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Title: High School Musical 2 (TV Movie 2007)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Zac Efron | ... | Troy Bolton | |
| Vanessa Hudgens | ... | Gabriella Montez | |
| Ashley Tisdale | ... | Sharpay Evans | |
| Lucas Grabeel | ... | Ryan Evans | |
| Corbin Bleu | ... | Chad Danforth | |
| Monique Coleman | ... | Taylor McKessie | |
| Bart Johnson | ... | Jack Bolton | |
| Alyson Reed | ... | Ms. Darbus | |
| Chris Warren | ... | Zeke Baylor (as Chris Warren Jr.) | |
| Jessica Tuck | ... | Mrs. Evans | |
| Robert Curtis Brown | ... | Vance Evans | |
| Mark L. Taylor | ... | Mr. Fulton | |
| Ryne Sanborn | ... | Jason Cross | |
| Olesya Rulin | ... | Kelsi Nielsen | |
| KayCee Stroh | ... | Martha Cox | |
Troy is offered a job at Ryan & Sharpay's country club and ends up landing jobs for Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Kelsi, Jason, Martha and Zeke. He is then introduced to Sharpay's parents and realizes that Sharpay can land him many opportunities and even a basketball scholarship. Meanwhile, while Troy starts hanging out with the rich folk, Chad is worried that Troy will forget his friends. Gabriella feels as though she is losing Troy to Sharpay. In the end, Troy will have to learn how to think about his scholarship without losing his friends. Written by zngnn
"High School Musical" was a fun classic film. It's such a terrible shame that Disney is milking the franchise for all it's worth because it will only hurt the franchise more in the end.
I don't blame Disney for doing a sequel. The story and character development though is a bit stale and cliché, like being in dull standard DCOM territory. I've been listening to the soundtrack to this film nonstop before I finally saw the movie and it is the best soundtrack ever. However the actual performance of these songs in the film is less to be desired.
"What Time Is It?" and "Work This Out" were the worst musical sequences in matters of dance and direction. They're good songs on the soundtrack but on screen I was like...ugh...Troy's dancing! I think you can do more visually with these musical numbers then see Troy do bad break dancing in one spot for a whole 3 minutes! "What Time Is It?" was just ridiculous and over the top given that this is coming fresh off of HSM which had more genuine and more realistic musical numbers. Here it is just like "the music is playing everyone start doing a ridiculous dance infront of the camera!" As I said about story and characters, they're not so great as the original but you just need to have fun with it as even more unrealistic as this film is compared to the film.
I will say this: Sharpay was evil and became more of a stereotypical snobby blonde character in this film as she attempts to steal Troy from Gabriella, but goddamit SHARPAY IS AWESOME IN THIS MOVIE!!! All the other characters in the film were a bit more "smug" in this film (much to my annoyance) but Sharpay was just fun and hilarious in her attempts to steal Troy. And it was good to see more development with Ryan's character.
All in all, the soundtrack to the movie is actually better than the movie itself. Though, I enjoyed this film as bad it probably is, mainly because of Sharpay's character. The story and musical numbers became less annoying near the end. If you're a fan you might as well watch and just have fun with it. It ain't the best but I'd rather watch this again than "Camp Rock".