What was I thinking? Why did I watch this Ai-Ai de las Alas/Sharon Cuneta movie? BFF: Best Friends Forever is the latest Filipino movie that I’ve watched and to be honest, I’m too proud of it. As a comedy, it relied much on slapstick. The jokes were not funny at all.
The two main actresses of BFF are superstars in their own right in my country and their team-up has been hyped by the local media. The producers have a surefire moneymaker in their hands that they didn’t care about making a decent movie.
Sharon Cuneta is Honey, the wife of Tim (John Estrada) and a mother of three kids. She’s too busy with the children that she ignored her husband’s needs as well as her own. This is the reason why Tim went for the much sexier Frances (Ai-Ai de las Alas), a single mom with a daughter (Empress Schuck). Then by chance the two women met at the gym and they became BFF, without knowing that they’re sharing the same man as well.
I’m not a fan of Ai-Ai’s comedy and BFF proved once again that she can’t deliver a decent joke. There was nothing new to be seen in this movie. It’s just a rehash of old jokes inserted within the movie to achieve the desired runtime. In a sentence the movie is about the BFFs and Tim, found out that they love the same man, got into a fight, Tim dies, and reconciled with each other in the end.
I guess the production company banked on the two actresses for BFF’s box office success. With the movie they spent for the talent fee, they could have paid for a well-written script or two. Well maybe the masses deserved this movie and the surprise cameo of Gabby Concepcion in the end. I tried to like BFF, I really did but I can’t.
