High School Musical 3: Senior Year

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High School Musical 3: Senior Year

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2008

1h 52m

Kids & Family

Musical

Comedy

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Amid preparations for a basketball championship, prom, and graduation, sweethearts Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) vow to savor every moment, knowing that college plans put the future of their relationship into question. An elaborate spring musical is just the thing for these two Wildcats and the rest of their classmates to express their fears and hopes for the future.

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Critics Consensus

It won't win many converts, but High School Musical 3 is bright, energetic, and well-crafted.

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Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

Dec 10, 2008

2.5/5

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.

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

Dec 8, 2008

4/4

A real, honest-to-goodness teen musical throwback, as if Andy Hardy had never died and James Dean had never lived.

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Anthony Lane

The New Yorker

Oct 27, 2008

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.

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Mitchell Beaupre

Paste Magazine

Oct 24, 2023

6.5/10

High School Musical wouldn’t have ever been what it was without Efron’s wholly committed performance selling every high and low with aplomb—the kind of screen presence that comes around once in a blue moon.

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Rachel Wagner

Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)

Jun 13, 2022

I enjoyed it very much. Probably the best made of the 3 films

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 10, 2020

2.5/4.0

It's hard to begrudge a film success when it has such an upbeat attitude and overwhelming respect for all its characters.

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Michael J

@RT33145503 Oct 5, 2026

Oh my gosh, let the movie make me cry so much the ending was amazing. I cry so hard. I wish the franchise didn’t end. I wish there were more high school musical.

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diogo13 T

@Tua_mera Jul 12, 2026

Even with a theatrical release and a bigger budget, this third film is a disappointment. The story feels very forced, the drama surrounding the future and college is tedious, and the film has lost the magic and simplicity of the first two. The choreography is grander, but the script is incredibly weak. A rather lackluster conclusion to the trilogy.

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Scorch T

@Scorch9 Apr 3, 2026

pretty great stuff here again. i do think it kinda goes over similar topics when compared to the other films, however it still tackles them in a really effective way. a really solid conclusion to a great trilogy. solid musical numbers and a pretty good job, for the most part, at ending the stories of these characters.

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Jason B

@RT90795834 Apr 3, 2026

High school musical is three is all about dogs have dogs everywhere on the faces you are very white it’s very funny but they break up so you should watch it cause I agree with you. It’s very funny and yeah so so some people take that to short pay is so nice, but the people think he’s gonna be this character sometimes for break promises and well at high school musical group too but also free so you should definitely watch this movie that I recommended. It’s so funny the dogs on the faces and when everybody sees this, they think it’s so funny because they have dogs on their faces really watched this so yeah yeah you should watch it. I love this movie. You should definitely watch it. I agree with you. OK watch it watch it people watch it. People watch it.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Mar 8, 2026

The worldwide gross is $252,937,244.00 over a budget of $30,000,000.00.

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Alex S

@williamhickleberry Dec 30, 2025

Troy came out of the TV and stabbed me

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Synopsis

Amid preparations for a basketball championship, prom, and graduation, sweethearts Troy Bolton (Zac Efron) and Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) vow to savor every moment, knowing that college plans put the future of their relationship into question. An elaborate spring musical is just the thing for these two Wildcats and the rest of their classmates to express their fears and hopes for the future.

Director: Kenny Ortega
Producer: Bill Borden, Barry Rosenbush
Screenwriter: Peter Barsocchini
Distributor: Walt Disney
Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures, Borden and Rosenbush Entertainment
Rating: G
Genre: Kids & Family, Musical, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 24, 2008, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $90.6M
Runtime: 1h 52m

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