First of all I'm really intrigued with the Panday series since FPJ so I watched this movie.But this new Panday, well, the acting of both the protagonist and antagonist really sucked. Either it was overacting or lacked emotion, it was really lame. I'm not applying this to all the casts though. The noises they make were really annoying as well. How my ears bled!Second, the storyline was mediocre. No plot twists or anything that made the movie exciting. It was too linear. The climax, wait, there was a climax? I expected more of the Panday and the Filipino folklore it should have been packed with.The visual effects I have no complain, but the audio was not dynamic, it was like listening to the radio. The background music, sound effects was okay. The voice dubbing was like the actors were whimpering so close to the microphone especially when Bong Revilla cried like a girl. The sound he made was excruciating.I really expected more. For this I gave a 1/10.

When a meteor crashes into the desert of Sto. Sepulcro,the blacksmith or "panday" in Tagalog,Flavio,played by Ramon Revilla,Jr forges a dagger and a church bell from the its remains.Then,he uses the dagger to fight off the evil Sombra Oscura, who constantly attacks the town. By some magical power, the dagger transforms into a great sword every time Flavio wields it.Then when his final battle against Lizardo,played by Philip Salvador.He is the son of the devil and the leader of the Sombras. The battle is intense, but Flavio as expected prevails in the end, vanquishing Lizardo.Ang Panday is a movie for children. But in spite of its target audience, a film does not have the right to present a shallow film feature. Kids are smarter than most people think they are. The story is clichéd,formulaic and predictable. The special effects are of low quality. The actors and the actresses are below average as well. A disappointment especially to Panday fans.

Okay, first off, before I will explain why I rated this movie Comedy-Drama, I'll tell you a story about my nephews who watched this movie in the movie house after Christmas. My nephews came home and they asked me, "Uncle, we're so hungry", I asked them, "Where have you guys, been, why are you guys so hungry?" The older one answered, we watched the movie 'Ang Panday', the younger one said, "We should have just bought some rice noodles (Pansit). I asked, "Why is the movie not good?", the younger one replied, "It's stupid!", he's 6 years old.That moment with my nephews made me curious about this movie, although, I don't want to go and check it out in the movie houses, because, you know the old saying, 'Kids don't lie'? Well, I got a chance to view this movie yesterday and after viewing I rated it Comedy-Drama.Comedy, because it's hilarious that this movie even became Best Picture and Best special effects, the plot is still the typical primitive Filipino Movie making style, the effects are old school like the eighties in Hollywood, the acting is so lame specially the Wannabe Joker of Batman guy who played the Over Acting Lizardo or is it the Overacting Guy that played Lizardo? Holy my Aspirin, the actress that played Diyosa, what is that, I mean the line delivery, it just plain sucks, is she a hired extra?Drama, because I felt terribly bad about my nephews who swallowed their pride going around our neighborhood to almost beg for Christmas Treat, knocking on every door uttering "Namamasko Po!" only to receive centavo coins. I felt bad because, I felt that these innocent children have been robbed by these movie makers, maybe because they know the children wouldn't mind spending the money they earned on Christmas Day since it was only a gift from strangers?Hmmm, I wonder if the rest of the Manila Film Fest Movie Makers really have this as their intention to earn from Box Office? Awful really, to treat paying movie goers like they're stupid, thinking no one will notice that the movie is designed for no I.Q. people.It just makes one like me wonder?

Ang Panday is like a Hollywood remake. More Action Less Talking. The special effects were good. but the writing is lame and boring. the directing is terrible. the acting is the worst. Ang Panday is one of the worst remakes ever made.I haven't seen FPJ's Panday Movies. GMA wanted to make this film look more Hollywood. so they add special effects and more action scenes. Unfortunately the action scenes were bad, it's confusing, they copied Zack Snyder's style from 300 in a stupid way, the good guy always win and the enemies are like running for no reason.the acting is very bad, especially Iza Calzado. it's just like watching a school play.The special effects were good, makes the movie entertaining. Some jokes are funny. but the action scenes, directing, editing, acting, and writing were bad.1.5/5