Its story revolves around Mayumi Punongbayan (Erich Gonzales), a hopeless romantic who believes in the ever-cliché "love at first sight" rubbish, and Lance Tan (Enchong Dee, a.k.a. He-Who-Is-The-Reason-Behind-The-Paying-Customers), a practical Chinese-Filipino who rationalizes the idea of true love. The two predictably fall in love in the first fifteen minutes of the movie, but the path towards their marriage (as well as Enchong Dee's perfectly-sculpted face) is what kept me and the other viewers in our seats.
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| The theatrical poster: "I Do" is one of the few Filipino films I bothered to watch in an actual cinema. |
The movie's recurring theme is the Chinese tradition of arranged marriages: the Tan family always made it a point that Lance was for another Chinese-Filipino. Lance and Mayumi's baby wasn't getting in the way of that.
No, I am not going to spoil the experience because I want Enchong Dee, who I'm mentioning a lot in this post, to prosper in his career. And for that the movie needs more viewers.
Most of the characters were well-portrayed, keeping up to the expected par; though Melay Cantiveros' and Pokwang's depictions were a bit off despite the occasional laughs they gave us. I particularly like Melay's constant "I know, right?" line because I say that all the time, and when she does, it's like déjà vu...only better.
The over-all movie experience was so-so, with the plot running a bit too expectedly at first, then taking a little turn when Lance encountered an accident. Now you can bet on whether the wedding did happen, or did not.
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