thin plot and a bored looking supporting cast not helped with a dubious script made this a tedious 2 hours. And it would appear the writers didn't know how to end the movie which went on and on and on .... and carried on through the end credits. The best laughs come right at the very end when they play the bloopers reel. Don't waste your time.

The Metro Manila Film Festival was really intended to be a festival of films that will showcase the films of our country to the world. But ever since the MMFF changed their criteria that focuses more on commercial appeal, things changed.

The film's storyline is really not MMFF-worthy. The casting was quite awful; some of their actors do not act well. The jokes are corny, unlike Vice Ganda's previous films from 2010-2015. The poster seems to be messy. The production ang costume design seems to be fine as well as the musical score.

Vice Ganda should also challenge himself to try making a film that would focus more on awards and not on box office.

I don't really recommend this film.

Movie critics in the Philippines are either paid or dead.

I watched this movie recently it was not a fun experience. I mostly found myself cringing from the 'jokes' didn't really produce any kind of laugh from me a few chuckles here and there but otherwise just another comedic dump.