High School Musical: Wishing It Were Expelled.
High School Musical and High School Musical 2 are both really, really popular for reasons 
that completely escape me. At least it’s popular mostly with high-school age kids, and that gives me some faith, because I can always cite transference as to why it’s so popular.
Begrudging Confessions
Okay, okay…so I can see why people like it. All the cliques we were so familiar with growing up are well-represented here, and there’s a certain sort of satisfaction in seeing that horribly unpleasant chick named after a dog breed get knocked down a peg.
But Seriously! It’s Not Worth It!
This unbelievably exploitative Disney trash is nothing useful for anyone, guys. All those cliques that are so well represented behave in their little boxes exactly according to spec, and even those slightly off-kilter glances we get at the various members really aren’t that great—the basketball player wants to bake?? Gasp and shock! How can he learn to cook for himself? That will never serve him later in life or be a necessary skill! I can’t believe everyone’s so shocked by this. What’s next, he wants to learn how to file his own taxes? Shocking.
And as for the “nerd” girl who enjoys the “hip-hop”—in a truly low-class moment that only proves how horrendously out of touch the shill writers who slung this hash together actually are—well, it’s been done before. Apparently, the writers behind High School Musical are so thoroughly incompetent that they had to watch Office Space’s Michael Bolton to get the idea that—gasp!—nerds listen to gangsta rap too! Oh my God no! The republic is crumbling! Crumbling, I say!
Oh, and it takes a really special kind of idiot to name their daughter after a dog. Even if it’s just a sound-alike.
And Yet, This Tripe Merits Sequels.
Oh yes, my readership…there’s a two. And if the IMDb is any indication a three will be in the works directly. Well…guess there’s no point in butchering the cash cow as long as it’s laying the golden eggs, huh?
And if you’re ready to get your head in our game—wow, I’m clever, aren’t I?—then try out our High School Musical movie trivia and High School Musical 2 movie trivia.
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haven’t seen and am not interested! But what was with all the merchandise out before the movie? The marketing is getting bizarre.
Dana–this is ops-standard Disney. They’ll market kitsch like no tomorrow to anyone who’ll shell out the cash for it. You know all those “vault” versions they keep releasing? It’s just the same movie, over and over, in new packaging. Kudos for not getting swept up by the great Disney Marketing Machine!