MANILA, Philippines ? ?Watch the movie first before judging it.?

This was what comedy king Dolphy, 82, said in an interview with Radyo Inquirer?s Mon Tulfo and Reysie Amado Tuesday regarding his latest movie ?Father Jejemon?, an entry to the annual Metro Manila Film Festival.

Critics, including senior Catholic Church leaders, forced Dolphy, Rodolfo Quizon in real life, to remove scenes of his latest film deemed deeply offensive to the country's dominant religion.

Retired bishop Angel Lagdameo, a former head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, has urged the 80 percent of the Philippine population who are Catholics to speak up against the film.

"They are negative," he said of the offending scenes in comments published on the Catholic bishops' website, at cbcponline.net.

"The movie does not give a good reflection on the priesthood," Lagdameo added.

The controversial film has also become the subject of an SMS viral campaign believed launched by Catholic adherents.

"Let's not allow the 'King of Comedy' to make a comedy of the 'King of Kings,'" read one text message.

Dolphy said he did not wish to pick a fight with God as his production outfit voluntarily deleted the offending scenes of his movie before it was screened by government censors.

Dolphy, who has starred in more than 200 movies in a long film career that started in 1953, said that ?Father Jejemon? could be his last movie. With a report from Agence France-Presse

For more of the interview, listen to Radyo Inquirer, DZIQ 990 AM.