First Day High

First Day High

First Day High is a comedy movie that was released in 2006, in the Philippines. It is a movie adaptation on a TV advertisement by Rexona. The movie has been highly compared to the movie, High School Musical, because they have similar setting (a school) and a number of singing and dancing involved. The movie does not have much to offer other than entertainment and a number of songs that may not be everyone's type.

The movie is located at an university called FDHU, First Day High University. The movie revolves around five characters, each with different personality and/or status. These five are: smart girl  Indira "Indi" Dela Concepcion (Kim Chiu), sossy Precious Princess Jewel "Pré" Samartino (Maja Salvador), rebel Gael Zantua (Geoff Eigenmann), nice guy Nathan "Nat-Nat" Matriponio (Jason Abalos), and basketball star  Michael Jordan "MJ2" Ramirez (Gerald Anderson). These five had little connections to each other until they all became prime suspects in an accident, the basketball water contamination accident. The movie shows all five's adventure starting from their first day in the university,all the way to the water contamination accident. 


As stated before, the movie does not offer much. It is very comparable to High School Musical with some critics (audience) claiming that the movie is a copy of HSM.  At the very least, the movie has its own original story line which gives a little bit of a thriller. I watched this movie when i was a kid and i liked it. Sure it nowhere the best movie but it was entertaining. As a  kid, you don't really pay attention to what is bad in the movie, but rather what is good. The songs were somewhat catchy. Though in today's standards, the movie is forgettable. Overall, i would only recommend it to those who have a lot of free time and want to watch a cheesy, cliche movie that do not mind singing and dancing involved. 

7/10

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