100 minutes, 35mm, in Tagalog with English subtitles
Directed by: Erik Matti
Starring: Vhong Navarro, Jay Manaol, Aubrey Miles

Showtimes: 6/18, 4:30pm at the Anthology [BUY TICKETS], and 7/1, 11:00pm at the ImaginAsian [BUY TICKETS]

SpiderMan by way of John Waters, jacked up on a shot of distilled Jerry Lewis stupidity, GAGAMBOY is the sweetest, silliest superhero flick you haven't seen. A send-up of SpiderMan, this movie's hero lives in the ghetto. His costume is made of leftover junk and forget about saving the world – he just wants to keep his neighborhood safe. Junie (Vhong Navarro) is an ice cream vendor who's looking at a future spent peddling popsicles in the park, until he swallows a radioactive spider and transforms into…Gagamboy, capable of clinging to walls, lifting 40 times his own weight, and discharging a suggestive orange goop from his hands. His girlfriend, Liana (Aubrey Miles), is being romanced by his evil co-worker, Dodoy (Jay Manalo) who has secretly swallowed a cockroach and been transformed into an evil and disgusting human/cockroach hybrid named Ipisman.

Shot in the pulpy pop colors of cheap Filipino comic books and set in a studio-built ghetto that looks like the set from John Waters' DESPARATE LIVING, GAGAMBOY is a movie that takes itself so lightly a viewer looking for a point might get confused. The whole point is to let brand new Filippino comic star, Vhong Navarro, show off his dead-on comic timing (he's like a young Stephen Chow), and let the cast of ace comedians fill in the gaps. The action scenes are right out of the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, only intentionally so, and the movie never loses sight of its motto: With Great Power Comes Great Stupidity.