Average Rating: 5.9/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 83 | Rotten: 44
It won't win many converts, but High School Musical 3 is bright, energetic, and well-crafted.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 9
It won't win many converts, but High School Musical 3 is bright, energetic, and well-crafted.
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year continues the ongoing tune-filled love story between basketball player Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and brainy beauty Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Anne Hudgens). As they head toward high-school graduation, the couple realizes that they'll be separated when they head to different colleges in the fall, so they join with their friends to produce a spring musical that will help them express their hopes and fears about the future. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi
Oct 24, 2008 Wide
Feb 17, 2009
$90.5M
Walt Disney Pictures
All Critics (130) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (44) | DVD (19)
So sweet you'll leave the cinema with diabetes.
Its winning formula is driven not by narrative but by what isn't there: no sex, no drugs, and no rock and roll-- unless you count the logjam of thundering power ballads.
Musical 3 is frustratingly shallow, but what it lacks in narrative ambition, it makes up for in dazzling choreography.
It's a classic case of giving the people what they want.
Efron is once again Travolta-esque, although he appears to be quickly outgrowing this material. Hudgens is still annoyingly bland both in facial expressions and voice.
Since when shouldn't it be fun to spend 90 minutes or so watching good-looking young people, singing and dancing relatively well?
This isn't the film for fanboys or arthouse freaks. But for the tweenage girls out there, you can get your Troy Bolton fix with this DVD.
...suffers from precisely the same sort of problems that plagued its two underwhelming predecessors...
Will certainly resonate with its targeted preteen demographic, as its principal cast has returned for a sequel appropriately enhanced for the big screen.
Like the burnouts who stick longer than their leather jackets warrant, the shtick has gotten stale.
The choreography and dancing are amazing.
Will certainly resonate with its targeted preteen demographic, as its principal cast has returned for a sequel appropriately enhanced for the big screen.
A generous, upbeat film that provides lively, unthreatening entertainment for young viewers...
I'm glad I didn't pay full price to see this, but it is not a bad way to pass some time in a bargain theater or a cheap movie rental.
Mostly harmless.
Regardless of whether Disney's G-rated phenomenon is your cup of tea, you have to admire this films boundless will to create fun, inspiring entertainment on a level second to none.
High School Musical 3 overstays its welcome, stretching out about 20 minutes longer than it needs to, thanks chiefly to a final celebratory reel that simply refuses to end.
A real, honest-to-goodness teen musical throwback, as if Andy Hardy had never died and James Dean had never lived.
This is good, clean G-rated escapism delivered by fresh, talented young performers.
Trumping the first sequel, and approaching the quality of the original, High School Musical 3: Senior Year is a truly winning reprise.
Just like one and two a fun time for my daughter. She loved it and was dancing in front of her seat during the show.
October 25, 2008Super Reviewer
My three life goals: 1. To read every book written by Stephen King. 2. To watch every episode of THE SIMPSONS ever made. 3. To get the HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL saga to stop growing on me like a mole on my tucchis. I might even need plastic surgery for that!First theatrically released musical in the ambitious Disney
June 14, 2011Super Reviewer
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