MOVIE REVIEW: Working Girls 2010

Saw Working Girls 2010 with my mom last Saturday night and we were laughing hard…only in the parts where Eugene Domingo was in.
Suffice to say that while I personally enjoyed the whole movie, Eugene Domingo was the star of this Working Girls sequel. Mind you, it’s a sequel and not a remake. The original Working Girls are also cast in this movie and that makes it NOT a remake. Carmi Martin, Rio Locsin and Maria Isabel Lopez all have their moments here, both comedic and dramatic.
The sequel has the following characters:

• RUFFA GUTIERREZ plays Marilou Cobarubias, the “impoverished” widow of a billionaire geriatric husband. She’s a beauty queen and is constantly trying to win a battle of wits with the character played by Cherie Gil, one of the country’s best contravida ever. She’s best friends with Betchay Magbutay-Cavendish, played by the ever youthful CARMI MARTIN.
• BIANCA KING plays Dara dela Vega, the proud graduate of University of Berkley who gets a taste of tough treatment from co-workers who perceive her to be bratty and spoiled. Her mom is the character played by Cherie Gil. Oh and Bianca is utterly pretty in this movie.
• IZA CALZADO plays Teresa Villanueva, a nurse who wants to get out of the country and is stuck taking care of the sick wife of a former flame. She outshines BIANCA KING in terms of beauty here.
• JENNYLYN MERCADO is Ada, a call center agent and a single mom struggling to balance her family life, her work life and her romantic life. RIO LOCSIN who plays her mom was also in the original Working Girls movie. I suspect that Ada might have been the product of her affair with the character of TOMMY ABUEL in the original movie.
• CRISTINE REYES is Wendy Casuga, a model/promo-girl and a social networking site addict. Her sub-story can be summed up in five words – a hooker looking for love.
• EULA VALDES is Dr. Cleo Carillo, a cosmetic surgeon and the subject of ire of many feminists, including the character being played by the original Working Girl, MARIA ISABEL LOPEZ.

and finally, but certainly not the least,

• EUGENE DOMINGO is Paula Cabigting, the owner of the online store, Paula’s Treasures. She is stuck with a jobless, cheating husband but finds a sympathetic mother-in-law in GINA PARENO, another original Working Girl. In my opinion, her sub-story is funniest. In one of the scenes, I swear Antonio Aquitania who plays her husband is trying hard not to crack up in one of the supposedly dramatic scenes in her sub-story.

RECOMMENDATION: Be corny and watch it with your mom or sisters or best friends.