Kung Fu Divas
Kung Fu Divas is a 2013 Filipino action comedy film directed by Onat Diaz and produced under Reality Entertainment, and The OampCo. Picture Factory starring Ai Ai delas Alas and Marian Rivera. The lead stars also coproduced the film which opened in theaters on October 2, 2013 as part of Star Cinemas 20th Anniversary presentation. This Film is the parody of Gu Longs Wuxia novel Juedai Shuangjiao as based.
The film received positive reviews from critics. Zig Marasigan of kristn.com showered the movie with positive words. He said, Kung Fu Divas couldnt have been made by anyone other than a mad genius or a fortunate lunatic. But it seems that writerdirector Onat Diaz is a bit of both. However, its Diazs experience as a commercial director that ultimately gives Kung Fu Divas its unique sense of style. Slickly shot, humorously mounted, and aptly scored, the film is weaved together in a far more polished and creative fashion than other mainstream releases. For a film that threatens to run away with its own ridiculous premise, Diazs real triumph is making Kung Fu Divas more cohesive and entertaining than it should be. The film suffers from a fistful of lapses in logic, but none of it is too distracting to keep us from believing that beauty pageants and wu xia make perfect sense. Kung Fu Divas embraces its own ridiculous premise with a unique visual style that is both funny and incredibly satisfying.Philbert Ortiz Dy from ClickTheCity.com rates the filmout ofstars, saying that Kung Fu Divas is definitely worth a look. Kung Fu Divas is a tricky little film. Behind the broad humor, the kung fu antics and the heavy use of VFX lies this fairly subversive take on the pressures put on women to be a certain kind of beautiful. It ends up mocking beauty pageant culture, plays around with cinematic gender roles, and just touches on the current popularity of body enhancement. Its all pretty clever. The film builds this completely absurd reality that applies the heightened aesthetics of kung fu cinema to the already strange world of beauty queens. These two sides may seem incompatible, but the film manages to blend them quite well. It just commits to the absurdity of both sides of the equation. Everything is approached in the same way, with the same outsized emotions and flair for the ridiculous. The reality of the beauty pageant is taken to such an absurd state that it only m
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