Brendon Jones
It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Logan
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
quik_tupac
This may be an odd review but I found this movie on the subway (dvd) and took it home to watch it. Now being 100% Canadian and not knowing Tagalog that well the subtitles helped a lot.Not only did I find this movie interesting, but there where some really funny parts and very sad parts. Even when comparing it to movies I'm used to like the Batmans or American Beauty's I think its great. Obviously the budget it lacking but I don't think that is what gives a movie character. If you can identify the stereotypes and relate to them I think you will really enjoy this movie...I also made an account just to review this movie, first came here to see if there were more (sequels/prequels) but then found bad reviews and was like wtf.
jaji
I had to register in IMDb just so I could get my comment on this film posted...and warn others on watching this. Here are my comments :The film was boring and not even funny. Apart from 3 jokes that made me laugh, this movie is a waste of time, money and talent. The kids didn't play big enough roles in the film for them to be considered as part of the moviesince they probably new that this was going to be a filmfest entry, they had "required" dramatic scenes for Aiai to (hopefully not) get a best actress award for thisEugene Domingo's talent was wasted since she was just always echoing whatever was happening in the sceneunlike the first movie, this movie didn't have too many parodies of other star cinema films. The two movies they parodied, wasn't even funny (Caregiver and Very Special Love)the movie was tooooooo looooong and had only a small number of jokes. many kids of the original cast were not in this movie anymore. Some have transferred networks and they were merely referenced as having gone "abroad"....(so lame)IF this movie wins anything in the awards night, I would be really surprised. I hope they don't have a third installment.
badidosh
And the holiday commercialism once again rears its ugly head."Ang Tanging Ina Ninyong Lahat" is the inauspicious yet inevitable latest turn from the film-making arm of one of the giant multimedia networks in this country as Ai-Ai de las Alas joins once more with director Wenn Deramas in the follow-up to "Ang Tanging Ina" for some more shoddy pastiches and maxim-mangling. What "Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo" and "Sakal, Sakali, Saklolo" did for 2006 and 2007 respectively, "Ang Tanging Ina Ninyong Lahat" now does for 2008, which is to bank on the huge appeal of its studio's stars. Then it will rake in money.The film's main draw is the fact that it involves the two names that made its 2003 predecessor successful: the team-up of director Deramas and star de las Alas. Said gimmick would have sounded infinitely more exciting had it not been overused in other Deramas-de las Alas films that are, while technically outside of the "Tanging Ina" canon, simply rehashes of the premise of the 2003 blockbuster hit featuring de las Alas as a mother who will do anything to provide for her children while getting involved in slapstick moments that are getting harder and harder for the suspension of disbelief. In a season rife with cynicism, it's easy to dismiss the filmmakers' motive as what can be regularly attributed to a faulty film festival: taking advantage of the movie-going public and their Christmas money.Except for a few, the main players of the original cast is back. De las Alas yet again plays Ina Montecillo, the thrice-widowed (or four-time if you consider the disappearance of Dennis Padilla's character in this movie suspect) mother of a dozen children. Five years have gone by and Ina is still struggling to find the perfect job to provide for her family even if four of her children have moved on to greener pastures abroad (network contractual obligations, you know).With the help of her loud-mouthed best friend Rowena (Eugene Domingo, another constant of the de las Alas-Deramas tandem), Ina lands a job as a chambermaid for the President (Gloria Diaz). But strange twists of fate has Ina soon getting the Presidential seat for herself where she finds out that aside from managing her children who never seemed to have learned their lessons after the happy ending of the first film, she now also has the weight of the whole country weighing in on her.Sounds ridiculous, and sure feels like it. Every scene feels like an individual sketch bound by the most basic premise of its characters having to go from uninspired slapstick to overwrought dramatic scenes that reference other movies without the focus to get to its destination straight. Which wouldn't matter if it was funny just as "KKK" and "SSS" were; it isn't. It also shows promise when at first it seems to delve to jab into political matters but loses its balls by simply bypassing those issues for more cheap jokes and a well-too-neatly laid hokey resolution. Except for Domingo and Alwyn Uytingco as the gay son, everyone seems to sleepwalk right through and no one gives a memorable performance.This one ends as a typical year-ender for Philippine cinema where local theaters are flooded with disposable entertainment for the highly undemanding taste. The title seems to yell an obscene expression to people everywhere under the guise of humor; how apt, then, that it's of a film that downplays the intelligence of the local audience in the name of comedy.
