High School Musical 3: Senior Year (Deluxe Extended Edition + Digital Copy + DVD and BD Live) [Blu-ray]

           High School Musical 3: Senior Year is the third film in Disney's record-smashing series, and the first to debut in theaters rather than on the Disney Channel, and while many of the elements are the same, the film is at times bigger to accommodate the big screen. All the usual characters are back, but not for long: it's senior year, and the classmates are all facing the prospect of leaving East High in separate directions. Troy (Zac Efron) is ready to play hoops at the University of Albuquerque with best friend Chad (Corbin Bleu), but doesn't want to be a thousand miles away from Stanford-bound Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens). Taylor (Monique Coleman) is headed to Yale, while Sharpay (Ashley Tisdale), brother Ryan (Lucas Grabeel), and the school's pianist-composer Kelsi (Olesya Rulin) are all in the running for a single scholarship to Juilliard. The showcase for them will be Ms. Darbus' new musical, Senior Year, which will recap the academic careers of the students themselves. (So if the original HSM was a retelling of Grease, HSM3 is more A Chorus Line.)There are a few new characters: Sharpay's personal assistant Tiara Gold (Jemma McKenzie-Brown), and Troy's hangers-on, Rocket Man (Matt Prokop) and Donny Dion (Justin Martin), who may give the franchise life beyond its original cast (if they make some headway in the likability department). But it's all about the songs and the dances. Ryan and Sharpay sizzle in a classic-musical tribute "I Want It All"; Troy and Gabriella share a rooftop waltz in "Can I Have This Dance"; and Troy and Chad blow off steam in a salvage yard in "The Boys Are Back." "Now or Never" is this film's "sports song," and Troy and Gabriella have their big duet "Just Wanna Be With You" and their own showcases, in "Scream" and "Walk Away," respectively. If the closing anthem, "High School Musical," seems on the self-congratulatory side, it's a rare misstep in a series that has made a generation of tweens (especially girls) sing and dance and realize they can be whatever they want to be.

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    Great movie! I thoroughly enjoyed this production! Awesome music, love the actors, and amazingly High School Musical did it again! I definitely recommend this movie! Also, it's such a clean movie for kids!Received on time and in excellent condition. Great music. Lots of fum. I will reccomend this CD and your company to my friends. Thanks.....I was very pleased with the product and the speed at which it was delivered, this is a gift for my granddaughter, and I am sure she will be very happy when she opens it up.Just an FYI to above poster that stated "Among the main four, the only other cast member worthy of notice is Corbin Bleu whom has plenty of charisma even though I'm not yet convinced he's got any serious acting ability. But then - I've never seen him do anything outside of HSM. " Corbin has done several other shows and I think he does a pretty good job acting. He did Jump In on TV and Flight 29 Down. I think that that HSM 2 was better but this was a nice ending to the other 2 movies and my preteen son loves them all!There are worse things my daughter could obsess about than the High School Musical series. The singing and dancing are top notch and the storylines are romantic in a sweet, childlike way. The movies are basically about making friends and having fun. The third and final installment has the added plus of emphasizing the importance of picking a college and growing up to be a thoughtful and productive member of society. I like the broad characterizations and don't mind over-the-top antics in the musical genre. They seem to fit quite well against a backdrop of spontaneous musical outbursts. And for those of us who are not preteens, that Zac Efron kid is something else. I know he's young, but he has the magnetism of someone who is not jailbait. So while I'm still unable to tolerate Hannah Montanna and her brethern, I'm okay with what director Kenny Ortega has created in the HSM World. If only High School really had been that sweet and melodic.