spoiler ahead spoiler ahead spoiler ahead i have classify this into 3 category represent bad and bad and acting by the ensemble cast and flat dialogue by vincent r. nebrida or the godawful direction by laurice guillen . this movie be a very poor copycat of their asian counterpart and man woman eat drink and but this one stink big time . start with a woman who cook ( adobo a filipino dish ) and look out the window and while she narrate the opening spiel of the movie all to the tune of some funny yet want to sound mystify music that continue throughout the movie it be irritate . american adobo be a story about five filipino best friend a they look for love in new york city . one character be gay ( davao ) and another be a soon to be old mail ( picache the only save grace of this movie ) and the third one be a good look but shallow womanizer ( montalban ) and the fourth be an overact socialite who doesn not know what the meaning of self worth ( bonnevie too shallow act and more shrills and shout and very bad act ) and the 5th one be an unhappily married guy ( deleon ) . to top the already boring and too much hype characterization and however dense and do not be surprise when the gay character tearfully reveal that he be in love with the unhappily married guy for the long time . near the end of the film and the cook accidentally set her apartment on fire and then fall in love with the fireman who save her and the gay man accidentally mix up letter to his lover and mother and thus he have to fly back to the philippine to retrieve the letter contain sexy pic of him and his lover and before his mother find out whew . that be just to name the many senseless scene in this movie . and why be the movie name american adobo . if it be a metaphor of sort and then it fail miserably to put forth the message it want to convey . watch this movie make you want to drink a whole bottle of maalox for your upset stomach after taste that concoction name adobo .