High School Musical 3 See's This Musical Franchise Jogging In Place, But At Least The Music's Still Aces

And now it is time for the High School Musical saga to reach their own Return of The King, their own Toy Story 3, their own Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, the moment where they close out a trilogy and bid farewell to the world that turned their stories into such massive successes. Granted, like all those three aforementioned franchises, the seemingly dormant High School Musical would eventually return (a 2011 spin-off centered on Sharpay and a forthcoming TV show specifically) but this was the conclusion of the tale of Troy Bolton (Zac Efron), Gabriella Montez (Vanessa Hudgens) and their fellow Wildcats as they navigate High School with accompanying musical numbers and elaborately choreographed dancing.

High School Musical 2 Hits Too Many Sour Notes To Live Up To It's Potential

It was always gonna be difficult to pull off a High School Musical sequel. The whole point of the first movie was that it embraced corny storytelling so heavily that it might as well have swept up that type of storytelling in a big old bear hug. Adhering to this sort of storytelling means you've wrapped up all the characters stories in tidy little bows at the end so that the viewer believes they go on to live happily ever after. How exactly do you create further adventures for Troy Bolton and his fellow wildcats then, especially when you have further issues like trying to create a premise that still feels like it's a High School Musical production without just coming off as a weak retread of its predecessor?

High School Musical Is Pure Musical Cheese And, Delightfully, Very Much Knows That

How have I not seen High School Musical before? There are numerous classic movies that I've reviewed for this website that I'm not entirely surprised I've never seen due to a myriad of external circumstances, but seriously, how did I manage to avoid watching High School Musical prior to December 31st, 2017? This Disney Channel original movie was a touchstone for my generation, something whose songs were belted out ad nauseum by people in my age range all throughout my first years of middle school and is now looked upon with nostalgia by those very same people. It's baffling it's taken me this long to get here but I finally made it to High School Musical!