Ang Panday 2
Plot / Synopsis
Ang Panday 2 is a fantasy action sequel to Imus Productions and GMA Films' 2009 for the Metro Manila Film Festival entry, Ang Panday. Ang Panday 2 features impressive CGI and special effects and will be shown in 3-D.
The world is once again thrown in turmoil and destruction from the forces of evil and it is up to Flavio and his mythical sword to stop it.
Watch Ang Panday 2 official movie trailer here
Ang Panday 2 Trailer Impression
Ang Panday 2 Trailer Review
I have a couple of rules that would make me call a movie trailer an effective and successful in creating buzz and building hype to attract movie goers to watch it. One is that you should never spoil the film audience by summarizing the entire film in a trailer. Second is to to not show the best parts of the film or just simply give a small glimpse of it to engage and intrigued the movie goers to actually see it. And that ladies and gentlemen is what the Panday 2 did not do.
Do not get me wrong, I am still hopeful that the Philippine movie industry can once again get back to its golden age state like what it was before, but only if they learn to adapt the ever increasing and changing demand and taste of film fans. Although Ang Panday 2 features an impressive array of computer generated effects not regularly seen on a Philippine produced film, this does not mean that it is automatically considered or be called a good or quality film. There are so many factors that constitute a good film, but let us discuss that for another time. Let us go back to Ang Panday 2 2011 movie trailer. The trailer to me is very sloppily made, first you see an old fairy saying about his experience about the war, then you jump to someone reminding the protagonist that he is relying too much on the sword, and he next the hero is making some twisted belief that sacrifices are needed to fight for peace. Maybe that is the underlying plot featured here but it is so vaguely touch and if that is what the entire story is about, Flavio undergoing a confusion of what truly matters then it might just spoil it a bit, for those kinds of struggle are best watched than stated in a trailer. Then we have those other characters which just made it more chaotic. We have computer generated fairies, dragons, sea monsters, "aswangs", giant scorpions, sandhenchmen, and a witch who introduced herself as the queen of darkness but is obviously just a henchwoman. Seeing the last Ang Panday film, the trailer has once again made its same mistake as it had before. Throw in all the good CGI part in the trailer for they believe it is enough marketing for the film. In a way, it works especially when trailers for Ang Panday 2 have proliferated in various commercials in the Kapuso Network (it really helps that a television station is a producer of the film), but to those who have been disappointed by Imus Production created films know better than not to be fooled twice. The trailer is really aimed for the children. Cashing in on the sense that parents are forced by their children to watch Ang Panday 2 because of the shiny stuff rather than the actual story itself. I maybe wrong in pre-judging it but the trailer isn't just convincing me that it is any better from what it was before. A film that does not explore and give justice to the popular iconic comics character Panday, but rather rely on CGI to do the work for them. I remember seeing a classic Panday film starring the late Fernando Poe Jr. and it was something. Although it is unfair to compare the before and after as film audience might have a strong sense of nostalgia in the past, I believe that it is more important for studios to emulate the writing and progression of the story, than depending too much on CGI and a more Hollywood-ish effect. I will no longer touch touch the very obvious as everyone has already notice the "Clash of the Titans" and "Eragon" computer graphics that "inspired" the look of Ang Panday 2 characters. The argument that every movie takes the inspiration from another is valid, so I will end it with that.
The funny thing is that families will still flock the theaters to watch Ang Panday 2. I know I would which is a quite a surprise actually as how I negatively receive this trailer. I also believe in the "if you do not like it don't watch it" kind of thinking, that's what I did with the Twilight series... a boycott. But like I said I am still hopeful that this is just a case of ineffective film trailer creation that at its core there is something special in it. I am more critical of this trailer review than my Enteng ng Ina Mo one because the film wants to be taken seriously but fails. At least to critical and film veterans (let us not include the "high class taste" of the Cannes film fest cinephiles into the mix), the films falls short as the trailer is obviously aimed for children. So will I recommend you guys to see it? Well, yeah. But i wished that ang Panday 2 trailer made it abit easy for the Pinoy movie Blogger to recommend it without doing this massive trailer impressions. This seems already a movie review itself Hahahaha.
How about you guys, what do you think about Ang Panday 2 movie trailer? Do you agree or disagree with my impressions of it? Share your thoughts at the comments section below: