Saturday, January 10, 2009

High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

High School Musical 3: Senior Year, 2.5 out of 4 stars


Zac Efron as Troy, Vanessa Hudgens as Gabriella and they have spent a sweet time together in the third installment of High School Musical franchise "High School Musical 3: Senior Year".

It's just too late for me to review this movie, I wanted to review it because this is a better movie than I thought it might be. That's mean High School Musical 2 is suck. So, it is better this time? Yes of course. For the third installment of the franchise, luckily they did it right this time. This film is directed by Kenny Ortega who also direct the first High School Musical in 2006. Now, the third installment is about senior year, is there any sequel in the future? I don't know. just wait and see. The film begins with a basketball Championship competition between Wildcats and West High Knights. Wildcats almost lose the game. So Wildcats team leader Troy (Zac Efron) raised his team spirit by singing "now or never". After that, they win the game. (It is possible to sing so steady and smooth while playing the basketball?) After the basketball match Troy has a party at his house, then Troy and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) are singing "Right Here, right now". They're thinking about their future undertaking and they hope that the last few months at their high school would not end. So the rest of the movie is about how they spent the last few months at the high school, the relationship between Troy and Gabriella and what is the plan they're organizing for the prom night and what would they do during the graduation ceremony. First of all, I like the songs from this movie. It's quite comfortable to hear them sing in this movie. The songs is very touching and it gives the movie some lift up energy. There will be many kind of songs in this film, this is why I like this movie. They do a lot of changes and make this film looks charming and feels very different from it predecessors. The story is good anyway but not as good as the first one. The acting in this film is not professional enough. I doesn't really like the acting actually. The actors and actress especially Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, from some part of the movie, their acting is very stone and emotionless. Other than that, I'm not really admire the choreography from this movie. There is one part where Troy is angry and confused after having conversation with his dad, then he dancing and storming around at the hallways while singing "Scream". For me, the choreography is a bit similar with Jamiroquai's "Virtual Insanity" and Jennifer Lopez's "I'm Glad". Even the camera technique they're using also a bit similar with the "Virtual Insanity" MTV. Besides that, the ending of this movie is a little bit too fast and less contain. Anyway, after I watch this movie, I'm not disappointing but quite surprising because it is still a watchable musical performing arts genre film and it is better than the second installment from the franchise.

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