When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a Pornstar (2021) User Reviews

Was alright. Funny enough.

[The_Geek_Spot · 6/10 · 22 September 2021]

This was a fun movie to watch, especially if you grew up in an era with these women who starred in those rampant TF movies. For a change it was good seeing them in a movie that don't require them to bare it all.

A good comedy to watch but only for adults, and maybe for the titas and titos alike as there are some scenes that many of our millennials won't be able to relate to. Don't worry it wasn't all laughs and stuff, because they managed to squeeze in some moral to the story by the end.

And yeah, I did laugh at most parts though.

Entertaining for the most part

[Nen_Master357 · 6/10 · 18 January 2023]

Part mockumentary and part nostalgia trip, Darryl Yap's "Pornstar" is a humorous tribute on the golden era of the country's local softcore porn industry. It also rejuvenates the careers of the lead actresses whose former notoriety as "bomba" stars have since unfortunately dimmed.

The movie works because it somehow demystifies the aura around these showbiz personalities. It explores their various travails as sexy entertainers and in how they cope being labelled as "laos" (has beens), usually cast as mothers in mushy soap operas or (in the case of Alma Moreno) running for public office. The film at times, is like a talk show and even a therapy session. It's also very spontaneous and impromptu; lots of ideas are presented, stream of consciousness style. The playful banter between the actresses seem unrehearsed. Yap's film also works better if the viewer is kind of, in the know about these actresses' life stories. I don't see millennials actually relating to the onscreen drama as only those who grew up watching these actresses' films would somehow connect on a more meta level.