In "Chub Chaser", Chubi (Joseff Young) is a desperate soul seeking companionship from the cyberworld. Unfortunately, his girth becomes a disadvantage to his carnal shenanigans. An appendectomy 2 years prior left him pudgy, sluggish and unsure of himself. And it doesn't help that his fit roomates keep undressing all over the place!
When you watch a Crisaldo Pablo film, you forego certain liberties and accept some realities: that, 1) you aren't watching a work of art; 2) his movies are always peppered with sexy male bodies that are inadvertently diluted with some of the ugliest support characters this side of tinseltown; 3) that it isn't dejavu, yes, you've heard that music - and that music, and THAT music as well; he compiles a soundtrack of favorite tracks that you repeatedly hear in "Chuba Chaser" and his other masterpieces like "Campus Crush", "Boylets," etc. 4) that the boom of digital film making in the country has resulted into a wide range of cutting edge storytelling ("Mangatyanan", "Yanggaw", "Kinatay", "Dinig Sana Kita", etc.) as well as really really bad filmmaking (well, most of the films by Neil Tan, Joven Tan and Crisaldo Pablo).
Chub Chaser is another obtuse outing from Pablo. This time around, he takes 3 other persons with him to co-direct this amateurish fantasy of homo-erotica. We cringed everytime we saw Archie de Calma on screen. His presence baffled us. Watching him on screen was as excruciating as root canal, I had the visceral sensation of wanting to throw up or pass out! His screen presence proved too unhealthy for us. Mr. Pablo has this penchant to utilize repelling characters ("Showboyz") to support his protagonists. This doesn't sit well when you're actually marketing an erotica. You simply don't want your audience gagging instead of getting their hormones charged up while watching the film!
And since Mr. Pablo seems to be churning out one mediocre film after the next (he fields a film every 2-3 weeks or so), he might as well keep Chamyto Aguedan in all his works. Aguedan (who was in "Campus Crush") is a natural comic who makes Pablo's awkward, borderline, under-rehearsed scenes tolerable.
Do you see male genitalia in "Chub Chaser"? Unfortunately, these scenes have all been masked on screen, probably as a result of the X-rating that it originally got from the MTRCB (it was supposed to be screened last December prior to the MMFF). Lahat po ng talong, nakatakip - all you get is a rancid omelet. ;->
Jeff Luna flexes for chubs.
At the next Pablo film, Luna gets a blow ____ errr... close up!Note:
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