Catch Me. . .I’m in Notting Hell (Now with more hell!)
What did we say about Star Cinema’s endless remakes of Notting Hill?
The good news is that Catch Me. . .I’m In Love, directed by Mae Czarina Cruz and starring Sarah Geronimo and Gerald Anderson, is not that bad.
The bad news is that it’s not good either.
We think the secret of Sarah’s success is her Everywoman quality: the viewer can relate to her and her aspirations, she’s a good singer, she seems like someone they could’ve gone to school with. So by way of a review we’re giving you this quiz: You Be The Sarah.
1. You’re a bright girl working for a nonprofit organization that assists agrarian communities. You are assigned to arrange an “immersion” (living with the farmers, experiencing what their everyday life is like) in the barrio for the spoiled son of the President of the Philippines. He is Gerald Anderson. What do you do?
a. “Gerald Anderson is the presidential child??”
b. I will do my work like a true professional while screaming on the inside.
c. Refuse the assignment.
d. Report every moment I spend with him on my facebook.
e. Other (Explain.)
2. Presidential son Gerald Anderson falls in love with you and asks you to be his girlfriend.
a. WTF?
b. Do I love him back?
c. Too much trouble, I will decline.
d. Report every moment I spend with him on my facebook.
e. Other (Explain.)
3. On TV he is asked if he has a girlfriend and he replies that he’d like to “Keep it private”.
a. Good, I don’t want to be the center of the media circus.
b. As his girlfriend I will support all his decisions.
c. I will fly into a rage and demand that he give a press conference to introduce me to the media.
d. Report my emotional pain in detail on my facebook, then summarize it on twitter.
e. Other (Explain.)
4. He brings you to a formal dinner with his parents, lovely First Lady Dawn Zulueta and President Christopher de Leon.
a. I will touch Christopher de Leon’s frozen face, scream, and fall in a dead faint.
b. I will do whatever Gerald Anderson asks me.
c. Suck up to his parents and discuss the color scheme of our wedding and which designer I want to make my gown.
d. Have my picture taken with every famous person at the dinner and post all the photos on facebook.
e. Other (Explain.)
5. You overhear mean girls wondering what Gerald Anderson sees in you because you’re not a raving beauty and you’re not de buena familia.
a. Grab the mean girls by the hair, dunk their heads in the toilet, rip the hand dryer off the wall and drop it, still plugged, into the toilet bowl to electrocute them to death.
b. But they’re right. Sino ba naman ako para maging kasintahan ng anak ng presidente? Who am I to be involved with the presidential son? I’m not pretty enough, rich enough, famous enough, sosyal enough. . .huhuhu (tears).
c. Laugh in their faces, give them the finger and say, “Die of envy, bitches!”
d. Have my picture taken with each of them, then post all the photos in facebook with the words “Jealous bitch” and “Horrible slut” scrawled across their faces.
e. Other (Explain.)
6. Your brand-new boyfriend Gerald Anderson is late to your parents’ anniversary party because he has to attend an official function with Father President. You call and text but he doesn’t reply pronto, being preoccupied with official duties. What will you do?
a. Shrug if off. If I wanted someone who would spend all his time with me, I’d date the unemployed.
b. Ano ang magagawa ko, anak siya ng presidente samantalang ako’y isang hamak na mortal huhuhu hindi ako karapat-dapat na pansinin ng katulad niya hikbi.
c. First I will force him to choose between me and his family and country. Then I shall leverage this incident into a perpetual guilt trip and use it to manipulate him throughout our relationship!
d. Announce on facebook and twitter that I am committing suicide. Then slash my wrists and take an overdose of sleeping pills (2) but leave the door unlocked and make sure someone will check on me. Then take pictures of him weeping and post them on facebook and twitter.
e. Other (Explain.)
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
March 29th, 2011 at 01:36
itching to post a link of this on facebook :)
March 29th, 2011 at 04:08
One question: What is he feeding her?
I think even with that beard, Gerald looks like he’s 16 years old.
March 29th, 2011 at 05:35
1. He is Gerald Anderson. What do you do?
E: Do my damnedest to catch his attention and make him fall in love with me.
2. He asks me to be his girlfriend.
E. I see it worked; delicious. I will feign hesitance and fear to hide the fact that I’m a brazen hussy.
3. “He’d like to keep it private.”
E. Excellent. I can tighten my naughty tentacles’ grip on Gerald Anderson’s privates in private without the scrutiny of the public eye.
4. He brings me to a formal dinner with the President.
E. Brilliant. I will then suggest to the President to have those holes on the sidewalks of Taft-Vito Cruz fixed. Kadiri, promise. =(
5. What to do with Mean Girls…
E. Have the President’s men get those girls and send them to my torture chamber.
March 29th, 2011 at 08:07
Option D is the answer to the “You Be the Mai Mislang” quiz.
