The cult of Hannah Montana, meanwhile, seems to have no clear end in sight. Tickets get scalped for thousands of dollars, kids run up massive credit card bills buying merch on eBay, and the Hannah Montana Concert Film runs on unabated.

In fact, the Disney Corporation, realizing that kids still have lunch money there’s still opportunity in the Hannah Montana brand name, has declared the Hannah Montana Concert Film to be on “indefinite engagement”, meaning that theaters can run it for as long as they damn well please. And some of them are taking advantage of the fact–it wasn’t long ago that I saw a theater offer tickets to the Hannah Montana singing spectacular for eighteen bucks a pop.

You thought it was getting bad when you couldn’t see a regular movie for under ten bucks? Oh, you poor, poor individual–it can only get worse.

And frankly, Hannah Montana is getting a lot scarier than I had ever expected. While Billy Ray continues to benignly pimp his daughter, whose career is a whole lot more than his ever was, the cult of personality that seems to be sprouting up around her is getting downright creepy. If they keep on at this rate it’s only a matter of time before the Cyrus Compound starts welcoming in twelve year olds for contact with the mothership.

It just gets scarier. And so does the steadily growing amount of Disney movie trivia on Kwanzoo.

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