If there's a Best Popcorn Director award, I'd give it to Wenn V. Deramas. The guy is highly commended for his "comic skills", which apparently doesn't appeal to me as that commendable. Besides being an utter expert in constructing commercial comedies, and creating these money-making movies, I can't find other enough reasons why Deramas's works are celebrated. In his work before this, Praybeyt Benjamin, and the one before that, Petrang Kabayo, Deramas works with somehow fantastical settings that shines a green light for the improbable scripts he co-writes with different people. This time around, we are thrust in a situation that tries to be more realistic, but unfortunately, Deramas's conventional impossible script is again laid out, so the film is likely to frizzle, which happened, too.
Deramas again teams up with Vice Ganda, now playing as Lester, a brokenhearted salon owner, after his three-year ex-boyfriend Mike (Luis Manzano) breaks up with him. Lester later finds out that Mike has a girlfriend named Gemma for a year already. Inspired by the loony advice of Lester's brother-in-law, he sets out to court Gemma (Toni Gonzaga) in order to keep the two apart and when the timing is right, he gets back together with Mike and resume their homosexual relationship. Sound like a plan to you?
I know not to me. And I entirely understand that this is in Deramas's league, too. To throw in too-sketchy characters to a plot that is thinly-scripted and unlikely to happen anyway. In exacerbation, Deramas tries too make it feel realistic, that the narrative plays more than what it is expected to. And that you can grasp, too. Deramas has crafted his story, with ease and lightweight events to better comprehend by the masses, the euphoria and horrendous courses of romantic relationships, homo or heterosexual. But it starts to get pretentious, trying hard to make it feel real, although it walk along the lines of improbability, and the fantastical love story.
Ganda has brought in terrific one-liners like he usually do, but the comic reception is seemingly diminished from one of his movie to another. Ganda's performance appears fluctuating for me, sometimes I root for him - while he hasn't been given with something to work with - and sometimes he tend to become too deafening and loathing. This is the same case as Gonzaga's and Manzano's. They aren't required to do any much of an acting because they're not given lifelike characters and ones with depth at least.
This Guys In Love With You Mare is another Wenn V. Deramas movie, and I expect nothing more. My quasi-atheism will be finally cemented if Deramas's next movie is very much in the same format as this - shrill, underwritten and frizzling. B-
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