Musicals always strike me as an alienated country. My pieces of pie are comic book movies, crime thrillers and if not too dumb, horrors (this explains it). I Do Bidoo Bidoo is my motley extraterrestrial world filled with shoe-tapping music, witty execution and heartfelt performances. If this is how outside Earth is, then dude, let me out.
Enter Rock (Sam Concepcion), an unemployed nurse who fathers an unborn child in his girlfriend Tracy's (Tippy Dos Santos) womb. While it seems that the dilemma is too plain as this, both Rock and Tracy's parents stumble into their own quandaries. Rock's dad (Ogie Alcasid), a guitar tutor-slash-one hit composer and mom Rose (Eugene Domingo), a struggling catering businesswoman. They worry on how the wedding shall be settled with how little money they have on hand. On the other side, Tracy's parents, her workaholic dad Nick (Gary Valenciano) and anxious mom Elaine (Zsa-Zsa Padilla) have their issues of their own too. Nick tries to calmly settle the issue, while Elaine dismisses the idea, telling that she's afraid that Tracy might regret of her decisions.
In a spectacular confrontation between two families, the Polotan's (Rock's family) and the Fuentabella's are incidentally thrust in a battle of insults, resulting to a profound disagreeing of both families with regards with the imminent wedding. Due to this, Rock and Tracy will have to find a way to reunite for their love.
Chris Martinez has crafted a narrative that is so fresh and old that it is magnetic to everyone (no intention of making it sound a hyperbole). While it had some of the genre's staple issues, it presented a broad range of implicating subject matters that are loud and playing in the society currently. Teenage pregnancy, unemployment, homosexuality and poverty are all executed very well.
Martinez's dialogue is of literacy and enjoyment. Easy on the ears but it affects very well, like an unusual prose. This creation is well-organised so in turn, well-executed, playing the right notes, in the right scales, in the right timings.
Concepcion plays the charming lad, whose vocals always stun, as if a cinematic broadway is somewhat presented in front of your eyes. Dos Santos is instantly angelic. Alcasid and Valenciano are generally acceptable (Alcasid is worth to note, surprisingly, inflicting as a caring father and a frustrated composer). Ms. Domingo is a jigsaw piece of a theater show, definitely displaying an affectionate act you can most oftenly find in actresses her kind. Padilla carries regret in her performance, which is her purpose anyway.
Neil Coleta plays a closeted homosexual best friend to Rock. His portrayal is efficiently bittersweet, sometimes rooting for him is greatly surging. Rose's best gals Lilibeth and Vicky (Frenchie Dy and Sweet Platando respectively) is a present and alive resonance of great friendship. Jaime Fabregas, as always, is charming.
All in all, the pic is high-octane, playing the notes, increasingly heartfelt. For a couple of lads, whose music always resonated with great meaning...an Apo Hiking Society tribute pic, should be what I Do Bidoo Bidoo have set as an example.
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