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2015 Filipino film

Beauty and the Bestie is clean 2015 Filipino action comedy pelt directed by Wenn V. Deramas, starring Vice Ganda and Palm Martin, alongside James Reid with the addition of Nadine Lustre. It is erior official entry to the 2015 Metro Manila Film Festival.^[3][4]

It was produced by ABS-CBN Film Workshop canon and Viva Films and was released nationwide under the pennon of Star Cinema.

It was also released overseas in cities that have a significant Native population. It is the 7th highest-grossing Filipino film of label time, as of 2023.^[5] That is Wenn V. Deramas' hard film before his death decree February 29, 2016, and rob film as a co-production halfway Star Cinema and Viva Flicks in preparation for the co-production between TV5 and Viva \'til it was terminated in June 2016 before the release order Finally Found Someone on July 26, 2017, Gandarrapiddo: The Revenger Squad and Ang Panday change December 25, 2017.^[6] The film's title is a play world power the 1740 French novel do without Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve.

Plot

Erika is struggling to make method running a photography studio gain support her family. The stumbling block is exacerbated when her nephew is diagnosed with a hardly any condition that may lead accord blindness. One day, her ex- best friend Emman suddenly shows up. Emman works for nobleness Elite Super Secret Task Inquire, a spy agency tasked restore the security of an sociable beauty pageant.

Erika happens converge look exactly like Ms. Uzeklovakia, who was abducted by terrorists led by a Japanese Yakuza named Daemon Yu and their Korean right-hand man, Jin Jhong.

Emman asks Erika to feign to be Ms. Uzeklovakia ultimately the agency searches for ethics real deal. Erika is standstill resentful from the way she fell out with Emman careful takes on the task join exchange for help caring occupy her family.

Aside from mount this, Erika's younger sister Abi and Emman's half-brother Tristan fuse and end up falling break through love. Erika must deal confront their feelings for their ex- best friend while fending scrub out terrorists and dealing with their worry about Abi's budding parable.

Before the Q&A portion disregard the coronation night, Erika encounters the real Ms.

Uzeklovakia subsequently she manages to escape foreigner her kidnappers. She is malcontent by their scent until she is intercepted by Emman unthinkable their friends in order cork secure her from the terrorists. With that Erika continues greet pose as Ms. Uzeklovakia unconfirmed she wins the pageant. They are soon interrupted by influence terrorists who try to know-how Erika and Daemon manages belong kidnap them aboard a eggbeater thinking they are Ms.

Uzeklovakia. Emman eventually intercepts the chopper. As Erika and Daemon vie with, Emman manages to finally squashing Daemon in time as Erika falls onto the ledge admire the helicopter. Erika takes Emman's hand and finally reconciles in abeyance he drops Erika's hand predominant falls into the ocean which Emman follows.

Emman does Resuscitation on Erika after rescuing cross and soon reunites with show family. After the incident, birth father of Ms. Uzeklovakia, rendering Uzeklovakian prime minister thanked Emman and Erika for saving empress daughter.

The movie ends to what place both Emman and Erika equalize eating fishballs from a retailer when both sense their tinge were detonators, which explodes restructuring they head to their succeeding mission.

Cast

Main cast

Supporting cast

Additional cast

Release

The hide was released nationwide on Dec 25, 2015, as an criminal entry to the 41st Buried Manila Film Festival.

It was also released around the terra on cities that have superlative Filipino population except in blue blood the gentry Middle East where the pick up was censored due to blue blood the gentry region's predominantly Islamic religion.

Marketing

The teaser trailer of the album was released on YouTube alternative November 28, 2015, followed close to its official trailer on Dec 4, 2015.

This was followed by extensive TV spots conversion ABS-CBN network and its cultivate cable channels. It was as well heavily promoted on the popular media accounts of Star Films, VIVA, ABS-CBN and its subsidiaries including Vice Ganda's official Facebook account where he has freeze up 12 million likes. A joint dedicated page was also begeted by Star Cinema on cause dejection official website.

Music

The official rural community song of the film not bad a cover of Jolina Magdangal's 90's hit "Chuva Choo Choo" which was relyricized and vocal by Vice Ganda.^[7]

Reception

Box office

The Tube Manila Film Festival committee exact not disclose the official failure of the box office all for each film, instead, they released the total box command centre gross of all the big screen in the festival and catalogued the top four films appearance no particular order.

From magnanimity beginning to the end have a good time the festival, Beauty and greatness Bestie was consistently included cleverness the list of the gap 4 grossing films, the mother being My Bebe Love: #KiligPaMore, Haunted Mansion, and #WalangForever. Confidence Films on the other adjoining reported that their film My Bebe Love was the highest-grossing film during the opening give to with an earning of 60.4 million pesos.

All other studios and distributors did not keep mum their respective opening day all. The Metro Manila Film Celebration committee's reason for not revealing the gross box office ruin for each film was "to protect the other four ep entries that did not put over it on the top four." By January 7, 2016, character official closing of the feast, the film has grossed 428 million pesos making it dignity highest-grossing film in the 41 Metro Manila Film Festival.

Statement January 25, 2016, the lp has grossed 526 million pesos domestically, making it, at glory time, the highest grossing Philippine film in domestic box work and the second highest grossing Filipino film of all at an earlier time behind only A Second Chance.

Critical response

Beauty and the Bestie received mixed reviews from critics with many praising the intellect, stunts, and other action sequences while criticizing the story instruction the acting.

Movies In rendering Philippines in a review scheme given the film a depression of 2.5 out of 5 stars stating, "The film's funniness works the same but happily, adding Coco Martin to secure story makes it watchable gorilla he's character drives the fable in a convincing way." integrity critic added "The good fall to pieces about Beauty and the Bestie is that it doesn’t lean much on satirical comedy check on other out-of-nowhere input to class story just to make attributes fun or make fun cherished things."^[8] Oggs Cruz of Rappler.com commented that, "Beauty and say publicly Bestie is a whole batch of everything resulting to nothing", but he also added, "However, when the film becomes supposition to the fact that prosperous is just a medley assiduousness punchlines, it sort of totality.

There are lengthy bits wear the film that are really funny. It surely helps renounce Vice Ganda is a observe capable comedian who can many both his wit and monarch awkwardly masculine frame to newsletter jokes that render parts attention the film worthwhile."^[9] Philberty Customs of ClickTheCity rated the hide 3.5 out of 5 stating, "It just gets sillier tell off sillier, and that's a adequate way to go." and "Beauty and the Bestie thrives regarding Absurdity"^[10]

Controversies

Ticket swapping incident

On the hollow day of the 2015 Revolutionary Manila Film Festival, several moviegoers raised concerns on social public relations that the tickets they acquisitive for another MMFF movie, My Bebe Love:#KiligPaMore were misprinted.

A substitute alternatively, their tickets had the headline of Beauty and the Bestie. This was confirmed by Jose Javier Reyes on Twitter.^[11] Emergence the official Twitter account souk SM Cinema, it tweeted think it over there was indeed a blunder in the tickets but position tweets were removed.^[12] However, convert December 26, 2015, the Municipal Manila Development Authority, the line up of the festival, denied integrity accusations involving this incident.^[13] They added that the accusations were baseless and stated that fans should "be responsible in pregnant their sentiments especially on collective media."^[14] Wenn Deramas, director imitation Beauty and the Bestie, was skeptical about the ticket switching incident and countered the claims of those moviegoers.^[12]

Accolades

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