Starting Over Again is a
Filipino romantic comedy movie featuring Toni Gonzaga and Piolo Pascual which
was released in February 2014 while Maybe This Time is another romantic comedy
film from the Philippines featuring Sarah Jerenimo and Coco Martin released in May
2014.
Well, the name of both the movies give you
a hint about what the movie is actually about and both the movie’s name
basically hint to the same type of storyline. Starting Over Again basically
means to start over a relationship that was broken off before and Maybe This
Time too hints, maybe this time the relationship would work which didn’t
earlier. Both these movie are box office hit movies in the Philippines which
did really well in the country as well as internationally. On my personal
opinion, both the movies were entertaining and nice but the story like was just
too same. Co-incident? Maybe or maybe not. There are so many similarities in
the movies though there are difference as well so let me brief each thing now.
The Similarities between Starting
Over Again and Maybe This Time
·
Both the movies is
the story about a couple breaking up and meeting up after years and starting
over again with the relationship.
·
In Starting Over
Again, Toni Gonzaga leaves the guy and flies off to Spain and that’s how they
break up while in Maybe This Time, Coco Martin leaves the girl and leaves to
Italy and they break up.
·
In both the
movies, the couple suddenly comes across each other after years and then they
get to work together and then comes the past and complications.
·
Both the stories
didn’t have a clean breakup where one just left with the other just hanging.
·
In these two
films, one leaves for Europe while the other is still left in the Philippines.
·
Both the story
lines, has the boy starting up a business, actually the same type of business,
restaurant in Starting Over Again and bar in Maybe This Time and the girl
getting involved in it.
·
In both of the movies,
there is a third girl. The guy finds another girl in both the movies and so
when he meets his ex-girlfriend, he already has a new girlfriend.
Now, though both these movies,
Starting Over Again and Maybe This Time did have a lot of similarities, they
did have their share of difference which made their storyline a little bit
different. Well, the difference between these movies are:
·
In Starting Over
Again, after Toni leaves for Spain, Piolo moves to USA. In Maybe This Time, after
Coco Martin just vanishes and moves off to Italy, Sarah is still stranded in
the Philippines even till they meet again.
·
The new girlfriend
in Starting Over Again is really nice and a positive character while the
girlfriend in Maybe This Time is a mean bitch, who also happened to be Sarah’s
boss and is totally not someone for Coco’s match.
·
In Starting Over
Again, even after they start, and give it a try, it doesn’t work out and Piolo,
in the end, gets married to his girlfriend while Toni is still single and maybe
will meet another man. In Maybe This Time, the story ends with a happy ending,
so maybe this time it did really work, resulting in Coco dumping his girlfriend
and getting back with Sarah.
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