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In between the production numbers is a lot of dead air В— aka, the script В— which goes way too heavy on agonized comedy involving Troy and Sharpay, her marginally less annoying brother Ryan (Grabeel) and Troy's girlfriend from the original film, Gabriella (Hudgens), whom he ignores for most of the movie. That's where we find Sharpay, in a self-stunning pink and white ensemble В—think of her as East High's younger Dolores Umbridge В— doing one of her gimme songs, 'Fabulous,' lounging by a swimming pool where her tuxedoed accompanist is sunk waist deep with his grand piano.

#High school musical 2 soundtrack reddit movie#

It's summer (to get the kids into skimpy swimwear), so the rest of the movie takes place at a country club. The kids don't want to blow East High School to pieces, just to raise the roof, which they nearly do in Charles Klapow's infectious, exhausting choreography. The opening number, 'What Time Is It?', blasts the kids out of their end-of-term classroom, down the corridors and into the gym to a tune that might be Alice Cooper's 'School's Out' as slightly toned down for Grease. Sung by the cootchy, poochy egomaniac Sharpay (Tisdale) to the dreamy hero Troy (Efron), it mixes her ravenous ambition to be his wahine В—let's get lei'd В—with the synergistic island echoes of the Tiki Room at Disneyland.Д«ut just about every song in HSM2 evokes some other, older musical style. And now, with Enchanted on movie screens, The Lion King and Mary Poppins on Broadway (with The Little Mermaid opening next month) and Hanna Montana on the Disney Channel, the Mouse House seems to have its retro mojo in high gear.ДЄnother Disney Channel smash, last year's High School Musical, spawned a sequel this August that's now on disc in an 'Extended Edition.' What does that mean? You get backstage extras, a karaoke function for the 10 tunes and an extra song: 'Humu Humu Nuku Nuku Apua'a,' a pretty clever Hawaiian love chant with some over-the-top-of-Diamond-Head production values. Finally, a new team harnessed the old magic, or reinvented the formula. (the adorable creature was Dumbo or Pinocchio stranded in an alien land), Robert Zemeckis with Back to the Future (turning the Absent-Minded Professor's airborne Model T into a De Lorean), Penny Marshall with Big (Flubber as a growth hormone) В—everybody but Disney. For a while, practically everybody was doing Disney В—Spielberg with E.T. With Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Lucas Grabeel, Corbin Bleu,ДЄfter Walt Disney's death in 1967, the studio he left his name and his legacy to couldn't seem to find its founder's deft touch with stories. Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens star in High School Musical 2.Дў007 Director: Kenny Ortega Writer: Peter Barsocchini