Review: Born Beautiful

Born Beautiful

Starring: Martin Del Rosario

Director: Perci Intalan

Genre: Comedy

Spoiler Alert!

Born Beautiful follows the story of Barbs Cordero (Martin), the BFF of Die Beautiful’s Trisha Echevarria (Paolo Ballesteros), the story tackles the life of Barbs after Trisha’s sudden death that made him confused if he still was the effeminate Barbs or will he go back to his original self as Bobby.

Troubled Bobby thought returning to his old self will make him okay, but he was wrong he ended up going back to her old self as Barbs, meeting her two lovers, Michael Angelo (Aki) and her first love Gregory (Kiko), things get more complicated as the love triangle became complex with the entry of Yumi (Chai Fonacier) that will make everything go round in Barbs life.

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First of all I will warn you again that this review might have some spoilers along the way so if you aren’t fond of spoilers leave now.

This sequel is far from the Die Beautiful we saw from 2016 the dark comedy is gone, the heavy scenes were over this time as Born Beautiful celebrates the triumph of a life that was lived and continuously living on what she dreamt of and what she wanted to have and that is to be loved.

Born Beautiful is braver and bolder than Die Beautiful I must say, it was somewhat brutally honest at times and vulgar when it comes to language but I guess that’s how it goes with our language, there were scenes that might be too “Vulgar” to people who aren’t used to hearing such terms and words but believe me that’s how it goes.  

Another sensitive issue that Born tackled is the issue of “Polyamory”, in cased you don’t know what Polyamory is here’s the definition of it “Polyamory (from Greek πολύ poly, "many, several", and Latin amor, "love") is the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships with more than one partner, with the consent of all partners involved. It has been described as "consensual, ethical, and responsible non-monogamy". There’s that question raised if the movie is promoting the issue or just raising it for everyone to know that there’s such thing that exists and happening in our society.

When I watched the movie it was really funny that you’ll laugh out loud, the Barbs in Born Beautiful was a different one, Martin Del Rosario owned the character he made it far different from the first one, it was a brave move for his part and he was able to pull out a great performance as the new Barbs Cordero, there were scenes that you will not imagine him doing but he was able to do it.

The support cast were also hilariously great, Lou Veloso gets the loudest laugh from the crowd with his remarkable scenes, Kiko Matos was so wild in his scenes with Barbs, the outrageous delivery of Chai Fonacier almost made it X but I love it haha, VJ Mendoza’s short stint was a remarkable character, and Aki Blanco was the Bomb! Who would’ve thought that with his innocent looking face and boy next door charm did what he had done in this movie.

Overall, Born Beautiful is a must watch movie, it was funny, and when I say funny this is not your typical comedy movie, the vulgarity and profanity made it more natural, very relatable and engaging.

Put on your best sense of humor, it is a celebration of being brave to dare to live, love, and dream.