Disney had a big hit with the first High School Musical. This is why they thought that they can get away with highway robbery by making a third HSM movie. The first one was a big hit with my nieces that they were singing songs from it for a long time after they saw the movie. HSM 2 was not that much of a success and I heard one of my niece sing a song from it once. As for The Senior Year, I didn’t hear any of my nieces sing along to any of the songs.
Troy (Zac Efron), Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens), Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale), Ryan (Lucas Gabriel), Chad (Corbin Bleu) and the rest of the gang are back. This time around Troy must choose between colleges. Both options mean he has to spend time away from Gabriella. That’s just one of the dilemmas that the characters are facing in their Senior Year.
High School Musical 3 didn’t need high budget CGI to bring us to a parallel universe where a gay jock can get a hot girlfriend, balancing his time between basketball and theater while making big decisions in his life. Disney knows how to please their tween audiences. Maybe that’s why I didn’t get it because I’m just too old for this crap.
Troy Bolton (Zac Efron): East High is a place where teachers encouraged us to break the status quo and define ourselves as we choose. Where a jock can cook up a mean crème brulee, and a brainiac can break it down on the dance floor. It’s a place where one person, if it’s the right person, changes us all. East High is having friends we’ll keep for the rest of our lives, and that means we really are ‘all in this together’. Once a Wildcat, always a Wildcat!
East High is just a make-believe school and it doesn’t exist in real life. This movie gives kids the wrong impressions that such a place exists. High School Musical 3: Senior Year was made by Disney so that fans of the franchise will buy more merchandise. Hopefully this is the end and there’s no College Musical in the future.
