My worst worst worst ever waste-of-time-and-money movie is... FIRST DAY HIGH.

My friends and i wanted to watch it because the song of Kamikazee really kicked in - "nasasabik sa unang araw ng eskwela / taas kamay with confidence / let's do the FIRST DAY HIGH!" And we all know there's the sosy high, the rebel high, the brainy high, the MVP high and the nice guy high. Also, this was when High School Musical of Disney came out and we heard it was going to be something like that so we got curious.

But yeah, curiosity killed the cat. First scene and we were like "what." they sang and danced - it was the worst. Trying hard... like they always say. Mga Pinoy talaga! Singing was bad... those actors and actresses don't even sing!! and dancing was... well.. they kept repeating steps. at first the choreography was okay but then we kept seeing it over and over again and it just bored us to death.

the story was weird! it was so far-fetched, shallow and surreal. they tried too much to link the different kinds of "high" that it worsened the whole movie. They tried to make it look, sound and feel TOO much like High School Musical. It was really bad. Even the conflict of Troy and Gabriela in HSM they adapted to the romance of Kim and Gerald in First Day High.

Masyadong pilit - that's the tagalog phrase to describe it. They forced it too much that even if singing wasn't good, they still did it. Why present something you know the audience won't appreciate?? (yes, everyone who watched it didn't like it. even the lady who sells movie tickets in Glorietta!) Well... i guess that's the Filipino way. They always make actors and actresses sing and dance even if they know they really can't. ugh.

No more Filipino "musicals" for me. Maybe i'll stick to Filipino love movies instead. HAHAHA!