“Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote” is a fuse of two different movies. One is a successful film series and the other is a classic. Enteng has been made to 5 films, I guess? The movie is about the rebirth of Abugan (Benjie Paras), a “demon” killed by Agimat years ago, and his partnering with Sutana (Bing Loyzaga), the evil black witch. The “halimaws” killed a lot of people and used the blood of the corpses for Abugan’s rebirth. However, they needed an amount of blood coming from a white fairy, as suggested by Sutana. Enteng Kabisote (Vic Sotto) and AGIMAT (Bong Revilla) teams up to fight evil and save their loved ones.
When it comes to the effects, there’s no question. It looks more advanced–not particularly saying that it’s close to the effects we see in Hollywood movies–compared to past films, most especially last year’s “Ang Panday” wherein Bong Revilla also stars. I’m very impressed with the 2 snakes on Abugan’s back. It looked very realistic. But they have to do something with the flying scenes. And the effects don’t go well with the “plain-ness” of the film. They should’ve stylized the film a bit. However, the effects proved to us that Filipinos are almost as talented as the visual effects makers of other countries!
