MUSICAL COMEDY; 1hr 41min
STARRING: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens
Senior class: Hudgens and Efron
Practically sacrilegious as I know this is, Senior Year was My First Time with the HSM franchise. And where better to start than with a first frame close-up of Efron, aka Troy Bolton, the cutestsweetest boy in East High, captain of the Wildcats basketball team and dating cutestsweetest fellow senior Gabriella Montez (Hudgens, also Efron’s girl in real life!)?
What a swell couple they make in this sugary song-and-danceathon about making choices and putting on a show. And with Troy, twins Sharpay and Ryan Evans (Ashley Tisdale and Lucas Grabeel) and Kelsi Nielsen (Olesya Rulin) all vying for one spot at New York’s prestigious Juilliard School, the lukewarm heat is on!
The gang has done this before-two times in two Disney TV movies, as the entire teenage universe knows full well — and they have the colour-and-movement scene cornered. You’d have to be the Grinch not to salute their wholesale pep, even though that grating squeak ringing in your ears is the sound of an overdose of clean…
