Fantastica

Unless you live in Philippines, you may not know the name of Vice Ganda - but he is practically an institution in that country. He appears on the daily show 'Showtime' and has his own late-night talk show. In recent years, it has also been a Christmas ritual to see the Vice Ganda Christmas movie. These are always low-budget light hearted comedies with a fair degree of slapstick. Ideal family fare. So what went wrong with Fantastica? Just about everything. A wafer-thin plot and a bored looking supporting cast not helped with a dubious script made this a tedious 2 hours. And it would appear the writers didn't know how to end the movie which went on and on and on .... and carried on through the end credits. The best laughs come right at the very end when they play the bloopers reel. Don't waste your time.

Just plain awful. Even with a low standard, one cannot ignore the fact that this film's comedic antics were cheap and overdone. The script was okay, but the production design and direction was so bad I almost fell bad for expensive actors featured in the movie.

Netflix has recently added this movie. First time watching this movie and let me say, this is the worst Filipino fantasy-comedy movie. The cast, acting, stage, props are all bad. The editing is the poorest editing work I have ever seen. The jokes are corny, most of them are referenced to other movies, tv show and actors so if you are not familiar with then, you will not get it. I can't describe how bad the editing and animation was. The movie was from 2018 but the animation feels like it's from the 90's (30years ago). This movie is low budget so it looks and feels like so. Don't waste your time watching this movie.

Movie critics in the Philippines are either paid or dead.

THE GOOD:

• none

THE BAD:

• The jokes are corny and plain bad. Some jokes are too adulterated to think that this is a PG movie.
• All of the cast are brilliantly bad when it comes to acting department. No one stands including Vice Ganda.
• The script and story feels lazy.
• The CGI is badly done.

OVERALL: Fantastica is awfully bad that I regret watching this plain movie trash. This is the only Filipino movie I hate after watching. But I have a hope that one day the director and Vice Ganda will make a movie not like this for now, this is "One the worst Filipino film ever made!!!"