Wackiest wedding of the year

MANILA, Philippines - Fresh from their recent separate starrers, Angelica Panganiban and Eugene Domingo are cast together in Star Cinema’s Here Comes The Bride, which could be the wackiest comedy that will steal the thunder from the circus-y election campaign.

Angelica starred in I Love You, Goodbye, also from Star Cinema, directed by Laurice Guillen for the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival with her real-life boyfriend Derek Ramsay as leading man.

Eugene stars in Working Girls, second remake of the 1984 Ishmael Bernal hit comedy, which is a follow-up to her record-breaking first-starrer, Kimmy Dora, in which she portrays feuding twins. The movie, produced by Piolo Pascual’s company, turned out to be the biggest surprise hit of the the season, surpassing all expectations and thus making Eugene a box-office star in her own right.

Directed by Chris Martinez from his own story and screenplay, Here Comes the Bride is as “howl-arious” as a comedy can ever be, designed to split sides and eclipse the antics of many candidates on the campaign trail.

“It’s terribly hot, brought about not only by the oppressive summer heat but also by the heat of the campaign,” says director Chris. “We need something to cool us down. We need to laugh the heat away.”

Here Comes the Bride is the story of a wedding that coincides with a total solar eclipse. It becomes a bedlam when the bride, principal sponsors and members of the family are involved in a five-car smash-up on the way to the beach wedding along a totally-dark road. So what happens when the souls of the entourage get into one another bodies?

A happy confusion follows as the soul of the bride gets into the body of the principal sponsor whose soul gets into the body of the ring-bearer, and the soul of the nanny gets into the body of the grand patriarch of the groom’s clan, whose soul gets into the body of the gay make-up artist whose soul gets into the body of the virginal bride. A merry mix-up, indeed!

Here Comes The Bride also stars John Lapus, Tuesday Vargas, Jaime Fabregas and Tom Rodriguez.

Everybody is invited to the wedding — if it pushed through — including even gate-crashers.