Cert 12A
128 mins
BBFC advice: Contains infrequent strong language, moderate sex references
A day trip to Birmingham to meet friends meant that we made a quick detour to Star City's Vue Cinema for the screening of a Filipino rom com.
And I was left wondering whether I should have been worried at how much Mrs W enjoyed Gino Santos's Love Me Tomorrow.
This is definitely a movie for the (older?) ladies with lots of beautiful people and the main subject being a 50-something woman who attracts a much younger fella (I wondered whether Mrs W was getting ideas).
The movie's scenario centres on a a widow (Dawn Zulueta) who is pining all the more because her children have grown up and left home.
She reluctantly agrees to go to a nightclub where a 30-something DJ (Piolo Pascual) falls in love at first sight and pursues her until she finally agrees to go on a date with him.
The complications of their subsequent match-up are that his former lover (Coleen Garcia) is still infatuated and the widow has two children who she dare not tell about the new fella in her life because he is not much older than them.
Most of the gags in this rom com are based around the age difference and the misunderstandings which it prompts.
The flaw is that Zulueta is a very beautiful 47-year-old and is trying to make out she is a frumpy 50-something. Frankly, she scarcely looks older than Pascual.
In addition, I felt the movie was stretched. It lasts for more than two hours and could easily have been condensed into 90 minutes.
But it was light and engaging watching and certainly the predominantly female audience was lapping it up. And, as said, Mrs W gave it her approval - so its target audience went away happy and couldn't have cared what I thought.
Reasons to watch: a decent cougar romance
Reasons to avoid; half an hour too long
Laughs: a couple of chuckles
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: one
Overall rating: 6/10
Star tweet
Gino M. Santos I'm in Federal Cinema right now watching #LoveMeTomorrow in Malaysia KL! This is surreal watching my film in another country 
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