Captain Barbell

December. 25,1986

Rating：

7.4

Genre：

Adventure Fantasy Action

Keywords：

Philippines

Trailer Synopsis Cast

A crossover team-up between Captain Barbell and Darna.

Edu Manzano as Captain Barbell

Herbert Bautista as Tenteng

Sharon Cuneta as Darna

Dina Bonnevie as Dina

Tonton Gutierrez as Aswang

Leroy Salvador as Maestro

Nova Villa as Aling Tinay

Lea Salonga as Rosemarie

Rez Cortez as Atong

Ricky Davao as Huramentado

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Reviews

RipDelight

1986/12/25

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

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Chirphymium

1986/12/26

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Fairaher

1986/12/27

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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AshUnow

1986/12/28

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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newton20032004

1986/12/29

Of all the movie and TV incarnations of Captain Barbell (CB), I would consider this as the best. I have several reasons for this.First, for a movie shot in the 80's, the effects are excellent.Second, the casting is stellar. Herbert Bautista is great as Tengteng, the comic skinny boy alterg ego of CB who works in a junk shop. Herbert is a great comedian and his skinny features, mannerisms and antics makes him more funny that viewers would really laugh their hearts out. Even though the title role was Edu Manzano, the movie was entirely Herbert's. Young Lea Salonga plays a short yet significant role as Tengteng's love interest who fells in love with the superhero Captain Barbell.Third, this is the first movie wherein Captain Barbell and Darna, two famous Mars Ravelo creations were seen together. Darna made a cameo appearance with Sharon Cuneta playing the role.Lastly, they sticked to the original comics story with only few updates and changes on the plot and characters.

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