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This is now my favorite Filipino film! Thank you Kenn for 'educating' us ;)
This film was produced as a serious sexy-drama type movie but it's sooo BAD (the acting, the shots, the continuity is horrible - you see the emcee on the stage AND in the audience as an extra) that it's, well, good. Think kistch.
Directed by Joey Gosiengfiao in 1981, stars Dina Bonnevie and beauty queens Bambi Arambulo, Azenith Briones, Jennifer Cortez, and Deborah Sun. Four girls with different lifestyles join the Miss Manila Sunshine pageant and make it into the finals, wherein they will be observed for a month(?!) before a winner is decided upon. Observation period is on board a classy yacht witch catches fire and the ladies, along with hunky leading men, are marooned on an island... and from there on, it's bitchdom (and ka-barokan, and really bad acting) at its finest.
I'd loooove to meet whoever wrote the script! It's so darn funny, was laughing my eyeballs out the entire time (Kenn's trivia and commentaries really helped, too). Here are some quotes from the movie:
Suzanne (to Maria, her maid, who is applying sun-tan lotion): Careful! Careful now! Huwag mong masyadong idiin at baka masira ang beauty ng complexion ko. Alam mo naman, ang hirap hirap ma-achieve ang golden tan!
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Suzanne (after tripping Bambi--on purpose): Sorry ha, di kita napansin.
Bambi: Bakit? Nalula ka ba sa aking towering height? It must be your failing eyesight.
Suzanne: Excuse me! 20-20 yata ang vision ko!
Bambi: Ay sori ha, I thought it is your bustline. So it must have been my fault after all, bitch!
Suzanne: Double bitch!!!
Joshua (the flamboyant gay organizer): Rub-a-dub-dub, two bitches in a tub!
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Azenith (trying to seduce Alfie Anido upon their first meeting): Im a crook, a damn good crook, and i can tell by your big brown eyes that you're a crook too!
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Bambi: *whining about missing her mother*
Suzanne: I have no time for middle-class sentiments!
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Joshua: *whining about how difficult it is to build a grass hut)
Suzzane: I have no carpenter complex so i dont know what you are talking about.
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Suzanne: *bitching to Azenith whom she caught sleeping with the waiter*
Azenith: Nanganganib na nga buhay natin, pabitch-bitch ka pa diyan!
Suzanne: What are bitches for, but to bitch around their fellow bitches!
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Ricky: Hindi tyo makakahuli ng isda ng ganito! Kailangan ng isang mistulang lambat!
Maria: Bakit di na lang natin gamitin ang panty natin?
Suzanne:Hoy maria! Huwag ka ngang boba! Gamitin mo ang panty mo kung gusto mo!
Maria: Eh ma'am, mas maraming panty mas maraming isda!
Suzanne: Gaga!Gamitin nyo na ang mga panty nyo, but my panty stays right where it is!!!
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Suzanne: Ang sabihin mo, mahilig ka lang tlaga sa mga laborers, those poor proletariat, indigent men.
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Azenith (looking into the man's eyes): Alam ko ang iniisip mo.
*she kisses him*
Azenith: Tama ba?
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Azenith (supposedly weak from hunger and thirst): Ang sabi nila, ang pag-ibig ay pagkain din...halika, mahalin mo ako...
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Azenith (everyone is desperately hungry and weak since they have not eaten in days): Wala tayong pagkain, wala ding tubig, bakit di na lang tyo mag sayawan?
*and so they dance, Bambi slaps Suzanne, they end up in a catfight that Maria and Dina try to stop. Azenith just keeps on dancing right smack in the middle*
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Azenith (while everyone is *seriously* praying while eating the barbecued flesh of a deceased Joshua so they can survive): Kumanta kaya tayo para mas madali natin malunok?
*and so they sing Barbara Streisand's Somewhere.... yes, even the boys sing along*
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There's also a quote about Joshua not liking Bambi since she doesn't belong to the "upper upper of the upper upper" crust or something.... but hey if I put ALL the funny lines you won't have anything more to look forward to (come to think of it there are still a LOT hehehe)
Watch it!!!
  | yeah, i've seen this film. It is soooooo stupid but hilarious. and since it was done in the 80's, the effects were so funny :P |
 | oh yeah! i think i've seen this movie in cinemaone... partly melodramatic... and the more you watch it, you can't help laugh despite the dramas... you should try looking for the movie wherein benedict aquino was dancing in front of gretchen barretto who's sitting on top of a ladder, that's another for super laughtrip movie!!! =D |
 | Hey sorry, i dont really know you. I just saw your post about temptation island, at naexcite ako. Its my favorite Filipino Film too! hahaha. super funny. Where did you get your copy? |
 | Hi there! My friend has a copy, we watched it in his house. I dunno where he bought it, but if you look on-line, there are copies up for sale. I'm thinking of looking around the video stores. Tell you if I find a copy ;) |
 | Ohmygod hahahahah! Rubadubdub is one of my most favorite cheesy movie lines ever! Available on DVD no less! |
 | HAHA! i watched this movie sa class - cinematic arts at oo it was one of my prof's example of the really bad movies... nakatawa the fire on the boat was so darn fake it looked like cartoons, basta ewan ang pangit talaga! at siyempre, who would forget.. the big chicken in the middle of the desert while they were oh-so-hungry.. at the electric fans near the bushes if i remember correctly. the script was as ugly as the acting. pilit na pilit ung pagiging cono nung iba. panalo talaga itong pelikulang ito panoorin niyo pag wala kayong magawa at gusto niyo matawa sa "creativity" ng ibang tao... |
 | To say that the movie is ugly is to miss the point. The beauty of the film requires a gigantic capacity for the ridiculous. :) |
 | sith2006 wrote on Jun 27, '07, edited on Jun 27, '07 now we all agree na filipino movies is improving! so ano pa hinihintay nyo nood na tayo ng filipino movie |
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