October 8, 2021
Jack (Andrew E.) is a middle-aged aspiring actor who lived with his parents Ricardo (YouTube comedian Tatay Rick Balonzo) and Digna (Tabs Sumulong), and his younger, better-looking cousin Pong (Hashtag Wilbert Ross). His girlfriend Liwayway (Sunshine Guimary) is a dim-witted, two-timing, gold-digging bimbo and wannabe model. His best friend Anghelita (AJ Raval) is a pragmatic tomboy who owned the local car wash.
When a viral rumor went around that Jack was going to be a billionaire, all the women in Barrio Manilaw were practically throwing their daughters his way to seduce him to marry them. The townspeople were also pressuring Jack to help them recover their properties which had been mortgaged to the local gambling lord Joker (a different-looking Juliana Pariscova, not in drag) to cover for their gambling debts.
There were sexy girls wearing tanktops and short shorts in the neighborhood all hovering around Jack (and Pong too). Anghelita's carwash had three curvy employees Marie (Angelica Cervantes), Paula (Angel Arcega) and Petra (Deberly Bangcore), and what's a carwash setting for if there won't be a requisite wet t-shirt water fight? These three girls also went "digging holes" with Pong for treasure one night which left the young man totally exhausted.
There was Sabel (Shaine Vaszuez) who did not mind climbing mango trees even when there were boys sitting underneath. There was Carla (Quinn Carillo), owner of the local eatery who frequently argued and made up with her fickle husband. Even Liwayway's mother Aling Marina (Sheree Bautista) had a scene with only a towel on, a scene director Al Tantay graced with his own cameo to be the recipient of her off-cam full frontal.
Al Tantay and Andrew E updated a formula that worked for them back in the 1990s for their two recent films together, namely "Sanggano, Sanggago't Sanggwapo" (2019) and "Pakboys Takusa" (2020). Apparently, their mix of low-brow "bro" humor of the green, brown and slapstick variety, with a bevy of willing sexy girls at their disposal, had been quite successful, so here they are again having another go at it.
The whole thing was still silly, shallow and predictable, but overall, this one somehow felt more light-hearted and good-natured than the other two. Maybe it was because Andrew E. was on his own here (not in a raunchy gang) and his character Jack was never shown aggressively pursuing or taking advantage of the girls (even if Pong was), so the double-entendre jokes did not come across as too misogynistic (even if they were at their core). 3/10.
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