Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 4
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Release Date: Jan 20, 2006 Wide
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The captain of the East High basketball team and the key member of the academic club shock the student body by teaming to audition for the upcoming school musical in a Disney Channel Original Movie that's all about being yourself and following your dreams. Troy (Zac Efron) is best known as the player who keeps the East High basketball team on the scoreboard. Of course, life isn't always about athletics, though, and as Troy slam-dunks on the boards, beautiful and brainy Gabriella (Vanessa Anne
Jan 20, 2006 Wide
May 23, 2006
Walt Disney Pictures
All Critics (9) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (4) | DVD (16)
Pop fluff intended for kids stuck between Dora the Explorer and Gossip Girl. Consider it a bonus that it's tolerable, if not fun, for the rest of us as well.
There's no denying the tween audience was hungering for this movie, without even knowing it. [Blu-ray]
Just as you don't have to be a fan of Westerns to enjoy Paint Your Wagon, you don't have to be a teen to appreciate this energetic musical.
A simplistic, and single minded teen romp filled with Disney channel regulars that disappears from your collective memory minutes after viewing it...
As a marketing phenomenon, this has exceeded all expectations for a TV movie. However as cinema... maybe you just really need to be a teen to get it.
A schmaltzy little piece of obvious fluff that's directed in truly horrendous fashion and populated by cardboard characters who spit out simplistic platitudes and breathy pop tunes.
For all its ungainliness, its cheesiness, its silliness, High School Musical is undoubtedly a great big heap of fun.
...it's difficult to imagine even the most die-hard fan of musicals finding anything here worth embracing.
the filmmakers were just trying to tell a story. Sex, drugs and violence just didn't factor into that equation
with a name like "Sharpay," it's gotta be good
Cute, fun and my daughter and I had a good time watiching.
March 22, 2007Super Reviewer
I liked the atmosphere, it was very relaxing to watch...but that's about it. the plot wasn't unique in any way and the music was crap.
October 18, 2008Super Reviewer
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