March 10, 2023
Maricar (Alma Moreno) was a 52-year old spinster who lived in Baguio City. She currently worked as a medical transcriptionist for a doctor from Texas. Maricar had spent her whole life caring for her ailing mother Fides (Marissa Delgado). When Fides passed away a few months ago, Maricar's best friend Jessica (Marissa Sanchez) encouraged her to take advantage of her new-found freedom to finally go out and enjoy her life.
Maricar discovered celebrity vlogger Mikko (Nikko Natividad) on the internet, and became obsessed with him. She went all the way to La Union to meet him at a beach event. Sensing that her age was the major obstacle to getting closer with Mikko, Maricar spent her life savings on miraculous youthening procedures of Dra. Trisha (Giselle Sanchez), which were able to turn her into 23-year old-looking Carrie (Ayanna Misola).
Like in "Pornstar" (2020), Alma Moreno was quite delightful here as Maricar rediscovering the joys of youth. Lately, Moreno has found her groove in her comedies than in her dramas, like "Virgin Forest." Ayanna Misola continues to be director Bobby Bonifacio's sex-comedy muse after the success of "Bula" (2022). Nikko Natividad totally shed his wholesome TV image here and went all-out naked, which will shock his teenage Hashtag fans.
Controversial director Darryl Yap already tackled the story of a menopausal woman in her midlife crisis having a rejuvenating affair with a virile young man in his Vivamax film "Revirginized" (2021) starring Sharon Cuneta and Marco Gumabao. However here, director Bobby Bonifacio Jr. went on to stretch the story (and our suspension of disbelief) further to transform the 50-something woman into a 20-something nymphet.
However, Maricar did not really become younger here by magic, unlike age-swap films like "17 Again" (2009). Instead, it was extensive plastic surgery which caused her extreme physical transformation, but the physiological limits of her real age remained. This was of course preposterous, but all done in the name of silly comedy, so we do not need to wonder how and why this plastic surgery did not have any pain or why it had an expiration date. 4/10.
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