Originally Posted By Pirate Mickey It was basically the same movie as the first one. High School Musical 1 - Sharpay wants to win the high school talent contest and also Troy. Troy ends up with Gabriella. High School Musical 2 - Sharpay wants to win the country club talent contest and also Troy. Troy ends up with Gabriella. How many movies can they make almost exactly the same? Can't the writers think of something new? It was an ok movie, but the first one was better. Oh well.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Oh, and didn't Sharpay end up (kind of) with Zeke at the end of HSM? well, she wanted his cookies and creme brulee anyway.
Originally Posted By Pirate Mickey Wow! It was the highest rated show on cable tv! See Disney can make a good clean show and still get high ratings. Iger are you listening?
Originally Posted By DlandDug Sequels like this are rather tricky. The audience wants a new movie, true. But they also want the same characters doing the same things that made the first film so appealing. For what it's worth, the filmmakers claim that HSM1 was about learning to accept yourself. HSM2's theme is about accepting others. As far as the "hype" goes, that's just the nature of the business. Whoever thought that the players in a Disney Channel movie would be featured on the covers of so many national publications? Or that the opening event would attract media from around the world? HSM, like it or not, is a phenomenon. And the folks at the Disney Channel will, properly, exploit that to the hilt.
Originally Posted By smeeeko ehhh not interested. I missed the first one and don't care about the second. See, there are some people that are kind of sick of the hype for stuff that doesn't interest them.. yet here I am in this thread hoping the rumors about a third installment is false. I thought the "new Disney" wasn't going to do needless sequels? It sounds like the 2nd one is as useless as the first one.. Then again I guess there's a market for the cheerleader people over-running WDW. =(
Originally Posted By iDisney72 <<The cast is in talks for HSM 3..due out next year.>> HSM 3 is going to be released in theaters, too.
Originally Posted By iDisney72 Hmm I guess that "too" made it sound like it would be in theaters AND on TV, but it will just be in theaters, obviously.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo >>For what it's worth, the filmmakers claim that HSM1 was about learning to accept yourself. HSM2's theme is about accepting others.>> I'll buy that. Frankly, as a parent, HSM1 had a lot of good "talking points" for pre-teens. Frankly, I'm a big fan of harmless fun with snappy tunes. It reminds me of old 60s movies with those scary big bikinis and silly dancing on the beach. I'd rather sit through this than Ratatouille, which for me was rather boring. As far as stepping it up a notch, I believe they were trying for more complex choreography. It didn't do much for me though. But ask my kids "What time is it" and they'll do the clock dance moves. The sad part is, we don't even have tv. We saw it once in a cabin in the woods that had cable and they're completely hooked.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Why do I use the word "frankly" so much? Sheesh. I need to go to bed. . .
Originally Posted By u k fan I'm late to the party as it's only just aired here, but I think I may have preferred the 2nd movie to the first. I certainly enjoyed the music more and having the wider cast involved. The girl who plays Martha is fab!!!
Originally Posted By ToonKirby You're not alone, UK. I prefered the 2nd one to the first too. Stronger story, characters more fleshed out, better musical numbers. - kch, <a href="http://moviedearest.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://moviedearest.blogspot.c om/</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo I watched this for the 2nd time today (last week the kids were too hyper for us to take it in). I think I like it equally to the 1st, but the baseball choreography was great. I love the HSM franchise. My parents had beach blanket bingo, we had Fame, and my kids have HSM!!! You are the music in me....