March 29th, 2011 at 09:44
1.) You’re a bright girl working for a nonprofit organization that assists agrarian communities. You are assigned to arrange an “immersion” (living with the farmers, experiencing what their everyday life is like) in the barrio for the spoiled son of the President of the Philippines. He is Gerald Anderson. What do you do?
– I’m a bright girl. I will resign and look for another job. Why would I work for someone who’s spoiled?
2.) Presidential son Gerald Anderson falls in love with you and asks you to be his girlfriend.
– Supposedly, I already resigned and still fate made me come across the spoiled presidential son who looks like Gerald Anderson and he tells me he has fallen unutterably in love with me, I’d freak out and snap him out of it which is what I normally do to anyone who confesses their admiration to me. (in reality, I find the Anderson kid a kid. Hindi talaga ako kinikilig dun. My heart belongs to Mario Maurer.)
3.) On TV he is asked if he has a girlfriend and he replies that he’d like to “Keep it private”.
– Okay so despite my contradictions, I still ended up with him and we were made a couple and he keeps me private. I would really walk in to the studio and kiss him live. I am not a vehicle. I am not a school. I am also not a public service from the public sector to be privatized. He should let the whole world know! (that’s to my advantage if I would ever think of entering the circus.)
4.) He brings you to a formal dinner with his parents, lovely First Lady Dawn Zulueta and President Christopher de Leon.
– I’d take a picture with Ms. Dawn Zulueta because she is pretty regardless if I’d look like a nanny. The night would be full of picture-taking with her. The men can wait.
5.) You overhear mean girls wondering what Gerald Anderson sees in you because you’re not a raving beauty and you’re not de buena familia.
– I’d just stick my tongue out. Let them create a hate page of me on FaceBook but the fact won’t change that I am with the spoiled presidential son and they are mere drooling bitches. To add insult, I would post all 500 pictures of me and the boyfriend being cute and sweet like we are in a koreanovela. ^^
March 29th, 2011 at 09:45
btw, i haven’t watched this yet and have no plans on watching this. I ended up watching Sucker Punch and the movie sucks too. So much for the unjustified movie ticket.
March 29th, 2011 at 11:33
I honestly believe that “d” is the most logical answer to all of the above. Except for #5, where the logical answer is to get a very powerful bakla friend (and/ or an equally powerful matrona) with a filing cabinet full of blackmail-quality dirty secrets on every single mean girl and their “buenas familias,” which I can use to very powerful effect:
“You know, you’re right. Jologs lang ako, hindi katulad mo. Jologs na hindi nakipag-threesome sa teachers mo sa Calculus at Physics sa bahay ng Vice Principal habang nasa Switzerland ang parents mo! Huwag ka nang mag-inarte dahil best-seller sa bangketa ang sex tape ninyo! Bilhin ko kaya ang kaluluwa mo, bwiset ka.”
It could backfire, of course, but it’s crazy enough to work. ;)
March 29th, 2011 at 21:54
If I sing and look like Sarah, I would sing to the farmers, sing to Gerald, and sing to Dawn and Christopher until a talent manager discovers me or get presidential endorsement. If the media discovers I’m his girlfriend, I would sing to him whenever there is media coverage until I have sufficient fanbase to launch my showbiz career.
“Sa iyo ang pag-ibig ko. Sa iyo abot langit ang pag-ibig ko sa iyo”. Sorry couldn’t resist.
March 29th, 2011 at 22:37
My answer for #6: A, of course.
Which reminds me: It’s about time I posted this video of Sarah singing “Love The Way You Lie” as both Rihanna AND Eminem. Feelingera, much?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOsFwDZ-pRM
March 30th, 2011 at 01:27
1. a. “Gerald Anderson is the presidential child??”
2. a. WTF?
3. a. Good, I don’t want to be the center of the media circus.
4. e. Other (Explain.) No freakin way am I going to socialize with high-class liars (assuming that they are indeed the “First Family”
5. c. Laugh in their faces, give them the finger and say, “Die of envy, bitches!”
6. c. First I will force him to choose between me and his family and country. Then I shall leverage this incident into a perpetual guilt trip and use it to manipulate him throughout our relationship!
March 30th, 2011 at 01:40
Then again, I might as well change my answer to #1 with c. Refuse the assignment so I can avoid working with someone spoiled and annoying. Gerald Anderson doesn’t even look like a Presidential child. :p
March 30th, 2011 at 12:21
matteo guidicelli looks like billy crawford