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
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.
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.
Will certainly resonate with its targeted preteen demographic, as its principal cast has returned for a sequel appropriately enhanced for the big screen.
Will certainly resonate with its targeted preteen demographic, as its principal cast has returned for a sequel appropriately enhanced for the big screen.
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.
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
series is, once more, highly overrated. If the real Walt Disney (please stand up!) were still alive, and he actually approved this B.S., a) I would freak out at how unrealistic that scenario is (and so would so many others), and b) it would be a much, much better performance.It's depressing: the fact that America lusts over actors like Zac Efron (that whole name goes up on spell check), and then they'll do anything to see him in anything. Even a dumb kids' musical like this one that should have just remained a "Disney Channel Original Movie". (Or been scrapped altogether.) Pity.
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