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22 PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY December 16 - 31 , 2017 ‘ Gandarrappido : The Revenger Squad ’

Vice Ganda is happy that he is back at the Metro Manila Film Festival ( MMFF ).
His movie last year was not included in the festival but was proud that this really did good in the box office .
‘ Gandarrappido : The Revenger Squad ’ is Vice Ganda ’ s follow-up to “ The Super Parental Guardians ,” which holds the title of the highest grossing Filipino film of all time .
Vice Ganda plays a gay superhero who lives a normal life away from bashing villains after losing his memory . He was forced to remember his past , however , after a boy he cares for deeply , Chino ( Daniel Padilla ), a speedster hero , finds himself in danger . Below is the sypnosis of the movie :
Rags maker Emerson “ Emy ” Mariposque ( Vice Ganda ) lives with his one and only brother , mischievous Chino Mariposque ( Daniel Padilla ). Despite his faulty memory , he tries his very best to protect Chino from all kinds of danger .
One day , Emy discovers that one thing that will make Chino closest to danger
and the latter has been keeping from him : Chino is the rising superhero “ Guapito ”. With raging fear and anger of what might happen with his brother , he discovers that truth that his friends have been keeping
from him : Emy is also a superhero , the greatest one there is - “ Gandarah ”.
With Chino taking advantage of being “ Guapito ” to save those in need , Emy uses his being “ Gandarah ” to protect
Chino from further danger .
However , an eccentric villainess comes in the picture – Kweenie ( Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach ), who is hiding as a former beauty queen and a rising model – Cassandra
Stockings . With great help from an enigmatic entity SALAMEAN , she desires to have the most powerful bertud that Gandarah has been keeping from everybody ’ s knowledge – all for her to become the most powerful being in the world .
Gandarah , Guapito , and Kweenie eventually meet and finally face the truth that have been hidden from them – a truth that will make or break the very thing that bind the three of them : family .
In the battle between truth and trust in a present world where the beauty of goodness is being diminished by the madness of wickedness , what great power can ever ground them all to the reality they deserve ?
The movie , directed by Joyce Bernal , was shown last December 25 , the same for all of the other entries of the annual film festival .
‘ Gandarrappido : The Revenger Squad ’ will be shown starting December 29 , 2017 at the
Empire Studio 12 , Guildford in Surrey .
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