While Bheverlynn was wallowing in her depression after a bitter breakup, a supertyphoon also named "Bheverlynn" is threatening to engulf the whole country in its destructive power. Her spaced-out mother Gaye and strange gay cousin Melba want to help her to snap out of her woes. Meanwhile, her arrogant ex-boyfriend Bradley and her own reflection-based "Storm Alter Ego" want Bheverlynn to keep crying her eyes out while quoting lines by Eeyore and viewing Juan Miguel Severo videos on repeat.
The usually winsome Ruffa Mae Quinto looked out of sorts in her latest outing here. She had two roles to play, and they both did not work for me. As Bheverlynn, she was an unsympathetic martyr. She was trying too hard to make her lines funny, even breaking the fourth wall, but her jokes were mostly not connecting. As the "Storm Alter Ego," she was an unconvincing antagonist. The funniest thing about this gag was the obvious goof that parts of Ruffa Mae were blatantly seen beyond the mirror frame where she was supposed to be only the reflection.
Edgar Allan Guzman played his character Bradley with slick smarminess, as a guy who thought only of himself as the most perfect man in the world. When we first met them, they had already broken up, so we never really knew how a rich blowhard like Bradley will fall for a ditzy foolish girl like Bheverlynn. I thought that this unfortunate neglect of a logical backstory was one of the major factors why we cannot get into the story that well.
Angelina Kanapi again played another one of the quirky characters she's known for -- Gaye, Bheverlynn's lusty mother. You will never expect what symbolism she would give the hand signal from "The Hunger Games." I had seen Barbie Capacio before as Jessie Mendiola's annoying sidekick in "Salvage". Here she played Bheverlynn's annoying sidekick, Melba. It was like Capacio was just acting her jaded cynical self, as she was pretty much the same character here and in "Salvage". At one point, there was even a green moth-eaten hand puppet named Kuya Bimb advising Bheverlynn.
Jude Matthew Servilla was a most puzzling character, Grego, an odd English-speaking nerd who was an unlikely sidekick of Bradley. Shady Lanes, Bradley's shades-wearing bodyguard, was played by four different dark-skinned overweight guys, but all were dubbed by a certain Brian Wilson to have a British accent. All these rom-coms about "hugot" have made poet Juan Miguel Severo a big celebrity. The scene where he got majorly doused with water from a fire hose was one of the funniest scenes for me.
Like many recent rom-coms, this was yet another comedy based on a girl who could not move on from a failed relationship. However, "Bagyong Bheverlynn" by writer-director Charliebebs Gohetia, definitely surpasses all previous similar-themed films when it comes to wackiness and weirdness, and that may not necessarily a good thing. Everything about this film is extremely exaggerated and over-the-top in its silliness, to the point that it can already be exhausting and exasperating. 4/10.
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