"The Reunion" : A story of friendship that we can relate to

Have you ever thought of going back to your past life, specifically your high school life and molded an idea of correcting your mistakes in order for you to move on with your present life? That same incident happened to the four youthful characters namely Boggs played by Enrique Gil; Joax for Xian Lim; Lloyd played by Enchong Dee and Pat portrayed by Kean Cipriano in Star Cinema's movie offering, the youth-oriented comedy film "The Reunion," directed by Frasco Santos Mortiz.

Direk Frasco is the son of veteran actor-director Edgar Mortiz and nephew of ABS-CBN president Charo Santos- Concio, he's been directing the kiddie tv program "Goin' Bulilit" for several years now and the gag show "Banana Split" for four years to date. As for the record, this will be his very first movie  directorial job and the same thing goes to "The Reunion" writer Ays de Guzman who admitted that he created this story based from the characters and experiences of his "real life" high school friends, who in return, upon learning of Ays' motive, only requested to be invited to the film's premiere night and wanted to have the chance to meet the whole cast, cute right? hihihi

The whole cast were very proud in claiming that this movie is a sort of their tribute to the famed local rock band "Eraserheads" or E-Heads as they've managed to correlate every selected song of E-Heads to their scenes (that's a huge challenge for them huh!). Kudos to everybody who had taken great effort in the success of this film.


Aside from the four young heartthrobs, they were also joined by equally young and beautiful actresses like Jessy Mendiola, one of "Walang Hanggan" teleserye stars Julia Montes, "Kung Akoy's Iiwan Mo" lead star Bangs Garcia and Megan Young with the special participation of the cosplay princess Alodia Gosiengfiao and the alluring Cristine Reyes. Matt Evans added fun in the story where he played Jay as their "gay" friend, and I commend him for his believable portrayal. :))

I still remember direk Frasco saying during the movie's blogcon (bloggers' conference), "Sana mag-enjoy lang kayo kasi po kami nag-enjoy kami nung ginawa namin 'yung pelikula, masaya lang po s'ya... breather s'ya dun sa lahat ng mga problema natin, 'yung mga nararanasan natin nitong mga nakaraang linggo... manood lang po tayo ng "The Reunion" para magkaroon naman ng ngiti sa ating mga mukha, enjoyin' n'yo po 'yung pelikula."


The positive outcome and effect of the movie to the movie going public has only proven one thing... amidst the opening of various hollywood films like "Expendables 2" among others, "The Reunion" still surfaces and we can say this is proudly Pinoy made and direk Frasco was definitely right when he said that this movie will put a smile on our face. We did not only enjoy the whole movie, we also left the theater with hope and we were very much inspired to really appreciate our friends and the people we love. This is indeed a story of friendship that we can relate to.