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It's a shame that KC Concepcion was handed a dull role as her first vehicle into the silver screen.
For The First Time, was not cheesy, not memorable, and will not be a classic like her parents' first two team-ups.



You can't help but compare her to Sharon Cuneta. She has her Sharon moments where she looks and sounds just like her mom, and she has her Gabby moments where she, uh, never mind...

In her blog, Jessica Zafra summed it up like this:

Feta Cheese-Off
By Jessica Zafra

KC Concepcion is pretty.
Richard Gutierrez is pretty.
Greece is pretty.
The Richard Prince bag is pretty.

Then the movie has a nervous breakdown, and everything goes to hell. The light romantic comedy suddenly turns into heavy melodrama. Richard makes corny speeches about love that would make greeting cards kill themselves for shame. KC weeps and weeps as if she’s just realized what sort of movie she’s in. Whatever charm the movie had is drowned in mush. The theme song blares incessantly to remind you to buy the ringtone. Philip Salvador is kidnapped by aliens and replaced with a ham and cheese sandwich.

The rest is here.

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Last night Grace and I dragged each other to watch at Robinson's Galleria at 7:10 pm. The cinema was about 20% full.
I don't know who wrote the screenplay, but none of the characters were endearing.
A rich corporate girl (KC) falls in love with a guy who is not cute and has no redeeming qualities (Richard Gutierrez), so no kilig factor.
Her father (Philip Salvador) treats her like unbelievable crap.
Can not stand that side story of Candy Pangilinan and her penpal in Greece.
The movie was supposedly shot in Greece, but one wonders about the Samsung refrigerator in the kitchen. Let's not forget the "convenient" product placements such as KC opening her kikay kit to reveal Garnier toiletries, the part where she takes pictures using her Sony Cybershot, etc...
The "love" story goes nowhere. No chemistry between Richard and KC and the movie ends in the strangest way.



What struck me the most were:
1) How KC's boobs were all over the place. Shocking, considering her mom wore jeans to the beach in her movies.



2) How ashen everyone was, like they had mega doses of glutathione.

Too bad for KC. She should've done a remake of Dear Heart but not with Richard
Gutierrez. Geoff Eigenmann, who appears in a cameo role, was even cuter.

Anyway, the question is, have you MET?