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Film review

High School Musical 2006

Directed by Kenny Ortega98 minComedy · Family · TV Movie · Music · Romance

A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and develop a friendship that threatens East High's social order.

Watched 26 November 2022
What a film.  May unironically be my second favourite musical of all time (tick tick boom). Watched this at 4am on a projector in my friends living room while they drifted off asleep and I sang all the songs with a blocked nose. Lots of fun.  Some good songs, cute little romance, I nearly cried at the end but was with people so managed to control myself and I don’t think they noticed so please don’t tell them.  Fun film, the plot is very dumb, it’s about a school realising kids are allowed to have more than one hobby, they come off as quite weird, but there’s some fun quirky characters and I have some high nostalgia here so ima stand firm and say this is a good film.  I will forever love the music in this film.  Sharpei - sharpay- sharpie - (I’m sure one of those is the right spelling) is a bit over the top but I love her and I think they fixed her in the sequels a lot. Ryan definitely gets cooler in the later films.  After the film finished I thought it’d be funny to instantly go back and rewatch it but everyone had fallen asleep and I realised it wasn’t worth committing to the joke so I only lasted 15 minutes but I kinda regret not just watching the whole film again.  6.5/10

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