Kimmy and Dora back to split your sides with laughter even more

MANILA, Philippines - One good turn deserves another. Or as the beer ad says, “So good, ayos na ang kasunod!”

In 2010, Kimmy Dora radicalized the star system and became a surprise megahit, turning the industry upside-down in wonderment. Where did the industry think tanks go wrong and how did the tandem of writer Chris Martinez and director Joyce Bernal come up with something so original, so witty, so wacky, so funny and so different?

Kimmy Dora made Eugene Domingo, cast as the twins Kimmy and Dora, an overnight sensation, plucked out of the many years of playing supporting roles and catapulted to the top of the heap as the newest (though, some people thought, unlikely) Box-Office Queen.

The sisters, one the epitome of good and the other the personification of evil in the first film, are back, this time put in a quandary of being forced to marry a man they don’t love and to whom the family owes a debt of gratitude.

Still playing the twins is Eugene, again with Ariel Ureta as their father, and Dingdong Dantes and Zanjoe Marudo reprising their original roles.

Get set for another roller-coaster fun ride with the fabulous Go Dong Hae heiress-sisters as they embark on a new adventure that involves a trip to Korea, wedding proposals and a dark specter from the clan’s untold past.

In Kimmy Dora & The Temple of Kyeme, still directed by Bb. Joyce from a screenplay by Chris, the story continues from where the first installment left off. Kimmy and Dora are now deeply in love with their respective boyfriends, Kimmy with Barry (Zanjoe) and Dora with Johnson (Dingdong).

The new adventure begins when the sisters join their father, Luisito, on a trip to Korea, his homeland. There, the patriarch tells them that one of them has to marry into the Sang Clan as a fulfillment of a promise made in the Go Dong Hae’s past. The sisters refuse to marry a Sang since they are both in love with their beaus.

Then, a mysterious Korean ghost follows them back to Manila, haunting them and claiming the souls of the men in their lives. The only way to pacify the ghost is to give in to their father’s request or they can fight off the malevolent spirit. But how, when only Kimmy can hear the ghost and only Dora can see it?

For sure, Kimmy Dora & The Temple of Kyeme, co-produced by Star Cinema and Spring Films, will elicit more laughter and make the cash register ring even louder.

Wa kyeme, ‘no?