This was the rating given to the sex film "Ang Galing Galing Mo Babes" by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines’ (CBCP) Catholic Initiative for Enlightened Movie Appreciation (Cinema).
Cinema said the movie, starring sexy star Joyce Jimenez and veteran actor Albert Martinez, is "not for public viewing."
Cinema said the film is, technically, "below average." According to the Catholic film review body, "it no longer came as a surprise that the film underwent intense (grilling) by the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB)."
The movie, Cinema said, "depicts mostly attacks on the person’s character and the loss of dignity of a man and a woman." According to Cinema, the film depicts the debasement of people because of sex – one of the male characters became beastly and brutal while the central female character became a weakling and a slave.
In the movie, Jimenez plays Babes, a victim of incest-rape at her father’s hands. Babes goes to work in Japan as a prostitute to support her younger brother back home.
While in the Land of the Rising Sun, she gets into an accident and undergoes plastic surgery which alters her face. Babes returns to Manila, where she works as a prostitute in a night club and quickly gains a reputation for being the "No. 1 prostitute" in the city.
Being the most sought-after prostitute, she is given as a "graduation gift" to the nephew of a congressman who falls in love with her. Babes’ new lover may love her, but his socially elite family rejects her because she is a prostitute and has no place in their family. This is the start of Babes’ "Calvary."
The Catholic film review body warned that susceptible and impressionable viewers may wind up craving for sex and idolizing persons who are good in bed as a result of watching "Ang Galing Galing Mo Babes."
Cinema said the movie is about a sex goddess — not because of Babes’ sexy figure, but because of the main character’s sexual prowess.
While the movie tackles many social issues, such as incest rape, prostitution, poverty, bigotry and social inequity, Cinema said that "not even the social messages in the movie can cover up the blatant sexual imagery, nudity, portrayal of earthly lusts, prostitution, sadism, use of profanity and immoral scenes shown throughout the movie."
The MTRCB gave the film an "X" rating because of its graphic sexual content.
Cinema did commend the talents of Jimenez and Martinez as actors, for their realistic portrayal of sex maniacs, but said the movie was a waste of these talents: "Weren’t their talents wasted in a nonsense movie?"
Meanwhile, Cinema reviewed two other movies, "Windtalkers" starring Nicolas Cage and "Pakisabi Na Lang Mahal Ko Siya" starring Judy Ann Santos, as morally acceptable and technically average.
Cinema said "Windtalkers" gets across the message that war is brutal, ugly and senseless. "It makes us acknowledge with admiration the courage, devotion and heroism of young people in the face of death."
On the other hand, "Pakisabi Na Lang Mahal Ko Siya" is wanting in terms of storyline, the Cinema said. The story is like "chopsuey," with scenes that jolt confused viewers from comedy to drama.
According to Cinema, the plot of the story would constantly come to a halt as a result of poor editing, with completely unrelated scenes adding to the confusion.
Some of the actors who portrayed characters in "Pakisabi Na Lang Mahal Ko Siya" were also over-acting, Cinema added, as their acting in some scenes were not realistic.
Santos, however, gave the movie life with her natural acting, Cinema said. Also with her in the cast of the movie were veteran thespians Joel Torre and Cherry Pie Picache.
The moral lesson of "Pakisabi Na Lang Mahal Ko Siya," Cinema said, is that one must not malign other people to serve selfish interests. It also tells viewers that the truth will always prevail and cites the importance of helping and understanding others.